Floating Points

A series of posters / flyers for Sam Floating Points monthly night at Plastic People. Look out for limited posters in the Record Shops around Soho.

Steve Reid Foundation

Logo for The Steve Reid Foundation. Set up by Gilles Peterson in memory of the great drummer Steve Reid who lost his life to cancer in April last year. The foundation will work with The Musicians Benevolent Fund to help struggling Musicians with long-term or life-threatening health problems. Look out for the Brownswood Pop-Up shop on April 16th were a limited number of these posters will be available. Gilles will also be running the London Marathon on the 17th April – you can sponsor him here: www.justgiving.com/GillesPeterson

I've used the skin of a drum as the canvas for the logo and chosen typography that feels classic and American. (some sneaking tweaking to Buffet Script). I'm really happy with how the double sided posters came out and it also looks great printed on a T-shirt. Just need to find a spare drum kit and see how it looks on there...

Floating Points & Record Store Day

With five 'amper' flyers under our belt and Record Store Day fast approaching, we thought we'd celebrate with a limited edition print. These will be included in a Ltd Floating Points 10inch – Sais (Dub) available on April 16th.

If Music Boogie Night

It's been a while since I've done a poster for the guys over at If Music. They join forces with Sounds of The Universe on the 29th April at Plastic People playing all things Boogie. 10pm – 2am and its free entry. I went big and bold on the classic image of Diana Ross and had the excuse to go to town with a really graphic font (Shuriken). Posters are around record shops now.

Marc Mac presents Visioneers

From Mr Kirk's Nightmare to Star Chasers I have masses of respect for Marc Mac. So getting a call at the beginning of the year and being asked to do the sleeve for his new Visioneers single was great.

After some initial thoughts, we got to the bold typography idea quickly and I was keen to use a stencil font that was different to the norm. Eames Stencil from House Industries worked well, especially when it's split up using colour. I love the shape of the 'S' and 'R'. To stop it looking too flat I dug out a photo I'd taken years ago of New York taken from the Staten Island Ferry (never thought I'd see my holiday snaps on a record sleeve).

The single is released via BBE records. The last time I worked for Pete was in 1995 (I did the first gen. BBE logo). Apache is on the A side and Shaft in Africa on the B Side. There are only x1000 out there, so get them while you can. Hopefully some more singles will be released before the album drops later this year.

ITV2

Its always good to get an Ad through to press unscathed. ITV bought into this look and feel recently and it'll be hitting a lot of publications over the coming months.

I designed the layouts with creative team Matt Fitch & Mark Lewis at BBH. I started by putting all the info in one place (programme title, date, time and URL). Doing this allowed the rest of the ad to be free for the headline and image.

The headlines are key to grabbing your attention, so choice of font was important. I wanted something bold to compliment the headlines but also something that would contrast each other: a condensed, a script and a display typeface. The result is a set of fonts that 'knit' together well and fill in the odd spaces around the people.

The fonts used are Acropolis, Champion Middleweight and Metro Script. Acropolis and Champion are from one one of my favourite foundries – Hoefler Frere Jones.

Look out for this Art Direction on the TV idents too.

The Art of British Rock

I was asked to contribute some of my old Plastic People flyers for a new book that launches soon. The Art of British Rock highlights 50 years of Rock Posters, Flyers and Handbills. My scrappy flyers now sit alongside legends such as Peter Saville, Malcolm Garrett & Barney Bubbles. Available at all friendly bookstores, and Amazon.