Mario Hugo | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Mario Hugo (born Mario Hugo Gonzalez) is a Brooklyn-based artist and designer. Hugo studied art and sociology at Boston College and Art Direction at Pratt Institute before spending a year working for the multi-disciplinary design firm Syrup NYC in 2005-06. After leaving Syrup NYC, Hugo began publishing “fake” album art online. Of this time, he says, “I got kind of famous for a series of rejected Beck covers that got used for t-shirts and other stuff.” Such projects led him to design real covers for ESP Institute, an electronic music label, as well as for big acts like Rihanna and Alabama Shakes. Hugo co-founded the design firm Hugo & Marie in 2008. In addition to music clients, Hugo has worked for... more.

We have 7 objects that Mario Hugo has been involved with.

Contrived of a series of horizontal lines that wrap around an invisible border, this album cover includes vertical shades of blue, purple and orange. The colors are distressed and fade out across the linear surface.

An album cover, featured in black, with illuminated text displayed from top to bottom, and end to end. The medium of the cover is offset lithograph giving the cover a vintage feel.

Square album cover with the word “shocks” capitalized in a classic style typeface split into two symmetrical rows, each with three letters. The letters are formed through shadows, giving an appearance of 3-dimensionality as if raised or embossed. The letters are broken up with “SHO” on the top line and “CKS” beneath, filling the object's surface. All letters are capitalized, “H” and “K”are depicted with raised pyramid-like peaks at the top and bottom of each character 3-d effect creates shadows revealing a serif-looking font. Triangles comprise the ends of letters between thin straight lines. The cover appears as almost a topographical landscape with letters formed by the raised shadows. A “light source” is seemingly in bottom left corner, where the shadows are cast to the right, get darker from left to right, strongest in the top right corner surrounding the “O” The object is filmy white, with shadowy lettering, giving an almost eerie feel. The shadows appear in varying monochromatic cool grey and blue-black tones.They appear softly shaded, as if smudged pencil or charcoal. A thin white border surrounds the object.

An album cover that features four illustrations that are centrally located. The illustrations are geometric in nature and are set inside of a square shaped white backdrop. The cover ends with a thick black border around the cover.

An off-white album cover with letters and shapes displayed in a grid like manner. The letter and shapes are surround ba a dark shadow giving the illusion of a relief like surface. The word Mecanica is spelled out at the center of the cover and is almost unoticeable as it blends in with the shapes that surround the border of the cover.

An album cover featuring an array of arteries and organs illustrated inside of a clear globe. The organs look like they have been submerged in water, similarly to objects in a snowglobe. The globe is set against a black backdrop, in a square frame.

Mario Hugo has collaborated with
ESP Institute and
ATO Records and
Nenad Marković and
Fie Lindholm and
Wanmhope.

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