Birth of the World

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Birth of the World is the design practice of Chris Rypkema, working across visual identity, print, and motion with artists, brands, and cultural institutions. Chris teaches at Rutgers University and has served as a visiting critic at Columbia, MIT, RISD, and Bard. Previously, he was an art director at the Museum of Modern Art and a designer at 2×4. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art.

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Digital Design
Motion Design
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133 29th St #2
Brooklyn, NY 11232
chris@birthoftheworld.com
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Press Kit designed for Miu Miu Women’s Tales with 2×4. Original image by Brigitte Lacombe.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, film still Masha Vasyukova, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Spread from Even Magazine Issue 10, designed with Common Name. Original photos by Wiktoria Wojciechowska.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, photographs by Collier Schorr, styling by Carlos Nazario, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Crop from Do the Right Thing, featuring Rosie Perez, in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Spread from Bradford Daytimer, Tim Smith (1980s), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Spread featuring Hala Mardan Beau Collection (1957), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Crop from Roller Disco, Patrick D. Pagnano (1980), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Process photograph from bathhouse research created with Michael Greenblatt at Redscout.
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Crop featuring Chloë Sevigny (2000), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Spread from PYE SS15 Lookbook. Designed with Project Projects.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, photographs by Collier Schorr, styling by Carlos Nazario, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Cover of Caring for yourself to care for others, with Larissa Pham.
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Press Kit designed for Miu Miu Women’s Tales with 2×4. Original images by Brigitte Lacombe.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, photographs by Collier Schorr, styling by Carlos Nazario. Work with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Spread from Even Magazine Issue 10, designed with Common Name. Original photos by Wiktoria Wojciechowska.
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Crop featuring stills from Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee (1989), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Sculpture for MoMA Design Store’s Holiday Catalog with MoMA Design Studio and Vance Wellenstein. Photography by Jamie Chung. Styling by Sonia Rentsch.
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Spread from Vogue Italia 2020 featuring photographs by Tina Banrey, Styling by Patti Wilson, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Crops featuring Michael Clark in a publicity photograph by Richard Haughton (1986); Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann (2001); and At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1890), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Spread from Vogue Italia 2020, photographs by Collier Schorr, styling by Carlos Nazario, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Spread from Bright Lights, Big City by Jay Mclnerney, in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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On the Dance Floor, Spinning Out on Screen, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Event Image from Triple Canopy Symposium at Roulette Intermedium, with Bo-Won Keum. Photograph by Curtis Wallen.
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Spread from Vogue Italia 2020, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Spread featuring Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1972); Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski (2018); and Last Dance Slowie, Tom Wood (1985), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Spread from Vogue Italia 2020, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, photographs by Collier Schorr, styling by Carlos Nazario, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Process drawing for Triple Canopy’s Symposium identity. Designed with Bo-Won Keum.
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Crop from Dancer, Club G. Spot, San Francisco, CA, Phyllis Christopher (1989), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Crop from “Private Views,” Barbara B. Crane, in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Website and identity for Independent Curators International, designed with Chris Wu and programmed by Systemantics.
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Exhibition design for Beta-Real: The Materiality of Loss by Boghosian Fellow Linda Zhang at Syracuse University School of Architecture, designed with Common Name. Documentation photography by David Broda.
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Spread from Happy Together, Wong Kar Wai (1997), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Title Credit for 80 Years of Film at MoMA, with MoMA Design Studio.
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Spread featuring Woman in Dress Dancing, Eadweard Muybridge (1887), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Spread from Race designed with Alvin Armstrong. Produced by Anna Zorina Gallery.
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Poster for Youngeun Sohn designed with Ulyana Emolov.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, photographs by Collier Schorr, styling by Carlos Nazario, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Spread of Caring for yourself to care for others, with Larissa Pham.
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Crop from Vogue Italia 2020, film still Masha Vasyukova, with Ferdinando Verderi & Guillaume Boucher.
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Cover from On the Dance Floor, Spinning Out on Screen, designed with Chris Wu for A24.
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Crop from La Boum, Claude Pinoteau (1980), in On the Dance Floor, designed with Chris Wu for A24.