Portfolio of the Month: Hörður Lárusson

Hörður Lárusson is an Icelandic graphic designer based in Reykjavik who has a very interesting and distinctive way of using typography.

Of all the really good work in his portfolio, his Málið project appealed the most to me. Must be my soft corner for editorial design or solid boxes with white text in them. As he has done here:

Oh, and his Örlagaeggin brochure has to be the most originally conceived I have ever seen. The scrapbook like quality gives it a very casual, almost innocent feel. A far cry from the bland, impersonal corporate literature stuffed with stock photos of men and women in boring suits that we are so used to seeing. I wonder if the text and images were actually torn and pasted as seen below:

Bravo Hörður! I wonder if there are any Scandinavian names out there that are easy to type/pronounce.

What do you think of his work?