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Monday, April 20th, 2009I thought I’d share with you guys some of the interesting and inspiring links I’ve found on the internet recently.
Record Envelope: The Little Library of Factory Sleeves: A reference for vinyl geeks and graphic designers. I particularly love the ‘one colour print’ sleeves.
The Glossy Zine: A newsprint magazine with brilliant typography, photography and art direction [...]
Design Autopsy #3: Endzeit Bunkertracks IV
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Late last year I designed the artwork for Belgium label Alfa Matrix’s well known compilation Endzeit Bunkertracks, a 4 CD collection of some of the world’s newest and freshest dark electro, power noise, techno body music and industrial.
I just received my copies in the mail and I was so excited about how the artwork turned [...]
New Years Resolutions for the Aesthetically Minded
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Instead of coming up with the usual new years resolutions like exercising more and eating healthier I thought I’d come up with some new years resolutions for discerning aesthetes.
Inspire yourself
Visually stimulate yourself as much as possible.
Visit your local library and pour through costume history books and back issues of Interview magazine.
Be inspired by Japanese [...]
Design Autopsy #2: Ayria’s Hearts for Bullets
Friday, December 26th, 2008Last week I discussed the artwork I did for Ayria’s Gun Song Ep. This week I’m going to discuss the process and outcome for her follow up album Hearts for Bullets. This is one of the favourite pieces of design I’ve done this year, and I’m very lucky to have been able to collaborate with [...]
Design Autopsy #1: Ayria’s Gun Song CD design
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008In this column, I’ll be dissecting one of my published designs and showing the conceptual development of the design from the initial brief to the final design. This week I’ll be exploring one of my personal favourite designs commissioned by one of my good friends Jennifer Parkin.
I had the delight of meeting Jennifer of the [...]