Greta Þorkels

LungA Bliss
2023
Festival design. Designed in collaboration with Paula Buskevica.

Errantry
2023
A part of my MA thesis Project, Errantry is an essay on a searching for alternative ways of working, telling time and living. The full text is available upon request.

JFDR – Museum
2023
Type illustrations, singles and LP+CD design. Cover photograph by Dóra Dúna. The album was awarded Silver in the category Album Cover of the Year at the FÍT Award (Icelandic Graphic Design Awards)

The Word for World is a Grain of Sand
2023
A text-based research on various states of transparencies and its meanings – in the form of glass, rocks and sand. The full text is available upon request.

LungA Festival
2022
Festival design. Designed in collaboration with Janosch Kratz and Paula Buskevica.

No Cry - Cyber
2022
Album cover design (LP and Cassette) for Icelandic-Norwegian duo Ultraflex.

HEX
2022
Custom wordmark and poster design for HEX, a short music film by Sóley Tómasdóttir, directed by Katrín Helga Andrésardóttir.

MA & BA Fine Arts & Curatorial Studies Graduation Exhibition Catalogue
2021
Designed in collaboration with Helga Dögg.

SAINT Y2K
2020
Poster & exhibition guide
Interactive film exhibition by Matthew Lessner in Stockholm, Sweden.

Visions of Ultraflex
2020
Album cover design (LP and Cassette) for Icelandic-Norwegian duo Ultraflex.

Unzeen: Essays and Experiments / Mapping and Unmapping no. 1
2020
A publication made in a week-long workshop with MA Design 1st year students at Iceland University of the Arts, where the students created the content from their research material. The book was launched at a group exhibition in Flæði on Vesturgata, Reykjavík. Made in collaboration with the students and Júlía Runólfsdóttir.

LungA Festival
2019
Festival design for the annual art festival LungA held in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland.

Lucky
2018
Poster, exhibition guide and exhibition design for a group exhibition curated by Coven Berlin, at nGbk in Berlin.

Á milli
2024
Graphic design and event organisation for artist-run project space Á milli in Reykjavík.

Transformation Sequence by Drop Shadow Darling.
2024
Contribution comprised of a new short story, a found recording and a reading, to Michael Fowler’s monthly radio show on IDA Radio in Tallinn, Estonia.

Algae for design-led transition towards blue bio-economy
2023
Residency at Svefneyjar, as a part of a collaboration between IUA, EKA and Aalto University. With Paula Buskevica.

Errantry
2023
Errantry is an essay, a publication and a collection of drawings on searching for alternative ways of working, telling time and living. The project was exhibited at Display Garden Display – The EKA GD MA graduation show. The full text is available upon request.

oH Radio x Montex Press x Index Art Book Fair CDMX
2023
A parasite broadcast within a broadcast, aired during dead time between talks/panels and acts at the book fair in January 2023. Featuring a contribution by Steinn Helgi Magnússon. You can listen to it here.

The Word for World is a Grain of Sand
2023
A research-based text on various states of transparencies and its meanings – in the form of glass, rocks and sand. It is an MA Thesis and was exhibited as a part of Display Garden Display. The book was launched in Tallinn at EKKM and in Mexico City at Index Art Book Fair. The full text is available upon request.

Swimming in a River of Crystal Pepsi
2022
An oH Radio broadcast on glass, Crystal Pepsi, the Crystal Goblet and more. You can listen to it here.

Sand Was Never Meant to Think (That is Very Cruel to Rocks)
2022
An essay published in All Horses are the Same Color, a yearly publishing venture by EKA GD MA, produced in a workshop lead by Lieven Lahaye.

This is a Story about a Rock Named Lucky
2022
Short fable on a rock's travels. Broadcast on oH Radio, as a part of the Silence after Early Hours EKA GD MA graduation show.

Signatúra Bookasafn
2021
A collection, exhibition and bookstore of independently published art books, artist books, nearly books.
Commissioned by DesignMarch in Reykjavík and made in collaboration with Júlía Runólfsdóttir, Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir and Studio Allsber.

Signatúra Books/Studio
2020–21
Book publisher and design studio, initiated with Júlía Runólfsdóttir

Portfolio
2024
A course on how to start creating a digital presence for work. For 3rd year BA Product Design students at IUA.

Farvegir og Form
2023
A course facilitating group converstaions culminating in a book, a website and a show for 3. year BA Graphic Design students at IUA. In collaboration With Hrefna Sigurðardóttir.

on sand
2023
A lecture on, about, and around my thesis project from EKA, for 2. year BA Graphic Design students at IUA.

on LungA
2023
A lecture about my time working as the graphic designer for LungA, for 2. year BA Graphic Design students at IUA.

Air Chain
2023
One-week Sound and listening workshop, for BA Graphic Design students at EKA. The workshop culminated in a listening session broadcast live on oH radio. You can listen to the live session here and the practice session here. Facilitated with Michael Fowler.

Softness Club
2021
1/8 of Laura Pappa’s course Dream Big. A workshop for fellow MA Graphic Design students, in examining bodily strength and knowing and pushing your limits.

Forming Counterbalance
2021
Community IV - A semester-long workshop for 2nd year MA Design students in IUA culminating in a publication containing research for their graduation projects. In collaboration with Júlía Runólfsdóttir.

Bookmaking for Teens
2021
A quick workshop teaching teenagers to make their own sketchbooks as preparation for an art-leaning public summer school.

Zine me up!
2020
Workshop for 2nd year MA Design students where they wrote texts and created content from their research material. It became the publication Unzeen. In collaboration with Júlía Runólfsdóttir.