Archive for November, 2007
Channel 4’s 4Talent site has a nice interview up with me, where I talk about my work, Kleber, working for the music industry and the popularity of digital downloads.
Thanks to Graig Grannell as ever for the excellent questions and editing!
We launched 3 new sites this week:
– Nest gets a nip & tuck
– Brand new site for Novation Music
– A redesign for Pressure Sounds
Coming soon (probably next year) is the first issue of Starling, featuring yours truly.
Starling is a new series of art books edited by pal Ashley Wood and will be published by IDW Publishing.
Starling is part of the Swallow and Sparrow series of art books and magazines that Ashley and IDW have been putting out for a couple of years (you should check those out!). Where the former are more geared towards art & illustration, Starling will be focusing more on design and other related creative fields, and Ash asked me to kick off the series.
More news and announcements on this once the book will go in production.
top-mouton logo, designed by Herman Muller, circa 1969-1970?
As far as I know, this is the only other logo my dad designed, apart from his own logo before he became a self-employed interior designer. Back then he worked at top-mouton, a interior design studio in Belgium in the late 60s and early 70s.
During his employment there, he designed the company logo, which has been in use ever since. I remember he had a pin badge of the logomark and I always wondered what it meant (aside from being intrigued by the shape).
The orange shapes obviously point upwards, playing on the “top” of top-mouton, and the forward-thinking attitude of the company. Its as simple as that.
French speaking readers will obviously know that “mouton” means sheep. I have no idea what the relevance in the naming of the company is, only that their headquarters is in the very rural countryside of Flanders (the region of Belgium where I’m from)…
One thing that struck me is that I can’t place the typeface used in the logo. Obviously Arial is used in the current incarnation, but obviously Arial wasn’t around when the logo was designed. It might’ve been Helvetica or even Universe…
My bet is on the former.
Yes, after a long hiatus I present you with another “Anatomy of..” post. This time I’ll talk about a new book Liz & I designed for Mam Tor™ Publishing: St. Cyborg’s by Nick Wray.
St. Cyborg’s is a collection of short SF stories, all centering around the titular institution. The title, to me at least, implied something of a catholic boys school and I started thinking along the lines of using an iconic image based on religious symbolism but with a contemporary/Sci-Fi slant.
I entered the 24SEVEN project I did in the Behance Graphic Design competition.
Public voting is now open, so follow this link to see the project and vote for me!
Thanks!