Category: Graphic design

Kris och kritik 11-12

Cover and illustrations for Kris och kritik no. 11-12.

For their double issue with the theme Historiemetafysik och förfall (History metaphysics and decay) Hannah and Nils at Kris och kritik invited me to create illustrations depicting ruins, entropy and decay.

Having no acces to a printing press,  i had spent the early winter months of 2018 experimenting with brush drawings on plastic. When scanning the pieces of plastic, i had what i called a “digital monotype”. I decided to use this technique for the issue. Not the least because of the techniques character of decay. I also wanted the illustrations to work well together with typography in what was to become a small book. The result was 20 drawings and a cover design.

Released in the summer of 2018.

Strykjärn och diamanter

Cover design commissioned by Ersatz for the anthology Strykjärn och diamanter, collecting texts by contemporary russian-jewish authors. Contributions in alphabetical order:

Andrej Bitov, Grisja Bruskin, Dmitrij Bykov, Margarita Chemlin, Sergej Dovlatov, Boris Geller, Linor Goralik, Aleksandr Kabakov, David Markisj, Aleksandr Melichov, Dina Rubina, Lev Rubinstein, Maria Rybakova, Nina Sadur, Aleksandr Snegirjov, Leonid Tsypkin, Ljudmila Ulitskaja, Julia Viner, Lev Vorobjov and Zinovij Zinik.

Edited by Kristina Rotkirch.

Released in the summer of 2018.

Hotell – fyra illuminerade noveller

Hotel – four illuminated short stories, 236 pages, 104 prints. Screenprinted covers in soft paperback and clothed hardback versions.

Awarded with the GYF (Grafiska yrkenas främjande) 2017 prize for best graduation work.

“A picture is worth more than a thousand words,” one hears occasionally. And it makes sense. But one could also argue that a thousand words are worth more than a picture. It depends on the story.

As a bachelor degree project at Konstfack – university of arts, crafts and design, i wrote four short stories, each dealing with different aspects of seeing. I made pictures for these texts with different intaglio printing techniques, that i felt matched the tone and atmosphere of the stories.

Words and pictures are two expressions, both with their inherent capabilities and limitations. I believe that a certain space can exist between the two, when they are shown together. A space created by the reader and interpreters willingness to link the written word to the image, and vice versa.

Excerpts from the book:

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