Ecstatic Surface Design 2011 - The Credit Card Collection

Pinar&Viola is initiating a new modus operandi in the cosmos of graphic design. Every year, they will launch an autonomous Ecstatic Surface Collection which tends to be recognized as 'haute couture' of graphic design. In September 2010 they presented their first: The Credit Card Collection; where the credit card, the ultimate plastic spending power, is the star of the 2011 collection.

The collection stages oversized credit cards as catastrophic authorities, ranging from ordinary plastic to black titanium. Credit cards, once presented to users as keys with which they could access fantasies and luxuries, caused debt to become equal to wealth.

In the collection, this toxic piece of plastic is shown as an all-encompassing metaphor for shattered dreams, disappointment, the changing notion of value and the mutating concept of 'credit'.