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Lithuanian designer Tadas Karpavicius' striking print materials for Faust

Taking an unusual mix of typefaces, an original approach to layout and a striking colour palette of bright green, black and white; theses designs for the Vilnius City Opera give a rather traditional art form a very contemporary twist.

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Two pages of print materials for Faust opera by Tadas Karpavicius, featuring bright green shapes, black and white sections, and typography on dark and light backgrounds

Lithuanian art director and graphic designer Tadas Karpavicius created these designs for the print materials accompanying Charles Gounod’s Faust production, and he says that the look and feel of the piece were inspired by the story itself and the characters within it. Cutout shapes pepper the pages, giving things a distinctly Matisse-like vibe.

Karpavicius works on projects for clients across art, fashion, culture and commerce sectors on books and publications, visual identities, editorial design, type design and exhibition design. You can take a look at his rather lovely Instagram here.

Open spread of Faust opera print materials featuring a white silhouette cutout figure against bright green and black pages with Cyrillic text
Bohemian opera print design with white and green cutout shapes on black background, text reading "Bohe" and "miectu" on left, "METRASTIS" repeated on right
Open pages of Tadas Karpavicius' print design for Faust, featuring white typography, textured black and bright green pages with silhouetted profile cutouts
Book cover for Charles Gounod's Faust with green left side and black right side featuring a white abstract cutout shape
Open spread from Faust opera print materials showing green and white text page alongside black page with outline figure and white typography
Open booklet for Faust showing cutout letter shapes and text on white and black pages with a green spine
White printed booklet with green accent spine for Faust, designed by Tadas Karpavicius, displayed on black surface
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