Everybody's Perfect – Queer Film Festival
Claire Bonnet, Charlie Thomas, êkhô studio
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Geographic location
United States
Year
2022
Description
Everybody’s Perfect is a queer film festival promoting LGBTQIA+ rights through various events, including films, performances, exhibitions, and lectures. The festival began with a pre-event exhibition around Lake Geneva, titled The Perfect Guests, featuring a wide range of filmmakers, actors, artists, and experts, all committed to advocating for positive representation of the LGBTQIA+ community. We were commissioned to design both the festival and exhibition posters, needing a cohesive identity that united both events. To achieve this, we linked the exhibition and festival visuals by zooming in on a photograph of actress Sandra Guldberg Kampp, shot by Camilo Agudelo, and incorporating the photographer’s analog film burns. The typographic layout draws inspiration from movie posters, credit rolls, and subtitles, with faded dates and titles suggesting a moving camera effect, bridging the film festival and photo exhibition. A mint Pantone color contrasts with the photo’s tone, evoking the exhibition’s lakeside location and adding vibrancy to the overall identity.
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Biography
êkhô is an art direction and graphic design studio. Our services span visual communication, editorial design, visual identity, motion design, digital production, video editing, and web design. With a background of living and working in different locations in Europe and the US, our practice extends across a wide network of people, organizations, designers, and educators. We both hold masters degrees in visual culture and media research. That means we work with research in two ways: First, We work with researchers in fields like architecture, arts, history, law, philosophy, sociology and science to visually represent their work. Our goal is to create a space that encourages critical thinking about design choices and visuals. Coming from a research background ourselves (albeit practice-based), we understand the process and support other researchers. In addition, êkho conducts self-initiated research projects, understanding design as a cross-disciplinary social and political practice. We are contributors of publishing platforms such as Onomatopee and Futuress.