Nice font there, possibly by Mike Hinge? Interesting choice of cover ‘image’, forces you to focus on the type. The contents of the portfolio can be seen over on fredschiller’s site, there’s a great final page that looks like a storyboard for the opening of a film which I’ve nicked to show below.
‘The Search Engine’ album in an immersive 210 degree fulldome environment with 157 speaker surround sound mix. Presented over 2 nights, 4 shows, Tickets here
I always loved this image but never knew this version or its origin. Last night I saw it whilst looking for something else and immediately recognised it from my childhood, albeit in another form. In the UK this appeared on the cover of the first issue of Future Tense, all original context stripped from it and a re-colouring job that left much to be desired.
Future Tense was a UK comic anthology of reprints from old Marvel series’ trying to capitalise on the sci-fi craze started by Star Wars and maintained by 2000ad. Seeing the original colours here gives the image a whole new lease of life but reminded me of all the great strips that were in the comic: Micronauts (with Michael Golden‘s amazing artwork), ROM The Spaceknight, Warlock. Starlord, Paladin and more. There’s a couple of nice pieces about it with a more covers over at Slow Robot‘s blog, which is a great resource for old sci-fi ephemera from the 70’s and 80’s. Now, what Nick Fury was doing on the cover of issue 1 is anyone’s guess, as he wasn’t featured in the comic.
Syd Mead, another artist who just can’t make a bad mark. Found this whilst searching for Tron stuff for the kids. Check out these two puzzles available from his website.
[youtube width=”640″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifvRiHVSCY&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Judge for yourself and other terrible puns…
Can’t resist posting this, photo of a test sample I got sent today for part of the packaging for the vinyl of the forthcoming album by The Herbaliser.
By Matt Kaufenburg from www.illustrationaday.com
Late last year I wrote an extensive piece in response to an interview by Miguel Angel Rolland for Gilles Peterson‘s Worldwide Festival magazine about design for music in the digital age. It’s finally been published over on Issu and it’s 16 pages long (!) You can order a print copy or just download a digital version and physical copies should be available at the festival this summer. Not sure why they didn’t credit Miguel or photographer Steve Cook for the studio shot either but I’m very pleased to have been given the chance to air my views.
The uber-talented Felt Mistress has some of her creations on show at the NoBrow shop for a final week before they move to Foyles bookshop in the west end to accompany her partner Jonathan Edwards‘ exhibition as part of the sketching the city season. She will also be giving a monster-making workshop in Foyles on July 30th, details and tickets are here.
Now up for pre-order from Ashley Wood’s 3A company – a 1/12th scale Mongrol from the ABC Warriors, the 1/6th version was way too expensive for me but this clocks in at $55 plus postage.
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I have to listen to this several times a day at the moment, the video makes it even better.
Long time heroes of mine, graffiti legends, absolute masters from back in the day whose influence is still felt. They have a show opening tonight in Soho, London. Can’t make it myself but will definitely check this out. See examples of their work here.
Grabbed from the excellent Retrowave tumblr site, don’t know who did it.
Here’s the Nuclear Dawn mural in Brixton as it was when it was first painted. Anyone who has ever traveled into Brixton on Coldharbour Lane from the East will have seen this, it’s been there since the early 80’s apparently and was painted by Brian Barnes and Dale McCrea.
30 years of wear and tear have not been kind to the image, especially the lower half which is partly covered with bushes and graffiti not to mention the condition of the paint in general. But there is a movement underway to try and restore the mural to its former glory on Facebook – please have a look, ‘like’ the page and see if you can help.
I’m lucky enough to have heard most of this album and it’s excellent, another step on and up for Eric. Set for release on September 18th, a limited version will come with a DIY card turntable and flexi disc plus interior drawings and paintings of kid koala’s studio, of which I contributed one piece.
Very much looking forward to this, available August 6th from ZTT
CD1: Frankie Goes To Hollywood in The Pleasuredome, a Zang Tuum Tumb singlette in five parts: Happy Hi! (All in the Body), The Soundtrack from Bernard Rose’s Video of the Welcome to the Pleasuredome single, Get It On, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (How to Remake the World), Happy Hi! (All in the Mind); Relax (International); The Power of Love (I’ll Protect You From The Holocaust) can be read in various ways but, for the sake of CD indexing, has six distinct sections: The Power of Love (extended, singlette – as opposed to 12” – version), The World is My Oyster (Trapped), Holier Than Thou (FGTH’s Christmas message), The World is My Oyster (Scrapped), Holier Than Thou (further festive messaging), The Power of Love (instrumental, singlette version); The World is My Oyster (at its full length); Don’t Lose What’s Left, Rage Hard + ++ *.
CD2: Extracts from Relax, From Soft to Hard, Dry to Moist: Relax (Sex Mix), Later On (from One September Monday), Ferry Cross The Mersey (…and here I’ll stay); Music from and inspired by Two Tribes (Keep The Peace): Two Tribes (singlette extracts), One February Friday (singlette extracts), War (somewhere between Hidden and Hiding); Further elements from The Liverpool Look: Warriors of the Wasteland (Compacted), Do You Think I’m Sexy?, Watching the Wildlife (Voiceless).
This has been doing the rounds on the web, originating from SomethingAwful by the looks of it.
I so wanted it to be real but a quick search revealed it was a very good fake (see above).
Shame, here are some more ‘wish these really existed’ comic covers from the Relaunched and Comics Covered websites.
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…coming this Autumn
Seen on Megatrip‘s blog via the Heritage Auctions site: Jim Steranko Infinity One Paperback Cover Original Art (Lancer Books, 1970). This mixed-media piece has an overall size of 11″ x 17.5″, and the art is in Excellent condition. Sold for nearly $10,000 in Nov 2008. Stunning work.
The first in a series of vinyl postcards from Six Ton Armour, sadly now sold out but check their Psychcast mixes.