Looch
category: youth photo festival
role: creative direction, name, concept, art direction, design
tools: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
year: 2019
role: creative direction, name, concept, art direction, design
tools: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator
year: 2019
I started with the name: Looch (Луч) in Russian means, at the same time, the beam of light and a geometrical ray.
Thus, that metaphor reflects the physical process of photographing and the aspiration for the future inherent in young photographers. The Cyrillic graph Луч of the name looks super-duper and droll. I found it an excellent subject of typography and design.
The ray is, first of all, energy: an energy impulse that has a starting point and follows to infinity. It has a beginning but no end. This energy impulse has an exact graphical expression in the form of a mathematical symbol.
The ray has no destination—it is essentially an endless forward movement. But it has a starting point, right here and right now. The ray symbol expresses this idea absolutely—it is a metaphor for the beginning and energy of the future in pure mathematical form.
It has a beginning, it has no end—the same absolute expression, only not in graphics, but in words: this phrase has become a textual embodiment of the idea of visual communication of the youth photo festival in Sochi.