I’m Pauls Kupcis (18), a Swiss/Latvian graphic design student at the applied arts school in Geneva, Switzerland. Blending concepts with experimental approaches, I often lean on typography and have an interest for printed matter. Before pursuing higher education, I would like to gain professional experience and expand my graphic design skills through an internship.
February - June 2024
Medium: Edition
Pages: 352
Format: 136 x 172 mm
Edition which archives and classifies all of the elements used in my visuals, as well as all of the work in general during my internship at Studio BAD, Geneva. They’re classified by project, untouched images, cut-out images, vector shapes, visual research and the final renders. Each day’s schedule is also shown as a detailed chart.
October - November 2024
October - November 2024
Medium: Business card
Format: 85 x 55 mm
Personal business card made with the goal of experimentation with 2 Pantones. Playing with opacities, the superposition of the 2 colors and various graphic elements, this card represents me in some way. I chose the apple, because it symbolises knowledge, perfection and a new start, all while being an element that often reappears in my projects.
October - December 2024
October - December 2024
Medium: Edition
Pages: 220
Format: 180 x 240 mm
Diploma project on the subject of “perspectives”. Where do our personal tastes come from? Can beauty be objective, or is it always subjective? My project, study and exploration answers this, while dealing with the different perceptions of beauty. The first chapter analyzes subjectivity and the factors that shape our tastes (social environment, personality, etc.). The second chapter, the antithesis to the first, focuses on objectivity and universal visual concepts (golden ratio, balance, contrast, etc.). The third chapter, a questionnaire, asks a number of people, each from a different field (biologist, art theorist, industrial director, etc.), about their background, their vision of beauty and a visual MCQ. Inspired by HTML-only websites, my edition contrasts the knowledge of humans with the compressed ones of AI.
September - December 2024
September-December 2024
Medium: Fanzine + stickers
Pages: 32
Format: A5
Fanzine based on the song “The Art of Peer Pressure” by Kendrick Lamar. This song shows how peer influence can lead to poor choices, even when it goes against your morals. The visuals were realized with an Etch A Sketch, as part of the illustration course. Blending metaphores with literal drawings, this fanzine transcribes Kendrick’s feelings and observations as a teenager in Compton.
September 2023
September 2023
Medium: Album cover + vinyl
Format: 310 x 310 mm
New version of Nicolas Jaar’s record “Space Is Only Noise”. He’s an experimental ambient house musician. This album blurs the line between electronic and acoustic sounds, giving shape to a half digital, half manual design. It takes into account Jaar’s notions of noise, texture and repetition.
September - December 2023
September - December 2023
September - December 2023
September - December 2023
September - December 2023
September - December 2023
Medium: Visual identity (logo, display typeface, book covers, merch, stationery, web)
Visual identity proposal for the Swiss publishing house Cousu Mouche. My concept is based on diversity, reflecting the wide variety of novels they publish in all genres. The aim is to underline the publisher's versatility, able to speak to a wide range of readers.
To illustrate this diversity, I reworked an existing typeface by deconstructing it into shapes, and then recomposing the letters of the name “Cousu Mouche”. Each letter is available in three variants, allowing a different combination to be used for the logo each time. This modularity evokes the uniqueness of the readers and publications, which gather to form a whole: the publishing house.
February 2024
January 2024
Medium: Instagram posts
Format: 1080 x 1080 px
Visual proposals created for the Gravière night club during my internship at Studio BAD. The 12 Year Anniversary was divided in two nights: techno/house and latinx/baile funk. The second post was for a drum and bass/neurofunk evening. For both projects the client gave free rein, with the sole condition of capturing the nights’ ambience.
November - December 2023
Medium: Edition
Pages: 100
Format: A5
Graphic film archive about Blade Runner 2049. In this movie, blade runner K uncovers a secret that could plunge what's left of society into chaos, sending him on a quest to find long-lost former blade runner Rick Deckard. My edition includes an archive of images, fragments of dialogues, graphic responses, the tracklist, and other content.
March - May 2025
March - May 2025
Medium: Fanzine + poster
Pages: 8 + 1
Format: A5 → A2