FAR

Visual Identity
Client FAR
Discipline Art Direction, Design
By LUKEABC Date 2024

Contents

FAR — visual identity

Overview

A visual identity system for artist Francisco Alarcón (FAR), whose practice spans multiple collections — each with its own visual language, material, and register. The challenge was to create a single identity framework that could hold them all together without flattening what made each one distinct.

The system needed to work across collections that already existed and be open enough that new additions could slot in using the same process.


The Work

The mechanism: take a cross-section of each collection's artwork, blur and zoom it to the point of abstraction, then set a unique wordmark over it. Each collection gets its own typeface — but the blur treatment is consistent across all of them. Every wordmark also works in mono.

The result is an identity that draws directly from the work itself. No imposed palette, no external brand language — just the artist's own output, abstracted into something that reads as a system. And because the process is repeatable, any new collection can be added without redesigning anything.

FLARES — abstract cross-section, no type SOLIDS — abstract cross-section, no type THE UMWELT — abstract cross-section, no type
INFINITES AI — abstract cross-section, no type INFINITES IRL — abstract cross-section, no type QUASARS — abstract cross-section, no type
The same grids without type — just the artwork, abstracted.
FLARES — collection wordmark SOLIDS — collection wordmark THE UMWELT — collection wordmark
INFINITES AI — collection wordmark INFINITES IRL — collection wordmark QUASARS — collection wordmark
Six collections, one system.
Wordmarks
FLARES — collection wordmark
FLARES
SOLIDS — collection wordmark
SOLIDS
THE UMWELT — collection wordmark
THE UMWELT
INFINITES AI — collection wordmark
INFINITES AI
INFINITES IRL — collection wordmark
INFINITES IRL
QUASARS — collection wordmark
QUASARS
Fonts
Collection Typeface
FLARES Georgia Italic
SOLIDS Pointy Regular
THE UMWELT Cristik Regular
INFINITES AI Glancyr Bold Italic
INFINITES IRL Glancyr Light
QUASARS Dubbo Regular

Credits
Role Name
Art Direction, Design Lukeabc
Artist Francisco Alarcón (FAR)
Year 2024

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