Sonic Acts IX identity by Coup
June 3, 2009 in Design
Coup’s identity for the Sonic Acts IX festival in 2006 remains one of our absolute favorites!
It was made in an (analogue) generative process of printing and cutting, producing a big range of unique printed products. The colour palette and the typography in a great dutch style deserve compliments of their own.
(That festival edition itself was great, too, featuring works of early computer graphic artists! Will write about that one day.)
“Starting point was a process that would generate the design. With every printed item an extra layer was added to the printing sheet containing a zoom-out of the same design in a new pantone colour. All items have been cut in several ways from that same printing sheet, which results in different crops of the design for each item.
As a result of this process, the final item (the book cover) was cut from the complete message containing seven solid pantone colours.”
The vectorised logo
It was made in an (analogue) generative process of printing and cutting, producing a big range of unique printed products. The colour palette and the typography in a great dutch style deserve compliments of their own.
(That festival edition itself was great, too, featuring works of early computer graphic artists! Will write about that one day.)
“Starting point was a process that would generate the design. With every printed item an extra layer was added to the printing sheet containing a zoom-out of the same design in a new pantone colour. All items have been cut in several ways from that same printing sheet, which results in different crops of the design for each item.
As a result of this process, the final item (the book cover) was cut from the complete message containing seven solid pantone colours.”
The vectorised logo
