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About Existential Pleasures

Existential Pleasures are a multi-faceted creative studio formed in 2019.

Our interests look into the creation of new digital worlds and the stories that lie within them. We want explore how these worlds can enhance human experience in a variety of artistic mediums both within physical and digital settings. Creation of visual stimuli to provide pleasure to those viewing, translating messages and themes with optical impact.  

Our output of work intertwines various artistic disciplines including graphic design, 3D animation, product design and art direction. The studio looks to constantly push boundaries in its work through the use of the newest technologies to form new ways of story telling.

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Existential Pleasures is a creative studio for digital escapism

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EXP LOGO

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LOGO HEAD

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EXP TABLE VIDEO

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KATHARSIS W/ PASCAL SCHONLAU

A project with photographer Pascal Schonlau exploring futuristic athletics and movements under the influence of technological developments in sport.

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Pascal approached Existential Pleasures Studio to collaborate with us creating, modelling and art directing the 3D scenes and him photographing the models to seamlessly integrate them into the CGI world.

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KALTBLUT MAGAZINE FEATURE

PASCAL Portrait IMAGES

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SEVENSTORE X NEW BALANCE

We created an animated feature for SEVEN Store to present the release of the Peter Saville X Adidas Spezial trainer. The story of the animation traced the scientific origins of the iconic unknown pleasures graphic featured on the shoe. Formed from pulsar readings in the deepest parts of space it revealed a new side to the iconic artwork many aren’t aware of. All assets were applied throughout the store and used on social channels.

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NIKE KUKINI-VERSE

The KUKINI-VERSE in collaboration with Sevenstore was a virtual online world in which users could explore the origins of the new Nike Kukini Air Max trainer. We meticulously designed everything from the layout of the building down to the individual character speech bubbles creating a vast array of content for users to explore and interact with.

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SEVEN STORE FEATURE

POST MALONE 2021 TOUR VISUALS

Working with Post Malone’s creative team to create a pack of live visuals for his 2021 tour of the US. We were given creative license toproduce a variety of animated textures and ‘glitch’ like footage. We worked alongside Post’s deeply experienced creative team to produce workthat would be displayed on large digital displays to thousands of festival attendees.

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ADIDAS X PETER SAVILLE

We created an animated feature for SEVEN Store to present the release of the Peter Saville X Adidas Spezial trainer. The story of the animation traced the scientific origins of the iconic unknown pleasures graphic featured on the shoe. Formed from pulsar readings in the deepest parts of space it revealed a new side to the iconic artwork many aren’t aware of. All assets were applied throughout the store and used on social channels.

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New Balance 9060

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THis is new balance

STORES PRESENT ‘BONES’ VIDEO

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YUV HERO ANIMATION

We have recently been working with a pioneering tech company to develop their hero video for their product.The video explores the journey of the product, from the start to the end.

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NIKE ACG EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental internal project based on the Nike ACG brand. Featuring inhouse designed custom ACG digital footwear and clothing, the video looks to take the viewer on a vast journey across the canyons of Utah. From dawn till dusk, our protagonist tackles the many contours of the harsh environment whilst exploring its vast reaches, exhibiting the immense trail running capabilities of the ACG apparel.

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ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENTS

‘Artificial Environments’ was a club night concept which looked explore a future vision of the world were natural environments are emulted and enhanced by technology. The visuals looked to balance realism with surrealism in order to push the boundaries of what a human would perceive to be part of nature in the modern world.

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EXP OBSERVATIONS

Some of our in-house visual experiments when we are not working with our clients.

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LIMIT

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VISIONS OF LIGHT

An exploration of never before seen environments and structures, exploring the idea of virtual realities becoming the new norm within the club scene. 'Visions of Light’ was an immervse livestream from Existential Pleasures which used a mix of audio and visual to transport viewers through a spectrum of unsual clubbing scenarios and an amalgamation of dystopian environments, combining digital experimentation of natural scenery alongside modern brutalistic architecture to form striking worlds

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