Category: Design.
Four Feet From A Rat cover. Art by Liam Sharp
Last month Ad agency Mother and the crew at Mam Tor Publishing™ collaborated on Four Feet From A Rat - an exclusive 16 page comic that appeared in the pages of Time Out London - the first edition of what will be a quarterly supplement to the magazine with a print run of approximately 100.000 copies!
For the stories I cobbled together some logos and had some fun with the themes… all of them relate in a way to London.
You can read an interview with our own Liam Sharp over at Newsarama, and the Guardian newspaper has it covered as well (although I don’t really agree with some of the comments of their comics “expert” Will Hodgkinson).
Kylie.com home page
Just in time for the holidays, Kleber launched the new site for Kylie Minogue - or just Kylie for the fans. Quite the massive and high profile job that we turned around in less than a month after to-ing and fro-ing on the design (’it has to be neutral’, ‘its too neutral, use album artwork’, ‘don’t make it too album specific’,…) we created a modular and highly customisable site that is loaded with content, and we now know the lyrics to all her songs by heart. Extra massive big-up to Mr Ben Wise and his 1337 coding!
Just added a new project to the site - ‘S01-Rev/Pulse’, an ambient animation I did for ‘The Colour Rooms’, a new concept space by Sony to promote its BRAVIA product line. The Colour Rooms are what you can call ‘exclusive art/event spaces’ - if I can believe the tabloids Kate Moss likes to hang out there - and shows off Sony’s ‘colour.like.no.other’ strapline while you drink your trendy Mojito.
Kleber was one of the agencies approached to create an installation for it around the aforementioned strap line as part of the permanent Colour Rooms collection. Apparently loads of agencies submitted work, but somehow the powers that be at Sony picked mine to adorn the entrance. Very nice.
The idea behind the installation was to literally create and audio-visual pulse. Inspired partly by my love of 60s and 70s Sci-Fi films and an abandoned idea from a few years ago.
The piece was showcased for 4 months at the Colour Rooms in London and Berlin.
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Speak Up (part of the Under Consideration network) has a nice round up of what they call The New(er) Typography of 2007 and conclude that it is Counterless, Bold and mostly Geometric. Nice to see that the Worry Doll cover made their list!
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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.
The nice guys over at Defunktion caught up with me to see what I have been up to since 2005 (the last time we spoke).
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I’ll be participating with Ashley Wood in Now Showing, a new project by Wear It With Pride to see how today’s illustrators and designers interpret classic movie posters. Contributors will work in pairs or solo, without creative restrictions.
Contributors: Hellovon / Non-Format / Muller / Corey Holms / Michael Perry / Seripop / Nathan Fox / Si Scott / David Foldvari / Grandpeople / Hort / Ashley Wood / Mario Hugo / Inka Järvinen / And more to come…
Coming Soon in 2008. Dates To Be Confirmed.
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Logo designed by my dad in 1972-73 for his design practise. Custom type with Helvetica
A short follow up post to my Helvetica one… Just remembered I had this on my drive: the logo my dad designed for his design practise, again proving a point also made by Massimo Vignelli (maybe he was inspired by him), that design is one.
As an interior designer is he was as much obsessed about how a chair was manufactured right down to the patterns on the coffeemugs in the kitchen cabinet.
I love how his hM initials form a chair and table, echoing elements of his furniture designs in the 70s.
Yes, my dad was a Modernist in heart and soul.