All work

Campaign

Brutal Season

Campaign identity for an architecture festival celebrating post-war concrete buildings.

Client

Concrete Archive Berlin

Discipline

Campaign

Location

Berlin

Year

2026

Brutal Season, cinematic project image 1, Mordant design studio template

The story

Concrete Archive Berlin

The brief

Brutal Season is a ten-day festival of tours, talks and open doors across Berlin's concrete landmarks.

Our approach

We set the campaign in a compressed grotesk cast like poured concrete, with photography shot flat and frontal. A single vermilion stripe marks every venue on the map and on the street.

The outcome

Festival attendance doubled, and the posters are still on walls a year later.

Heavy buildings deserve heavy type.

Concrete Archive Berlin

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Halcyon Type Foundry, cinematic project image 1, Mordant design studio template

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