Rodrigo Braga

As a designer moonlighting as an electronic music DJ for various nightclubs around Sao Paulo, Rodrigo Braga has the talent to marry the two better than anyone else I’ve come across — regardless of the cliche that combination would normally embody. The images above are his most recent flyer designs for the Freak Chic party at Sao Paulo’s world-famous D-Edge club, where he occasionally mans the turntables as DJ Maltchique. It’s a super-frisky style that drips with pure lusciousness and smacks of ’80s references, from colors used to the slick airbrush treatment. But he does leave the tackiness to that era, so it turns out nicely as an update which is fresh and clean. I’m probably just as fed up as you over the new rave movement, but personally, finding designs with roots in the ’80s done the way Braga has flipped it is a lot like swallowing bad-tasting medicine with sugar.