Visual identity design for the documentary film “Decompression” by Giorgos Pavloudis

Following the Grafas Diving team in search of a shipwreck, we submerge with them into the necessity of both a literal and metaphorical “decompression”. The 27-minute documentary explores the boundaries of anthropological portrayal within the context of ethnographic filmmaking and delves into the concepts of diving, shipwrecks, exploration, and teamwork, reconstructing the experience of coexistence amidst the intricacies of the underwater world.

The rate of pressure decrease from the seabed to the surface, as well as the broader meaning of the term “decompression”, is visualised through the utilization of varying typographic weights of the same font in the typographical presentation of the title. The stylized depiction of two oxygen tanks suspended from the dive line rope serves as the central key visual concept. The diver himself is nowhere to be found, and his absence lends an abstract quality to the scene, introducing a deliberate potential for multiple interpretations and decipherings.