Graphic Design
The details are the design.
Marvin H. is a graphic designer across editorial, print, and packaging. Thirty years of grids, paper stocks and press checks, and still convinced that the details are the design.
Marvin began in book publishing, setting type that nobody was supposed to notice, and has been suspicious of design that draws attention to itself ever since. Still goes to every press check in person.
Ashlar — Identity Design, 2025
Identity for an architecture studio: a serif wordmark and a single thin line, set with the discipline of the technical drawings on the studio's own boards, and carried onto proposals and drawing sets.
Halcyon — Graphic Design, 2025
A widely spaced serif wordmark for a slow-fashion label, then everything it had to sit on: a lookbook for stockists, street posters, and woven labels stitched in by hand.
Volta Coffee — Packaging Design, 2023
Packaging for a coffee roaster made out of type alone: the roast name at the size of a headline, one green, one cream, no illustration and no photograph of a bean.
Independent Work — Magazine Redesign, 2024
Redesign of a quarterly food and farming magazine: a new masthead, a twelve-column grid, and covers that run one photograph and one word. Newsstand sales rose by a fifth in the first year.
Within the Collective
Marvin typically leads anything that gets printed — editorial, packaging, identity applications — and the typographic side of identities led by others. Marvin works with V. on how a thing should feel in the hand, and with the collective's writers, because on a page made of type the copy and the layout are the same job.
All project enquiries are handled by Creative Director V. through Influence Design Studio.
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