The Birthday of the Infanta design work is coming on… We’ve got something that is really going to work with the overall design in terms of poster work etc. Can’t wait to work on the illustrations.
Creative St Albans are looking to develop their brand. Here are a couple of the logo designs we are proposing:
These are just a couple of process sketches Matt has been working on. This first is a sketch of a MauMau warrior for the theatre performance ‘Burn My Heart’ produced by Blindeye and Trestle:
These next couple are a sketch and an ink drawing for ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’, a proposed theatre performance at Trestle Theatre:
Here are a couple of process images from the flyer we recently designed for Trestle Theatre, under the title “Thomas Paine: The Liberty Tree”. It was to promote a performance by two singer/songwriters, Leon Rosselsson and Robb Johnson with the titular free thinker as the theme.
This is the finished flyer:
It came together with ideas and work from all three of us; we especially wanted to have the tree as a central connecting image for the design, from this came the idea of having the roots spelling out the title of the piece. I created the text using a simple sans serif font to get the layout and give a guideline, then worked over that in pencil and ink:
Meanwhile Jim created this sweet guitar/tree motif in Photoshop. Here you can see it coloured and integrated with the text:
This was unfortunately unusable in the end as the brief stated the need to use pictures of the performers. To this end Matt created this sketch, and followed from there, inking it over the lightbox and eventually bringing all the separate components together for the final design:
We completed a new live recording for Arthur Winkler Now! – Hopefully be up online soon. There you go the first tweet from @VIDEOfeet
Here are some of the illustrations I’m working on for Lamfrag’s next Short “The Polig”. They won’t be in the actual film but will be the key feature in the poster and DVD design. Hope you like them – more details coming soon…
Cyclic Defrost is an Australian electronic music magazine I happened upon when I found a really good interview with Christian Fennesz. It seems to be pretty good, with nice design and layout, as well as good writing about interesting music – I just read a real insightful interview with Autechre that I hadn’t seen before there as well. What is more every issue is free to download online in PDF form. That’s a lot of reading!
The picture above is the front and back cover of issue 16. It is a wicked bit of design.
This is a picture that I have just finished inking. Its original title is ‘I took the spider from my purse, looked at it and said “begone!”. And lo! The spider was gone.’ which is something that happened into my mind one time at the edge of sleep. A bit of a mouthful…
Anyway, it is the first ‘proper’ image I have created with my hands (as in not a photo) in about 10 years or so. I think I quite like it, but will have to give a bit more time before I know for sure. Matt says he likes it tho, which is encouraging.
You will be relieved to hear that the Disperse Records website is back on-line, and newly shiny. Obviously this is momentous news and the hundreds of thousands of people (silently) awaiting this event can finally breathe that long awaited sigh of relief…ehem.
No new music up there at the moment, just the same stuff that was on the old website (free to download to all) but I can tell those same thousands that there will be some stuff from Arthur Winkler NOW!, Jeff Geoff and possibly EXTRASUPER (if I can get my thumb out my ass…) coming soon…watch this space.