Sam Dunn does some pretty sick looking designs. I’ve featured her work before in the post about Holy Roar Records and it was her comment on that post that saw me flicking through her own work with a certain green eyed jealousy at her illustration skills. Her style would fit well with a design agency like Go Media but with a British rather than American take on things.
More posters and T-shirt designs by Sam Dunn
Sam Dunn – Illustrator and designer
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Young Widows – Old Wounds (Reader rec.)
Steve Rose contacted me to say I should be checking out the artwork for the Young Widows’ album Old Wounds. As you can see it’s a pretty trippy hand illustrated and painted skull heavily influenced by tribal face paint and Mexican wrestling masks. It’s illustrated by David Cook and the rest of his illustrative work, although not band related, is well worth checking out. He seems to be a favourite among guys looking for very distinctive, very cool tattoos.
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Youves’ artwork more awesome than previously thought
I included the Youves’ artwork in my assessment/roundup of the Holy Roar Records artwork but it’s even better than I realised from the single panel illustration.
See the outer cover...
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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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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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Rolo Tomassi – Untitled Ep – Reissue
Rolo Tomassi are one of my favourite bands and not least because of their consistently great artwork. It’s all pretty much down to one guy, Simon Moody aka Lined With Ghosts, a freelance illustrator from somewhere in Nottinghamshire. The artwork for the new Rolo Tomassi re-issue...
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RichThe Doors – People Are Strange – Violenn Simon Illustrations
I just found this on vimeo. Beautiful images and typography referencing the lyrics of the Doors song. All the images were illustrated by Violenn Simon for her art school project at ENSAAMA School of Visual Communication, Paris 2008.
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N.A.S.A. – The Spirit of Apollo – Interchangable Artworks
The N.A.S.A. (North America South America) album project is one huge collaborative effort featuring a whole load of my favourite musicians. Karen O on a track with Ol’ Dirty Bastard & Fatlip; David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge & Z-Trip on another. It’s all been put together by Squeak E Clean, a pretty well known DJ & producer as well as Spike Jonze brother and Dj Zegon a Brazillian Dj & producer. It was a personal project pulled together over the last 4 or 5 years in between other projects which is why the collaborators are some what of a dream team. It really is an incredible album (I may have downloaded a leak but I’m definitely buying it).
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