Archive for October, 2008
100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 1 // WellMedicated.
There’s some nice classic posters on display (although I’d clasify a lot of them under Sci-Fi).
Added new work to the site — logo and business card design for Canadian-based concept design studio Volta.
I’ll write an ‘Anatomy of…” post about it later.
- Beautiful: http://tinyurl.com/67wrto #
- Chandra X-ray Observatory — http://flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/sets/72157608016866848/ #
- “do u think plp will come if we advertise tom muller signing!” (for reasons of personal well being I cannot divulge who said that) #
Tank Pop-Up shop, originally uploaded by helloMuller.
Doing my part in spreading the word: Tank Magazine (where Mrs M is Art Director) is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a temporary shop near Carnaby Street where you can buy all kinds of Tank related things: Tank Magazine issues, the famous cigarette books and more…!
Start: Friday, 24.10.2008
End: Friday, 31.10.2008
Location: 9 Newburgh Street (Off Carnaby Street), London, W1
July saw the release Comic Book Tattoo, a 500 page graphic novel anthology inspired by the lyrics of Tori Amos and published by Image Comics. The book was released in 3 editions (softcover, hardcover and a limited edition signed and numbered by Tori) and was lauched at the annual San Diego Comic-Con. The book was a huge hit and so far has sold really well, and a 4th “special” edition will be released in time for the winter holidays.
Back in January (or was it late December ‘07) Rantz Hosely (the editor of the book) got in touch with me to ask if I’d be interested to design the book and the advertising collateral. Rantz is a guy who has been involved in the comic and video game industry for over 20 years, and one of Tori’s best friends (for the trivia freaks among you: Rantz introduced Neil Gaiman to Tori, and inspired her to write Flying Dutchman).
Of course it was pretty much a no-brainer and I said yes immediately.
This would be a perfect job for Mr & Mrs M!
From the start we were up against a hard deadline: To make the most of the book, it had to be launched at Comic-Con (end of July traditionally) — the biggest event in the industry, supported by an aggressive press campaign. This meant that everything needed to be at the printers by early May to make that date. Rantz had a very clear vision of what he wanted the book to be: not “just” a comic anthology, but a coffee table style book that appeals as much to fans of comics, Tori, and music/media in general.
Continue reading…
A quick note: I’m one of the jury members for the Europe By Designers, a global project / competition working with the theme “What does Europe mean to you?”. That’s all I know. I’m in some good jury duty company, so I’m hoping we’ll get to see some nice submissions.
Please keep rainbow gradients, hipster photo collages and crests to a minimum,
or I will unleash the Simon Cowell in me.
Man… Talk about getting derailed. I didn’t plan on having such a huge gap between my first post in the series and this one. But you know, that thing called “Work” often comes between me and the blog. Anyway:
In my first post in this series I talked about the time I graduated and how I lucked into my first job by chance, and no experience whatsoever in the field I was going to work in: webdesign. The next two years (1998-2000 roughly), would be my trial by fire. Here we go once more…
August 1998, and I had my first job, starting at the bottom of the ladder as a “Multimedia Designer” at Vintage Productions in Antwerp – with a modest (very modest in hindsight) monthy paycheck. What can I say, I just graduated, was still living at home and thrilled to have job.
The first thing I learned was that time equals money – and that no matter how “artistic” you are or want to be, all that goes straight out of the window in favour of that magic word: communication. Admittedly, this was quite the steep learning curve – especially in the early days where I had tried really hard to infuse some sort of graphic design aesthetic into the work I was doing, and I quickly realized that it was pretty much in vain. The company I worked at specialized in the so called “below the line” advertising and B2B (Business To Business) communications – and that of course comes with a set of invisible rules. Most of my time there was spent learing HTML and Flash (for starters) while updating page after page of digital (i.e. web) product brochures until I could manage to operate Dreamweaver on my own without breaking the sites I was working on.