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  • 2008 - because it’s better late than never

  • This image from New Years is a good indication of what all of 2008 was like.

    Favourite Music

    Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill
    Nagisa Ni Te - Yosuga
    Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
    AMT - Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness
    Fennesz - Black Sea
    The Bug - London Bridge
    High Dependency Unit - Metamathics
    Andrew Coltrane - Gongs Of Violence
    Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
    Kazuki Tomokawa - Blue Water, Red Water
    Les Rallizes Denudes - Eve Night
    Fabulous Diamonds - S/T
    Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
    Pentemple
    Pagan Hellfire - Solidarity
    Vajra - Live
    Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Modern Life
    Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
    Soiushou No Fune - Prayer for Chibi
    Islaja - blaze mountain recordings
    Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven
    Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
    The Drones – Havilah
    Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
    Andrew WK - The Japan Covers

    Best Gigs

    Japanese New Music Festival - Ruins / Acid Mothers Temple SWR / Akaten  @ Namba Bears, Osaka
    Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO @ Club Goodman, Tokyo
    Otomo Yoshihide @ Shinjuku Pitt Inn, Tokyo
    Joanna Newsom & Sydney Symphony Orchestra @ Sydney Opera House
    Chris Corsano @ Yvonne Ruve
    Jay Reatard @ Annandale
    Bumcreek / Chromedome / Knitted Abyss / Onani / Orodruin / Pagan Dawn / Polyfox / xNOBBQx @ Louie’s

    Best Movies

    Wall-E
    Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
    There Will Be Blood
    Fears of the Dark
    The Fall

    Favourite Fonts

    Soho - Seb Lester
    Mister K - Julia Sysmäläinen
    Serrano - Kris Sowersby
    Compendium - Ale Paul
    Museo & Museo Sans - Jos Buivenga
    Bree - TypeTogether
    BLACK SLABBATH - You Work For Them

    Other Highlights

    Going to japan and buying underwear from a vending machine
    Leaving the west & moving in with the Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys
    Creating my first typeface & graduating from b design (Visual Communication) with minimal effort
    Winning an AGDA award & National Youthweek (DesignIT)
    Passin’ out at 1 AM on New Years
    NEGLECTIN’ THIS DAMN BLOG
    GETTIN’ MY SHIT TOGETHER


  • Inspiration, Uncategorized, process, reflection, sex, visual identity, work // 2 Comments // 10:56 pm 01-27-09
  • The branding of metal

  • An interesting post regarding the branding of metal, via Brand New and Vice.

    I found it quite funny that most of the comments on Brand New complained about the legibility and the fact that they all ‘looked the same’, although to be honest I wasn’t expecting anything else; appreciating a subculture as ‘extreme’ as black metal isn’t exactly going to be easy for the uninitiated. Despite that, these logos could at least be appreciated for their amazing linework and the symmetry of the hand rendered type.  Above all, a good visual identity should be appropriate for both the brand and the target market - and these logos no doubt succeed in that. In the case of these, legibility shouldn’t even be an issue since what the bands are trying to communicate are often themes of nature, misanthropy, desolation, brutality and utter grimness. The intricacies of these logos further emphasise these themes infinitely better than any typeface could.

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  • Inspiration // No Comments // 10:03 pm 11-24-08