Grandpeople

I have come across another designers work which resembles MMparis working techniques, and style one piece in particular.

Grandpeople for Oslo Architech association

'collecting flowers'

Poster design called 'collecting flowers' for the Oslo Architech association created by the Norwegin design studio Grandpeople. All posters combine the composition of colorful photographs and physical objects,referring to the theme and the world of architecture.

Grandpeople was established in 2005 and specialize in art direction,graphic design and illustration.  They have worked within the fashion,art ,music,advertising and culture industries,including nike, where like MMparis they promote the message using typography in a hand rendered,experimental, and expressive manner.

nikes summer hoops poster campaign,summer hoops 

was nikes us retail campaign promoting the 2007 

basketball shoes. 

"Collecting flowers" poster designs are where the similarities are most distinguishable. The same approach to making visuals from unconventional materials is used as well as the crafted feel. Collecting flowers is a series of lectures with the subtitle "an anthology of architecture and art". The brief was to reflect this theme,and make a poster design,dissimilar to the designers traditionally used in this context.

Grandpeople used found pieces of litter for the raw typography foundations for the posters. Each crushed tin can or off cut of wood is treated as a delicate pressed flower to reflect the title. Part of these found object have been cut out to increase legibility of the letterforms,but still at first sight the letterforms are not recognized as type. The letter forms do look harsh and not always distinguishable but are original and attractive to look at and memorable.

'collecting flowers poster series'

This is another piece of work by Grand people that I find has similar qualities to MM Paris's Balenclaga Portraits.

Grandpeople                                        MMParis

Grandpeople have done an illustration for the New York photographer Zach Gold for his art and fashion project playground,which is an unbound magazine exhibited and sold at Anna Kustera in new york in July 2007. Grandpeople where handed Photographic portrait of a supermodel. There starting point/inspiration come from David bowies album sleeve "Aladdin Save", as the photographs color pallet references this. Both works use close portrait, almost halftone photography,freehand illustrations and typography and abstract shapes and letterforms. The colour schemes are alsoalike.