Dóri Andrésson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Dóri Andrésson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"I believe that many people, and many musicians, underestimate the power and the effect that visual art can bring to a music experience. That’s why we see a lot of bad album covers that add more or less nothing to the music or the experience when you listen to a new record."
Born and raised in Mosfellssveit in the west of Iceland, Andrésson grew up surrounded by his brother's record collection, and eventually music came to play a big part in his life. In fact, he started out as a drummer, playing with various bands, before deciding on a career in graphic design, making flyers and demo artworks.
IdN v19n3: The Line Issue p42-43
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IdN v19n3: The Line Issue — Artist on the Front Line
A line is so much more than just the distance between two dots. It is the fundamental building-block that every artist employs – even if, like Jackson Pollock, they are simply dribbling paint onto a horizontal canvas. It is a signifier of innate talent: the critics speak of "bold" lines and "subtle" lines. One would be hard-pressed to think of any work of art that did not involve lines – even Malevich's notorious 1915 "Black Square" wouldn't have worked without an outline to define it.
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"Line is anything that defines. In my work, the line is a perimeter, but also infill. It is the opposite of a plane for me."
I think of a line as something that defines or records, or sometimes does both simultaneously. The act of defining would include the act of connecting.
A line can be the source of creation The more lines you put down, the more you'll find something interesting and unique out of your creation that no-one else has made yet.
"Mathematically, a line is the distance between two points. It can be seen going from nothing to a final result; it's a way to create or to express yourself. Line is one of the foundations of typography and drawing."
Ragnar Freyr (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"I do not consider the minimalism in my work to be a message in itself. However, I believe that minimalism is a strong vehicle for honesty in design – and life. It requires that one strip away the un-needed and keep the essentials. One cannot go too far, though. Design needs to have soul – a flavour of some kind. It needs to be interesting."
Guðmundur Úlfarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"For me, the combination of graphics and type represents interesting thoughts, weird combinations and experimentation."
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