Bright, polished and inventive graphic design from Swedish agency Ritator

We last featured Ritator’s work back in 2012, and since then the studio’s been busy making some impressive, diverse graphic design. There’s a considered, polished feel to Ritator’s work, and one project that exemplifies that perfectly is the redesign of Paletten Art Journal. According to the agency, the redesign was about “reflecting the new [editorial] team’s desire for more written content, without marginalising the images.”

This was achieved with a slick typographic approach and a playful use of colour that pops without drowning out the magazine’s content. Another arts-based project that uses a clever look-and-feel is Ritator’s 2013 identity for Public Art Agency Sweden, created using a custom-made 12-tip pen-like tool applied to create a dynamic, painterly word-mark: “an ode to Jan Tschichold’s hand drawn alphabet Switzerland, ” according to Ritator.

Finally, to Ritator’s most recent project, the identity for Melodica – an electronic music radio-show and record label founded by DJ and producer Chris Coco. It’s all about strange, bright, deliciously confusing imagery that feels at once psychedelically futuristic and oozingly organic.