Claes Storm Studio

Is a multidisciplinary graphic design studio that works with various mediums and technologies, both digital and analogue. The work departs from an interest in typography, language, and communication, combining technical craftsmanship with a visual and editorial approach, […]

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Installation view: From inside the escalator, at the end, a red screen displays the word 'open' in yellow-orange lower-case letters.

Installation view: At the end of the escalator, a red screen displays the word 'death' in glowing yellow-orange lower-case letters.

Installation view: white screen with the word 'you' in black lower-case letters.

Installation view: red screen with the word 'mangers' in black lower-case letters.

Video Production / Animation / Previsualization for Nora Turato, I hear you, I hear you, […] 2024, 15’ 08”, LED wall 13 × 5 m. IN SITU #1: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL).

✎ FunFacts: The animation has over 20.000 stills and +200 custom-made typesetting pairings.

Installation view: Round projection that projects protein like structures

Video Production / Animation / for Katja Novitskova exhibtion Microbial Oasis, […] at Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen (NL). The video contains morphing protein structures growing and mutating like bacteria, while alphabetical letters and phrases flow through the video.

✎ FunFacts: A bird plug-in was used to guide and create the basic path for the letters to move around in the petri dish 🦅

EP titled 'Cryl Fun', featuring a person with curly hair looking upward. The packaging includes text phrases like 'I try to' and 'I'd do it all again'.

3D graphics for Issy Wood, Cry/Fun […] Single. It’s [was a] Friday the 13th, 2020 and your favorite painter is now your favorite musician. Graphic design by Sam de Groot and concept by Issy Wood.

the letters 'Aaaaaaaaaaaa[…]' are painted in red on a black background. These letters are displayed inside vitrines (glass display cases) positioned on the facade of a brick building along a narrow alleyway.

the letters 'Aaaaaaaaaaaa[…]' are painted in red on a black background. it's night and these letters are displayed inside lit vitrines (glass display cases) positioned on the facade of a brick building along a narrow alleyway.

Mural painting / Previsualization for Nora Turato, Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!, […] 62-metre mural inaugurates an inaugurating public commission for Kunsthalle Wien’s. Assisted by Minda Andrén.

✎ FunFacts: 62 meters is long and everything is hand painted, (no vinyl!)

The front cover of Ginger and piss 4 has a big ginger on the cover instead of the word 'ginger', a big ampersand and yellow oval in the bottom right corner.

An animation of the various spreads, all text based spread on yellow paper

the back cover with medium size letters in the center reading '4# The Intern'.

Guest editor of Ginger & Piss 4: The Intern, togehter with Mark Emil Poulsen, […] in conversations with Yana Foqué, Ronja Andersen and Maxine Kopsa. With contributions by A. D. Cinzano, Even Steven, The Great Illusionist, Jennifer Jessica Jane, ........ ...... office, Mads-Egil Petersen and Roxana Rosenthal. Designed by Marc Hollenstein. Published by Kunstverien (NL).

A dark metro station with two LED screens, the closest LED screen is displaying 'I love ...' wiht blue letters on black and led scrren in the fare back is unreadable lettering in red on orange background.

Video Production / Animation for Nora Turato video installation. […] A visual anchor to her performance Cue the Sun, appearing throughout Fulton Transit Center in Lower Manhattan, New York.

Photo by Walter Wlodarczyk

✎ DataFacts: There were a total of 50 video screens with various animations and 1 static screen. The lowest resolution being 768 x 352 px (that's not a lot!)

A glossy black book cover with big lettering on bottom 'Bachelor Fine arts', with a small line of colors wrapping aroudn from the center towards the spine in horizontal direction.

Animation of inside pages, the pages various from spread with pictures in different formats about the Diplma students work as well as text based spread

Back side of the book, with big lettering on the bottom 'Diplome 2021', on the left side is a list of all the students and the contributors, and the continuous colorful line is also present on the back

Publication design Diplome 2021 – Bachelor Fine arts with Nora Turato, […] 23.5 × 33.0 cm, 272 p. Published on the occasion of the ‘Diplomas 2021 - Bachelor Fine Arts’ of the Department Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts. With contributions by Sibylle Berg, Claus Richter, Raphael Gygax and Martin Jaeggi. Photos inside by Conradin Frei.

animation of differnt covers from all six volumes, most part all drawn diretly by Moriz with colorful pencils.

animaiton of inside spread from diffrent volumes

Book design of Sequential Drawings vol. 1-6 by Moriz Oberberger, […] 21 x 29.7, each vol varies from 200 pages and up to 880 pages. An ongoing series that is still in development

installation view (oslo): Wall painting with ten big red ovals (also refered to as pills) that looks as if they had fall into place on a green background with a text in the bottom sayin 'explore heavn now' in black lower-case lattering

outside looking installation view (portugal) at night: Wall painting with nine big red ovals (also refered to as pills) that looks as if they had fall into place between the architectura on a green background with a text in the bottom sayin 'explore heavn now' in black lower-case lattering

Wallpainting / Previsualization for Nora Turato, explore heaven now, […] img 1: 21.67 × 14.06 meters, Astrup Fearnley Museet (NO). img 2: 24.09 × 8.47 meter, Quetzal Art Center (PT). Assisted by the talented Mark Emil Poulsen.

✎ Process: No vinyl!
✎ FunFact: The pills placement are done using physics-based simulation

Video projection with red lettering saying 'you' on a background of a light-cloud blue skye

installation view of various wall paintings, the closest wallpaint has the text 'haha' in white lower-case lettering on black background and on the left side is a longer wall painting with same colors but the text reads 'authenticity'. Behind the first wall painitng is a small section visble of a wall painting – the top part of the wall painting has part of a text visble 'become...' in black lettering on a red background with a black ouline box around, the rest of the wall is painted light blue.

Video Production / Animation / Previsualization / Wallpainting for Nora Turato, it’s not true!!! stop lying!, […] at Sprüth Magers La (US), Video 40’ 00”, projection. Wall paintings in various sizes. Assisted by the amazing Coco, Ray and Megan and with an amazing AV setup by Melody.

Front cover of the book reads Performing Security and has a drwaing of a man with differnt presure point visualised, the right arm goes out of the image on rhe right side.

Animaiton of inside spreads of same book. Spreads with text are designed so the left side is white lettering on black background in dutch, and the right side is black text on white background, there are also spreads that has full bleed images of security guard outdoors.

Back side has the isbn code visble in the bottom right corner 'ISBN 978-90-822437-8-9' and there is a arm visble from the drawing on the front cover.

Publication design on Performing Security for Marianna Maruyama, Jan Adriaans and Gerwin Luijendijk, […] 16,5 × 10,5 cm, 80 p. published by ‘t Vijfde Seizoen. Essays and videostills by Marianna Maruyama, Jan Adriaans and Gerwin Luijendijk.

The cover has a green neon text in a vetical center position saying 'In the Current of the situation' on a glossy red background

Animaiton of inside spread: that show various froms the text takes, from a more poetice layout to block paragraphs.

The Back side of the cover has text in the bottom saying 'Xx' in cursive and green lettering on a red background.

Publication design of In the current of the situation by Danae Io and Ioanna Gerakidi, […] 12.5 × 19.0 cm, 64 pages. Published by Dolce Publications, and with a contribution by artist Jesse Darling.

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