A current work-in-progress, and something that will evolve in presentation as I continue to work through his needs with him; this simple logotype for emerging photographer Drew Wheeler is designed to work in a variety of different configurations over his photos and on more traditional flat backgrounds.
I just want to quickly illustrate Mark Brunswicker’s work on The Vision Paper. Great use of type over imagery and really messing about with the grid creates a sophisticated layout where the editorial appears to float over the page. At once constrained, but delightfully capricious.
Leeds-based graphic designer Ben Jeffery has an incredible eye for layout and has recently worked with Rankin on his newest magazine project The Hunger. In all of his projects you’ll find a well considered, incredibly tight presentation that effortlessly communicates the editorial in as minimal and achingly sharp method as i think its possible to produce.
Riitta produces ghostly psuedo-sculptures by wrapping linens around, and arranging clothing in, trees and scrub. By presenting her work as photographs she can use the environment she’s working with as part of her piece, giving her sculptures an environment within which to live; suggesting the passing passage of time and a record of events that have already happened.
This beautiful photo was shot by James Cambourne at Saunton, between Exmoor and Dartmoor on the coast. The original has been beautifully graded down and is presented in very wide 2.35:1 format. Taking the original photo, and another from the same set to work into the Monolith’s reflection, i’ve kept faithful to James’ grade but have had to slightly increase the height to display the Monolith fully.
Graphic designer Neil Kellerhouse is responsible for some of the most arresting and important movie posters in recent years. Based in Los Angeles, Kellerhouse has spent the last year working with directors such as Fincher and Soderbergh.
I bought one of Feric’s red-crowned crane prints a couple of years ago; a whimsical and elegant take on using engineering drawing practice in a very original way. And since then Feric has been busy…
Modelling digitally with reference to real-world materials like plastics and wood, German studio DepotVisuals build informational installations and imagine constructs that are just slightly too perfect and too whimsical to exist in the real world. Amazing stuff. Take a look at their work.
For her birthday late last year i created this poster for Shon; it is the dialogue from my phone of the few text messages that went into arranging our first date, then the first month of our relationship afterward.
American artist Carol Prusa works with acrylic globes and domes, illustrating incredibly detailed mathematical structures on a unique and subtly three-dimensional construct. Take a look at her portfolio of work.
I had wanted to create a piece for a while that nods towards one of my favourite films; 2001, and the visual simplicity of the film’s Tycho monolith with its silent, constant presence is obviously a perfect starting point. This is the first of (hopefully) a set of three prints and illustrates the moment immediately following the tragic impact of a small body against the large, omnipresent object.
Back in 2004 whilst at Kleber I was asked to create a site for Italian composer and producer Ferdinand Arno, promoting his studio; Quiet, Please! The concept had a special pre-requisite – the site was to have no descriptive words at all, so we’d need to look at an alternative way of communicating the concept. What started with that concept then evolved a couple of times over the next few years!