Optigram
Abstraction, camouflage, geometry and science fiction
Social
InstagramTumblr
Spotify (playlist)
Interviews
Resident AdvisorGroove (German)
Fader
Exhibitions
Solo: Unsound,Kraków 2011
Solo: Echo Bücher,
Berlin 2015
Electronic,
Design Museum,
London 2020
Clients
AdidasAudint
Bleep
DBA
Ghostly
Hyperdub
Ignota Books
Lex
Maharishi
MIT Press
MPC
Native Instruments
Nexus
Ninja Tune
Nippon Columbia
Planet Mu
RBMA
Sähkö
Sonos
SubPac
Unsound
Urbanomic
Vinyl Factory
Warp
About
Manuel Sepulveda is a London-based graphic artist and fictions designer. Since 2008 he has worked under the name Optigram, and an ‘optical grammar’ of abstraction, camouflage, geometry, and science fiction has defined his studio output.For over 10 years he has been closely associated with Hyperdub, creating much of that record label’s artwork, and in 2020 his album sleeves for the label were exhibited at London’s Design Museum. He has also worked with several other influential record labels such as Rephlex, Warp and Planet Mu, and has visualised music for Unsound, Bleep and Sonos, amongst others. A retrospective of his print and animation work is being shown at Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Electronic Music in 2021.
Commissions beyond the record industry have included book covers, textile prints, visual identities, kinetic art pieces, multi-sensory installations, and experimental animation.
Embracing all fields, enquiries about potential collaborations are welcomed.
Projects
Worldbuilding for film,Fictions Design
Arts, science and politics journal,
After Us
Film production company,
Strange Machine
Graphic systems for science fiction,
Sci-Fi Semiotics
NTS radio show,
Nitetrax
Optigram
2016-2021Loraine James
ReflectionHyperdub 2021
Ikonika
Hollow EPHyperdub 2020
Don’t Be Afraid
DBA10Don’t Be Afraid 2020
Nick Luscombe presents
Tokyo DreamingNippon Columbia 2020
Hyperdub
HyperSwimAdult Swim 2019
DJ Lag & OKzharp
Steam RoomsHyperdub 2019
Ø
Ø 2017-2020Flatlines
Hyperdub 2019X-Altera
X-AlteraGhostly 2018
Moses Boyd
Absolute Zero
Vinyl Factory 2017
Lee Gamble
Live AV2017-18
I Speak Machine
Zombies1985Lex 2017
Lee Gamble
Mnestic PressureHyperdub 2017
DBA Releases
Don’t Be Afraid 2017-18Inigo Wilkins
Irreversible NoiseUrbanomic 2018
Differ-Ent
It’s Good To Be Differ-EntDon’t Be Afraid 2017
Ø
3rd Ear CatHyperdub 2017
OKzharp & Manthe Ribane
Live AV2017-18
89, Kraków
Unsound 2017DBA Presents
Don’t Be Afraid 2017Ninja Tune SXSW
Ninja Tune 2016FeelBass
SubPac 2016Qualcomm
Invisible MuseumNexus 2016
Created by Evan Boehm, Nexus Interactive Arts
Augmented reality markers by Optigram
OKzharp & Manthe Ribane
TeleportedHyperdub 2016
Concept, styling and performance by Manthe Ribane, Rochelle Nembhard
Camera by Edd Horder
Edit and post-production by Optigram
Adidas Originals
ZX Flux WeaveAdidas 2016