Graphic on Architecture
The work of Rasmus Koch Studio, Copenhagen
The interplay between graphic art and architecture is a discipline in itself. Visitor orientation and guidance systems require a detailed analysis of the architecture of the building, and the operational and movement sequences of the building's users confront graphic artists with a set of requirements which differ from their normal area of operations in a number of points.
The exhibition "Crossing Borders" at the Royal Library, Copenhagen (architecture: Schmidt Hammer Lassen). The typography does what it says.
Since it was founded in 2001, the Copenhagen studio of the graphic artist Rasmus Koch has, beside corporate identity, book and magazine design, typeface and web design, been occupying itself with the graphic design of visitor guidance systems, exhibitions and installations. In this field the Rasmus Koch Studio is one of Denmark's most successful design studios, in particular because of its work for international art and cultural facilities such as the 'Kunsthalle Basel', the 'Kiasma Museum of Modern Art' in Helsinki and the 'Statens Museum for Kunst', Copenhagen.
The visitor guidance system and corporate identity for the 'unges laboratorier for kunst' and the art laboratory for young people at the 'Statens Museum for Kunst', Copenhagen are excellent examples of the operating methods and unique signature of this graphic artist. The typical slanting design of the barrier tape and the temporary look of the stencilled writing generate the atmosphere of a workshop, a laboratory for young art.
The visitor guidance system and corporate identity for the 'unges laboratorier for kunst' and the art laboratory for young people at the 'Statens Museum for Kunst', Copenhagen are excellent examples of the operating methods and unique signature of this graphic artist. The typical slanting design of the barrier tape and the temporary look of the stencilled writing generate the atmosphere of a workshop, a laboratory for young art.
Typeface design and Navigation system for 'unges laboratorier for kunst' at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
In 2000 and 2003 the Rasmus Koch Studio won the Danish Design Award with its typeface and graphic design for the Danish Film Institute. The fact that the typeface is broken down into individual elements means that the content of the text does not immediately become apparent. It's not until the elements begin to overlap during the animation, in other words when we watch the trailer and the animated website, that the whole text can be deciphered as the lettering turns into characters and an image.
Thanks to their own interest in art and architecture and a feeling for the content of the work as a whole, Rasmus Koch and his team are able to work closely with customers in developing their ideas and creating perceptive and well thought-through results.
The fair-booth for PP Møbler at the imm cologne 2008
to the PP Møbler website
The fair-booth for PP Møbler at the imm cologne 2008
to the PP Møbler website
Exhibition design for Superflex, a danish artist group which works on subjects like production of goods, economical structures and copyright issues.
to the Superflex website
And when Koch and his colleagues, fascinated by their craft and its significance, start up the old printing press in the cellar of their studio this only confirms the impression which his work makes – that of a graphic artist of the old school.
Information architecture (graphic identity and navigational signage) for the newly built library and cultural park in Hillerød municipality, 2001
to the Rasmus Koch Studio website
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