PORTASOUND

 

Listening to: Portasound - dreadnought









London 5 piece PORTASOUND are fucking awesome! They fuse soaring melodies, driving rhythms and wonky riffs they’ve created a genre bending soundtrack of instrumental electronica to accompany their own fictional narrative. Influenced by folk legends, classic novels and film narratives, they create a sense of filmic purpose in each of their songs.

The Second Renaissance EP is the band’s attempt to bring these narrative influences to life. It contains the story of a great cataclysm, the ensuing battle between light and dark forces, the creation of a rebellion and the birth of the hero.Brace yourselves for a high-speed 22 minute sonic journey atop a giant synth with the legs of a horse and head of a Minotaur!

I have worked closely with the band to try and tell this story though the 4 main pieces of artwork acompanying the artwork. 4 images for the four songs.

Portasound - The Second Renaissance
I. Dreadnought
II. Messerschmitt
III. To the Colours
IV. Polaris



I will post a full blog post of the making of, development and theory of the artwork when the record comes out.

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A Video has been put together for the First single form the EP - Dreadnought:



 

PRE ORDER THE EP/ TSHIRT NOW

THE WELCOME COMMITTEE

Last week I wrapped up this cover for The Welcome Committee. Lovely guys to work with they seemed pretty pleased with outcome - always great to have a satisfied customer.

Below is an alternative option i sent them that i thought you might be interested in seeing. I actually like the composition of this one but the darker night scene seems to capture the new record pretty well. I dont always send an alternative over but sometimes its just hard to pick!

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Theo

Listening to: Grown Ups – Well Water



This afternoon, Nic from Healthy Yummies gave me a shout to let me know the Logo and Lorry signage i designed for her some time ago had made its painty way on to her new catering truck named Theo.
There will be some decent professionally taken photos posted up here soon.

 

 

BOARDGAME REMIX KIT

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Master game-makers/hackers Hide and Seek approached us to define the visual language and brand identity for their new invention 'The Boardhame Remix Kit'. The Kit ingeniously transforms Monopoly, Cluedo, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble into new games by redfining old rules and remixing the games together.

We designed them a 60 page print-on-demand book, a set of rule cards, an Iphone app and a website to neatly showcase all the finished products.

See its all on THE SITE

OPEN

Listening to: Calories

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I am really proud to introduce you to our new home at OPEN, a new studio space we have been part of setting up, with some very talented cohorts.

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OPEN is a new studio space for 10 illustrators, 2 educators, a screen printer and a publisher based in De Beauvoir Town, East London.

Our philosophy is to provide support, criticism, dialogue, fairness, opportunity, a sense of belonging and fresh ambition to both our creative work and independent businesses; and in turn help others to benefit from the same.

The two main objectives of Open are education and entrepreneurship.

Stay tuned for full profiles and plenty of news!

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All photos by Owen Richards

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Open has been a long time in the making - and we are all super proud about what we are building here both physically and theoretically and we have only just started. Soon we will be opening our new Crit Club, a programme of out of education learning and discussion. So if you are an illustration graduate and are interested in coming to see us for a portfolio review, or just a chat, drop us a line.

Bobby

POSTER ROAST

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Branding, Visual language, exhibition graphics and Website featuring an online shop.

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Telegramme have been involved in the UK gig poster scene for a few years now, so its been great seeing it go from strength to strength.

Poster Roast Set up in 2007 by Chris White (3d Glasses), and now assisted by his future wife Alex Curtis (Thr33 Designs) Its intention is to help develop and promote Poster Artists within the UK. Initially a great opotunity for all the artists to get together, drink beer and watch thier favourite bands to the backdrop of their posters, has grown to the point the point that POSTERROAST.com is now THE one stop shop for the UK gig artists and collectors.

Telegramme have worked closely with Chris and Alex the whole way, to create a brand visual that reflects PR's humble beginnings but is ready to cover the eclectic styles of 15 + artists from around the country and is continually growing....

All photos by - Owen Richards

VISIT THE SITE

www.NEWONLINEWORK.com

Listening to: LED ZEPPLIN

So we have been pretty busy here at Telegramme Working hard on the digital side of our output. Its kind of nice to sit back with a coffee and see whats been done of late and take stock. And stock taking (in a sense) is what we have here...

NEW SITE FOR THE BOOK CLUB:



Working with a custom Wordpress Template we created a simple, striking, calendar based site for everyones favourite east london creative hangout with a table tennis table, The BOOK CLUB.  We have become pretty fond of wordpress, using it as an effective CMS system allowing the client to update and add to their website, keepping the content fresh and informative and direct from the client.

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NEW SITE FOR THE QUEEN OF HOXTON

On a similar note we have also reworked the QUEEN OF HOXTON website with a brand new calendar system and stripped back, simple styling to compliment the venues interior deisgn.

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PERCIVAL WEBSITE



Anouther Custom built Wordpress site incorporating the Beautiful video by Alex Turvey we commissioned. A full shop will be built in to the site over the coming months as we develop custom e commerce and further exspand Percivals online presence.

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So you can see we have been a little taken by wordpress. The possibilities are pretty exciting and we continue to experiment, both commmercially and out of hours. We are currently designing and building a site for POSTER ROAST, a project we are involved in, bringing the UK gig poster artists together for the first time online to showcase and sell their work. The full site should be online later this week/early next week. keep your eyes peeled. until then if you are interested in finding out more of our web design/build services please give us a shout at hello@telegramme.co.uk

monday love.

TELEGRAMMME

POSTER ROAST 2010

Listening to: Beach House – Teen Dream



So i survived the first Camden Crawl based POSTER ROAST of hopefully many more to come! Live printing, 4 killer bands, 15 + artists, 50+ beautiful posters,  strong rum,  many beers, 2 days taking over the black heart pub in camden and much carnage. This years event felt like the start of the uk poster scene really emerging and showing their huge collective talent for creating incredable artwork for incredible bands and having fun doing it with passion!

Set up in 2007 by Chris White (3d Glasses), and now assisted by his future wife Alex Curtis (Thr33 Designs) Its intention is to help develop and promote Poster Artists within the UK.

During each Poster Roast there is a curated exhibition of some of the most influential poster artists in the UK, there is also live screen printing throughout showing the process, and the option of leaving with your own freshly printed poster!

As the poster wouldn’t exist without the music, at each exhibition some of the finest bands play live sets for your ears to enjoy.

Posters are on sale throughout, and the majority of the artists are normally present, available to chat if you have any questions!

Creating affordable art for people is a large part of what these artists advocate and Poster Roast hopes that members of the public will enjoy being able to leave with something precious and unique.

I managed to meet loads of guys id yet to see outside of their online portfolios and caught up with guys i met over in flat stock Europe last year. Was great to see all of our efforts come together for the event and especially this super limited edition poster that was printed live at the venue while the bands destroyed!

This poster was a mass collaboration between 3d glasses,
Drew Millward, Luke Drozd, Army Of Cats, Thr33designs, Tape Ears,
Telegramme, Two Ducks Disco, Adam Pobiak and Dan Mumford.

This is a rare opportunity to purchase some work by all of these artists together so grab one of these commemorative posters while you can.

These were screenprinted live at Poster Roast and are limited to only 60. 2 colour on natural heavy stock. A2 size

GO BUY ONE HERE.

We have been working closely with the founders Chris and Alex on the identity and website for poster roast. Here is the first promotional flyer:



This week should see a full website, shop and forum go live for everyone to check out and buy some of these incredible artists works and find out a bit more about the emerging poster scene in the uk. keep your eyes peeled.

Big thanks to everyone involved especially Chris and Alex who have done an awesome job fo bringing all the guys together. Roll on Flatstock europe 5 in september!

WILDLIFE ENTERTAINMENT

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We were asked by Wildlife Entertainment business to bring there now '20-odd' year old branding a little more up to date. These guys are a great management company representing the likes of the Arctic monkeys and the Last Shadow Puppets.

We gave them a simple, clean brand mark with a little retro influence.
All print is delivered on a lush, thick, cream recycled stock  reflecting a vintage quality.

PERCIVAL

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Design and Manufactured in London, new Menswear label Percival commisioned Telegramme not only to brand the company, but to come up with in-house style, set guidelines and drive the marketing campaign. Tight on budget, we came up with a whole range of stationary, lookbook, graphics and set for launch party/showroom. We also put the idea together for the Percival Fashion Film enlisting the help of filmmaker extraordinaire Alex Turvey

THE BOOK CLUB

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Leonard Street in East London is now the place to be, The Book Club is both a great venue for drinking and socialising, but also hosting interesting talks and lectures. We created the Identity and inhouse graphic direction for all signage and print matter. This genuinely is an intersting venue with amazing interior design by Shai Akram and Andrew Haythornthwaite.

VISIT BOOK CLUB WEBSITE

PONCHO NO.8

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Poncho No.8 is a new buritto resturant in Spitalfields, London. The food is amazing! All recipies were put together by the owners and the ingredients are organic. We created the branding, menus and illustrations whilst working alongside the guys at Something From Us on interiors.

THE LEGION

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Logo redesign, house style, monthly flyer and website were designed for east-end bar/live venue 'The Legion'. Telegramme welcomed the chance to do something that was a mix of photographic and ilustrative elements.

VISIT THE LEGION WEBSITE

HEALTHY YUMMIES

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Identity, stationary, PR pack and website for the launch of Healthy Yummies, a 'are a young, creative catering company whose mission is to provide good food without pretension to a wide audience.'

Healthy Yummies began its life providing food for kids’ parties and family events and they believe good food is at the heart of a happy house hold and we applied this philosophy to the aesthetic of the brand. We aimed to carry across this wholesome family messege while retailning a mature foodies attitude. We developed an adaptable logo system to fit the wide range of events HY cater for and a simple elegant visual language to acompany it all.

VISIT HEALTHY YUMMIES SITE

MTV - ITS ON WITH ALEXA CHUNG

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Identity and motion graphics for Alexa Chungs second series of 'It's on with ALexa Chung'.
Final Deliverables included: Logo, lower thirds, backgrounds and monitor loops as well as a brand guide to ensure all our hard work is used correctly.

THE QUEEN OF HOXTON

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'Bar, club and art collective, the Queen of Hoxton holds court in the heart of the East End, entertaining her neighbours with a tight programme of music accompanied by a rolling gallery of art installations, photographic exhibitions, fringe theatre and film nights.'- so there you have it.

We produced all the branding and visual side of things for this most trendy of bars. Including, flyers, invites and posters.

LU FLUX

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Lu Flux is a fantastic new fashion designer. creating bespoke one off items of clothing and accessories.
We were asked to create an identity and accompanying website.

VIEW SITE

PARANOID PARK

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Telegramme worked with the amazing Bullet Clip, to produce this website for the Gus Van Sant film, 'Paranoid Park'. We teamed up with Richard Clarke to produce the interactive soundscape.

VIEW SITE (archived)

SOMTHING FROM NOTHING

Something from Nothing is a great new product design company set up By Mark Irlam.
We designed them a logo, and site. Look out for the wasp nest lamp a lot more beautiful than it sounds.

AMPLIFIED PROMOTIONS

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Website for music promotions guys Amplified. We even made them a nice shouty logo.

VIEW SITE