Sig Vicious (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Sig Vicious (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"Why am I attracted to the combination of graphics and type? Because it is catastrophically amazing."
Sig Vicious has been doing graphic design for 14 years, but he never attended any art classes or went to a design school. As a man of few words, to judge from the length of his interview answers, Vicious prefers to use his works to express himself.
IdN v19n3: The Line Issue p54-55
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Guðbjörg Tómasdóttir (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"Since I am both a musician and a graphic designer, I find the relationship between the two is very strong. I enjoy creating a visual world around music that means something to me. It’s inspiring when bands have a strong identity and when one can interpret that through both music and visuals."
"The rendering of my wall compositions is close to a sketch, integrating a vast hierarchy of lines."
"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."
Guðmundur Úlfarsson (Reykjavik, Iceland)
"For me, the combination of graphics and type represents interesting thoughts, weird combinations and experimentation."
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.
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