Hecker Guthrie

Hecker Guthrie Identity 01

Identity design by Cornwell.

Paul Hecker and Hamish Guthrie have produced some of the best interiors in the world. When they decided to upgrade their brand to reflect the evolution of their business, we created an identity not unlike their projects: crafted, detailed, textural, bold, tactile and sumptuous.

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Camerata de Lausanne

Camerata de Lausanne 02

Sound visualized. Design by Demian Conrad Design studio.

Because of my ingrained curiosity, I often ask myself the question: how can something invisible, like music, be graphically portrayed? Some time ago I needed to find a solution to visualise the concept of rarity. I solved this puzzle by inventing a random print technique called WROP. For the Camerata de Lausanne, I looked for a way of visualising sound, but without using images from the world of music per se (notes, instruments, etc).

How to visualise sound?
My research led me to the work of Ernst Chladni, a German physicist and the father of modern acoustics. Chladni had discovered that by taking a copper disc sprinkled with sand and rubbing it with a bow, he could obtain geometrical figures. This fact demonstrates that music also has a physical effect on matter. So I followed the geometrical thread discovered by Chladni and used it on all communication media for the Camerata de Lausanne. To give it a more contemporary feel and make it more manageable, I had software written by Mathieu Rudaz which allows us to generate images directly on the computer using a specific frequency.

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Antao Progetti

Antao Progetti Brand Design 01

Design by Lucio Bolognesi

Antao Progetti is an important architectural agency in the Republic of San Marino. We redesigned Antao’s logo and gave it a contemporary & modern flavor by a balance between the letters’ empties & filled spaces. The 3-rounds part comes from the letters A, A and O.

Research about materials went first: grey paperbox, lycra and other technical ones are taken from everyday worklife of an architect.

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