Visual Style of Prague Philharmonia's 32nd Season

The new Prague Philharmonia season is like a living organism. Pulsating with emotions, colors, and sounds that, this time, are not just heard but also seen.

Each concert has its own visual language, its own mood, its own story.

But the illustrations made of pixels and blurred shapes are not just decoration; they are like notes played by the eyes. Trees, bodies, animals, instruments, symbols, and abstract rhythms refer to specific works and motifs from the program. Sometimes as a hint, sometimes as an explosion. Music spills into the space even before the first note sounds.

The entire visual line works with impression. With something that is hard to describe but easy to feel. With pixels that decompose and reassemble, with shapes that vanish before you can grasp them. It's digital impressionism. And also an invitation – to curiosity, to open eyes and ears.

“In terms of colour and typography, I built on the previous year for this season's visual identity, but the goal was to push the concept further, deeper into detail, emotion, and visual layering,” states Pavel Fuksa. “I treated each concert as a separate world deserving its own artistic interpretation. As always, I wasn't just aiming for a descriptive depiction, but rather a visual interpretation of the themes, moods, and contrasts within the program. I worked with decomposition and composition, with deliberate blurriness and pixel aesthetics as tools to express what music often only suggests: feeling, memory, echo. It was work at the crossroads of music, visual art, and intuition.”

Pavel Fuksa (born December 20, 1982) is a Czech graphic designer, illustrator, and creator of advertising campaigns.

In 2014, he was ranked among the world's 30 best graphic designers by Computer Arts magazine; he has been listed three times among the world's 200 best illustrators by Lürzer's Archive (2014, 2016, 2018). He works in Prague, Dubai, and Finland, and previously worked in places including Qatar, Egypt, and Slovakia. He creates advertising campaigns and graphic design for clients in the Czech market and abroad. His campaigns and works are recognized at international creative competitions (D&AD, Cannes, Epica, NYF, Eurobest, ADC*E), and he himself regularly participates on the juries of international festivals. His works represent an ideological return to handcrafted graphics. Visually, his illustrations are very colourful, geometric, and feature minimalist shapes. He often incorporates Czech dark humour into them as well. (Source: Wikipedia)