Publication design · 2024

OKHA Manifesto

A large-format, unbound manifesto for Cape Town furniture studio OKHA, designed as a tactile tabloid object.

Role: Creative direction · Editorial design

01 · The brief

Translate OKHA’s design philosophy into a publication that could articulate not only what the studio makes, but how it thinks.

02 · The idea

Structure the manifesto around five creative tensions — from fluidity and movement to construct and deconstruct. Across large, unbound tabloid sheets, typography, furniture, landscape and material studies collide, pause and reconfigure.

03 · The outcome

A tactile editorial object that behaves like OKHA’s furniture: sculptural, exploratory and alive to material, balance and tension. It can be read, handled, displayed and rearranged.

Blue OKHA manifesto cover with oversized, distressed black letterforms — 01Ink, texture and scale establish the object

OKHA manifesto spreads combining blue ocean imagery, a bold typographic statement and black-and-white landscape photography — 02Whitespace gives the manifesto room to speak

OKHA manifesto chapter one spreads on fluidity and movement with sculptural furniture photography — 03Image, typography and object share the page

OKHA manifesto chapter two image board combining material studies, process imagery, expressive type and furniture — 04Material studies become visual arguments

OKHA manifesto chapter three spreads pairing circular texture studies with an expressive CLASH typographic spread — 05Contrast turns discord into rhythm

OKHA manifesto sequence showing Renegade Spirit and product and material spreads in modular editorial layouts — 06A modular grid holds expressive variation

OKHA manifesto chapter four spreads exploring void, form and material contrast — 07Form and void are given equal weight

OKHA manifesto chapter five spreads combining stone, drawing, landscape and furniture form — 08The final chapter pulls structure apart

This working edition uses a deliberately concise project story. Jean’s original image archive remains available in full.

View the original archive

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