graphic design
- Vinyl mock-up for EFFEKTS - "ZUDUSĪ PAAUDZE"
Year: 2024
Format: Vinyl LP + Digital, visual identity, mock-up design
This project involved designing the vinyl-artwork, packaging and mock-up for Effekts’ album Zudusī Paaudze. The title translates roughly to “The Lost Generation” and the release carries an introspective, slightly nihil-tinged tone. The cover and packaging reference themes of alienation, youth, and introspection - set in Riga’s alternative music scene.
Concept / Narrative:
The album functions as a self-therapy session - ten tracks exploring distance, identity, sleep-loss, and belonging. The design mirrors this musical journey through gritty textures, subdued colours, and the tactile presence of vinyl as a symbol of permanence in an ephemeral age - a physical artefact for a generation that feels lost, yet still insists on being heard. The visual identity expands this concept through the vinyl cover, sleeve design, and digital mock-ups, integrating imagery from the recording process. Typography and layout follow the album’s introspective and modern tone, subtly dark in atmosphere.
2. ALKAS PIEPILDĪTIES / ŽAŽDA SBITSA (dir. Kristīne Vītola)
Year: 2025
Format: Poster design
Concept / Narrative:
This performance draws on audio-lectures of Merab Mamardašvilli (1930-1990) and translates them into a theatrical experience about philosophical freedom, human striving and fulness of being.The staging is marked by playful etudes, probing the idea of being and desire (“alkas” in the title) in a physical, theatrical way.
3. RAGANA (dir. Andrejs Jarovojs)
Year: 2022
Format: Poster design
Concept / Narrative:
Based on Aspazija’s 19th-century play Ragana (The Witch), the production reimagines the text through rhythm, movement, and layered voice — an “almost musical” exploring power, female experience, and transformation. The performance destabilises gender and identity, with four actresses taking on multiple roles, merging spoken word and beat-driven pulse within Ģertrūdes ielas teātris’ interdisciplinary framework.
The poster design reflects this collision between past and present. A bright yellow background confronts the viewer with Aspazija’s portrait - a symbol of Latvia’s early feminist voice - over which the distorted title Ragana is scrawled across her eyes, erasing and rewriting her gaze.
4. CANTUS FIRMUS (dir. Barbara Lehtna)
Year: 2025
Format: Poster design
Concept / Narrative:
The piece functions as a contemporary chamber-opera, gathering four women to explore the defence of a local Latvian bog threatened by corporate plans - a richly layered musical and dramatic composition addressing ecology, agency, gender and communal hope.
Poster design reflects this complexity through a bold image: a water-colour illustration of a modern crocodile-woman. The crocodile-woman metaphorically embodies resilience, hybridity and mutation - a creature at once rooted in nature (the bog) and equipped with human consciousness, standing in defiance of destruction.
5. MONSTERA DELICIOSA (dir. Barbara Lehtna)
Year: 2023
Format: Poster design
Concept / Narrative:
The production is rooted in everyday care work, revealing how women fill invisible gaps in society and tend both plants and people. Four women from different generations share their voices in a richly layered soundscape, exploring gender, ecology and embodied labour.
For the poster, a water-colour illustration depicts a full-figure woman becoming one with climbing vines: the lush foliage sweeps over her body, emphasising stretch marks and celebrating form. The vines insinuate themselves across skin and flesh: the figure does not simply carry the plant, she is plant and human intertwined. This image parallels the performance’s blending of nature and human stories, of visible labour and silent growth.
6. METAMORFOZE (dir. Rihards Zelezņevs)
Year: 2024
Format: Poster design
Concept / Narrative:
The performance reinterprets Kafka’s Metamorphosis as a study of alienation, physical transformation, and the fragile boundary between the human and the monstrous. Within this psychological and bodily disintegration, the poster becomes a visual echo of Gregor’s metamorphosis - a portrait of dissolution.
Against a dark brown background that feels heavy and airless, Gregor’s figure appears bent and limp, suspended in air. His body is fragmented, dissolving into the surface, as if eroded by the act of becoming something else. The typography grows out of this mutation: the letters of Metamorfoze are formed from his spindly legs, twisting and branching across the image.
7. EFFEKTS - concert at Depo
Year: 2024
Format: Poster design
Concept / Narrative:
The poster captures the intensity and cohesion of Effekts, performing live. Against a stark black background, the group members are collaged together in a vertical composition, their forms stacked and overlapping to suggest both unity and tension. The bold red palette heightens the sense of energy, urgency, and raw emotion that defines the band’s sound.
8. MANA TĒVA NĀVE (dir. Varis Piņķis)
Year: 2025
Format: Poster design
Concept / Narrative:
This production explores the fragile bond between father and child, tracing moments of anger, tenderness, and grief that surface at the threshold of loss. The performance reflects on care, memory, and the uneasy inheritance of emotional silence between generations.
For the poster, a black-and-white drawing captures a young boy’s restrained fury beside his father in a birthday cap - a scene both intimate and absurd. The almost erased pencil title hovers like a fading memory, evoking the play’s meditation on love, distance, and the quiet disintegration within family ties.
