Category: Design.
A recurring topic on Warren Ellis’ Whitechapel forum is the Remake/Remodel exercise, where Warren throws up the description of an obscure super/pulp/SF character (usually long out of print and in the public domain) and invites the forum members to reinterpret said character. I usually just sit and watch, but this week he opened it up to design, with the Superman cover:
“So here’s the deal:
You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for a comic called SUPERMAN. It is issue 1 of this book.
You have been told that Superman is a man who dresses predominantly in a shade of blue, and wears a red S symbol. You know nothing else about the character.
The cover must include a logo and the text THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE DARING EXPLOITS OF THE ONE AND ONLY SUPERMAN.
And that’s it.
It’s up to you what kind of company you’re at. What kind of comics you make. How you translate that description of Superman. What era you’re in. Who you are, even. Go nuts with it.
You have one week. Go.”
And so I thought “lets have some fun” and I threw together some bits I had lying around and came up with this:
Remade Superman cover
You can see all the results over at the Whitechapel forum thread. Nice to see that the online comic/geek press took note of it and started spreading around the news.
FF AW10 lookbook front.
More images soon.
GREEN ARROW #31 cover
For the series I was asked to design the trade dress and the RISE AND FALL/RISE OF/FALL OFF logos for the storyline, which they applied to the covers. Nice to see the final results!
I’ll be posting more about this later.
A few days ago comics scribe extraordinaire (and fast becoming Hollywood darling) Mark Millar held a little ‘design a new logo for my forum’ competition.
Now, before I hear everyone yelling ‘SPEC WORK!’, sometimes you have to give in to your inner geek and have some fun for half an hour or so.
Of course I didn’t win. But now I have the beginnings of a new typeface.
This was the first year that we worked on the Felder FelderAW collection showing at London Fashion Week. It was also the first public performance of the new logo/marque we designed for them. Sadly we couldn’t be there on the night itself, so we had to make do with a lo-res video from LFW TV.
I just updated my other site ximeraLabs. Well, I say ‘update’… all I did was add a new splash/holding page — whatever you want to call it. The last time I updated the site was in 2006! But thats the way it goes I guess. XimeraLabs started life as my primary website in 2000-2001 — part graphic playground, part portfolio. Over the years there seemed to be less and less need to do something with the site as a creative outlet, mainly because I launched this site in 2003, and focussed all my attention here. Adding to that fact that I could/can use work as a creative outlet, setting aside time to populate ximeraLabs with experiments for the sake of experimenting became a moot point.
Anyway. During the past few years I’ve collected a load of (unused) work, failed experiments, tests, etc… that I think have more life than just slowly rotting away in a folder on a drive, so I think its time to start remixing and putting out content again.
I have just updated our /Mr and Mrs M./ website, adding projects Liz and I have been doing recently, including a lot of work for German fashion duo Felder Felder, who we’ve been working with since 2007.
Go have a look at our work!
I’ve been working on and off for the past 2 years or so on the first issue of Starling, and I finally assembled the selection of work I want to show within its pages. Now “all” that needs to be done is the cover…
Next month I will do the first of 2 talks (1 in London, 1 in Glasgow) organised by LongLunch.
I’ll be talking about my work, Kleber, comics, and designing in general.
Really looking forward to do these talks (all thanks to Brian Copeland at LongLunch!)… and I hope I’m interesting enough to shift some tickets.
For those gagging to see me (all 3 of you) tickets for London are on sale NOW and can be purchased online at the LongLunch site!
Here’s the full info for BOTH talks—
Event 32: LONDON
Tuesday 2nd January 2010
Project Space
Westbourne Studios
242 Acklam Road
London W10 5JJ
Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start
Tickets £8 / £6 (NUS) available via LongLunch.comEvent 37: GLASGOW
Thursday 6th May 2010
Mackintosh Lecture Theatre
Glasgow School of Art
167 Renfrew Street
Glasgow G3 6RQ
Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start
Hope to see you there!
I’m happy to announce that WIWP have reissued the posters from their “Now Showing” exhibit, including my Logan’s Run poster!
Wear It With Pride have teamed up with Blanka (no stranger to fans of fine design products) to produce the new prints which are now available in 2 formats: 50cmx70cm, priced at £75 GPB (edition of 25), and a cheaper A2 sized format priced £50GBP (unlimited print run). Both are Giclée print on Da Vinci Archival Art Paper.
WIWP is having a site overhaul at the moment, so in the meantime you can buy the poster HERE from their Flickr shop.
Just in time for that perfect holiday gift!