Marcus Thomassen

I try to make things that don’t look like the rest of what’s out there. Not to be different for the sake of it, but because most graphic design ends up looking fake when it tries too hard to look perfect. I’d rather it feel real.

That usually means a lot of colour, fonts that aren’t supposed to go together, and photography pulled in wherever it fits, because a photo grounds a design in something actual instead of a shape on a screen.

Ideas come from wherever. A building, a song, a book, something sitting on a table. I take a word and follow where my head takes it until pieces start looking related, then build it properly in Photoshop.

Most of my work now starts as a campaign: one idea, carried across posters, social and everything after. I can also build a brand identity and hold it steady across everything it touches, when that’s what the project needs.