TEN MAGAZINE PRINTED (IMAGES)

This is the final piece of 10 Magazine, the piece I’ve been working towards making all the products for! So her is a preview of how it looks with the Screen Printed Sleeve, and double page spreads! Hope you Like it, comments are very welcome!

Sister Corita

Sister Corita was a Nun in the 1960′s and also an political activist. During the 60′s Vietnam war had become public knowledge of the conflict and brutality, through great photographers such as Don Mcullin. Coritas work have been regarded as “more adventurous” than Andy Warhol, taking screen printing to the streets and protest as an art form that speaks to the people rather than a self indulgent profitable art form that Pop Art was gaining its reputation for. Although her work evolved over her career, what I found interesting was her re-assemblage of advertising slogans, commercial products, headlines, etc., her distorted typography, her bold color palettes, her strong philosophical/political messages and the overall positivity and freshness that emanates from her work and has it feel as new today as it did over 40 years ago. She really is an amazing women and a heroin of our time.

MELVIN GALAPON!

Melvin is an English boy born and bred. He works mostly with sticky tape and labels creating exciting typographic outcomes and making bright and brilliant pieces of work. His instillation pieces often cover a lot of space, lines of colour weaving in and out of each other as they place around architecture and over objects. His work for Nike seems most suitable because his work often represents sports stripes and goes hand in hand with the tasks set out by Nike he decorated a bench using the different coloured tape. He’s largely known for his poster work, using sticky labels to create amazing typographic pieces for the university exhibition for YCN titled “SHOW OFF”.

Julien Vallée AMAZING!

Julien has got to be one of my most favorite analogue designers i have seen in a long while. On the same tone as Pierri Vanni, Julien works with paper and materials to create elaborate worlds often exploding out of anything and everything, mixing sculpture, materials techniques such as after effects and typography. He’s worked with some big names such as MTV and The New York Times, animating and generally making them look really good. His work has been published all over the place, in the book 3D graphic space, his work can be seen and shows details of how and what he does to create those amazing sculptures.

Parra.

On my visit to the Design museum in London I found Parras little book of his illustrations. Some of you might be aware that I have the t-shirt by him and have been a big fan since finding his work on Teenage Bad Girls album. Ever Since then i’ve been trying to find his stuff online and lo and behold have come across it since creating this blog. His work is completely original from what i’ve seen, and extremly colourful and humerous. I mostly enjoy his typographic treatments all hand drawn and then finished digitally. He is one of my top illustrators on here and can now finally be found where Rachel Thomas is, on the Big Active website, amongst other great minds. This book is mostly a portfolio of all the major work and piece’s he has created. He also has his own cloth line Rockwell Clothing, which i could plug with a link but im not into that sort of thing! Anyway check out more of his work on the Big Active

Chrissie Abbott Zine

As well as purchasing Hannah Waldron’s Zine, i also got myself Chrissie Abbots. ‘In My Mind Im Clapping’ is an edition of a collection of some of her illustrations. Her work is largely collage and illustration, she sources from the kitsch lifestyle of others, usually using geometric constructions woven with images humorous scenes of people or animals. In all its diversity her work is that of nostalgia and reform as she connects with the contemporary and discarded imagery of life of other people. Her work is extremly inspiring for me, as i have always loved this type of work where nostalgia is involved, and recapturing ones childhood (i have all my WWF wrestlers lined up on my mantle-piece in my living room at university!) I think its the mid 80′s babies that were left in a kind of limbo by where they were to young to appreciate the terrible fashion but to old to grasp it when it came back round.

chrissie is also on wordpress—–    +++++++

ABC 3D Video….

Just found this demonstration of Marion Bataille’s ABC 3D book, Thought you might like to check it out and how it all works, its deffinatly worth a watch, its just as cool as the book! GO BUY IT!!!

Cursor Minor ‘Dance Flaw’ & Black Devil Disco Club ‘Eight On Eight’

Black Devil Disco Club “Eight Oh Eight”

Cursor Minor “Dance Flaw”

Now i couldnt find either of these albums in an HMV or Zavvi (long live Virgin) so i purchased them off the good old itunes (of course). Now i didnt come across these seemingly unheard of DJs via a ‘music guru’ (someone with a vast knowledge of music) no, no i didnt. I came across these two guys via the greatness of IDN (International Designers Network) Magazine, under the little design group called Non-Format….what you’ve heard of them? I thought as much. Well they’ve been published in both IDN and Grafik recently and they’re also designing the free t-shirt you get with grafik if you subscribe to them, and trust me its worth it. Non-Format is the creative team of Kjell Ekhorn (Norwegian) and Jon Forss (British). They work
on a range of projects including art direction, design and illustration for arts & culture, music industry and fashion and advertising clients. They also art direct Varoom: the journal of illustration and made images. ‘Varoom’ is a great magazine as well, and you can definatly see that its them from the typeface they use for the magazines logo, very contemporary stuff here and some amazing design. Oh and some cool music!

Simian Mobile Disco.

Another of my top favorite bands and album covers, in much the same vain as Daft Punk and Justice Simian Mobile Disco are our answer the the electronic music scene and have been said to be up there with the likes of chemical brothers, and i’d say they’re right! You may have noticed earlier that i showed you one of my favorite things and it was my SMD t-shirt by kate moross, unfortunately she wasnt on the scene when they have this album cover, but had she have been i think she might have had some part to play in this album sleeve. Right so the sleeve, design by Scot Bendall and La Boca, the photography was by Jason Evans www.thedailynice.com. But La Boca are the guys you want to check out, they play a lot with what looks like a cut and paste technique but using digital means to do so, apart from the remix album for simian mobile disco’s album, titled ‘Sample and Hold’ which was done completly by hand cut and paste. They have a very early arcade games design style to them, similar to the retro graphic of the 70′s.  These guys are a new find for me so i’m enjoying them as much as you are!

La Boca

DAFT PUNK. ‘Discovery’

Daft Punk are probably my all time Favorite band and i love to tell the story of seeing them at 02 festival in 2007 and thus, made me change my course and direction in life after seeing their live show. So the reason im here blogging is all down to these guys and i couldn’t thank them enough for inspiring me. If you have never seen them live, you’ve probably missed one of the best DJ partnerships to have graced this planet, Seriously. Not only do they make great music and work with other artists like Sebastian Teller, they made a move called ‘Electroma’, that film sums up the men behind the helmets and their long journey through music, and their need and even want to finish their musical careers and become human again. They are a hugly conceptual pair, even though their music is all beats and funk, they obviously weren’t born as robots (although legend has it….) Part of me concludes that their use of robotic suits lends itself to the technology age in which we are all in some shape or form, computerised, be it numerically, bank cards, license plates, house number, we are in a database in a computer and have become a digital and electronic particle in the ever expanding world of technology. We also rely heavily on computer technology, our society couldn’t function without it now, much to its power, the machine is as fragile as we are and Daft Punk have caught the essence of this perfectly. This album is part of that step into this idea of the digital age. I’m in love with the type on the front cover, a liquid metal effect that glows the colour spectrum, a perfect combination of metal, electronic and spirituality. Their live sets encompass of of those feelings, and their music bonds the crowd together on a spiritual journey through their music. Just have a look for them on the web. they are everywhere so you wont miss them.