Powerful music video directed by Damien Odoul, for Franco-American Indie/folk act Moriarty. www.moriartymusic.com/
November 06, 2009, 5:12pm
theelectriccell
A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse
Designed by Redfield. Icons by Cameron Hunt.
Nice project called Tapeography by turkish designer Ersinhan Ersin. By taking apart old tapes he was able to create a series of images and typography. A steady hand and a lot of patience me thinks!
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Tapeography/252919
October 15, 2009, 2:17pm
Gorgeous Stanley Kubrick exhibition poster
http://www.kubricktaminglight.com
September 23, 2009, 10:59am
We have just finished a nice little project for the FDA, showcasing all the UK cinema releases for the upcoming season. To support the trailer (been shown in cinema’s from today) we created a cool little website featuring all these releases along with details of when and where to catch them. The fact that the site isn’t specific to any one distributor means the small art house movie can sit proudly alongside the big autumn blockbusters. I for one, kinda like this approach. Check it out at
One such art house film that grabbed my attention and is now a must to see, is the beautiful looking re-release of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno. Here’s the blurb if your interested.
“In 1964, legendary French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Les Diaboliques, The Wages of Fear) started work on a much-cherished project, Inferno. A study of jealousy, it was to star Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani, and Clouzot intended to take the visual and psychological language of film in unprecedented new directions. Influenced by op- art, Clouzot amassed an extraordinary set of test material, creating a dazzling array of proto-psychedelic images of Schneider as demonic dream temptress. Location shooting began, with Clouzot granted an unlimited budget, but all the planning that the perfectionist director had put into his Kubrick-like project started to unravel on set, with catastrophic results. Now directors Bromberg and Medrea have pieced together the remains of Clouzot’s material – rushes, test shots and location imagery – and filmed contemporary actors Bejo and Gamblin reading key scenes. The result is a dazzling evocation of one of the great lost films, and a sobering account of what can happen when a visionary project flies too close to the sun. For anyone interested in French cinema – or in the great cautionary tales of filmmaking – this documentary is a must.”
September 18, 2009, 4:51pm
This has got to be the ultimate challenge in visual communication. Sum up humanity with a simple picture.
I have to say they had a fair crack at it back in the early 70’s. Dr. Carl Sagan, (an American astronomer and author) was enthusiastic about the idea of sending a message with the Pioneer spacecraft. NASA agreed to the plan and gave him three weeks to prepare the message…(now that’s a tight deadline!). Together with Dr. Frank Drake, he designed the plaque and the artwork was prepared by Sagan’s then wife Linda.
The plaques depict the male and female form, our scale in relation to the space craft, our address in the solar system a a little diagram showing the Hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen, which in fairness is the only part that lets it down.
August 28, 2009, 7:47pm
New ‘A Mountain of One’ single ‘Bones’. Balearic prog at its best.
August 26, 2009, 11:09am
Its rare in the film industry that you get to work on a project you genuinely want to champion and be seen by as many people as possible. 500 days of summer is such a film and over the past few months myself, Saf, Gary and donut at PPC have created a site we are all really proud of.
500 days has that rare thing that is lacking in movies these days, a fantastic soundtrack, that is at its very heart and not some afterthought bolted on in post production. As music is so key to 500 days we wanted to tap into this love and generate something unique for it. So remember when you spent hours making a mix tape on a C90 cassette to send to a special someone? It became a rite of passage left defunct by CDs and digital music. We wanted to get across that experience and so created a Mix Tape maker application, where users can put together their perfect mix tape; choose their tracks, design and decorate the sleeve and label; and then send it to one person or all their friends through email, Twitter or social networks like Facebook, Myspace or Bebo.e.
Online mix tapes have been done before, but due to complicated licensing issues most have been shut down as they failed to comply with international copyright laws. We came across a new company called imeem which has international deals in place and a platform which allowed us to offer exactly what we wanted. We were able to tap into its database and music catalogue to provide a new experience for music and film lovers to share their love of music online.
Have a look, and do go see this film - its fantastic.
http://www.500daysofsummermixtape.co.uk/
August 19, 2009, 3:26pm
Probably help if you saw the title sequence, wouldn’t it.
August 17, 2009, 6:43pm
Not sure if I’ll still be watching True Blood in the months to come, but I have to say its opening credits are a thing of beauty. Its taken some inspiration from Jim White’s Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus which came out a few years ago, but nonetheless its pretty damn slick. I’m particularly keen on the font and after a bit of research found this info. Unfortunately haven’t been able to get my hands on it yet, but I’ll keep trying.
“Camm Rowland was the Type Designer behind the gorgeous font used in the opening credits of ‘True Blood’. He was influenced by makeshift signage that he saw along the roadside.To create the ‘True’ family fonts he drew each letter by hand, cut each letter out with an x-acto knife, and then scanned them in to the computer. He created 8 font families altogether! The fonts used in the opening sequence of the show were a mixture between “True Gothic” and “True Blade” which had alternate characters and weights - so it adds to the hand made quality.”
August 17, 2009, 6:41pm
