Talking to the London designers who worked on Boys Don’t Cry

BDC Logo and Graphic Design Zak Group, creative direction Frank Ocean and Thomas Mastorakos, photography Kieran Irvine

Dazed interviews Zak Kyes and Grégory Ambos about their work on Boys Don't Cry.

The first glimpse fans had of Boys Don’t Cry was its distorted, capitalised font printed across a silver, sealed foil package. It was also the first glimpse that Zak Group, the London design studio behind the typography had of the magazine that they’d worked so hard on.

Catching Ocean’s attention through their work with the Berlin Biennale and Taipei Biennial, as well as books for Cosey Fanni Tutti and David Greene, Zak Group became involved in the project in late 2014. After finally reaching the end of an almost two-year design journey, of which they tell us Frank was incredibly involved in, the studio’s founders Zak Kyes and Grégory Ambos filled us in on what it was like to work with the elusive Ocean – or at least, they warn, as much as they were at liberty to tell us.

Read the full interview at Dazed.