All images © Adam G., shared with permission
In Surf & Turf, designer Adam G., who’s overdue the Santa Monica-based studio TRÜF Creative, transfers his signature messymod style from typography to biology. The ongoing illustrated series melds geometric shapes, wipe lines, and squiggly forms into playful interpretations of foxes, roosters, and piranhas.
Varying from stark and utopian to increasingly dumbo compositions, the minimal creatures are all rendered in the designer’s signature red and woebegone verisimilitude palette. Each piece has “an accent on wastefulness and flow,” he tells Colossal, and the series is “a completely freeform exploration within a pretty strict, self-imposed diamond language. That unrelatedness between total self-rule and total restriction is what I think defines the messymod style. Its what keeps it resulting and weird or… ‘consistently weird!'”
Prints of the hodgepodge are misogynist in the messymod shop, and you can follow Adam G.’s personal and commercial projects on Behance and Instagram.
