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Poetics of Encryption is an extensive art project curated by Nadim Samman lasting for nearly a full year at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, both in their physic and digital spaces. Sometimes Always was in charge in creating the full design system and communication for Poetics of Encryption. Over the course of a year, this system manifested across various media and scales, encompassing everything from the project's website and exhibition to artwork wall tags and urban billboards.
Dolce Stil Criollo’s fifth issue, “Extraordinarily Apotropaic,” aims to rethink reality in its current ordinary form by discovering and creating charms and rituals for changing it into one where there is less harm. The issue features poems in multiple languages; a map of dreams; a video game-turned-manga; a section that functions as a kineograph; a collaboration with the Huni Kuin people; and more.
TFAM Net.Open is a hub for the convergence and co-creation between art creators, computer engineers, scientists, arts administrators, and production teams. The project is an initiative by Taipei Fine Arts Museum that aims to respond to the invention and application of new technologies in art creation or institutional systems in the digital age.
Monograph poetry booklets as part of the universe of Dolce Stil Criollo. Each booklet is in double-sense where in one the content is presented in its original language, and in the reverse, in its translated version.
ID refresh for Caracol Bar in São Paulo. The first ID we designed for caracol 5 years ago was a turning point for Sometimes Always and has opened us so many doors. Now Caracol has moved address and a new chapter had begun.
Cover artwork for DJ Ramon Sucesso's "Sexta dos Crias", his first album released by our friends from Lugar Alto. The cover features Ramon shot by Marcelo Mudou freshing himself in a water tank at his home in Rio de Janeiro. The graphics are inspired by the artist’s absolute passion, the football team Flamengo.
Mundo Ritual stands for non-limiting dancing space, harsh body movement and radically respectful free-thinking on the dancefloor. We must move not to fall, we must gather not to isolate.
LP graphics for the outstanding release by our friends from Lugar Alto featuring the work of the unique multi-artist Akira Umeda. A historian by training, he became a ceramicist, a photographer, a visual artist, a draftsman, a graphic designer, a DJ, a musician, an audio technician, a writer, a researcher…
Visual identity and communication for Public Records new endeavour, a hybrid outdoor plant nursery, event and sound space. We were in charge of coming up with a design system that could communicate The Nursery solar healing aspects.
Dolce Stil Criollo is the sweet, creole style. Its 4th issue, published between New York and Berlin, is about “border theatrics.” The issue dramatizes the ways interpretation and performance create, destroy, sustain, and even entertain a border.
Open Secret is a six-month long program that explores images of the technological hidden in our apparently ‘open’ society. A digital exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the project critically examines the digital infrastructures that organize civic life. Sometimes Always designed Open Secret's visual identity that is manifested in a website, social media and printed matter.
Graphic design for the album 'The Dreambird' a collaboration between Serbian ambient legends Mitar Subotić (aka Suba aka Rex Ilusivii) and Goran Vejvoda.
Set of packs created for the german beer Beck's. The design breaks the hierarchy of some elements, playing with things that are usually neglected by incorporating them to the layout. The packs contain no photography of the product and no 3D effects of any sort. The typography is protagonist and the logo is divided in two, half on the front and half on the back.
Visual identity, website, stationery and packaging designed for Reparations Club, a black-owned, women owned (book)shop focused on BIPOC literature and cultural production. Founded and managed by Jazzi McGilbert, Rep Club is located in Los Angeles, California.
Open Secret is a six-month long program that explores images of the technological hidden in our apparently ‘open’ society. A digital exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the project critically examines the digital infrastructures that organize civic life. Sometimes Always designed Open Secret's visual identity that is manifested in a website, social media and printed matter.
Visual identity, website, stationery and packaging designed for Reparations Club, a black-owned, women owned (book)shop focused on BIPOC literature and cultural production. Founded and managed by Jazzi McGilbert, Rep Club is located in Los Angeles, California.
Presented by KW Institute Berlin, The Last Museum is an exhibition that explores tensions between the imagined ‘anywhere’ of digital space and its relation to concrete places and objects. Deploying a hybrid offline-online format, the project invites an international group of artists to reimagine site-specificity, through a sequence of interventions that cut across both real and virtual domains.
Fidèle is an outstanding riso press and a publisher based in Paris. We were invited to rethink their visual identity, website and printed matter. A project about loyalty to colours, techniques and collaboration.
Miilkiina is a new digital media space and creative agency based in New York and Dubai. Under their creative direction, we've been working on their visual identity, website and brand expressions since mid 2019.
Fast and furious journal we've just designed for Adidas Brazil. Virada News is a 16 pages tabloid featuring some of the activities supported by adidas in Virada Esportiva, a whole weekend of free sports activities that happens every year in Sao Paulo.
This is one of our favorite projects ever, the brand identity we designed for Caracol Bar early 2018. The reasons we love this so much are easy to name: first, its references are modernist Brazilian graphic design (Duarte, Wöllner, and cia), second because it is super simple and third because it makes use of technology to create auto generative compositions.