Nico Odradek

A while ago, after writing some texts and thoughts about the past and the present, I came up with the idea of doing an illustrated diary based into specifics facts that I had experienced and that could make a link between animal and human. 

Some of the texts talk about feelings and thoughts, and some others texts about things that happened to me and that were buried in the past. Things that remained in my memory after so many years, but brought together through both, an animal and a human point of view: what bring us together, the human behavior in animals, the animal behavior in humans, and how we communicate between each other or where we draw the line between animal and human...

The work is presented as an illustrated diary in a engraved metal box made on a special mesure that contains 5 different texts with illustrations and photographies with different artistic techniques such as linocut, riso printing or laser.

A vinyl cover of a band that has been variously described as psychobilly, southern rock, hard rock, cowpunk, and sleaze rock.

The band's lyrical themes mostly revolve around sex, drugs, drinking, fighting, and rock 'n' roll.

A logo made for the Department of Research in Developmental Disorders Lab of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the Ghent University.

Dr. Jerry was a typography developed for a poster of a film that was meant to show the life of Dr. Jerry, a doctor addicted to pills and body building at a certain old age. 

A small and naive monster collection. 

Creux is a story that illustrates with different images the same idea behind one of the tales of the Argetinian writter Jorge Luis Borges, The Disk: which talks about how ambition and greed leads people's actions.

A fictional cover for a typography book that introduces you to some of the most well-known typos that has appeared since 1950, such as: Times New Roman, Garamond, Arial, Courier,Verdana...

An alcoholic drink distilled in Lebanon and locally sold in Brussels.  

Arak is a levantine unsweetened distilled spirit and translucent white anise-flavored drink. Made of only two ingredients, grapes and aniseed.

Quasar is an experimental typo developed starting from the basic form of a grid It was meant to be created starting with the idea of constellations and stars as an inspiration.

Quasar is an experimental typo developed starting from the basic form of a grid. It was created with the idea of constellations and stars as an inspiration. 

Fish packaging for a local enterprise that sells in Galicia, north of Spain