Letman

All of the following images were found at http://www.letman.com/ and give a good example of successful lo-fi style typographic lead work. Letman is based in the Netherlands Check out the lack of rulers, cos, you know, rulers are evil.

I'm kind of worried that I am indeed in the wrong business. This was for New York Times Magazine. Really nice use of colour and negative space for the text. The two colours and overlayed negative space looks really sweet.

50th Anniversary of Island Records. Very blocky to fill out the space, reminiscent of my own work in this way.

The image on the left is the front of every flyer, then the back contains all the elements of the front, but reordered and redesigned. It is a poster and flyer for a new years eve party. I am particularly drawn to the handrendered style and limited colour pallet (red and black is pretty much all i do, but i have been getting into using other colours too! hence my interest in the blue).

I really love the idea of using all the parts of one poster to produce completely different designs. Its amazing the flexibility of the concept. The above 'backs' are probably my favourites. The stacking of the blue text in the left image with what would be the title piled on top has an almost oriental alphabet fee to it. Similarly, the verticalisation of the blue text on the right is interesting and the use of the title parts to create a visual flow between the blue parts is really interesting.
These backs seem to be a little more dada and anarchic. Almost too anarchic though, like a junior school collage or something.

A3 folded flyer for a bi-monthly party called Jungstar (previously Zeitgeist). Interesting colour scheme, i like the slight overlays. The slight angle is a bit embarrassing tho.

This one is slightly more leaflet-y than the others. its like...LAYED OUT. shock horror. I cant decide if its good or not. The little circles thing is kinda of interesting, but the actual layout is pretty boring. nice green print tho.

This seems like such a massive cliche. I like how simple and doodly it is tho! Not sure about red and pink like. Also, for me, the photo in the text kind of ruins it.

This is sinister. The colours are cool, but i dont like the guy's eyes being underlined in red. it makes me think of adam ant and the shining at the same time. Also, the font is very lo-fi but possibly a bit too blocky, im not really a fan of the middle of those E's. The outlines are weird too.

I really like this print. its balanced the leaflet/flyer/poster format perfectly.Nice choice of colour, interesting layout and positioning of information when its folded up. I like the SPOT colours (the dots mean, i was trying to be a smart arse there).

The Heads Of State

Poster and branding by for the portland film festival. My favourite thing is here - limited colour! also, the black goes outside of the bleed area, phwoaarrr. beautiful little touch that. as is the film style screw!

"Packaging for a hypothetical assignment from Print Magazine: what would legal marijuana packaging look like? According to us, a lot like illegal marijuana."

Not really appropriate, but entertaining.

Despite a lack of type, this illustration really appealed to me. LA Magazine's Movie issue asked the heads of state to produce it for an article about 2 war movies based in Iraq.

A Fistful of Dollars. Very dark print, but this makes the text stand out very well and also means that its a little difficult to see the imagery of coffins.

Here's that lack of rulers thing kicking off again. I like the dodgy edges of the background, but then the small print being on the blank stock. nice little 2 column grid effect too. the actual image is a bit weird and i dont understand it, but i guess that doesnt relly matter since its iron and wine.

Good old modest mouse. coming in here with their constructivist briefs for the heads of state. i like the limited colours a lot a lot. black grey and two spots of orange. works nicely. the light beams (or whatever they are) make it so much more interesting than it should be. if that makes sense.

Once again, limited colour palette! i really really really like the houses as the foliage of the tree. the cowboy font is a little sickening tho. also, i dont actually what the context is of this poster. it say its for a performance but i see no venue date price etc. what you playing at you heads of state?

Vinyl is infinitely better. As is Bright Eyes.

I like the upside down city scape idea muchos muchos. interesting how the darker layers are at the front - i'd expect it to be the other way round but i guess the layering effect wouldnt work. 3 colours. thats my next aim in life. i should probably have given it a go by now though. ah well.

Saul Bass

Lets just face it. Saul Bass is king.
Simplicity and squintness never looked so good.
This is a bit clinical for me like. I don't think its actually by Mr Bass, but the quote is pretty cool. the folds irritate me quite a lot in this photo as well.

Wow. 3 colours has never looked like so many different colours. i really like the square grid layout. Also breaking out of the boarders very slightly is cool shaking shit up and that. yeh boii.

Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon

Beatles Covers

All 12 of the beatles LP covers for P.S. I Love You research. Not really relevant to my personal taste as they are all printed expensively and on a massive scale.

Mountain Goats

Glaciers EP

On their label's website, a description follows...

"Glaciers is/was a band from all over County Durham/The World that may or may not have broken up. This is their posthumous demo. It has 5 songs of chaotic screamo hardcore, not unlike Heroin or Portraits of Past. They played more shows after this "posthumous" demo came out. They may or may not have broken up. I don't know. Limited to 100 copies Vinyl style CD-R in hand stenciled sleeves. Artwork by Joseph Towns."

A review of the record includes the following quote of absolute genius:

"One singer is all deep and meaningfulmo, and then they have this squawking bird or something."

Glaciers has one singer.

I love the splattered 2 colour stencil!

Bleeding Radiator

Plug wiring

Paper Bags and Office Supplies

Hardcore band, Unbroken, for this 7" record, used a variety of positive strips from a 35mm film of photos of them playing a gig. Each edition had a different series of positives (the same appears on the front and back of the record). Also, a non-fiction science book on insects has been dissected and the images are glued to the covers, which adds to the limited edition appeal of the record.

Lords and Cotiseum opted for a minimal approach to this split 7". The sheet is half an A4 sheet cut diagonally and corner to corner. This was then folded back on itself along the hypotenuse of the triangle. This creates an interesting visual when folded to fit inside a plastic sleeve.

A very simple stamp on white sleeve with brown inner sleeve is used for this compilation CD from Blood Link records. It is good for mass production, but is not very visually appealing.

Collage looks really good but makes mass production near impossible if the release is supposed to be in series.

The use of "spot colour" in collage form is interesting. Especially when the colour appears on the plastic sleeve rather than the CD case itself. The paper sleeve is photocopied and then hand coloured and the plastic sleeve design is photocoiped on yellow paper.

Screen printed on A4 pulpboard, which is then folded and stapled to house a 7" in a paper sleeve.