Graphic Design for Atmos (currently)
ATMOS,
2023-currently
Design for Atmos across digital platforms, events partnerships, and various collateral. Atmos is an exploration of climate and culture, a nonprofit biannual magazine and digital platform curated by a global ecosystem of artists, activists, and writers devoted to ecological and social justice, creative storytelling, and re-enchantment with the natural world.
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JUNE DIGITAL COVER, 2024
Photo by Jeremy Everett
Art Direction by Tessa Forest
Digital Cover for Atmos featuring Daisy Edgar-Jones.
EVENT INVITE , 2024
Event invite designed for the Atmos Volume 10: Afterlife launch event. Atmos Volume 10: Afterlife dives into the politics of waste colonialism, the artistry of upcycling, cultural understandings of death and the occult, material and spiritual composting, the extinction crisis, and more stories seeking to answer the question: what comes next?
ATMOS INSTAGRAM DESIGN, 2024
LaTonya Yvette and Rachel Cargle on Reclaiming Rituals of Home, published in Atmos. Printed and scanned to create distortions within the text.
ATMOS INSTAGRAM DESIGN, 2024
For Atmos Volume 09: Kinship, award-winning queer poet, writer and performer from St. Paul, Minnesota, Danez Smith explores the deep grief of environmental destruction and humanity’s complicity in it. Smith’s words ask us to confront the devastation we’ve caused—from the extinction of species to the loss of Earth’s crucial ecosystems.
THE NATURE OF
Branding for The Nature of Podcast
BREAKING NEWS TEMPLATE
Breaking news template designed for Atmos. Implementing the template allows for quick responsive content to breaking news stories.
ATMOS INSTAGRAM DESIGN, 2023-current
Various designs for the Atmos Instagram account.
Ásta Þrastardóttir
astathrastardottir@gmail.com
Instagram
Ásta is a graphic designer specializing in typography, editorial design, and art direction. She is based in Copenhagen and Los Angeles.
Her background in journalism and writing practice continues to inform her work, and she is interested in building strong narratives for design. She is originally from Iceland and finds inspiration from the shapes and textures found on the island.
EDUCATION
Rhode Island School of Design
MFA Graphic Design
2019-2022
The New School
MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism
2017-2018
Boston University
BA in Psychology, Minor in Journalism
2011-2014
EXPERIENCEAtmos
Graphic Designer
Remote
2023-present
IN-FO.CO
Design Intern
Los Angeles, CA
2022-2023
RISD Museum
Design Assistant
Providence, RI
2020-2021
SPECIALIZATIONSTypesetting and Layout
Editorial Design
Art Direction
Video Editing and Color Grading
Photo Editing
Brand Identities
Environmental Design
PROGRAMS
Adobe Creative Suite
InDesign
Illustrator
Photoshop
Lightroom Classic
AfterEffects
Premiere Pro
Capture One
Figma
AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS
Gonda Fund for Social Justice Recipient,
Rhode Island School of Design, 2022
Multiple Formats Contemporary Art Book Symposium Panelist, Boston University, 2021
Excavating Form within Design Education,
Is a Gallery, Jing’an Shanghai, 2021
COMMON GROUND, 2022
Adam Silverman + Sogetsu Ikebana Los Angeles
6 × 9 inches, 128 pages, softcover with jacket
Design by IN-FO.CO
Published by Inventory PressDesign and typesetting of Common Ground by Adam Silverman & Sogetsu Ikebana Los Angeles. Working with ceramic artist Adam Silverman to design a book that featured a series of 56 Ikebana arrangements made by teachers and students at Sogetsu Ikebana Los Angeles, that were placed in Silverman’s vessels. The book cover itself folds out into a poster highlighting all 56 Ikebana arrangements against a blue background.
With contributions by Ravi GuneWardena, Aya Muto, Akane Teshigahara, and Tony Marsh.
Art Direction by Adam Michaels and Shannon Harvey at IN-FO.CO.
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DISTRICT VISION, 2024
Video Edit & Design Video editing and design for District Vision® + 2XU® Desert Basin Exploration Program. Working with the cofounder of the brand to source found footage of the Badwater 135 race to design, edit, and color grade a video to promote the District Vision® + 2XU® collab.
Full clips found here and here.
WE PRESENT ISSUE #6, 2023
5.5 x 8.5 inches, 98 pages
Design and typesetting for WePresent Issue #6. WePresent is WeTransfer’s digital arts and editorial platform. For issue 06, the theme of the magazine is “endurance.” This issue’s cover story asks “what does it really cost to be an artist?”
Art Direction by Brian Johnson and Silas Munro at Polymode Studio.
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SOFT RUPTURES, 2022
RISD MFA Thesis Book
6 × 9 inches, 228 pages, softcover with jacketMy RISD Graphic Design MFA Thesis was based on a project that explored a personal story of Iceland and a volcanic eruption. The book begins with my research and documentation of the project, which became a film, installation, and publication exploring shifting landscapes and family histories.
The book includes documentation of projects made during my time at RISD and interviews with Mindy Seu, Kathleen Sleboda, and Elaine Lopez.
Advising by Kelsey Elder, Cem Eskinazi, and Ryan Waller.
Full thesis website and presentation here.
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INVENTORY, 2021
RISD Winter Session
16 pages, saddle stitch bound
In the winter of 2021, I became interested in the idea of catalogs and collections. During the pandemic, we were often urged to document and catalog how our lives are being impacted, and I was interested in trying to catalog my own experiences with solitude.
It was an attempt to capture a hyper-specific moment in time. I was cataloging as a way of making sense of this new reality. Inventory, at its very basis, is a book of lists. It begins with, “I stumbled upon,” and then goes from there. I connect things in a very loose way, and it is about finding small connections between seemingly disjointed thoughts. Ryan Gander’s Loose Associations was a source of inspiration for this project. In the meandering lecture that became a book, Gander begins with, “all these things are linked somehow, but at times the associations may be a bit loose.”
Advising by Ryan Waller.
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WADING INTO COLLAPSE, 2022
Publication and Installation
RISD Design Commons A collaborative project with Jack Tufts, Wading Into Collapse became a publication and installation shown in the RISD Design Commons in 2022. Using the personal as a way to bring others in to the experience, we created an installation to tell the stories of our homes, Iceland and Louisiana, to show the ways the climate is already dramatically shifting in each place.
We took this concept, climate change, this term that feel so vast, a hyper-object that seems difficult to grasp, and showed the ways in which the climate is already being impacted in our homes with personal stories: mine of seeing a glacier declared “dead-ice,” in Iceland and Jack’s of his evacuation during hurricane Ida.
Advising by Kelsey Elder.
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