listening to: wise words


This pretty much sums up my thoughts about work right now.
We all know the work of saul bass but i I have to admit that past the super famous work that Saul bass created in his prestigious career (His work with Hitchcock in the 60's etc) i was pretty ignorant to his perhaps lesser known film experimentations, his philosophies and i knew little about the man himself.
So when an old friend mentioned NETWORK AWESOME were showing a feature on Saulbass. i jumped to it.

Featuring a selection of interviews, short films and his famous titles sequences NA also has a wonderful article about the man written by Pat Kirkham, a design lecturer and historian. It works well to give you a taste of a wider feild of work and a glimps in to his apparently wonderfully passionate attitude towards making and teaching. Awsome indeed.


for those who donet know anything about Newtwork awesome, their about page does a pretty good job of explaining:

Network Awesome is a platform for entertaining and interesting TV. We spotlight the best from the past to create something new for the future. In a sense it’s TV about TV but our wider intent is to show something about culture as a whole. This can manifest itself in a kids cartoon from 1973, an interview from 1948 or a movie from 1993 – We’re pretty open minded about what Network Awesome is and what it can be. It’s our commitment to provide you what we think is interesting and clever TV - hopefully you agree.

Because Network Awesome is an online platform, we collect all our programming from fully public sources. We claim no proprietary rights over any programming. We just collect, organize and present it to you in a nice and tidy package. Quality is our goal and only guiding light.

Im really into thier style of curation, the videos are collected and presented to you in a succinct solid form with further reading and investigation if you want it but no confusing 'you might like' / 'related video' endless path distractions. a sort of reliable semi-on-demand-channel.

plus they show loads of the old 60's spiderman and batman cartoons. YUSS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5OX2jUXdSc&feature=player_embedded

good stuffs.

DAD's

on my walk back to the studio from breakfast this morning i noticed this sign that i have somehow managed to miss everytime, i walk up hoxton street. Ive no idea how! I love the muted colout pallet and super simple icons.

S    H    O   P        L    O   C   A   L

47 - ALWAYS AVAILABLE

listening to : The Hold Steady – Rock Problems



found this next door to my local coffee shop.

Car Respray

listening to : Rites of Spring – All There Is

SECOND HAND SPARES

Found this hand painted lettering in Hackney wick. The D barely makes an appearence but we get his general vibe and all is clear.

WALL

I found this in some old photos. i forgot how much i loved the colour combination.

THE ECONOMIST

[portfolio_slideshow thumbs=true exclude="2813"]

Billboard campaign for the Economist with fantastic art direction by AMV.

PRINT PROCESS #1 HOW TO RIP SCREENS

Its been a while since i have been printing myself in the studio, often leaving the duties to the excellent LOLIGO. However i have been trying to get myself back in to it..

So in an effort to retain any knowledge i may pick up while relearning the joys and frustrations of screen printing, i have decided to share any tips/advice and general printy things on this blog.

The first part is HOW TO/HOW NOT TO rip screens when they are on the bed. PRETTY BLOODY OBVIOUS but somehow I didnt know this?!



I managed to rip these two screen in the process of printing ONE, three colour poster. Here is how...

When the screen is set up and on the bed and printing is going well, the screen can and will often dry up in a hot studio like ours and instead of getting thinner and more patchy coverage its often more usful to give it a good ol clean and run the ink through.

Many moons ago when i was first printing i would take the screen off and wash it in the washout booth and have to re regester the bugger. I have since found it MUCH easier to use a sponge on the screen in situe on the bed - DUH!!



However when i was clearing the drying in from the mesh i was doing it from the UNDERSIDE of the screen - putting too much pressure on the stretched mesh. ERROR! boom my hand went through like hulk smashing a wall.. HULK PRINT!!!! not learning that this was idiotic i blamed it on a dodgey screen. untill BOOM it happened again.

NOW i will be using newsprint on the bed to soak up excess water and ink and wil clean through the screen from the top putting any extra pressure on to the bed. SIMPLE.

what an exspensive silly error.

Bobby

not exactly punctual.....

Listening to : http://www.myspace.com/thisisthecomputers

Hi all. I know we are hurtling through 2011 but i thought it might be nice to say happy new year all the same. The blog has been a little neglected while new projects are discussed started and attacked with full gusto! 2011 has thrown its fair share of curve balls and surprises already. I will say however that the main portfolio site will not be updated for a couple of weeks while some new work is collated and a bit of an over haul happens - i dont want to tell to much at this time.  All will become clear in due time

meanwhile have a look at this little editorial for the times review section. Unfortunately editorial decisions meant it was pulled last minuet. not everything gets to see the light of day.. heck isnt that what a blog is for.

The Boardgame Remix Kit

In the rush up to Christmas Telegramme were busy nestled away in our studio working on a project that would light up drab living room corners in the sleepy, post-dinner hours of Christmas Day.

Since we were so busy over the holiday season we didn't really get a chance to show off our latest work so here is a brief run down of the project.

Having been commissioned by game extraordinaires Hide & Seek to design their first home grown offering we helped create The Boardgame Remix Kit.

This included an iPhone application, website, illustrated playing cards and an eBook publication; all uniquely crafted and lovingly implemented.

'Having observed that the four most common household boardgames -- Monopoly, Cluedo , Trivial Pursuit, and Scrabble -- are often tedious and frustrating and overlong, the game designers at Hide&Seek set about to create a whole book's worth of variant rulesets and tweaks that use some or all of the pieces from some or all of the games.'

Telegramme created a bespoke look and feel reminiscent of classic 50's vintage boardgame design and applied this across the board (excuse the pun) on the iPhone app, Website, eBook and playing cards.







Having featured in The Guardian, BoingBoing.net, Wired and a whole host of game and design blogs the Boardgame Remix Kit has hopefully made a few after dinner gaming sessions that little bit more bearable (even if your uncle always has to win).

Praise for The Boardgame Remix Kit:

'It's fun, it's beautifully designed, and it will save the sanity of anyone stuck indoors over the holidays with nothing but Christmas reruns and stale boardgames.'

'The most insanely clever Christmas gift idea of the year' - BoingBoing.net

'Website of the day' - pocket-lint.com

'...Game design taken to the next level' - Wired.com

Please have a look at our work here: http://www.boardgame-remix-kit.com/