I recently designed this ad to promote reknowned MTL graffiti artist Omen‘s upcoming show at Yves Laroche. The show’s not for a while yet, but the ad is going to be featured in the October issues of both Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose magazines. We’ll also be issuing limited edition art prints/posters of this design during the show, so needless to say I’m pretty excited.
I just stumbled upon Wordle, a java-based word cloud generator. Though the interface/visual design could use some tweaking, and the typeface selection is a little restrictive (dare I say, cheesy…), it still produces some interesting, and at times beautiful, results. More importantly, it’s a lot of fun to play with and an addictive little time-waster for the typographically-inclined.
I discovered this BEAUTIFUL song by Adem over the weekend and now I can’t get it out of my head. So I thought I’d share… A melding and reinterpretation of two Aphex Twin classics into a beautiful (yes, I say it again), dreamy, hope-filled ‘folk’ song. Impressive and inspiring…
To cure a weakling child / Boy / Girl Song (MP3)
The song is from his latest album, ‘Takes’, which features 12 cover versions of songs from 1991-2001. His eclectic selection of artists and songs, including Yo la Tengo, Smashing Pumpkins, Tortoise, PJ Harvey and Low, seems spot on. Can’t wait to pick it up.
It’s hard for me to believe that I launched LOKi design (labs) over 8 years ago now. Life is certainly quite different these days, but browsing through my archives, I’m surprised by how much has stayed the same within my work. It was nice to see the amount of (strange) self-initiated work I did and think about how it has in many way lead to the zine project. The numerous iterations of my site (this blog would officially be version 7!) that I created and carefully attended to over the years help me to believe that I genuinely do love this medium.
Looking back it’s also interesting to trace the currents and trends of (web) design that I voraciously followed and suppose in many ways still do. From the pointless lines and 45 degree angles, to miniscule pixel type, vector shapes and grungy posterised images, its all in there, part of my endlessly self-conscious searching for form. Presented here for your enjoyment/amusement, a selection of images from those years.
