Letman, aka Job Wouters, has won a prestigious Dutch Design Award for a series of 17 posters he designed with Yvo Sprey for Undercover club nights.

25 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration, Letman | | Permalink

Will Sweeney and Steve Scott’s promo for Birdy Nam Nam’s “The Parachute Ending” has made the final selection for the Guggenheim Museum’s, YouTube Play biennial of creative video. The inaugural event showcases the most innovative online video from around the world and the judges including Stefan Sagmeister, Darren Aronofsky, Takeshi Murakami and Laurie Anderson had their work cut out going through the 23,300 submissions to produce a final selection of just 20.

22 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration, Will Sweeney | | Permalink

Here’s what Popjustice.com has to say about our special boxed set edition of the new Mark Ronson album ‘Record Collection’. Nice.

19 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Mark Ronson, Pop Justice, Record Collection | Permalink

‘Couture In The 21st Century‘ is a new book designed by Big Active. It was launched last night with an exclusive party at Harrods. Working in collaboration with the author Deborah Bee, design director Gerard Saint commissioned Rankin to shoot a definitive series of portraits of 30 of the world’s leading fashion designers – the likes of Erdem, Lacroix, Prada, Paul Smith, Armani and Oscar de la Renta, to accompany interviews explaining their relationship with couture, archive inspiration and examples from each designer’s current collection. The front and back cover features specially commissioned graphics by Siggi Eggertsson. See more…

15 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Book Design, Gerard Saint, Siggi Eggertsson | - Tags: Book Design, Deborah Bee, Fashion Design, Gerard Saint, Harrods, Rankin, Trends | Permalink

Jody Barton has collaborated with Eugene & Pauline on this 3 colour, limited edition, silkscreen newspaper, available from their website .

11 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration, Jody Barton | | Permalink

Here’s Matt Furie’s cover image for the October edition of Bliss magazine.

07 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration, Matt Furie | | Permalink

Guests at the recent launch of of Jody Barton’s “Black Masters” book in Copenhagen, were treated to this surprise performance by the artist.

05 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration, Jody Barton | | Permalink

The new Mark Ronson album ‘Record Collection’ features many different record covers that are used to create the actual design. The album campaign was directed and designed by Big Active with collaborative imagery by Mat Maitland, Jasper Goodall, Will Sweeney, Jesse Auersalo, Parra and Markus Karlsson. The ‘Record Collection’ is available as a CD, 12″ Vinyl, iTunes Interactive Format and Collectors 7″ boxed set – featuring the individual sleeves from the album collages and housed in an 80’s inspired leatherette record carry case.

04 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Gerard Saint, Illustration, Jasper Goodall, Jesse Auersalo, Mat Maitland, Music, Will Sweeney | - Tags: Big Active, Mark Ronson, Music Design, Record Collection | Permalink

The Autumn edition of Citizen K International has just reached us. Look out for the 8 page article on Vania Zouravliov, including several previously unpublished new works.

01 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration, Vania Zouravliov | | Permalink

Here’s the new cover by Jasper Goodall for the Sex & Design issue of Computer Arts mag.

01 October, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration, Jasper Goodall | | Permalink