We’ve recently created this mini newspaper for Cura TV. Issue 1 focusses on the vendors whose products we shot and retouched in-house. The photography style follows on from our development of the brand, bold colours and a sharp grid. This coupled with simple clean typography lets the products stay as the focal point and link back to the strategy behind Cura.
The final Cura newspaper is between A5 and A4, printed on a light uncoated paper with loop stitching to hold it together. Copies will start popping up in London coffee shops in the coming weeks.
Our latest BUG work for 2 shows in Manchester and Glasgow – celebrating the past 25 years of ground-breaking music videos from the XL Recordings label.
We’ve been working away on a re-brand of Bug Music Video for some time now as the images below will explain. Bug sets out to explore creativity in music video today – from exciting work in mainstream videos, to experimental bedroom directors. With long time host Adam Buxton taking a sabbatical and a guest presenter taking the reigns each show, we chose a total refresh away from our the illustrated route we’ve produced for the last few years. Instead, we chose to take elements of music and film and create model bugs from the tools used to create the films being shown.
We’ve spent months dismantling a massive stockpile of items begged, borrowed and bought from eBay, charity shops and friends, with a notable mention to FX Rentals. Having amassed a floor full of assorted parts, we then set about building our bugs. We’ve made six so far, and the first is now in use, the rest will appear here over the course of the following Bug shows – we don’t want to give everything away at once. We also filmed the bugs with Phil Tidy to create the show indents that are currently being edited into full glory.
2 of our Bug models:
Bug 42 poster:
The new identity:
5 cine cameras, 4 video cameras, 6 microphones and numerous other music and film parts on the production line:
We recently created this voting website for City & Guilds Medal for Excellence programme, including photography, design and Art Direction, with coding and build taken care of by VU.
