Sawdust have recently produced the design for ‘Genesis of a deep sound’ the latest album from ‘Fabrice Lig’ on label Fine Art recordings — It’s available on CD and 12” vinyl.
The album ‘Genesis of a Deep Sound’ is heavily focused on the ‘Genesis’ meaning the beginning, birth or creation. As Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan. Many different styles now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built. The venues for this movement were predominantly held in old abandoned warehouses — Sawdust felt by capturing those run-down, yet beautiful open spaces, they could visualise the essence of the title ‘Genesis of a Deep Sound’.
They also produced a custom typeface to reflect the nature of electronic based music, one of beautiful compositions of sound and layering. The result is an interesting composition of form and colour, and by making the circular shapes key lines, it added an ‘imaginary’ third colour tone although still set in black.
The front of the Record has graphic indicators overlaid onto the image that when matched to the back spell the word ‘Genesis’.
Design and art direction by Sawdust Creative production by Edit
Photography by Andrew Moore
To coincide with this week’s documentary release ‘The Doors’, Idea Generation’s dramatic photographic exhibition follows the equally dramatic life of this revolutionary and controversial band, through the lenses of four photographers: Henry Diltz, Joel Brodsky, Bobby Klein and Ken Regan.
The Doors were created in 1965 by lead singer Jim Morrison and fellow band member Ray Manzerak. Their first LP ‘The Doors’ shot to the top of the charts, yet concern over their ‘corruption of youth’ made promoters nervous and soon their reputation as bad boys overshadowed their chart success. In fact the Los Angeles quartet continued to relentlessly challenge, confront yet inspire their fans, leaping headfirst into the heart of darkness as opposed to what were the more current popular topics of peace and love.
James Short a.k.a. Argyle Plaids is an artist/designer from Seattle who has spent the last decade developing a method of presenting Photoshop-based artwork in the form of tangible, mixed media art pieces that have the organic look and feel of more traditionally created work.
Derived from his photography, paintings and encaustic work. Finished pieces are constructed from acid-free watercolor paper, archival varnish, lacquer and acrylic on hand-built, finished wood box frames, lifting them out of their humble, pixel-based origins. All images are set as limited editions, yet all retain one-of-a-kind characteristics as they are custom made individually in varying sizes and dimensions.
His work found it’s way to us via our ever growing and popular pool of images found on Flickr.
Gabriel Jones recently photographed Arcade Fire’s most recent album cover entitled The Suburbs. These images where taken during a road trip in various suburbs in Texas followed by a studio shoot in Montreal where the selected suburb images where then projected on a large projection screen. The car and band members where positioned in front of the various suburb landscapes. This series of images are exploring a north American suburb experience and the memory that one can have from their suburban youth.
Gabriel’s images where also used for a postcard which Arcade Fire used to send out to magazines informing them about their upcoming shows and news about the album release. The series was art directed by Vincent Morisset and designed by Caroline Robert.
Film director, fashion photographer and founder of Mirage Magazine Henrik Purienne has recently launched his site, which as well as being potentially not safe for your place of work, also is packed full of stunning, relaxed beauty photography.
Square Beard are a growing muldisciplinary arts collective who have chosen not go their separate ways, but to stay true to their skool, to make something happen and commit to the city they all grew up in.
Edinburgh, a city no stranger to dualism, wrestles with its old demon of parochial conservatism and its new ambitions of becoming a major European political and economic capital. Yet at the beginning of the 21st century Edinburgh was still erecting nineteenth century monuments.
Against this backdrop of civic cowardice ‘Square Beard’ are exhibiting in a former ambulance depot in the spring of 2010. We would like to invite you to attend the event which is taking place at 7pm on Thursday, 22 April 2010.
The artists are Alex Allan, Ross Colquhoun, Matt Barnes, Liam Crichton, Connor Dupre, Kevin Harman, Mark Purves and Liam Richardson.
We are delighted to announce that Human Resources™ are now working in partnership with Scotland’s fresh Axolotl Gallery. This means that over the next few months we will be revealing the latest competitions, exhibitions and general happenings that will be taking place at their beautiful space on Dundas Street, set in the heart of Edinburgh’s vibrant art scene.
An exciting new gallery, Axolotl focuses on figurative and narrative work in various media including painting, drawing, limited edition prints, sculpture and photography. Axolotl aims to showcase the work of emerging artists working in these genres, providing them with a suitable platform to establish themselves with a wider audience and promote their work. Although based in Scotland, Axolotl is not a ‘Scottish gallery’ in the sense of showing work of predominantly Scottish themes. While they work with many Scottish artists, the themes explored are universal in nature. The gallery will also be showing work from other emerging artists from Europe and beyond. If you would like to submit your artwork to the gallery for possible inclusion in future exhibitions, please get in touch with gallery owner Derek Butter by visiting their website.
They are about to hold their Spring Exhibition from April 3 – April 24 2010, featuring groups of work from five main artists including; Michael Wildman, Steven Hendry, Sarah Wilson, Philomena Pretsell and Jill Farquhar. As a Human Resources™ reader, we would like to invite you to attend the private view of their Spring Exhibition, which is taking place this coming Friday 2nd April. To attend, all you have to do is RSVP or accept their Facebook event invitation.
Neil Milton is a Scottish musician, composer, DJ, photographer and blogger, who is currently living in Warsaw, Poland.
As a musician, he composes and records under the name ‘Beneath us, the waves’. His sound is glacial, shimmering and drifts haphazardly between ambient soundscapes and minimalist classical compositions.
Starting out as a DJ during the first act of his record label ‘Too Many Fireworks’, he held a club night at Glasgow’s Barfly for two years. As if that was not keeping him busy enough, he is also one half of the photography collaboration and podcasting duo ‘We Sink Ships’. Through which, he creates and curates photographic exhibitions and presents a weekly podcast on Radio Magnetic.
A new series from fashion photographer, Craig McDean. Commissioned by AnOther magazine for an piece on the new’ Lady Dior’, actress Marion Cotillard. Cotillard, incidentally, is to be the lead in Woody Allen’s next flick.
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