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Showcase presented by Ascension Technology Solutions · Style 06 · Broken / Brutalist · Personal · Anti-grid
Mørk/Kade — Studio Ø — Est. MMXIX
Independent designer · not for hire by committee

DESIGN THAT REFUSES THE TEMPLATE.

NAMEKade Mørk
ROLEArt direction / type
BASEDOslo → anywhere
STATUSOpen · Q3 slots ×2
Scroll — it's supposed to feel like this
Anti-gridType as architectureNo stock. No shortcuts.Art-directed, not assembled Anti-gridType as architectureNo stock. No shortcuts.Art-directed, not assembled
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Selected Work

№ 001Identity

NULLFORM RECORDS

Full brand system for an experimental label — a variable logotype that degrades one weight per release. Print, sleeve, and a broken-grid site.

NULLFORM
Brand / Vinyl / Web2025
№ 002Editorial

THE MARGIN QUARTERLY

Redesign of a design-criticism journal. We threw out the column and let the argument set the page — footnotes bleed, headlines collide, whitespace does the shouting.

¶ 04.2 MARGIN
Print / Grid system2024
№ 003Interface

OFFCUT — SAMPLER APP

A hardware sampler's companion UI. Monospace, high-contrast, zero rounded corners. Built for musicians who want the machine, not a friendly onboarding wizard.

OFFCUT ▸ 128BPM ▸ REC
Product / UI2025
№ 004Poster series

NOISE FLOOR / 12 NIGHTS

Twelve gig posters for an underground venue, one visual language, twelve deliberate rule-breaks. Risograph two-colour, screen-first, no photograph survived.

NIGHT 01 FLOOR
Print / Series ×122023
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Studio

I make things that look like a decision was made. Grids are a tool, not a religion.

The premise

Most sites are furniture: correct, comfortable, forgettable. I build the other kind — pages that hold their shape in your memory because something in them is deliberately, defensibly wrong. Legible always. Safe, never.

What I do

  • Brand & visual identity
  • Typography & type systems
  • Art direction
  • Editorial & print
  • Front-end (hand-written)

How it works

  • Small: you talk to me, not an account team
  • Two projects at a time, no more
  • Fixed scope, fixed price, real dates
  • Every pixel owned — no stock, ever

Recognised

Type Directors Club '24 (cert.) · AGI Open speaker '23 · It's Nice That "one to watch" · self-published two zines nobody asked for.

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Index

A/01Nullform Records — IdentityBrand · 2025 A/02The Margin QuarterlyEditorial · 2024 A/03Offcut Sampler UIProduct · 2025 A/04Noise Floor — Poster SeriesPrint · 2023 B/01Feltekstur — WordmarkType · 2022 B/02Grunn Coffee — PackagingBrand · 2022
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Say something

HELLO@MØRK
KADE.STUDIO
Directkade@mørkkade.studio
ElsewhereInstagram · Are.na · Read.cv
Next openingQ3 — two slots. Bring the difficult brief.