All the Underground hits, All the Modern Lovers Tracks

I like to think that I am still in the process of developing my edge. It's not very easy to keep it. Trends move so much these days, once you get known for something boom, it's not stylish anymore.

Anyway, I chose to do something in a timeless style to represent one of the most important era's in music. It is the most inventive time in music. I think... I have been wanting to do magazine cover for a while. So I bet you can guess what you are going to see.

Swiss design, a monospaced typeface and some classic images of bands; pre-punk/punk/Post-Punk is that what you were thinking of

Losing My Edge, the LCD Soundsystem track is what I am referencing throughout this post and this piece of design...if you are not so musically inclined to GOOD MUSIC. I have recently collaborated on a cover of the track with my brother. Stay tuned for the audio.

Lost in Translation.

Have you ever bought a magazine that you could not read? A magazine that you you know that you would love to read? with articles on Sleaford Mods, Wire, Mixtapes and Blur? Well I did on my last day on holiday. Mucchio is a music magazine with a beautiful editorial style, which is the reason I bought it.

The illustrations are lovely and fit so contextually well within the spreads. The colours are lovely, the layouts are dynamic and the back page is advert, which is also well illustrated. My feet do feature in all of the photographs below to demonstrate it's beauty. Hopefully complimented by my fake mockup stylee.

 Front Cover that confused the cashier.

 Lavely coloured illustrations & coloured text dividing the
forms of type without needing to section it off.

 a record illustration built from waves

 Dynamic Layout, very confusing but dynamic none the less

"Hey, should we just use red on white page"

"Nah, just reverse it out and make James gasp"

 

A music technology festival when I am not there.

Fractured Magazine

 Over the weekend I gave myself a brief, I gave myself a task, to design a magazine. Just the front cover as an identity breaker. I have started editoral at uni so the next step would be to approach the inside of the magazine but above is the start.

I found a really beautiful typeface in my font gallery which came in three seperate bits. Each letter form was split between the three of them (a normal version was included too). So the idea of seperated and an almost shattered typeface lead me to the name "fractured" as title for the zine, it was based on the style of zines from Wired, Clash or Little White Lies. Hipster but not outsider.

The Images are of some cult figures of TV and music. I would love to read articles on these beautiful people all of which have a close connection to my favourite radio station; BBC Radio 6 Music. I have been influnced by all and I would like to think that if this publication was real that they would like to read it.

an electric approach was needed to reflect the wide range of styles of the people present. the two tone chessboard for the specials front man, the  warm colours for the soul man and the unique DJ listening to her self.

Beauty comes in my shapes and sizes

That's my feet

That's my feet again

The 1960's were a time of innovation. in art, in fashion and in music. and to stumble upon an artifact of this time was a happy accident. Motif was an art magazine for the 1960's to preview art from that period. I chose Motif 10 over the others because Sir Peter Blake designed it. This man designed Sgt Pepper so this man is a legend. Below are a few spreads from the book that I found most appealing.
 It cost me £5 and it was worth every penny in my opinion.