Studio Brief One - Forth+Back

My creative report focuses on Forth+Back studio. Forth+Back are an independent studio founded by Nikolos Killian and Tanner Woodbury based in Los Angeles, California. In their own words, their studio seeks to “break new grounds in problems old and new”. Niko and Tanner started Forth+Back at college (university) and continued the studio after graduation, though being a secondary practice while the two were part of different design studios in Italic and National Forest. The pair finally stopped part time work on the studio and embraced Forth+Back as their full-time practice. The multidisciplinary studio specialises in branding design and visual identity, while having feet in the poster design, web and modelling ponds to name a few, and has an emphasis on type based design.

NousTous

The studio have a large portfolio of various works, such as clear, fresh branding design like NousTous and Hotel Emporium, to more experimental works such as Things Are For The Lookin' publication that blends a mixture of clear, bold typography with simple, stylised street photography, physical illustrative elements and beautiful use of negative space, and their poster work for Graphic Design Festival Scotland, that explores great use of typography, hierarchy and interesting Rorschach test like illustration. 

Things Are For The Lookin'

GD Festival Scotland

Their work consistently incorporates type and negative space and the studio’s ability to produce consistently clean and fresh visual identity is something I admire. I’ve followed the studio and their work across the likes of Behance and Instagram for a long time and they are a great embodiment of my own personal aspirations of success and style. I take a lot of inspiration from the work of Forth and Back across my work so when they happily agreed to be a part of my report I was looking forward to the responses I would get and their view on the various topics I wanted to talk about.