The new Royksopp single is great; their unique sound always tickles me the right way. The video is an almost perfect match to the actual track in-so-much-as it completely captures the playfulness of it. It’s directed by Reuben Sutherland who has up until now mostly directed cool adverts but the Joy Rider films, the agency he works for/with, have also done stuff for the doves, wolf parade and fujiama miyaka. Space Invaders for the win.
Rolling Stones – 40 Licks & Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon | Blogger’s Choice
David Airey is a logo designer who runs an incredibly successful blog, DavidAirey.com, that has become a valuable resource for both designers and clients. He also runs the super popular LogoDesignLove.
David couldn’t limit his choice to just one album, I don’t think I could either, and he has selected The Rolling Stones – Forty Licks and Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. They appeal to David because they’re “distinctive, memorable and not over-complicated”.
I'm not surprised David Airey chose a Rolling Stones album...
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Died Young, Stayed Pretty – Eileen Yaghoobian
I just got word of this amazing looking film about poster design and the counter-culture that’s associated with it. It’s directed by Iranian born Canadian film maker Eileen Yaghoobian and her film focuses on the subversive culture of rock posters in North America and the unique characters that design them.
Their art subverts popular American Culture; taking little pieces and rebuilding into controversial, often obscene, frequently vulgar but always strikingly beautiful poster designs that on the face tell you when a band is playing but with closer inspection reveal very different messages. The artists and designers are as idiosyncratic as their work. I can’t think of another film that focuses in this much detail on the visual elements of the scene and not just the music.
Click for more info and to see the Died Young, Stayed Pretty trailer...
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Great albums – Great Artwork out 23/02/09 (uk)
I’m rather unimpressed with most of the albums I’ve seen out for tomorrow but thankfully there were a few that didn’t make me want to super glue my eyes and ears shut.
The School of Seven Bells artwork is my favourite this week. More album covers...
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Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold As Love | Blogger’s Choice
This is the very first in what I hope will be a long and successful series in which I pose the simple question “what is your favourite album cover and why?” Obviously this is a deeply personal question as it’s completely subjective. Favourite cover’s might be the result of fond memories or because it’s the work of a favourite designer or well…any reason really! I’ve started by contacting a number of my favourite bloggers and first up is Grace Bonney. Her hugely successful blog Design*Sponge is a constant source of inspiration and is jam packed with all the little things that make a house a home.
As you can see from the title of this post Grace chose Hendrix’s second studio album Axis: Bold As Love...
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Cool Gig and Show Flyers
A quick squint at flickr with the key words “gig flyer” brings up some truly awful examples of the medium. True examples, if any were needed, to justify the phrase “just because you own [insert Adobe product name here] it doesn’t make you a designer”. However dig deeper and there are some gems; triumphs of layout, masters of colouring & illustrators extraordinaire. Above there is a wonderful example of a club flyer for a Luke Vibert show – cool because he’s one of my favourite electronic artists and after nearly 2 years of knowing someone I discovered Luke was his brother. The flyer features a hand drawn (modified) version of TheSerif in a heavy weight (correct me if I’m wrong) which works beautifully with the frankly bizarre illustration and other hand drawn elements. The light shade of sky blue and baby pink are always a winning combination. More Cool Flyers...
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Great albums – Great Artwork out 16/02/09 (uk)
Below is a quick round-up of new albums out this week; bands must qualify in both great music and great artwork to make it into the round-up. I also have to know they’re being released! If there’s any I should note, and haven’t, let me know in the comments.
New releases after the jump
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RichVoluntary Butler Scheme – Multiplayer Video
I love the simple concepts behind this video and the competence with which that idea was brought through to the end product. It was created and directed by Simon Deshon with friends helping out with the animation process. The Voluntary Butler Scheme are also incredibly good and they’ll be releasing the single Multiplayer on March 2nd. Their myspace is here.
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Dinosaur Pile-Up – My Rock N Roll
I’ve worked closely with Friends Vs Records for a while now. In fact it started as a music blog between myself and label manager Pip Newby. Friends Vs Records has been releasing some great stuff recently and are going to be going nuts in the rest of the year with upcoming releases.
I designed this 7inch sleeve for Dinosaur Pile Up...
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M83 are currently holding a competition for video makers. This is my favourite video so far. It’s really trippy and seems to use the clever visual illusions of Shigeo Fukuda combined with the daftness and general LSD based nature of the Beatles film Yellow Submarine. This effort has been illustrated and animated in Photoshop & Premiere Elements by illustrator Dax Norman. Dax Norman's...
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