Sunday, January 22, 2012

Stephen O'Malley







via Ideologic To be honest, graphic design is pretty much lost on me these days. There has been such a flood of generic nonsense over the years that it's hard to get excited about any of it. Fortunately, we still have Mr. Stephen O'Malley. He's best known for his role in bands SunnO))), Aethenor, and Khanate as well as many other obscure side projects. His design aesthetic mirrors the sounds and feelings that each of these projects invoke. With an extremely minimalist approach he is able to conjure up visions of religion, history, and nature as well as those things we all associate with dark metal music like death,lucifer, and the occult. At the end of the day though, it comes off as less creepy/scary and more like intellectual high art. Beautifully executed images that I'm thankful to have around.

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