Voting has now gone live for this years Best Art Vinyl Awards. The nominations for best vinyl sleeve created in 2010 features two works by Big Active in the form of Goldfrapp’s ‘Headfirst’ and Mark Ronson’s ‘Record Collection’. The winning sleeves are decided by public vote and will be announced soon after Christmas. All 50 nominations will also be on show at several galleries in the UK, France, Belgium and Sweden throughout November and December. For more details and to cast your vote (for us of course…) please visit www.artvinyl.com

09 November, 2010 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Art Direction & Design, Art Vinyl, Big Active, Goldfrapp, Mark Ronson, Music Design | 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 fourth season of Ibiza Rocks is now well underway and rocks the island each week right through to September. This year the festival launches it’s brand new club night ‘Reclaim The Dance Floor‘ – which like it’s bastard brother is destined to stir things up on the white island. ‘Reclaim The Dance Floor’ aims to inspire; kicking against an island club-scene all too reliant upon an ageing crowd and tiresome VIP culture. Instead the event invites a new generation to ‘Reclaim the Dancefloor’ and reclaim the original spirit of Ibiza. No ridiculous entry fees, overpriced drinks or ageing VIP’s… The line-up this year features 5 live appearances from 2ManyDJs, plus Radio 1’s Zane Lowe and Kissy Sellout, dynamic dance duo Digitalism, DJ sets from festival headliners Pendulum and rising stars Chase & Status. Oh, and by the way ‘Reclaim The Dance Floor’s brand new identity has of course been designed by Big Active.

Reclaim The Dance Floor – every Tuesday @ Eden, San Antonio, Ibiza 

30 June, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Big Active, Ibiza Rocks, Reclaim The Dance Floor | Permalink

Out today The Enemy’s second album ‘Music For The People’ art directed and designed by Big Active and featuring light paintings by Berlin based artist Andreas Nicholas Fischer. The eclipse theme running throughout the imagery creates a grand and jarring visual statement echoing the spirit of the album’s expansive direction.

27 April, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Big Active, The Enemy | Permalink

Next month Big Active will be exhibiting in Paris for the spring Lebook Connections show. We’ll be showing a full range of illustration and photography with much of the work being displayed for the very first time. Please join us on April 1st and 2nd at Musee de L’Homme. To register for Connections please click here: http://www.lebook.com/connections

24 March, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Illustration | - Tags: Big Active | Permalink

We are pleased to announce that our art direction and design work for Goldfrapp’s ‘Seventh Tree’ album has been selected to be included in this year’s Creative Review Annual. The Annual celebrates the past year in visual communication, showcasing the finest creative work produced worldwide during 2008. It’s published with the May edition of the magazine.

05 March, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Big Active, Goldfrapp | Permalink

Congratulations to White Lies whose debut album went straight in at number one in the UK album chart this week. You can see more of the packaging project in our art direction and design portfolio. Big shout outs to Charles, Harry and Jack from the band, everyone at Fiction Records and Supervision management – nice work fellas…

26 January, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Big Active, White Lies | Permalink

To accompany the release of the debut album by White Lies we have also designed a limited edition booklet taking a look behind the scenes at the band’s recording sessions in Brussels last year. The 24pp pamphlet includes essays by Charles Cave, Harry McVeigh and Jack Brown, each exploring the album’s creation as well as notes and musings by the band’s producers Ed Buller, Max Dingle and Alan Moulder. The booklet is limited to a run of 500 copies and only available though the band’s website.

http://www.whitelies.com

19 January, 2009 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Big Active, White Lies | Permalink

The physical release of Das Pop’s new single ‘Try Again’ is limited to 250 copies of 7″ vinyl only. We have hand customised a number of these for the band as you can see in this neat clip. There’s also a selection of the finished results in our music portfolio. Each cover is unique, so if you’re lucky enough to find one you’ll have a completely original piece of Big Active artwork as well as a really great track by the band!

17 December, 2008 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Big Active, Das Pop | Permalink

Beck’s album ‘The Information’ is soon to be released as a super-limited-edition-vinyl-box-set by our good friends at the Artist In Residence label in the US. We completed the design for the new format a couple of months back and it’s all now in production as you can see here. The complete boxed set includes five sides of vinyl (including the album in it’s entirety, plus bonus tracks and a special 10″ of remixes), ten sticker sheets, including all of the stickers we produced for the original CD releases, AND a full set of felt tip pens and colouring in book to play with. It’s an absolute must-have if your a fan and there’s only going to be 1000 available. We’ll post more images of the finished set as soon as we can.

05 December, 2008 - Posted in Art Direction & Design, Music | - Tags: Beck, Big Active | Permalink