15
September
2017
The Kickstarter now ends it was crazy among the last 2 days to reach the target! I will come back with a dedicated post about it soon. During all the campaign I push back new post and so on I feel so late on posting new inspiring things !
Will restart from today with this album/band design by Pentagram, for the new album The National. In a world where our relation to music and album is upside down, promoting a new album must be done in a creative way! Here comes what happens when you bring a famous indie band with its so graphic involved record company 4AD to an even more famous design agency, Pentagram! The result is a cover design and promotional materials riffs on corporate branding. So many details, so much inspiring! And the album is very good too! So buy, the vinyl and listen to it streaming on your new iPhone!
All details at www.pentagram.com/work/the-national-1/story
22
December
2016
Piers Faccini I dreamed an island
posted in Music
at 11.16 AM
from
Mr Cup Studio
/ France
listening Piers Faccini - I dreamed an island
As I write earlier this year, I had the chance to listen to Piers Faccini latest album during a private session. As soon as he gets them in his hands, Piers comes to the studio to gave me some copies to shoot them for his promo. Having him here, I invite him to drove around Camargue to find a nice spot for some photos, as we did for the previous album. If for 2013 album a nice chair in a cozy room was perfect for the mood of "Between dogs and wolves", the wild landscape of this special area was what we need for "I dreamed an island". It was a crazy weather and we really go at the limit of the south of France to shoot these! It was short because the wind was impossible to fight...
This album is just, in my point of view, a masterpiece. This goes deeply into what Piers can bring to music: a unique mixture of languages, musical language as well as words, with lyrics in English, Arabic, Italian and French. Thanks Piers for all these emotions.
This is the video of the single from the album, of course, the "Bring down the wall" image is so important now. Piers did all the video by himself!
18
May
2016
I like the word collaboration: the act of working with others on a joint project. Unfortunately it has a darker meaning in our history but I like it anyway ... I would gave my own definition : pooling everyone's talents to get a result that we can not get alone.
This is what happens with Piers Faccini. I am a graphic designer, yet I've never worked on graphics projects with Piers since he is already working with Uncle O. So Piers put me out of my comfort zone by asking me to take pictures of him and objects that he produces for his label Beating Drums. So my collaboration to his creative work consists in images to sublimate his objects such as his new book / record: a collection of poems with an instrumental music CD that accompanies the discovery of words ...
Piers is currently recording a new album, and we shared a few hours in his studio to turn his work intro pictures. The result is a series of photos that Piers to present on his site dedicated to the creating process for this new albums that will came out in a few months.
From Piers post : "There’s one little still life he took that day that really caught my eye. Resting on top of the piano, you can see my Neapolitan frame drum and to the right, an old mandolin I found in Portobello market more than twenty years ago, behind which there’s a photocopy of a C12th Sicilian musician playing a ribab. As the eye is lead left to right and out of the photo, you can see a piece of A4 paper with the chord structure for a song on the new album called “Judith” and my old American auto-harp from the 20’s. Even though I’m not in the frame, It’s as a true a portrait of this album and the working process that I could hope for."
Check Piers Faccini web site here / I dreamed an island web site here
Get the new "No one's here" limited edition 400 copies book and CD here
More from my projects with Piers over the past 3 years here
Get the new "No one's here" limited edition 400 copies book and CD here
More from my projects with Piers over the past 3 years here
24
April
2016
It's been a long time since I have published movie posters. Here is a very small selection of the latest posters with interesting design and especially outside the usual standards and codes. If a movie poster can be a dream to work on for a graphic designer, film industry has more than binding principles! For example, do a search in google images "trajan movie posters" and you will see the number of film use the Trajan, it's impressive, from Star Wars to Titanic...
After publishing posts about it on facebook, I was referred to the colossal and fun working Christophe Courtois. I mention it after these posters slection, not all are official but they are inspiring !
I have published thousand posters over the years, you can see them here
- more than 300 in the facebook folder
- a lot of posters in the archives here, here and there
- a more updated selection in my pinterest folder here
- more than 300 in the facebook folder
- a lot of posters in the archives here, here and there
- a more updated selection in my pinterest folder here
Getting back to the work of Christophe Courtois, he made posters compilations ordering by their codes and common points :
the posters "heroes back"
the "blue bent street with a running man"
The big heads and small people on the beach
The yellow posters ...
... and the red ones
The publich benches
The black and white with some fires...
See them all at afficheschristophecourtois.blogspot.fr