Evan

Michel

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Hello, I’m Evan. I’m a designer who is fascinated by the way photography can interact with other mediums like collage, illustration, typography, and I love experimenting with ways all of those avenues can highlight and bring out the best in each other. In my free time, I love to take long, aimless walks, or read old science fiction novels. 

Anarchitecture

A collection of photography and writing about the works of, and often by, the late Gordon Matta-Clarke, an architect who specialized in denying and working against the norms and common practices of his industry. The term Anarchitecture comes from Clarke and refers to both a long-term project he created across many different pieces, and a design philosophy that guided all of his architectural work. This book incorporates and uses that philosophy, utilizing unusual and high tension text layouts, cutoffs and high-tension negative space instances in order to convey a similar type of depth and deconstruction found in Clarke’s work. Within the book, Clarke’s relevant work is divided into 3 major chapters: Conical Intercept, Splitting and Pier 52, each a flagship example of the Anarchitecture philosophy.

Together in the Dark

A book about hopelessness, the deep sea, isolation, bioluminescence, community and human kindness, Together in the Dark, is a collection of my photography and illustrations, paired with excerpts from literature, film and music that bring attention to the inherent compassion present within the human spirit and its everlasting drive to survive. The book pairs images of wide open landscapes with cluttered, almost frantic artwork, contrasting the vast and lonely with the busy and crowded. A major emphasis of the surrealist spreads and layouts in this book is process, with much of the image making having been done through analog means in order to emphasis the contrast and details present in both the photography and hand drawn illustrations.

South Philly Bikes Rebrand

This rebrand for the bike store and repair shop South Philly Bikes revitalizes their branding system with imagery driven by their public character and founding principles. As a rustic but community minded store, this branding system foregoes strict limitations and immobile parameters in favor of a loose, hand-drawn style that actively evolves and shifts as it is used for more and more applications (and in theory, as it receives more and more community input).

Sean McLaughlin

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