Guðmundur Úlfarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Guðmundur Úlfarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"For me, the combination of graphics and type represents interesting thoughts, weird combinations and experimentation."
A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academic in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, this Icelandic designer works independently in Reykjavik. He frequently collaborates with Mads Freund Brunse under the name Gunmad.
IdN v19n3: The Line Issue p44-45
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"The rendering of my wall compositions is close to a sketch, integrating a vast hierarchy of lines."
Baddydesign (Barcelona, Spain)
"I believe the wider the horizons one has, the more resources one has to seek inspiration. The richer and more dynamic a culture, the more creative it is."
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.
Arnar Freyr Guðmundsson (Reykjavík, Iceland)
"In both graphics and type, I like clean, simple, modern and a little bit of attitude. Lately I have been inspired by graphics and letterforms from Germany around 1930. So much beauty and discipline!"
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.
Lang/Baumann — Sabina Lang, Daniel Baumann (Burgdorf, Switzerland)
"A line can be many things: a guiding line or a border between two fields, but it is also the most simple geometrical form that can be infinite."
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