Book design
for Tompa Kések album
digital design, print desin, production design, product design, design management
2019 - 2020
Design management and digital art in cooperation with contermporary artist Zsolt Vetlény for the Kiscsillag band’s Tompa Kések album. I had the honor to team up with one of the most famous urban contemporary artist to make a design for the most influential ‘90s alternative band’s new album.
We got excited and work as hard as we could, but then COVID 19 happened. All the concerts were called off, starting just at the very day when the debut should have been held. We got stuck, we did nothing but this project for months, we haven’t got any plan B. András Lovasi, the leader of the band wrote a small tale, it was waiting for it’s turn to make it visible, and we were talking about an illustrated album before with collectables, stickers, extraordinary quality, something really superb – so we decided not to escape, but to run forward with this. We had nothing but time, so we deepdived into the work. We were working trough the summer, we came up with the idea of an extra show, and since we are talking about serious paintings and drawings, an exhibiton as well for the extra content, a small concert, meet and greet with the authors. We haven’t stop communicating about the process, and organized small events, we kept up with social media, and by the fall we had a blast with this event, and the book was completely sold out for Christmas.
An additional extra, since we had to make some income, we made a plan B. During the work on Tompa Kések book, we develop sideprojects based on our raw materials – Zsolt and I figured out that a particular page with Hungarian celebrities was a real pleasure to make and has some extra potential, and based on that the “Hungarian poets and writers in bars” portrait series came alive, and with a quickly manageable business plan we made prints and got invited to Hadik pub, which was always a great place for artist and writers.