Southern Sweden Design Days is a design festival arranged by Form/Design Center once a year. The festival is an opportunity for small, as well as established, creators to participate and show their take on the chosen theme of the year. This year the theme was Dissonance.
This year I worked together with my friend Jonna Rosenlöf, who is also a graphic designer/illustrator, with the exhibition we held at Mitt Möllan in Malmö. Starting off we discussed what it meant for us, in what situations it could be noticed and how this could be visualised. In our discussions we realised that we came back to talking about dissonance in connection to communication and different kinds of relationships. For example, how we sometimes have a hard time reaching each other with words, how we wanna be perceived sometimes differs a lot with how we actually are perceived and how we learn to communicate our wants, needs and boundaries.
As we went on we also started to see themes in our topics and we decided on four topics to work with: communication, social anxiety, boundaries and impression/expression. From these topics we each created illustrations separately which we then collected in a fanzine. Each topic, in the fanzine, is paired with a spread where we have transcribed parts of our discussions.
To print the fanzine and posters we decided to use riso-printing, a method that is inherently unpredictable, creating unexpected effects which mimic the dissonance within communication. Each layer is printed on its own which means that the paper has to be fed through the machine repeatedly for each new colour. Because of this, the paper is seldom in the same position each time, creating at times unexpected results where each copy can differ.
The photos of the individual prints are the prints that I have created whereas the photos of the exhibition contains both mine and Jonnas work.
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To print the fanzine and posters we decided to use riso-printing, a method that is inherently unpredictable, creating unexpected effects which mimic the dissonance within communication. Each layer is printed on its own which means that the paper has to be fed through the machine repeatedly for each new colour. Because of this, the paper is seldom in the same position each time, creating at times unexpected results where each copy can differ.
