Xen Solid Steel flyers

RELEASED: 2001-2003
FORMAT: round / oblong card flyers
LABEL: NINJA TUNE
DESIGN: Openmind / Martin LeSanto-Smith
PHOTOGRAPHY: Nancy Brown

Xen Solid Steel flyers 2001 – 2002 (circular)

They started off round and all included images of ‘the Ninja model’ as it is known – a 30 cm high hand-sculpted model of the Ninja logo made by Richard Johnston, a model maker who has worked for Aardman and the later Star Wars trilogy.

Xen Solid Steel flyers 2002 – 2003 (rectangular)

And then they went tall and thin… These make use of Chinese brush motifs by Martin LeSanto-Smith who gave me a bundle of different ones he’d done as a hobby. There were no July and August ones due to them being traditionally dead holiday months.