Eemeli Nieminen Type & Design

Bad Evolution Theory Demo Covers

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:41:34 +0000

The second, self titled demo of the alternative/thrash metal band Bad Evolution Theory. The dark toned photos taken through a microscope reflect not only the name of the band, but also the atmosphere of their music.

Generative Visualisation Poster

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:00:55 +0000

I participated on a workshop, that focused on using the generative visualisation software NodeBox 2 in typographic design. The assignment was to create an A1 typographic poster around the theme “A Social Type”. My approach on the concept, was names. The poster shows circa 7000 of the most common surnames in Finland in alphabetical order. The size and color saturation of each name varies according to their prevalence, bringing the most common names up from the pattern of rarer names. A task that would have been insanely tedious to do by hand. Take a closer look.

Vuosaari 20 Years, Web Page Illustration

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:34:58 +0000

The City of Helsinki commissioned a web page from Kairo to celebrate and review the 20 years of urban developement of The Vuosaari district, in eastern Helsinki. My part of the work was to illustrate the map used as the interface for navigating through the history of the developement, and the icons for each introduced project.

Silk Screen Posters

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:00:22 +0000

76x42cm “Damn Right!” and 30x38cm “Sailors On Shoreleave” posters done during a silkscreen printing course in TaiK.

Masters Of Arts 09 Festival Identity

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:22:13 +0000

MoA09, the annual Masters of Arts graduation exhibtion of University of Art and Design Helsinki, TaiK featured over 80 new masters with their degree works and two weeks full of happenings, seminars and a petcha kucha.

As usual, the festival identity was commisioned from the students in the School of Graphic Design. So together with Tuija Tarkiainen we designed the identity “polyphonic harmony” and all the printed matter including e.g. the catalogue of all masters, MoA branded Arttu! magazine, exhibition map/programme leaflet, invitations, adverticements, posters, wayfinding signs and other graphics in the space. The excellent exhibtion architecture was designed by Viivi Laine and Kaisa Takala from the School of Spatial and Furniture Design.

For The Arttu! magazine I also drew a one page “making of” cartoon of the circa 6 months process, that made the whole exhibition possible.

Be Bold And Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:00:17 +0000

The brilliant poprock band Palma released their debut album Be Bold And Mighty Forces Will Come To Your Aid in March 2009. When I was asked to do the cover design I was so inspired by their music, that the covers grew from originally planned simple leaflet with band info and greetings to an 28-page booklet with an illustrated spread for each song. The band logo is made by Viljo Malmberg.

Mining Explosives Catalogue

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:00:34 +0000

Forcit Explosives is the leading producer of industrial explosives in Finland and it’s catalogue serves for more than only selling their products. It’s used in the construction yards for reference, as teaching material in education of chargers as well as by the police for identifying found explosives. While updating the outdated catalogue, we also focused on making it more usable, clearly illustrated and durable in the harsh working conditions it is used.

Sci-Fi Classics

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:00:14 +0000

A book design course assignment was to create a outlook of book series for a definite target group about a subject close to you. I designed a series of covers for Finnish translations of classic Sci-fi novels targeted to teenagers.

Information Visualisation Posters

admin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:00:27 +0000

Posters done during information design workshop in TaiK

A Battle In The Margins: The assignment was to study the 2008 U.S. presidental elections, and my approach was to find out what happened to the 1% of all popular votes that were casted to other than the two main candidates. Resulting an map of the division of the non-major party popular votes per state, and a presentation of the speculative electoral college of the non-major party candidates. But how did it go?. Well if both Obama and McCain would have been disqualified, Ralph Nader would be the presidet of the United States!

The Most Fantabulous Magic Tricks: Another assignment was to design a 50×70 poster illustrating some action that is familiar to you, so I choose a topic near to my heart: cheap tricks.

Calendar 2008

admin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:00:13 +0000

As a result of an unsuccessful attempt to find a calendar that would fit my needs, I started to reflect the way I personally use a calendar and conceive the course of time. I searched for new ways to make best use of the calendar as well as different ways to illustrate the flow of the day, week, month and the whole year. As a result of these reflections I designed a personal, hand bound calendar which shows for example the circulation of the year, sunrises and sunsets. In addition for every week there is space for notes and a dot grid for sketching fonts and such.