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Michael Flűckiger
When I suspended my studies out of boredom (history, German language/literature studies and cultural anthropology) to sail to the sea on a three mast barkentine called "Atlantis", I realized that I have to break up with my studies. After a while of shipping tourists around, I also realized that maybe this life is not as dull as studying but just cruising around from touristic locations to tourist-attractions was getting boring too and it didn't get me any further.
Therefore I decided to study Visual Communication and sail just casually. Turns out, this was a good Idea. I am now writing my bachelor thesis at Berne University of the Arts and will graduate in summer.
I am into designing handbills and gig posters because of the illustrative approach that posters and handbills allow, balancing and contrasting the more conceptual way of my other fields of work such as interaction-, editorial- and book design (which i also love to do).
And also because I have always been playing in bands. I appreciate this creative and very loud way of relaxing. And it gives me the opportunity to do this kind of artwork for my band and the bands of my friends.
I also like designing gig posters because that gives me the opportunity to do serigraphy. It is important to me, in this digital and computer dominated design context, to once in a while do something by hand and create something from the beginning to the finished product by myself. To have pigmented, "real" colors and mix them by hand. Every time I do a serigraphy, I am amazed at how the digital and virtual work suddenly gets physical, gets touchable and gets a smell.
With this collage I tried to visualize that "urban metal" feeling of Corwen's sound in a strong and appropriate pictorial language without reproducing the visual-kitsch-world of metal music, which does not at all accommodate Corwen's kind of sound.
I made an edition of 55, unsigned and unnumbered
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