Category: Design.
Had a great time doing a quick 20 minute odd talk, which went really well according to my number one fan Ajmal:
…apart from the last guy, who my and friends and I felt talked at us like were we undergraduates, and didn’t get the hint when half the audience left.
It was also another excuse to continue test-driving my Nagasaki font (watch this space, more info on this soon), and as always a pleasure seeing Simon and Aporva (once again, stay tuned for something fun as well).
Next Thursday, July 29th Glug London presents DixonBaxi at Cargo to host this month’s Glug evening. While they will be talking about their way of working they’re bringing along some friends to speak about their own work, including photographer Jason Tozer, director Cassiano Prado, and my good self.
Come along and share in some free drinks, BBQ, and good atmosphere.
Tickets are available now via the Glug Meetup group!
See you there!
Great British Identity cover
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ximeraLabs v10
So here we are, as I mentioned a few blog posts earlier: a new, full version of ximeraLabs. Its quite a nice coincidence that I’m updating this site at *roughly* (give or take 2 weeks) the same time period when I launched the site initially back in 2001. A lot has obviously changed since then, but one of the things that hasn’t is that I produce a lot of work that doesn’t always find a specific outlet.
In previous versions I have used the idea of “randomly” collecting freeform work and building a site around that, instead of creating editions that work around a specific theme or concept (which is how the site started its life). That idea of a ‘random’ mix of work, an online visual diary if you will is something that has stuck with me (and has proven to be a successful and thankful formula — look at TRUEISTRUE for example) — and after much to-ing and fro-ing I finally decided to use this online space as a repository, a (hopefully) ongoing archive of work that exists between freeform experimentation and client brief: the images interesting to me that might not necessarily end somewhere predetermined. For it, I decided to use Indexhibit, a presentation platform I at moments loathed (“Why do you want to homogenise everything?”) and praised (“I love how its simplicity focusses on the content”) — to take away the fact that this isn’t supposed to be a site where you’ll find snazzy JQuery transitions or Web 2.0 (*heave*) stylistics. Think of this site as a sketchbook, and like the ones I have scattered on my desk and stored on my shelves, I hope it will be filled with equal parts of nonsense and interesting ideas…
Creative Review, May 2010 cover.
As you’d expect some comments are positive, others slightly less (you can easily filter out print work), but overall it looks like the site made a positive impact!
Life in 2050 exhibition — 'The Scallop Divers of Enceladus'
Life in 2050 is a forthcoming exhibition (April 22nd—May 4th 2010) at the Proud Central gallery in London as part of the 9th SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival.
Leading and emerging visual artists from around the world were commissioned by curator Transmission to imagine what the future holds 40 years from now.
I’m very pleased to announce that I was one of the invited artists to participate, and for the exhibit I created ‘The Scallop Divers of Enceladus‘, an imaginary propaganda poster if you will for the (equally imaginary) International Saturn Exploration Initiative (I.S.E.I).
More info can be found here and at the exhibition site where you can also buy editions of the print.
Larger images of the print can be found on Flickr.
This is Advertising cover
The book features (among many interesting case studies) Mother Comics/Four Feet From A Rat, the collaborative comic created by Mother London and Mam Tor™ Publishing in 2008, which was published within the pages of Time Out London.
This is Advertising is available at Amazon US
VIKING Volume 1 cover
in all good comic shops and bookstores is the massively oversized hardcover of the first season of VIKING, collecting the first 5 issues of the comics series by Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein. Readers of this blog will know that I’ve been involved with the series from the word go as the logo and cover designer, so when the time came to work on the collection, the 3 of us stuck our heads together to see how we could push the design of the book a bit further after the initial waves it made in the industry — with the design and format of the single issues — and create a package for the book that would stand out on the shelves.
A lot of people have asked why we changed the VIKING logo. The logo worked well on the single issues, so if it ain’t broke, why fix it? There were a few good reasons why I decided to change the logo and the overall look of the cover, which I’ll explain below.
Continue reading…
Hellomuller LongLunch poster at event 32 in London.
Event 37: GLASGOW
Thursday 6th May 2010
— Mackintosh Lecture Theatre, Glasgow School of Art167 Renfrew Street
Glasgow G3 6RQDoors open 7pm for 7.30pm start
Tickets £8 / £6 (NUS) available via LongLunch.com
I had a blast doing the talk in London and I’m looking forward to speak in Glasgow. I might even bring some surprise giveaways.
Hope to see you there!
'The Scallop divers of Enceladus' detail
Poster — Edition of 10, signed and numbered. Available next month. More info soon.