An essential rebrand and site for an award-winning high-end architectural construction partner, centered in the duality of structure and nature.

We developed the new visual identity and site for Bakstad in tandem. Working along parallel paths, the aesthetic and emotional qualities of the logotype, palette and typography dictated how the site would look, feel and respond.

The color palette is rooted in materiality — the light range is soft and mineral, calling to mind riverstone and alabaster, while the deep end makes use of a rich green to play the role of black throughout the interface. 

The logotype makes use of traditional French charrette and architectural stencil, drawing a connection between the founders' Pacific-Northwestern practice and their global design sensibilities.

Given the nature of the firm's business, we created a site structure that mirrors their attention to detail, everything from novel details to vital info in its right place, while providing enough rhythm in the scrolling layouts to create a free and editorial feeling.

The site is due to be released in Q1 of 2022.

Art direction and design for a double LP from Perfume Genius, featuring remixes of his critically-lauded fifth album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately.

The artwork and package features photos shot in Paris by Camille Viviere, processed via a mixture of printed and digital collage techniques that underscore the notion of remixing.

The images were printed, torn, scanned, enlarged, inverted, printed and scanned again to achieve a singular effect. Pressed on limited edition silver vinyl for Record Store Day 2021.

Unselected unused poster étude for a comprehensive branding exercise

Gutters

LP Packaging for the fifth full-length album by Perfume Genius

A dry, burned out trunk of driftwood, used to shield a campfire by beach goers in OR
35mm color negative

Immediately is the indispensable book companion to Perfume Genius’ (Mike Hadreas) critically-lauded album Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, a "three-dimensional, dust-blown world that is cinematic in its grandeur and intimate in its inspection of the human form." Pitchfork

Featuring iconic portraits of the artist from celebrated French photographer Camille Vivier, this limited-edition monograph reveals the unseen procedures beneath the music—vivid conjurings that became songs and tactile byproducts from exercises in world-building.

Within its pages, beguiling still life is situated amid corroded collage, handwritten lyrics take shape, words emerge as emotionally-charged objects. The results are all collected here in a process made permanent.

In the book’s foreword, Ocean Vuong writes, “This is music to both fight and make love to. To be shattered and whole with. If sound is, after all, a negotiation/disruption of time, then in the soft storm of Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, the future is here. Because it was always here. Welcome home.

Shot on Polaroid SX70 in Tecumseh, Michigan

Shot on iPhone
Post-morning fire on Oregon Coast

Behind the scenes Polaroids for V Mag taken in residency at MASS MoCA

Commemorative posters for audiences at Studio Kate Wallich and Perfume Genius touring performance of The Sun Still Burns Here, commissioned by the Walker Art Center.

Website developed for Collector V, a design lab based in Brooklyn that explores the potential of digital design and clothing and how it can change the fashion industry. In collaboration with designer Luke Robertson, we developed a landing page that can showcase both still and moving digital representations of fashion.

Collector V_Archive.mp4

Identity and digital platform for EQ Space

Shot while traveling along Highway 101 — Portra 400 on Leica Minilux

Fabricated by Bas Stone in Long Island City

Identity for dancer, choreographer, and teacher Patrick Kilbane

Identity and collateral for solo dance performance by choreographer and dancer Lavinia Vago

A forthcoming publication with photographer Matin Zad, available late 2021 from UnCollected Works.

Logotype for BACK IN HEAVEN by Skyler Skjelset

Boulders, grasses, other shoreline materials in Cape Cod, MA 

One dozen real-time automatic interpretations of single egg via iPhone video camera

Photographs shot for choreographer Kate Wallich's Peach Lawn Chair, premiered on a rooftop in Summer 2016.

Designed for Studio Kate Wallich Spring Party 2017

Naturally-occurring petroglyph at monolith scale

Album artwork for JGLP1. Illustration by Yao Li Yin.

Scenes from Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera

Creative Direction Ashley Helvey, makeup Jamyrlyn Mallory for Wut Mag

Book designed with choreographer Kate Wallich and author CL Young to coincide with release of Dream Dances, premiering at On The Boards in Seattle, 2017. Performance photographs by Stefano Altamura.

Shot by Charlie Schuck, styled by Natasha Felker