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Design studio Alexis Mark utilises "linguistic systems" to push and merge art and design

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Projects by Copenhagen-based research and graphic design studio Alexis Mark are centred around concept with context. Each of piece of work, from publications to exhibition design, identities, typefaces and even more, merge the boundaries between art, design and culture, “driven by a particular interest in the concepts of language and mediation as an artistic practice and in an interdisciplinary context,” the studio tell It’s Nice That. Alexis Mark also don’t make things easy for themselves, methodically seeking “a contextual engagement with the materials and conditions of the collaborations we are involved in and find it integral to our practice to extend these conditions into the work we produce,” they explain. Consequently, the studio “embrace complexity as a value,” rather than dumbing it down or “forcing simplicity” on the design brief at hand. The studio also does not list other studios or artistic movements as influences, instead naming “what we might call linguistic systems” as

Design studio Alexis Mark utilises "linguistic systems" to push and merge art and design Words Lucy Bourton — Date 19 December 2017 Work Graphic Design Projects by Copenhagen-based research and graphic design studio Alexis Mark are centred around concept with context. Each of piece of work, from publications to exhibition design, identities, typefaces and even more, merge the boundaries between art, design and culture, “driven by a particular interest in the concepts of language and mediation as an artistic practice and in an interdisciplinary context,” the studio tell It’s Nice That. Alexis M

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