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DesignMarch 2014

Flowers, movement and a dialogue between design disciplines.

Role and collaboration
Concept, art direction and branding with Laufey Jónsdóttir.
Colourful flowers on stems rise above an arrangement of exposed machinery.

The visual identity for DesignMarch 2014 explored interaction between design disciplines and the dialogue between creators and audiences.

DesignMarch 2014 poster with flowers and exposed machinery.

We worked with colour, form and movement. A thaumatrope, which makes two images appear to merge as it spins, provided one way to explore this interaction. Transparent layers offered another, allowing forms and colours to overlap.

DesignMarch poster with rows of colourful floral forms.

A flower in bloom became the central motif, connecting DesignMarch with spring and the beginning of a new design year.

For the installation, flowers bloomed in a white room powered by a cityscape of deconstructed machines. With their outer shells removed, the machines revealed the mechanisms that brought the flowers' colours and forms into motion.

Collaborators and credits

Book and poster design: Ármann Agnarsson, Jónas Valtýsson and Darri Úlfsson.
Graphic design adviser: Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson.
Photography, cinematography and video editing: Hrafn Jónsson.
Music and sound: Kristinn Evertsson.
Photo processing: Jón Ingiberg Jónsteinsson.