Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
What is the biggest challenge you have faced while working on window-display design? “It was a fairly large project to create giant-sized flowers made of paper at five flagship stores in Seoul. The deadline was short, but the most challenging part was planting supporting structures inside the flowers and finishing them to look beautiful on the outside. In addition, it...
What is your favourite album cover? “Has to be Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division and Darkside Of The Moon by Pink Floyd. Both capture an ambiguous and poetic atmosphere on a subliminal level. The viewers or listeners are invited to ‘fill the gaps’ with their own imaginations.”...
What is your favourite album cover? “I guess I have a top three, not just based on the art or music genres; these three albums inspired me to make art, play music and still give me memories: The Offspring – Ixnay On The Hombre; Nofx – S&M Airlines; Green Day – Dookie.”...
“The most challenging part of any display design till now has been re-sizing and re-aligning the same design in different and various window formats. There have been times when I had to customise and adjust each design for almost 100 stores across the country and almost 20 stores globally. Designing one installation for one space is easier than replicating the...
“I love all Pink Floyd covers, they are simply outstanding and inspirational. There’s a lot of creativity and originality in covers by Brazilian artists as well. Examples are Secos & Molhados (1973), Jorge Ben’s A Tábua de Esmeralda (1974), Tom Zé’s Todos os Olhos (1973) and all the covers of Afrobeat band Bixiga70. I like when the arts have a...
“My favourite album cover is Orphaned Deejay Selek by Aphex Twin. The cover had a heavy influence on me; when I was starting out it showed me the energy I wanted to emulate in my own works. Bold, full of contrast and only uses a few elements to get across the message.”...
What is the biggest challenge you face while working on window-display design? “Because the studio’s work involves a more functional design approach to all things, the challenge we face is combining this with the more commercial. To overcome it, we try to design in ‘layers’, by using also the inside of the store, and what can be seen from the...
A’Design Award and Competition is one the world’s largest and most influential design award; extremely prestigious with amazing jury, press recognition and high calibre laureates. It has up to 100 categories and it is for creative of all types with awards ranging from Good Industrial Design Award, Good Architecture Design Award to Good Product Design Award, Good Communication Design Award...
“A perfect combination of image and music is the cover of Megafauna by Yoga. It complements the music so well and opens up the whole mysterious world of that great album. It features a really great photo by a photographer called Jon Edwards.”...
“My favourite album cover is Aphex Twin’s Come To Daddy (Remixed). Despite being from 1997, a very minimal style is used; there is an excellent use of Helvetica (my favourite typeface) and strong contrasting colour. Furthermore, by reading the text on the cover, the artist communicates the capacity for anyone to interpret the scene in their own way. The cover...
What is your favourite album cover? “To Believe and A Cage Bird by Cinematic Orchestra attract with their minimalism. While Radiohead’s box sets (A Moon Shaped Pool, In Rainbows, The King Of Limbs) fascinate with their lively textures in the packaging design, content and completeness of each component. The same sensation can be felt in the 3D And The Art...
“Getting the best creative solution out of limited conditions is always the biggest challenge. Most of our windows are like unfolding story-books waiting for people to read them. We try hard to design a customized storyboard for every window we work on. And there is a lot to think over to make it interesting, such as interaction, motion and lighting,...
