• CREATED: 2000
• DESIGN: Openmind
• EXTRA ZEN: The Blueprint image features in the ‘Paper City: Urban Utopias’ exhibition in the Architecture Space at the Royal Academy of Arts, 31st July to 27th October, 2009.

I was asked to supply an image for Blueprint magazine’s ‘Paper Cities’ end page in 2007, the text I supplied tells the story.

From Blueprint magazine: “‘This image is one third of a triptych made by Strictly Kev, art director of music label Ninja Tune. Kev visited Bilbao in the late Nineties and photographed Gehry’s (then) new Guggenheim Museum with a view to using it as source material later. At the end of 1999 he wanted a design for Amon Tobin’s ‘Supermodified’ album, and decided that these would be the perfect textures to use: mechanical, yet organic and ambiguous. By layering images and then using the transparency filters to ‘burn through’ to the images underneath, he achieved some excellent results and colours. Tobin, however, turned them down.”

I actually had a fourth set of layers for a spread in US magazine EXP around the same time as the Supermodified album was released which I titled ‘Eating Darkness’. These are some of my favourite unused images so i’m glad they’ve seen the light of day in some form at last.