Portfolio
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/145/145313/attachment_145313792 "TRK is a high end cosmetic hair and beauty products brand targeting successful women who deserve to be pampered. This simple and clean lettermark exudes luxury and modernism.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/145/145350/attachment_145350306 "Alpha Athletic Development is a sports performance and fitness company located near Atlanta, GA. It targets athletes and active adults who strive to better themselves physically and mentally. The client sought a bold and energetic mark; a wolf, minimalist in style, with a determined, focused look. Having considered various isometric designs, we settled on this design, where the wolf is reduced down to its very essence.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/93/93970/attachment_93970860 "IONA is the Latinised word for Jonah, the Biblical prophet. The client makes jewelry, which means the mark has to be clean and simple, to work as a metal stamp.
Taking the story of Jonah as inspiration, I created a simple fish design, encompassed within a circle. The downward direction of the fish echoes Jonah's leap of faith into the ocean amid the storm he encounters on his way to Tarshish, while the addition of a cutaway shadow allows the fish to also function as an eye, to give a mythical feel and to represent the omnipresence of God.
Mysterious and slightly foreboding, I like the tension between first sight and first feeling and what follows, when it becomes apparent what the mark is: a fish — one of the most harmless of all creatures
The typography is customised to add a curve to the bar of the A, to reinforce reference to the ocean — the backdrop and site of the drama of the Book of Jonah.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/114/114484/attachment_114484701 "CAYN is a DJ and techno producer focused on dark and gritty sound. His name derives from the Biblical figure Cain.
I was attracted by the scale of Cain's significance; the responsibility for earthly evil placed at his feet.
The first son of Eve, Cain murdered his brother Abel with a stone in an act of envy. Condemned by God, he lived as a wanderer for seven centuries before the stone house he built collapsed on his head. Some mystical schools posit that Eve bore Cain from Satan.
Consigned to Hell, Cain instructs the legion of demons. He continues to haunt our primordial imaginaries as the bridge between Hell and man.
I first created the wordmark. Derived from that, I started to play with the letters. After limited success, a demon emerged. I stopped work.
Futuristic and foreboding, this icon, with horns and a peculiar gait, is the lynchpin around which CAYN can build an aesthetic landscape that can stand alongside any artistic brand in his field.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/37/3799/379968/6be152c6-816d-4c03-b72d-f1ccafd3b68a.jpg "Redrock is a financial services and equity investment company based in the United States. Here the client went with a simple, classic representation of a planet; a red rock in red space. Clean and mysterious.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/37/3799/379968/ec880e7d-66fb-48b5-ad42-65ca874fb536.jpg "A simple, minimalist A/Z monogram that conveys a feeling. Agitation Zone is a startup all-purpose design agency, engaged in brand development, graphic design, web development and other media-based services.")
:format(webp)/99designs-contests-attachments/134/134179/attachment_134179191 "ELIX Derivatives is an equity options brokerage with a global high net worth client base. The company was looking for an abstract, sophisticated and modern mark, with futuristic and feminine qualities, that would evoke the core of their business model, which is connecting people in pursuit of their goals. The mark speaks to molecules forming, while echoing - without stating by fully forming - an E for ELIX. The mark is paired with a custom wordmark with a futuristic feel, but not overt, so it isn't reducible to a certain style only.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/87/8770/877051/10ad3ecf-4830-4f66-80bb-e56e383e9ae4.jpg "ISSANN is a US electronic music artist participating in the emergence of \"wave\" music. The client came to me for a new logomark and cover art based on a mix of futurism and echoes of cyberpunk.
Regarding the logo, I chose to dispense with a separate mark and retain only a wordmark, taking the bold step of splitting the artist's name. Two small interventions on the Ns are enough to point to the future. The framing within an outline square establishes the wordmark as a clear logomark.
On the cover art, the client was looking to explore female forms. I created a female figure in geometric triangulation, based on a custom 3D model. In the background, as a counterpoint, are abstract waves, also geometrically triangulated. Departing from the dominant color aesthetic of the scene within which the artist works (mostly blue, purple and pink), I employ an orange, yellow and burnt brown aesthetic, pointing to multiple futures instead of the stereotypical generic.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/87/8770/877051/e2ac1e45-6ff4-43b3-b08f-62194fd12261.gif "ISSANN is a US electronic music artist. By his own words, he often contemplates a future where humans are integrated with technology. To represent this transformation I created a glitch art video segment based on line art I created alongside a new wordmark. I'm imagining the emergence of a new machinic form of sentient life.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/37/3799/379968/7c8f2e2d-4f30-414e-8387-c9e5c9b46b20.jpg "Spinesuit makes supportive exercise apparel that helps improve spinal alignment, performance and recovery. The next phase of the product will integrate sensors into the suit for real-time health monitoring and posture analysis. In the mark I wanted to give an oblique reference to bone structure in the spine, while creating a mark that would feel dynamic, to underline the product's nature as tool supporting physical activity.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/37/3799/379968/eca87014-2888-46b1-a6a1-b2dfd5d05dba.gif "A human figure rendered in line art, underlining the mark and having a forward-facing, technological feel to the brand.")
:format(webp)/http://s3.amazonaws.com/projects-files/83/8336/833697/290cb5cc-a3d6-4722-a8ec-b77dd09c9b67.jpg "Founders, Inc is a technology-focused ideas incubator based in San Francisco. A simple mark based on geometrical triangles, I wanted to convey layers, structure, foundations, and planning. An F, for Founders, is lightly suggested on an oblique angle. I was also thinking about arrows and the cumulative unfolding of technology. That every generation fires arrows into the future. And it is for the next generation to find those arrows and fire them further.")
Über uns
Senior Cairo-based designer, influenced by Rothko, VOMIR and Bill Viola. Great design is closer to sculpture than painting. I'm always trying to take something away — to reduce things down to their essence.
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23. Juli 2011
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Alkemik Labs LLC
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aotfm
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