Graphical study

2010

Graphic Design, Typography, Branding

A school project for the Iceland Academy of the Arts. I was to make a personal map. I ended up with a graphical voyage, developing my graphical identity in the process.

Mapping my personal identity towards a visual identity.
A school project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts (course named Utopia and Alchemy)
For this project, I was to make a personal map. I wanted to make a visual voyage, begin with a starting point that would actually lead me to some conclusion. And this is me in a graphical sense. This is how I would look like if I were a color palette, a typeface or a grid system.

This is my voyage!
This is the actual spectrograph I created and works as the basis for my findings. The spectrum at the top contains the Icelandic alphabet and my name (Þorleifur Gunnar Gíslason) is marked with symbols for each letter.
The spectrum in the middle contains my social security number and the scale is numeral from 0-9.
The spectrums at the bottom contain my height and weight.

The graphs are read from the outer circle and inwards.
My personal color palette
This is what happens when playing with colors..
My experiments
My path towards a visual identity
As soon as I got the graph ready, I could immediately start to make some grids to work with.
The typeface
Not highly readable, but it´s personal.
This was my grid for the typeface I created. Each letter is drawn directly from this irregular grid.
My portrait.
Made with the grid system obtained from the spectrograph.

Reykjavík Forms

Finding and framing forms in every day life is an excellent eye training.

Digital Photography, Photography

2012
Børk

My final project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Børk is a Scandinavian creative studio that designs patterns and artworks to use on items such as gift wrapping papers, blankets, pillows and wallpapers.

Branding, Graphic Design, Illustration

2012
Børk - Making of

The process behind my final project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. Sneak peak at some sketches, out-takes and the ideology behind the branding and the company in general.

Art Direction, Branding, Illustration

2012
Circles in circles

Circular experiments seem to have endless possibilities. These are a few of them.

Graphic Design, Illustration, Pattern Design

2012
Self Portraits

Slowly evolving, but nevertheless, ongoing series of self portraits of myself. Self portraits are, if successful, a presentation of the self. I am apperantly not very flamboyant.

Photography, Digital Photography

2011
Thorsteinn Beer Brand

School project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. We were to make a branding proposal for a microbrewery in Iceland and we decided to make 10 different bottle designs for the one and the same beer brand.

Package Design, Graphic Design, Branding

2011
Reifier

Series of a photo manipulation done at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. Chairs and tables rearranged into an installation piece and then digitally manipulated.

Digital Photography, Photo Manipulation, Installation Design

2011
Untitled

For this project, I was assigned to make a exhibition catalog and a poster for a fictional exhibition at the Living Art Museum (Nylo) in Reykjavík, Iceland. The exhibition would cover the graphics works of Dieter Roth.

Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Print Design

2010
RIFF 2011

RIFF, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, is Iceland's number one film event with more than 25.000 guests annually. We were asked to design the 2011 campaign which drew record numbers.

Branding, Photography, Costume Design

2011
Mandalas

"Mandalas are a symbolic offering to and of the entire universe, represented primarily by the circle and its center point of the axis mundi."

Digital Art, Graphic Design, Pattern Design

2009
Logos and brand marks

My collection of logos and brand marks I've done since 2006.

Branding, Graphic Design, Typography

2012
Book design

Thorleifur and Geir did the editorial-, infographic- and cover design of this politic & economics book. We were excited by the challenge of making copy-heavy material and complex statistics look at it's best.

Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Pattern Design

2012
Various posters

Various posters and artworks, school projects and personal works, silk-screen printed, digitally printed, painted or hand drawn from 2006 - 2011

Graphic Design, Typography

2011
Ásmundur

Typography course at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. This typeface is inspired by Le Bifur by Cassandre and is a tribute to Icelandic sculpture artist Ásmundur Sveinsson.

Typography, Graphic Design

2011
Whales + Enemies

This 3D poster was a part of a school project at the Iceland Academy of the Arts. We were supposed to find something worth protesting. Me and my team wanted to create awareness in Iceland about whale killings.

Crafts, Graphic Design, Installation Design

2010
Without destination

Me and my friend Hörður Ellert Ólafsson went on a photography road trip around Iceland in June 2010 to capture the Icelandic landscape at night on the brightest time of the year here in Iceland.

Photography, Photojournalism, Digital Photography

2010
BW Mandala

Black and White Mandala seen up close and in some detail.

Graphic Design, Digital Art, Pattern Design

2009
Heimasætan

School magazine for Kvennaskólinn in Reykjavík. Editorial design and cover design done by Thorleifur Gunnar Gíslason, Geir Ólafsson and Hrefna Sigurðardóttir.

Graphic Design, Editorial Design, Illustration

2011
Heritage

This is one of my 1st semester projects, done for a course called Heritage, where students are sent to a museum to discover our heritage of pattern design, trace it and place on a tea set.

Graphic Design, Pattern Design, Illustration

2010
Mundane landscape

Being a passenger in a car driving long distances in Iceland can be a weird visual experience.. the landscape changes rapidly and you are likely to drive through all sorts of weather on the way.

Photography

2011