News & Blog

I’ve been blogging for a while now about Liz and my involvement in the upcoming Tori Amos anthology Comic Book Tattoo (slated for release later this month). Now Comic Book Resources, arguably one of the biggest comic-centric news sites around has started a Comic Book Tattoo-centric blog where various creators involved with the book will be writing about the creative proccess of adapting Tori’s lyrics to comics.

I’ll be making an appearance there this month to discuss the design of the book and everything that came with it.
Check out Comic BLOG Tattoo

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As part of the 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno (Czech Republic), Brno Echo: Ornament and Crime from Adolf Loos to Now is an exhibit created & curated by Pentagram’s Abbott Miller built on the visual motif of the original logo for the biennial designed by the Czech designer Jiří Hadlač.

Brno Biennial logo

The exhibit features work across multiple design disciplines that share the visual motif of the original logo through time, and I’m really pleased that the World’s Best Robots logo I designed for Ashley Wood a few years ago is part of this exhibit.

Comic Book Tattoo cover. Art by Jason Levesque.

Lately Liz and I have been burning the midnight oil on a pretty big print project: Tori Amos’ Comic Book Tattoo - a nearly 500-page deluxe-packaged anthology featuring some of comics’ brightest talents including David Mack, Mike Dringenberg, Jonathan Hickman, Carla Speed McNeil, Laurenn McCubbin, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ivan Brandon, Calum Watt, Neil Kleid, Christopher Mitten, Elzabeth Genco, Chris Arrant, and Daniel Heard - all of whom turn in new work inspired by the music of Tori Amos. And we’re designing the mother!

The book will be released in 3 editions: regular trade paperback, hardcover, and a deluxe signed (by Tori) hardcover in slipcase. All available from the 23rd of July and launched at this years San Diego Comic Con.

Of course, more news will follow over the coming months, but in the meantime here’s the cover and the CBT logo by yours truly.

Comic Book Tattoo Logo. Line art by Jason Levesque.

24SEVEN, Vol2 cover

Congrats to Ivan Brandon who just scooped a Best Anthology nomination at the Eisner Awards for 24SEVEN, Vol2!

Pretty cool to hear that a book I was involved with getting that kind of recognition!

Mr &Mrs M., originally uploaded by helloMuller.

From now on I shall be a good husband! Boyfriend no more!
Mr & Mrs Muller - Liz and I got married 2 weeks ago on a beautiful sunny day.
The first day of the rest of our lives couldn’t have started better.

Yeah, I know - it has been a bit quiet lately, and with good reason.
The new year has pretty much started with a bang: a lot of new work has come Kleber’s way, Ben Wise (who freelanced for us on the kylie.com site) has joined our tribe full time and last but certainly not least: I’m getting married in a little over 2 weeks (yay!) and final preparations take up some time. February and March will be a fun and hectic mix of wedding bells and work in London and Malaysia.

So what is next? Well, without revealing anything I can say that something really interesting is afoot with Mam Tor, which if all goes as planned will rear its head in March. I’m not too involved with it, aside from supplying some logo designs; but this is one of those things that can put Mam Tor on a bigger playing field. March should also see the official announcement of a really cool project for the summer of 08 that Liz and myself are involved with . So stay tuned for news the coming weeks/months.

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.

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!

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).