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.

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.

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.

The last post on here was about Christmas and that’s kinda depressing, so time to get on this thing…

Pipedown is a collective that I’m part of, for the most part of last year it was just a music blog, but this year I’ve got plans to take it elsewhere. To allow us to do that I completely redesigned the site over the break. I spent an unhealthy amount of time on it, teaching myself how to code php in the process. The site isn’t finished yet and it still looks like a blog but that’s going to be perverted over the following weeks. It’s powered by Wordpress (like this blog) which seems to be an insanely flexible platform.

Anyway head to see http://pipedownson.com to see it in action.

A brief, mini project to create a series of badges about passions. It was suggested to follow the I ♥ NY template and whilst I will probably do some actual passions later here’s a quick side just done with @Matt_Flynn for our club night; Pipedown.

Matt took the Pipedown logo, rotated and created a repeating pattern (though annoyingly the P doesn’t quite tessellate.) By then applying colour this was turned into camouflage. The idea being that you could print sheets of this camo and cut out circles the correct size of the badge and you would instantly get large numbers or completely unique badges very easily.

I am fascinated by camouflage that isn’t really camouflage and geometric pattern and wallpaper at the moment, the work of Manuel Sepulveda especially. Expect this idea to be developed and revisited soon.

You can see mockups of the badges, the whole process and colourways after the jump (as well as another use of the pattern in an ad quickly chucked together for LuckyPDF.)

I also do this thing called Pipedown. Music focused. It’s a blog run by four of us, our monthly club party starts in January 2010, you should add it to your RSS readers. Design by me.

I DJ by the name cntrst and I won’t post much more music on here after this (unless #gdc1 related); my latest mixtape done for friedmylittlebrain.com. An hour spent swimming through the sounds somewhere between dubstep, grime, garage, house and uk funky.

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