louis CK_website
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everyone worked day and night on this from various locations both in the US and europe and its fair to say that the results far exceeded anyone's expectations. louis himself published a report on the whole project on the website, which you can read here.
you can read an in-depth article about our process and everything we've learnt from working on this job here.
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65daysofstatic_record sleeve
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the band approached us in the summer, asking that we might put together a record cover of some description for the release. it was similarly an incredible opportunity that was by no means lost on us. the final sleeve you see above was created during hurricane irene's assault on new york city.
you can read more about the making of the cover here.
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pavilion_website + printwork
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the website focusses on a series of animated GIFs that reflect the very calm and subtle visual tone of the film, combined with looped audio from the films soundtrack + score. the posters take a leaf out of robert zemeckis's book to visually represent the very subtle narrative elements within the film.
we also handled the type treatment for the credits within the film. stay tuned for a fuller write-up of the process behind making these various elements.
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- ipad / iphone compatible
- html5 / javascript driven UI
- animated GIFs / cinema graphs
- scrollwheel / cursor key navigation
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brooklyn brothers_poster
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our talk at the IFP labs in tribeca, new york yielded some unexpected but very welcome results - several film makers approached us to assist them with ways to promote their films. one of the first was writer / director and actor ryan o'nan. he was about to send his new film the brooklyn brothers beat the best to the toronto film festival. the above poster is one of a few elements we worked work him and his production team to put together for the festival.
the film is ryan's ode to john hughes' trains, planes and automobiles (and stars some classic 80s movie alumni) and we created a poster to try to reflect that whilst offering its own more beat-up, make-shift aesthetic. it's the story of a lovelorn musician trying to get a band together and perhaps rekindle a little self-respect along the way. due to these musical themes within the film we also helped design a series of other elements which will be revealed by the film's production team along the way.
this is our first proper feature film poster and we're very excited and thankful to have been ushered into this new world by such great and talented people.
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reader's digest_rediscovering the brand
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the brief for this job came from brand communications firm, roth partners, who contacted us about translating their work on the reader's digest brand into an internal microsite. the site would serve to share new strategic work and brand tools with employees of reader's digest around the world. its goal was to deliver new brand materials in print and video formats in ways that would engage the internal brand audience and inspire them to review and learn from the content.
a key part of this site was stewarding viewers through the new work done for reader's digest and to that end we developed an innovative task-based system which broke up the different elements and took viewers through them one-by-one. critical to our design was achieving involvement and participation across disparate audiences. the result was more of an online study course than a classic static brochure-style site.
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- fine-grained access control
- html5 video
- intuitive tasked learning flow
polinski_record sleeve + music video
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the discussions for how to handle the artwork for the album started years before the record was even a twinkle in his eye. we'd talked at length for years about films, musics, books, games and designs that appeal to us for whatever reason. whether it be the books of jeff noon or the cassette loading games of sinclair zx spectrum, there was an innate understanding of what this solo project would demand in terms of artwork the moment the demos started to come together.
the final artwork started with us coming up with a story that would capture paul's feelings about various things and how he wanted to translated those into a science fiction tale of some kind. the next step was padding that story out with various touchstone visual elements and then translating those into a series of panels that we could use for the album and any singles. the first image we put together turned out to be the album cover as it is now, and this went onto influence paul's approach to making the music. he then sent us more demos that inspired the creation of more panels, and so the back and forth went until we had enough to illustrate the story / world we had created.
the music video for the album's first single, stitches, was an attempt to bring back the feeling of using the zx spectrum computer, whilst detailing some of the album's narrative elements. more details on the making of the video to follow soon.
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big black delta_record sleeve
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crown opera_website
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- html + javascript based interface
- ipad compatible
- contact form
- original music
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makeup and vanity set_record sleeve
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you can read more about the making of the artwork here.
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the gregory brothers_website
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- wordpress-driven back-end
- gig-press plugin
- contact form 7 plugin
- custom UI
- font-replacement
- twitter / facebook feeds
- topspin-driven music store
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sonoio red_music video, record sleeve + print
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furthermore alessandro was toying with the idea of a music video this time and asked that we might pitch a few ideas to him for a couple of different songs on the record. we came up with 3-4 ideas he chose the most 'live performance' based concept that we had and soon things were under way. the video was for the song enough, which to us was one of the songs that immediately jumped out on the record when hearing it for the first time. once more we recruited the talents of matt sundin (who helped us shoot the 65daysofstatic and war widow album covers) and soon after alessandro was flying to new york to shoot the video with us in brooklyn.
you can read more about making the artwork + video here.
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frock_website
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we proposed using shopify as their store solution. we'd never implemented it before, but it turned out to be the most easy to use, setup and customize e-commerce solution that we've ever come across.
given frock were purveyors of 60s - 80s vintage clothing, we decide to base the site's design on the 80s robert palmer music video for addicted to love. the result is a very simple, geometrical, full-bleed fashion photo-based site design, that keeps everything big, fun, simple and with a predominant focus on the colours of the clothing.
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- wordpress driven site
- shopify driven store
- blog + twitter feeds
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war widow_record sleeve
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a huge thanks to photographers alex alekseenko and matt sundin, without whom this project would have never come about.
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daft punk_website
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- html5 / javascript UI
- keyboard input based triggers
- ascii art source code
- topspin E4M integration
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jennifer lopez_website
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- original photography
- original sound design
- multiple flash driven user interfaces
- 3D flash focal length code
- sketch pad flash code
- flash photo flipping code
- cloud based video streaming technology
- video post-production
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big black delta_short film, record sleeve + poster
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jonathan bates, better known for his part in the fantastic band mellowdrone, recently got back in touch with us regarding a 'new thing' he was working on. as luck would have it, it was some seriously rich and rewarding new music. the kind which fills the mind with images pretty fast. well, the next thing you know we're watching the thundercats intro in total awe, debating wallpapering our apartment walls with TRON screenshots, and obsessing over UFOs. how one thing lead to another is neither here nor there, but it turns out we were all down with this new thing ... and it was taking us places.
what then ensued was the constant, rapid exchange of music for artwork, much the way a choir does their psalms and responses. there's no question in our minds now that big black delta was the only name you could use to sum up the music, what inspired it and everything we'd ultimately made together from that point forward. cut then to just a few days ago. cut right to the moment when we slung the cover you see above onto the proverbial coffee table. cut to us all looking at each other like we knew it was time. yep, ufologists were about to get some melody in their google.
additionally we shot and edited a short film to accompany the release of the song IFUCKINGLOVEYOU. it was shot over a couple of days around independence day in los angeles. the idea was simply to capture everything we got up to in the short time we had, be that searching the night sky for flashing lights, watching dan akroyd talking about UFOs on youtube or jonathan bates making strange noises on his studio floor. we hope the end result, if nothing else, makes you feel like all these things are related. not forcibly, but maybe with a little serendipity.
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65daysofstatic_record sleeve
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protomen_record sleeve + poster
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