MFA Werkplaats Typografie (ongoing), Amsterdam
BFA Graphic design and illustration from Konstfack, Stockholm.

mika@kastner.studio
+31 68-162 43 88

Mika is a graphic designer and art director. With an interest in both praxis and theory she creates books, websites, visual concepts, films and other things. Always with an ambition of keeping a critical mindset and finding novel ways of visualization.

Client
Work
Object
Ester Bergsmark
voice under
Book
Published by Mousse

2023

voice under is a book about strategies for trans filmmaking and aesthetics. I have translated the principles (image poetics, dissoluting closeups, the image-text relationship, periphery as center, and embodiment) into principles also for book design.

Ruby Nilsson
Fera
Poster
Performance still by Adèle Tornberg

2023

Custom display type and poster for the performance Fera, working with a visual concept around movement and cuts in light.

Konsthall C
Another Possible Inner Exterior Moment
Poster
Exhibition identity

2023

Another Possible Inner Exterior Moment to Moment Nonlocation Location is an exhibition curated Ruby Nilsson and Andria Nyberg Forshage and by hosted at the Swedish art institution Konsthall C. Gathering works by three contemporary artists whose work touches upon trans femininity and trans survival, the exhibition tries to re-imagine trans fem aesthetics,

Vi anger inte
viangerinte.se
Website
Identity, organizing, design and web programming
Photography by Julia Lindblom, Arbetaren

2023

To meet the dangerous proposal to force public healthcare workers to out undocumented people who seek care I worked with a group to design a campaign that collects pledges of refusal to comply with the law from individual workers.

www.viangerinte.se

Alva Roselius
alvaroselius.se
Website
Design and programming

2023

Website for artist and writer Alva Roselius. The visitor is met by a poem encompassing the titles of all the works.

www.alvaroselius.se

Werkplaats Typografie
A Sticky Print
Zine

2023

The best definition of ugliness has always been that which has the potential of threatening the pure, which makes “the icky” a radical concept. This is a short story about the icky and the sticky.

Can be ordered on: shop.werkplaatstypografie.org

Sara Parkman
Eros Agape Philia
Album
Design and art direction
Photography by Fredrika Eriksson, scenography by Toni Tora Botwid and Amanda Hedman Hägerström, make up by Mika Hedström.

2022

For the techno remix album of Sara Parkmans Vesper i produced three characters that searched for a campy space between Saras radical church and the great unknown. The lettering is inspired by traditional swedish rose-painting with a contemporary twist.

Sara Parkman
Vesper Remixed
Album
Art direction & Cover art
In collaboration with Martin Falck

2021

Arbetaren
Redesign
Magazine
Graphic design and templating

2021

Century old Arbetaren is a newspaper and magazine grounded in grassroots unionism and radical democracy that needed a new clear, radical but still classic attire.

Para-Institutional Models
Art as Object - Art as Practice
Book
Book Design
Printed by Barry Sutcliffe

2020

Book design for Para-Institutional Models (PIM), about and embodying the relationship between the art object and art practice in contemporary art theory.

Tidningen Brand
Queerfaran
Magazine
Layout, illustration and editorial work
Editorial work together with Xenia Klein, L. Park Apelgren, Micha Camara Sylvan, Nilas Siri

2020

Design concept layout for the queer issue of the classic swedish anarchist magazine Brand. With material changes, color palettes, image editorial decisions, illustrations and attention to detail the goal has been to queerly unsettle the experience of the magazine object.

Sites and Situations
A-Z - Sites and Situations
Book
Design in collaboration with Maryam Fanni
Published by Konstfack

2019

Design design for A-Z, an encyclopedic book connecting different platforms for socially engaged design.