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 2023
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 2023
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 2023
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 2023
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.
Alva Roselius
alvaroselius.se 2023
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.
Werkplaats Typografie
A Sticky Print 2023
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 2022
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 2021
Album
Art direction & Cover art
In collaboration with Martin Falck
2021
Arbetaren
Redesign 2021
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 2020
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 2020
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 2019
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.
