booka shade
based on our work with big black delta, the fine folk at nerve management asked us to work on an aesthetic revamp for the german, minimal-house duo booka shade. we knew of the band in part because of...
View Articlewhere ideas go when they die
the aurora movie theater shootings on july 20th of this year compacted with a series of events in my own life, and ultimately lead to me writing an article about it all for the IFP. i realized that...
View Articlebeyond the black rainbow
the feeling you get watching panos cosmatos’ science-fiction film beyond the black rainbow is akin to what alex delarge must have felt when subjected to the ludovico technique in anthony burgess’...
View Articleyour days are numbered
about this time a year ago i was back in england with my brother wandering around london buying gifts and the like. at some point somewhere between the various shops we’d been to, i ended up with a...
View Articlewhat about dick, how’s your news, pauly shore + joe rogan
since our initial work in the burgeoning direct-to-fan film sales world, we’ve been asked to produced platforms for a variety of different outfits. sometimes they want the whole rig from us as what...
View Articlefilm posters (part 2)
following up on our previous film poster round-up, here are a selection of recent film posters we’ve produced for various filmmaker collaborators. it’s worth noting this time around that some of the...
View Articlei drove all night
the above layout is a part of the latest in our ongoing collaborations with the protomen – it’s the inlay of the cassette single for their cover of roy orbison’s i drove all night. it’s been public...
View Articlenot fade away (part 2)
our website for david chase’s rock ‘n’ roll, coming-of-age feature not fade away, is now live. as hinted at in our previous post the site represents our first public foray into hollywood studio design...
View Articlecaspar vs. monocle magazine
caspar was recently interviewed for monocle magazine. here’s an excerpt from the piece - describe your work with bands. i am responsible for visually creating their sound. i get images in my head from...
View Articleten years (v)
2013 marks the 10 year anniversary of the founding of our company, version industries. to celebrate the occasion we threw a party at the cake shop in manhattan, new york. it was a magical affair to...
View Articlethe east
fans of hard working, thought provoking science fiction would do well to tune into the work of brit marling, zal batmanglij and mike cahill. collectively through their films sound of my voice and...
View Articlesurachai
i met surachai sutthisasanakul through alessandro cortini. alessandro would always be laughing about something surachai sent him via email or ichat – usually something grotesque pulled from the...
View Articleactivator
the new york thrash metal band activator are releasing their debut album in two weeks. i’ve known the guitarist jared drace for some time now. his apartment is like a museum version of my formative...
View Articlei think we’re alone now
if you spend enough time working on the internet and living up to today’s social networking standards, you certainly begin to feel your mind ache in a way that’s perhaps hard to put your finger on. my...
View Articlerecord cover + poster exhibition
we’ve created an exhibition of our ongoing record cover and poster work over at squarespace. the format of their site and the nature of their templates was immediately conducive to such a concept....
View Articlewild light
creative review asked to include 65daysofstatic’s wild light album cover in their monthly round-up of great album covers. in doing so they interviewed us about what went into the making of the sleeve...
View Articlekaleidoscope pr
back in 2008 we created a rather simple and elegant flash website for the art and fashion-based PR firm, kaleidoscope consulting. aware now that their site was useless on a range of new platforms but...
View Articlemanifold
a while back i came head to head with the work of one of my design heroes, eike könig. i’d been asked to redesign the logo for the german band booka shade, after many years of eike having been their...
View Articlebig black delta photoshoot
back in june when big black delta were in new york playing a series of shows, we were approached by the experimental photographer jeff brown to do a photoshoot. already huge fans of jeff’s instagram...
View Articlememphis
tim sutton’s new feature film MEMPHIS is having it’s US premiere at the sundance film festival this week. the film stars the incendiary singer willis earl beal and chases, in the form of a filmic...
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