London’s Pocko Gallery is hosting a new exhibition called OK Okapi, which brings together a range of work by long-term collaborators Martin Andersen and Chris Bigg. While they both work across design and creative direction, each brings their own respective angle to their partnership: Andersen’s background is in photography, while Bigg specialises in analogue typography and calligraphy.

The pair first met at v23 in the late 1990s, working alongside the renowned late designer Vaughan Oliver on campaigns and designs as part of arguably his most significant creative partnership, with the independent record label 4AD.

After v23, Andersen and Bigg continued to work together, both as lecturers and as designers, expanding on their music-adjacent practice by collaborating with groups such as The Breeders and Pixies. This includes the creative for the latter’s most recent album, Doggerel, which involved the pair creating experimental double exposures of a mysterious spiky object, as Bigg told CR at the time.

The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue will draw on their vast archive of joint projects they have undertaken together, many of which have been reimagined into new visuals, along with a new collection of double exposures.

The exhibition name refers to their favourite animal, the Okapi. “It looks like a bish bosh of a giraffe, zebra and a deer. Like double [or] triple exposures of weird components,” Andersen explains.

“It felt relevant to how we work. How we enjoy the unexpected, the playfulness. Also, they mostly travel by themselves, but are good at communicating with others of their kind. That pretty much sums up both of us. We both said OK to that idea … OK Okapi.”

OK Okapi runs at Pocko Gallery, London from May 15 to June 11; pocko.com