Ciaran Birch is a freelance graphic designer from Oxford, England.
Tracklist came from his standard working practice of juxtaposing soft, soothing sounds with fairly aggressive, intellectual rapping.
Carlos Mayo is a rationalist designer and web developer from Madrid (Spain) based as freelancer in Munich (Germany) involved in fashion, arts and culture fields. He worked before as multidisciplinary designer at N–E and Bureau Borsche.
Brennan Mackay is a software developer and Technical Director at dublab radio in LA, where he has been known to jump into the studio for impromptu latenight/longform DJ sets. This mix was a few days into ‘social-distancing," and an attempt to send good vibes to a small group chat of friends, streamed live from his turntables .
Matthew is a music producer and screenwriter based in New York City. His mix employs field recordings, ambient sound, and the avant-garde to deal with common human experience in the looming of COVID-19—intimacy and isolation, dreams of the natural world, hope and hesitation.
Nacho is a multidisciplinary designer and music producer based in Valencia (Spain). He is currently doing freelance work as a designer and music producer in addition to his personal projects. Nacho aims to explore the boundaries between art, design, music and fashion and is constantly seeking for new outcomes through experimentation. In his projects, he enjoys mixing opposing concepts and elements to find an unexpected balance and perhaps creating a language unique to that balance.
Han Gao is a multiple-cities based designer working on editorial, graphic and web design. He has been working with artists, musicians, fashion designers, programmers on various multi-field projects. His current interests and works fall into the possibilities of texts when they are read and written in visual expression through various mediums.
A playlist inspired by or inspired, one of my friends' personal memory of snorkeling in Vietnam, 2020. We communicated with images, tracks, and memories while working on this project.
Here are some of the messages: “I just checked my phone. I like this cover. It ’s very touching and it has a strong connection with my personal memory early this year” “I went snorkeling in Vietnam.” “I love it when I looked up at the sky from the water.” “My first snorkeling was in shallow water. I scratched my hand and it was bleeding. Then the second snorkeling was a few meters away from the bottom of the water. The place with corals on the bottom was black. I had a bad trip.” “So the first time I had a bad trip, it was scary but fascinating.”
MAR-026: Plus Mûrs (FR)
MAR-025 : Jarod Tabor (US)
MAR-024 : Sergio Martinez (MX)
Plus Mûrs is a Paris & Bordeaux based design studio offering graphic, web and motion design. The studio has been working for clients in many diverse fields within the range of identities, apparels, videos, books, art direction, motion graphics, posters, magazines, websites, exhibitions, and time-to-time through installation.
Jarod Taber is a creative director, producer and filmmaker based in New York City, working with a diverse range of clients in art, fashion, music and film. With a background in documentary filmmaking, Jarod draws inspiration from the human experience, translating peoples stories and unique characteristics into short form branded content, activations, campaigns and printed collaborations.
In 2018, alongside partner Marki Becker, Jarod founded WASH AND FOLD NYC, a boutique creative studio offering art direction, production, architectural design and consulting for brands, artists and individuals.
This mixtape was designed in collaboration with Teague Muir. Footage pulled from a soon to be released conversation with Rare Books Paris.
Sergio Martínez is a designer who for the most part makes visual identities, apparel, publications and posters either as self-initiated projects and research or freelance work for clients. Currently working at MF9 and based in Salt Lake City, UT.
MAR-023 : Adam Whyte (US)
MAR-022 : Panama Studio (MX)
MAR-021 : Tracy Ma (HK)
Adam Whyte is a designer and image maker based in Los Angeles. His work centers around tropes of contemporary romanticism and abstraction — formal elements leaning towards the bold, expressive, eerie and ephemeral. Text/images are strung together, through research and context, to produce compelling, abstract narratives within his work.
Panamá is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Mexico City that works between: concept making, art direction, branding, architecture and interiors.
Tracy Ma is a Hong Kong-born Canadian graphic designer. She is currently the Visual Editor on the New York Times' Styles desk. She was previously the Deputy Creative Director of Bloomberg Businessweek. She lives in New York.
MAR-020 : Noah Baker (US)
MAR-019 : Looch Studio (UA)
MAR-018 : Antonio D’Amore (IT)
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Noah is a graphic designer based in New York City, currently working at Medium. He maintains an active freelance practice focused on typographic and process-driven work for clients in the cultural and corporate spheres including publications, websites, posters and identities.
Looch is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Kyiv, Ukraine specializing in visual communications, research and art direction, working with commerce and in the field of art and culture.
Attico36 is a graphic design penthouse run by Antonio D’Amore a freelance graphic designer based in Solofra (AV) small town in southern of Italy. He works for clients in both cultural and commercial fields with a strong typographic approach and focus on brand identity, editorial and web design.
MAR-017 : Pedro Ajo (NL)
MAR-016 : David Wise (US)
MAR-015 : Tiago Biscaia (PT)
Pedro Ajo is a half-Spanish, half-Brazilian visual designer. Currently based in Rotterdam (NL), he combines his job at Studio Dumbar with a personal practice defined by freelance enquires and self-initiated projects. "This compilation of songs have been the soundtrack of the last three weird-ass months of my life. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did."
Forthcoming is a creative studio specializing in design and creative direction, focusing on collaborations with architects, artists, writers, publishers, and cultural institutions—producing projects ranging from printed matter, such as books and ephemera, to identities, digital design, and more with an interest in the intersection of art, culture, fashion and commerce.
Currently—Forthcoming Studio focuses on collaborations within the arts and culture sector. We have worked with artists Cheryl Donegan, Nate Lowman, Gabriel Rico, Rashid Johnson and Seth Price, architects and designers Archival Studies, as well as the institutions CCS Bard and Columbus Printed Arts Center, among others.
Tiago Biscaia is a graphic designer and art director based in Lisbon and Berlin. His work is driven by systematic experimentation with typography, color and textures. Tiago is also the founder and art director of the Berlin based electronic music magazine Borshch.
MAR-014 : Arno Labat (FR)
MAR-013 : Lucas Hesse (DE)
MAR-012 : Phillip Kim (KR)
Arno is an artist and graphic designer working under the name (currently) of LIP (logoinprogress), based between Paris and the Basque country. All these different experiences broadened his horizon and influenced his practice. He considers his work an evolving experiment, exploring multiple media, ranging from painting to 3D work.
Lucas Hesse is 27 years old and currently living in Mainz Germany, where he will pursue his bachelors degree in graphic design this year. He primarily works in typography, graphic & motion design, but also likes to experiment with code and 3D. He spent a semester abroad in Seoul, South Korea, and interned at Studio Dumbar in Rotterdam, Netherlands and took a course lead by Eike König in Offenbach, Germany. All these different experiences broadened his horizon and influenced his practice.
Phillip Kim is a multidisciplinary designer in NY. Focused on cultural visual project and typography. Currently, He is leading the creative team for the Sundae School.
Vrints-Kolsteren is an Antwerp based design studio founded by Vincent Vrints and Naomi Kolsteren. VK works locally and internationally and offer creative direction, photography and graphic design. VK engages in ongoing partnerships and in creating a network of creative talent by working in a collaborative way.
Adam Ridgeway is an Australia born, New York based graphic designer and art director.
Jihee lee is a south Korean freelance graphic designer based in Hamburg. The main areas of her design activities are culture, art, and architecture. She has also recently expanded her reach from print-based designers to web designers.
MAR-008 : Fabian Maier-Bode (DE)
MAR-007 : Crystal Zapata (US)
MAR-006 : KELBAS (UA)
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Fabian Maier-Bode is a graphic designer and type designer based in Berlin with a strong focus on typography in interdisciplinary ways. He’s specialized to work in fields of art and culture, branding, editorial and digital design.
Crystal Zapata is a graphic designer and artist based in Chicago. With an interest in material, objects, movement, and image-making she utilizes a diverse array of disciplines to approach both her design, and art, practices.
Kelbas is the solo project of Ukrainian poet/singer Valdislav Zarinchiuk.
MAR-005 : No Mas No More (GR)
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MAR-004 : Kellen Renstrom (US)
MAR-003 : Élise Rigollet (FR)
Illegal Interdisciplinary Studio based in Athens, Greece founded in 2017 by George Roussos and Spiros Kay.
Kellen is a designer in New York NY. Focused on editorial, branding, and experiential work in the worlds of art, publishing, and culture.
Élise Rigollet is a French graphic designer currently based in Glasgow, UK. Her work is a playful combination of image-making, typography and color. She is also part of the collective Riso Sur Mer and loves collaborating on zines and other printed matter.
MAR-002 : Bradley Pinkerton (AU)
MAR-001 : Hurry into Kindness
Bradley is a Melbourne (Birraranga) based freelance Graphic Designer specialising in creative branding, print and art direction. With a strong focus on producing work for the arts and music sectors.
Inaugural mix for the March 2004 mix series. The mix explores the isolating tension inherent to constant connectivity, how we cope with screens, and possible structural exits into being-in-the-world.
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MAR-035: Ciarán Birch (UK)
Ciaran Birch is a freelance graphic designer from Oxford, England.
MAR-034: Jonathan Castro (PE)
MAR-033: Christian Sant (US)
Tracklist came from his standard working practice of juxtaposing soft, soothing sounds with fairly aggressive, intellectual rapping.
MAR-032: Carlos Mayo (ES)
Carlos Mayo is a rationalist designer and web developer from Madrid (Spain) based as freelancer in Munich (Germany) involved in fashion, arts and culture fields. He worked before as multidisciplinary designer at N–E and Bureau Borsche.
MAR-031: Brennan Mackay (US)
Brennan Mackay is a software developer and Technical Director at dublab radio in LA, where he has been known to jump into the studio for impromptu latenight/longform DJ sets. This mix was a few days into ‘self distancing’ , and an attempt to send good vibes to a small group chat of friends, streamed live from his turntables .
MAR-030: Matthew Harrison (US)
Matthew is a music producer and screenwriter based in New York City. His mix employs field recordings, ambient sound, and the avant-garde to deal with common human experience in the looming of COVID-19—intimacy and isolation, dreams of the natural world, hope and hesitation.
MAR-029: Idealiste World
MAR-028 : Nacho Zacares (ES)
Nacho is a multidisciplinary designer and music producer based in Valencia (Spain). He is currently doing freelance work as a designer and music producer in addition to his personal projects. Nacho aims to explore the boundaries between art, design, music and fashion and is constantly seeking for new outcomes through experimentation. In his projects, he enjoys mixing opposing concepts and elements to find an unexpected balance and perhaps creating a language unique to that balance.
MAR-027 : Han Gao (PRC)
Han Gao is a multiple-cities based designer working on editorial, graphic and web design. He has been working with artists, musicians, fashion designers, programmers on various multi-field projects. His current interests and works fall into the possibilities of texts when they are read and written in visual expression through various mediums.
A playlist inspired by or inspired, one of my friends' personal memory of snorkeling in Vietnam, 2020. We communicated with images, tracks, and memories while working on this project.
Here are some of the messages:
“I just checked my phone. I like this cover. It ’s very touching and it has a strong connection with my personal memory early this year” “I went snorkeling in Vietnam.” “I love it when I looked up at the sky from the water.” “My first snorkeling was in shallow water. I scratched my hand and it was bleeding. Then the second snorkeling was a few meters away from the bottom of the water. The place with corals on the bottom was black. I had a bad trip.” “So the first time I had a bad trip, it was scary but fascinating.”
MAR-026 : Plus Mûrs (FR)
Plus Mûrs is a Paris & Bordeaux based design studio offering graphic, web and motion design. The studio has been working for clients in many diverse fields within the range of identities, apparels, videos, books, art direction, motion graphics, posters, magazines, websites, exhibitions, and time-to-time through installation.
MAR-025 : Jarod Tabor (US)
Jarod Taber is a creative director, producer and filmmaker based in New York City, working with a diverse range of clients in art, fashion, music and film. With a background in documentary filmmaking, Jarod draws inspiration from the human experience, translating peoples stories and unique characteristics into short form branded content, activations, campaigns and printed collaborations.
In 2018, alongside partner Marki Becker, Jarod founded WASH AND FOLD NYC, a boutique creative studio offering art direction, production, architectural design and consulting for brands, artists and individuals.
This mixtape was designed in collaboration with Teague Muir. Footage pulled from a soon to be released conversation with Rare Books Paris.
MAR-024 : Sergio Martinez (MX)
Sergio Martínez is a designer who for the most part makes visual identities, apparel, publications and posters either as self-initiated projects and research or freelance work for clients. Currently working at MF9 and based in Salt Lake City, UT.
MAR-023 : Adam Whyte (US)
Adam Whyte is a designer and image maker based in Los Angeles. His work centers around tropes of contemporary romanticism and abstraction — formal elements leaning towards the bold, expressive, eerie and ephemeral. Text/images are strung together, through research and context, to produce compelling, abstract narratives within his work.
MAR-022 : Panamá Studio (MX)
Panamá is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Mexico City that works between: concept making, art direction, branding, architecture and interiors
MAR-021 : Tracy Ma (HK)
Tracy Ma is a Hong Kong-born Canadian graphic designer. She is currently the Visual Editor on the New York Times' Styles desk. She was previously the Deputy Creative Director of Bloomberg Businessweek. She lives in New York.
MAR-020 : Noah Baker (US)
Noah is a graphic designer based in New York City, currently working at Medium. He maintains an active freelance practice focused on typographic and process-driven work for clients in the cultural and corporate spheres including publications, websites, posters and identities.
MAR-019 : Looch Studio (UA)
Looch is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Kyiv, Ukraine specializing in visual communications, research and art direction, working with commerce and in the field of art and culture.
WORK APPLE MUSIC SPOTIFY
MAR-018 : Antonio D’Amore (IT)
Attico36 is a graphic design penthouse run by Antonio D’Amore a freelance graphic designer based in Solofra (AV) small town in southern of Italy. He works for clients in both cultural and commercial fields with a strong typographic approach and focus on brand identity, editorial and web design.
MAR-017 : Pedro Ajo (NL)
Pedro Ajo is a half-Spanish, half-Brazilian visual designer. Currently based in Rotterdam (NL), he combines his job at Studio Dumbar with a personal practice defined by freelance enquires and self-initiated projects. "This compilation of songs have been the soundtrack of the last three weird-ass months of my life. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did."
MAR-016 : Forthcoming Studio (US)
Forthcoming is a creative studio specializing in design and creative direction, focusing on collaborations with architects, artists, writers, publishers, and cultural institutions—producing projects ranging from printed matter, such as books and ephemera, to identities, digital design, and more with an interest in the intersection of art, culture, fashion and commerce.
Currently—Forthcoming Studio focuses on collaborations within the arts and culture sector. We have worked with artists Cheryl Donegan, Nate Lowman, Gabriel Rico, Rashid Johnson and Seth Price, architects and designers Archival Studies, as well as the institutions CCS Bard and Columbus Printed Arts Center, among others.
MAR-015 : Tiago Biscaia (PT)
Tiago Biscaia is a graphic designer and art director based in Lisbon and Berlin. His work is driven by systematic experimentation with typography, color and textures. Tiago is also the founder and art director of the Berlin based electronic music magazine Borshch.
MAR-014 : Arno Labat (FR)
Arno is an artist and graphic designer working under the name (currently) of LIP (logoinprogress), based between Paris and the Basque country. All these different experiences broadened his horizon and influenced his practice. He considers his work an evolving experiment, exploring multiple media, ranging from painting to 3D work.
MAR-013 : Lucas Hesse (DE)
Lucas Hesse is 27 years old and currently living in Mainz Germany, where he will pursue his bachelors degree in graphic design this year. He primarily works in typography, graphic & motion design, but also likes to experiment with code and 3D. He spent a semester abroad in Seoul, South Korea, and interned at Studio Dumbar in Rotterdam, Netherlands and took a course lead by Eike König in Offenbach, Germany. All these different experiences broadened his horizon and influenced his practice.
MAR-012 : Phillip Kim (KR)
Jihee lee is a south Korean freelance graphic designer based in Hamburg. The main areas of her design activities are culture, art, and architecture. She has also recently expanded her reach from print-based designers to web designers.
MAR-011 : Vrints Kolsteren (BE)
Vrints-Kolsteren is an Antwerp based design studio founded by Vincent Vrints and Naomi Kolsteren. VK works locally and internationally and offer creative direction, photography and graphic design. VK engages in ongoing partnerships and in creating a network of creative talent by working in a collaborative way.
MAR-010 : Adam Ridgeway (AU)
Adam Ridgeway is an Australia born, New York based graphic designer and art director.
MAR-009 : Jihee Lee (KR)
Jihee lee is a south Korean freelance graphic designer based in Hamburg. The main areas of her design activities are culture, art, and architecture. She has also recently expanded her reach from print-based designers to web designers.
MAR-008 : Fabian Maier-Bode (DE)
Fabian Maier-Bode is a graphic designer and type designer based in Berlin with a strong focus on typography in interdisciplinary ways. He’s specialized to work in fields of art and culture, branding, editorial and digital design.
MAR-007 : Crystal Zapata (US)
Crystal Zapata is a graphic designer and artist based in Chicago. With an interest in material, objects, movement, and image-making she utilizes a diverse array of disciplines to approach both her design, and art, practices.
SOUNDCLOUD TRACKLIST
MAR-006 : Kelbas (UA)
Kelbas is the solo project of Ukrainian poet/singer Valdislav Zarinchiuk.
SOUNDCLOUD TRACKLIST
MAR-005 : No Mas / No More (GR)
"Growing in the suburban 90s Athens, our conscience as children, was morphed with a sense of grandiose. We were made to believe that our political and socio-economic environment not only wouldn’t treat us with hostility but instead it would nurture us and let us blossom to paths and choices among options.
By mid 2000s a new landscape slowly emerged. Past glories were starting to fade and became submerged to gloom and as 15-year olds we were systematically taught that our lives didn’t matter that much. 11 years later we are still characterised as a “wasted” generation.
This is a mix for what it means to live in Athens today, surrounded by violent architecture, oppressive structures, incoherent narratives, economical but more importantly moral pauperisation, collective depression and massive escapism. "
Kellen is a designer in New York NY. Focused on editorial, branding, and experiential work in the worlds of art, publishing, and culture.
Élise Rigollet is a French graphic designer currently based in Glasgow, UK. Her work is a playful combination of image-making, typography and color. She is also part of the collective Riso Sur Mer and loves collaborating on zines and other printed matter.
MAR-002 : Bradley Pinkerton (AU)
Bradley is a Melbourne (Birraranga) based freelance Graphic Designer specialising in creative branding, print and art direction. With a strong focus on producing work for the arts and music sectors.
MAR-001 : Hurry into Kindness
Inaugural mix for the March 2004 mix series. The mix explores the isolating tension inherent to constant connectivity, how we cope with screens, and possible structural exits into being-in-the-world.