First version of a tour poster designed for ‘my mate Dave’, guitarist in ‘The Joe Public” (2nd from right)

Check them out here

By some miracle I managed to get a pair of tickets for rage against the machine’s free gig in Finsbury Park which were allocated by lottery I might add. The gig celebrates the grass roots campaign that lead to the bands unlikely number one hit ‘Killing in the name’ knocking boring old xfactor off the top spot to clinch Christmas No.1.

Some people would celebrate by jumping up and down, I however designed an irregular sized poster (Rage couldn’t possibly be contained by German standardization, don’t be silly)!

Went to the Bath cider festival, was awesome although it would have been better if it didn’t finish at 11pm!

CIDER & PERRY MENU – (Those that we ‘sampled’)

Pheasant Plucker (med) 3/10
Lilley’s apples & pears (med) 6/10
Bee sting perry (sweet) 7/10
Strawberry perry (sweet) 8/10
Kiwi perry (sweet) 9/10
Passion fruit perry (sweet) 8/10
Mr Whitehead’s sweet russet (sweet) 7/10
Janet’s jungle juice (med) 3/10
Whisky cask cider (med) 4/10
Dog dancer (med/dry) 8/10
Fiery fox (med) 6/10
Happy daze (med) 6/10
Thatcher’s heritage (med) 7/10
Cider pressed with blackberries (med) 8/10
Golden valley perry (med/sweet) 5/10
Rich’s legbender (med) 7/10
Black rat (med) 6/10

*you’ll never feel as ‘west-country’ as you do at a cider festival, especially if the Mangledwurzels are playing (only the best dam Wurzels tribute band this side of holy tree).

http://www.somersetmade.co.uk/ciderfestivals/

I mentioned this awhile back when I got this admittedly rather pink book for Christmas.

This really is a beautiful book, packed full of blackletter samples, with each typeface (and there are many) receiving it’s own sweet abstract design that would make a fantastic set of posters in their own right. When closed, from the size and shape you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bible, though the vivid pink perhaps gives it away.

It’s a great book definitely work investing in if ‘mon amour fraktur’ or not, plus it comes with tonnes of fonts on disc. (available on Amazon.co.uk) I have mad Love for it!

Designed by: Judith Schalansky

http://www.fraktur-mon-amour.de/de/ (hope you can read German)

Saw this the other day, loved the film adaptation of the book and this billboard totally works but is it really ‘the perfect billboard’? I wonder how effective it actually was at an audience unfamiliar with American Psycho.

“The Perfect Billboard. Eggshell white with romalian type. Nice. Raised lettering, a subtle 7 inch bone border, and just look at the tasteful thickness of the headline. All perched on four evenly spaced 3.2 metre powder coated stanchions. My god, it even has a watermark.”

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Auckland, New Zealand
Creative Director: Mike O’Sullivan Art Director: Anthony Hatton Copywriter: Robbie Brammall Published: February 2008