Cross-Disciplinary
Creative Studio
Creative Studio
Los Angeles
California
California
Des Pair Books - Catherine Mulligan
Catherine Mulligan is a fine artist whose work plays with the tropes and traditions of gender standards, commerciality, and current culture. Working with the book publisher Des Pair Books, our studio designed a monograph of her work spanning a handful of years.
Building on Mulligan’s themes of the duality of beauty, our studio explored graphic tropes and subverted typography to create a publication that shifts between alluring and unease.
Team
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Nikolos Killian
Tanner Woodbury
Erik Ruuska
Photography:
Studio Soleil
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