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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RichM83 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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Although officially designed by Peter Saville, architect Ben Kelly also claims rights to this iconic design. Kelly’s thesis for the Royal College of Art (1974) shows an almost identical image but engraved with the words Metal Lined Cubicles along side his pseudonym The Photo Kid.
Peter Saville felt...
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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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Ceri Jones is a graphic designer working in Cardiff. He is also a very good friend of mine. I’ve nicked this poster from his blog because I think it works so fantastically well as both poster and image. The band had insisted that promoters use the photograph for any tour related imagery. Most promoters just slapped a chunk of text on the photo and make it look like death.
By adding...
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RichI 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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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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RichI absolutely love this. A collaboration between Nothing to See Here and Grafik Warfare. Entirely shot on stills cameras in miserable weather there must be about 3000 images used in the actual video. The music video...
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