Book design for the Aalto Arts Books publishing house. The book is a doctoral dissertation of Henriikka Huunan-Seppälä titled Unfolding The Unexpressed: The Grotesque, Norms and Repressions.
Described by Huunan-Seppälä: “Devoted to exploring the flourishing grotesque, carnivalesque and abject imagery of contemporary culture, the thesis dives into filmic representations of the odd or anti-ideal body, the fantastic or monstrous body, the transgressive or caricatular body, the grotesquely gendered body, or the mutilated body.”
Scientific Fabulations is a publication series created to inspire and start conversations about the changing world we live in. By combining science and poetry, Scientific Fabulations opens up for new interpretations and perspectives of the climate crisis.
Within this current publication of Scientific Fabulations, poems by Ursula K. Le Guin are paired with graphs and diagrams from research conducted by several Scandinavian biologists on the topic of the effects of climate change on bird migration. They show the direct impact of the changing environment on a specific species.
The poems combined with the scientific graphs speak together about the environmental changes of our world. The graphs speak with the voice of science and data, whereas the poems speak with emotions, experiences and atmospheres. Together they create a language to be decoded and interpreted by the reader.
Visual strategy for an ongoing exploration of business transformation with a Tokyo-based client committing to reinvent themselves in service of people and the planet, struggling with the transition to a more sustainable future of mobility. Project was initiated by Copenhagen based cultural agency ArtRebels to help design a new innovation methodology that includes creative research, collaborations, concept development and business strategy design.
Visual identity is implemented in various different forms such as a digital platform and printed magazine. Project done while working for ArtRebels.
Future Format is a project combining an exhibition and a written manifest. It presents five theses that either criticise or speculate the future of print. The project started from an interest in the future of print publishing and frustration towards the discussion around the “death” of print.
Overall, Future Format was created for the readers to demand better reading experiences, the designers to think about the differences between print and digital designs, and to inspire the people working with reading technology of the possibilities of the future. The project didn’t strive to find concrete solutions but provided a platform for discussion, inspiration, and questioning.
Future Format was shortlisted in the Best of The Year (Vuoden Huiput) young creatives shortlist in 2018.
The exhibition was held during the Helsinki Design Week from 8th until 11th of September in 2017. In the exhibition, five theses were presented in the form of visual installations in the showroom. The installations question the current situation of the publishing platforms, play with their possibilities from the point of view of both different senses and sustainable development, and emphasise the characteristic features of prints and the digital world.
The written part “Manifest for Post-Digital Publications” explains the research behind the project. It was created based on the discussions between the designers and the questions that emerged during the project.
Book design for and together with artist Eeva Hannula for her poetry and photography book Amorphous Writings. The book contains 328 pages with an edition of 200 copies.
Amorphous Writings is an experimental hybrid book with a double-sided structure. When opened from one side, it is a photography book, and when turned around, it turns into a poetry book. The book features photographs, poems, pictures of drawings, visual poems, and collages.
New visual identity and website design for Copenhagen based cultural agency ArtRebels. ArtRebels is a cultural design studio for unconventional thinking and purposeful doing – a small but passionate family of designers, researchers, technologists, strategists and speculators.
Done while working for ArtRebels.
Designing Equality is a thesis written about feminist design in practise. It examines the possibilities of designer as feminist by placing feminist values in the core of the design practice.
In addition, the research and its findings offered a starting point for a workshop called “Do you have time to talk about: Feminist design in practice”. The event gathered together 20 design professionals and students to discuss feminism in relation to design. The workshop was organized together with CISOR studio in Copenhagen.
Ongoing project. More images coming soon.
Book design for the Aalto Arts Books publishing house. The book is a doctoral dissertation of Henriikka Huunan-Seppälä titled Unfolding The Unexpressed: The Grotesque, Norms and Repressions.
Described by Huunan-Seppälä: “Devoted to exploring the flourishing grotesque, carnivalesque and abject imagery of contemporary culture, the thesis dives into filmic representations of the odd or anti-ideal body, the fantastic or monstrous body, the transgressive or caricatular body, the grotesquely gendered body, or the mutilated body.”
Scientific Fabulations is a publication series created to inspire and start conversations about the changing world we live in. By combining science and poetry, Scientific Fabulations opens up for new interpretations and perspectives of the climate crisis.
Within this current publication of Scientific Fabulations, poems by Ursula K. Le Guin are paired with graphs and diagrams from research conducted by several Scandinavian biologists on the topic of the effects of climate change on bird migration. They show the direct impact of the changing environment on a specific species.
The poems combined with the scientific graphs speak together about the environmental changes of our world. The graphs speak with the voice of science and data, whereas the poems speak with emotions, experiences and atmospheres. Together they create a language to be decoded and interpreted by the reader.
Visual strategy for an ongoing exploration of business transformation with a Tokyo-based auto-manufacturer committing to reinvent themselves in service of people and the planet, struggling with the transition to a more sustainable future of mobility. Project was initiated by Copenhagen based cultural agency ArtRebels to help design a new innovation methodology that includes creative research, collaborations, concept development and business strategy design.
Visual identity is implemented in various different forms such as a digital platform and printed magazine. Project done while working for ArtRebels.
Future Format is a project combining an exhibition and a written manifest. It presents five theses that either criticise or speculate the future of print. The project started from an interest in the future of print publishing and frustration towards the discussion around the “death” of print.
Overall, Future Format was created for the readers to demand better reading experiences, the designers to think about the differences between print and digital designs, and to inspire the people working with reading technology of the possibilities of the future. The project didn’t strive to find concrete solutions but provided a platform for discussion, inspiration, and questioning.
Future Format was shortlisted in the Best of The Year (Vuoden Huiput) young creatives shortlist in 2018.
The exhibition was held during the Helsinki Design Week from 8th until 11th of September in 2017. In the exhibition, five theses were presented in the form of visual installations in the showroom. The installations question the current situation of the publishing platforms, play with their possibilities from the point of view of both different senses and sustainable development, and emphasise the characteristic features of prints and the digital world.
The written part “Manifest for Post-Digital Publications” explains the research behind the project. It was created based on the discussions between the designers and the questions that emerged during the project.
Book design for and together with artist Eeva Hannula for her poetry and photography book Amorphous Writings. The book contains 328 pages with an edition of 200 copies.
Amorphous Writings is an experimental hybrid book with a double-sided structure. When opened from one side, it is a photography book, and when turned around, it turns into a poetry book. The book features photographs, poems, pictures of drawings, visual poems, and collages.
New visual identity and website design for Copenhagen based cultural agency ArtRebels. ArtRebels is a cultural design studio for unconventional thinking and purposeful doing – a small but passionate family of designers, researchers, technologists, strategists and speculators.
Done while working for ArtRebels.
Designing Equality is a thesis written about feminist design in practise. It examines the possibilities of designer as feminist by placing feminist values in the core of the design practice.
In addition, the research and its findings offered a starting point for a workshop called “Do you have time to talk about: Feminist design in practice”. The event gathered together 20 design professionals and students to discuss feminism in relation to design. The workshop was organized together with CISOR studio in Copenhagen.
Ongoing project. More images coming soon.