Flyers and posters for third Pipedown night. This one done in collaboration with Matt Flynn who also runs Pipedown with me, key was making sure the theme continued from the previous flyers. The night itself is going to be ridiculous – Addison Groove, James Blake, Airhead, Xxxy are playing alongside ourselves and it’s free all night long. Details.

Anyway flyers after the jump or on Flickr.

My brother raps / MCs / writes and performs poetry under the name Dubb. He had his debut album R.A.P. (Rhythm And Poetry) out sometime last year and after an initial push on digital sales, he’s just had a load of physical CDs pressed up. The album is (completely unbiased here) really, really good, he performs his unique style of lyric-concious rap meets poetry over beats solely created from the mouth of beatbox pioneer TYTE – in action here. You should buy it from here or on iTunes.

Anyway, I’ve done all the design for the whole thing, the identity extends to spaces like Bandcamp and Myspace. But most exciting is the physical CD which I only picked up last night; you can see it here. Words are at the centre of the album – he takes a light approach to language playing with words and their various meanings; the cover hopefully reflects that.

Photos after the jump or bigger on Flickr.

Currently playing around with processing.org. It claims to close the gap between programmer and artist; each programme is a ’sketch’ rather than anything else, only had it open a day or two but the potential seems vast. More on the project I’m attempting to do with it later but here’s something I did today that started out as my code going very wrong.

This ’sketch’ takes information from the latest feed on guardian.co.uk, reorders the body text placed over the header and bleeds it down the screen window. The resulting pattern from the feed dying is completely different every time The Guardian posts a new bit of news; it can take information from pretty much any RSS feed on the web too.

Screen grabs after the jump.

Flyers for the second Pipedown night. This one we had otherworldly beats from the label Keysound; heads Dusk & Blackdown brought LHF and Kowton. Absolutely next.

Design-wise, I want the flyers and posters to develop with each night into some sort of visual narrative. If the first flyer established the map, this one brings the map to life in three dimensions.

Flyers on Flickr or after the jump.

This was a joint project with Joe Mania, Helen Chesner and Jessica Waters. The brief was to “explore bad type. Seek it out. Categorize it and then devise a strategy or campaign”. Other key elements were recognition, participation and the giving of awards.

Our response began with fun and games before we made t-shirts, dressed up in classic party gear (Joe Mania had bubbles) and gave awards to several shops guilty of bad typography. We asked some questions and filmed the results. The footage was turned into an interactive online game, that, as the minisite says, “brings the fun back into bad typography” whilst hoping to “reveal the people behind the type”. The original idea was to have an amalgamation of different shops but one character in a kebab shop stood out so the focus is solely on him. Depending on the score you get, you get a different shop keeper giving you a message on the end. Hopefully I can get some pictures of the party gear, bubbles and real life t-shirts.

As you may guess the game was constructed in Flash, the code wasn’t actually as hard as I anticipated but I haven’t really optimized it for web so apologies on loading times…

Click to play the game.

Currently middle of a project called Wordplay. As the title suggests, looking and and playing with words. Everyone has their own word, mine is Pollution.

This was a one day project to realise a prototype for a 3D installation of our given word. This one is pretty self explanatory; geometric shapes appear abstract but reveal the letter P when a movie (hinting at pollution) is projected through.

Video after the jump.

One of the things I’m doing with Pipedown is putting on a monthly club night. Putting on a club night is something I’ve pretty much always wanted to do. Although there’s an abundance of nights in London, there’s alot that are over hyped, alot that are soulless and alot that book people to DJ for reasons other than their craftsmanship behind two turntables (or whatever their tool). I haven’t been to a club night in a long time either that has successfully put on something aswell as the music without it being a gimmick. VJing has so much potential, yet rarely executed well if at all. Those are my reasons for starting the night now anyway, I’m really pleased it’s a monthly night, hopefully we can get a sense of community going…

Anyway on to the design, of course any club night needs flyers. I wanted the first one not to do anything more than announce both us as a club night and a visual style. Club flyers are usually packed, kind of like stylish chicken shop menus, with little concept behind them. This one is simple and a layout that has a lot of flexibility that we can get creative with at future nights.

See them on Flickr or after the jump.

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The night is on the Wednesday 27th of January at The Rhythm Factory. We have James Blake, Greena, Om Unit and Elijah & Skilliam playing. More info.

Jesus being born is no excuse for tack. My* tree is only covered by objects so perfect in formation they could said to be holy; the A-Z of Helvetica.

Happy Christmas, have a good one.

*and @Bhav’s, who I must confess did all the cutting).