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MURRA
Sebastian Murra (Mu!)
Sebastian Murra's highly abstract, organic, often edgy style seems tailor-made for
smartphone cases. He used specs from the manufacturer CASE-MATE to begin with
a correctly sized art-board for each device, although he only loosely observed the
artboard size and orientation until the end. In fact, he made no attempt to restrain
the art within the template, allowing it to flow freely beyond the boundaries. Murra
began this design, “Saturday Morning Cartoons,” by creating a palette inspired by
the colors of fruity breakfast cereals for kids. He created several overlapping
rectangles, each with a solid Fill and a very fine Stroke, and used Illustrator's Liquify
tools, primarily Warp and Twirl, to push and pull the colored shapes into the swirling
abstracts that are his signature style. He added contrast and depth by transforming
a few black rectangles along with the fruit-colored ones. He used blending modes,
especially Hard Light and Hue, to further integrate the swirling tangle of objects.
