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Popbot: Symbolic Machine Code

chidiubani — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:34:24 +0000

Print design

Cover-and book design for Ashley Wood’s Popbot Collection, collecting the first 6 issues of the graphic novel series.The design of the book is informed by the title Symbolic Machine Code: like a machine, or computer – the book ‘boots up’, displaying the credits and titles as computer data.

Book cover

cover/spine detail

First page

First page details

Title page

Title page detail

WBR spread

Opening pages

http://www.hellomuller.com/work/2006/popbot_smc.html

Action Method

chidiubani — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:05:02 +0000

Action Method Principles

1.Capture Action Steps, Relentlessly

During a brainstorm, meeting, or on the run, ideas arrive in a flurry of other activity and can be lost unless they are captured and transformed into action steps. Action steps point to tasks to be completed. Each action step should start with a verb (ie.: follow up with x, review y, meet with z).

2. Tend to Your Backburner

Keep a “backburner” to catch ideas that may someday require actions, or just to clear your mind of the little and non-urgent things. Preserve your creative energy and focus on action steps!

3. File Reference Items, Sparingly

Keep only the notes, articles and sketches, that you need. Avoid clutter.

http://www.actionmethod.com/

The Greg Washington

chidiubani — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:00:48 +0000

Very clean unique work…love it

The Inquiringmind Buyers Buyble is a quarterly piece which highlights some of the best products available during the season. My responsibilities included Art Direction, Photography and Design.
The live version is available here for your viewing pleasure.

chidiubani — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:36:28 +0000

Kanye West on the Wake Up Show: Episode 1

Real Talk

chidiubani — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:15:53 +0000

KRS-One Book Club

chidiubani — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:09:10 +0000

Scorcher ‘I Know’ (watch in high quality)

Mr SKYWALKER ! loving this video …whats your thoughts?

very simple but i love the use of colours…i can see my self goin into videos one time

chidiubani — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:11:40 +0000

TWStuff – Is Twitter for twits? (06.02.09)

Its the new social networking site where you can stalk your favourite celebs, friends or love interests and get feeds about what they are up to and respond in real time.

The panel on The Wright Stuff Show recently discussed whether Twitter was benificial to us or not and I managed to find a video of it which can be seen above.

A lot of people didn’t see the point in facebook when it first came out, and the same thing is happening with Twitter. It seems pointless when you first join, but if like us you like keeping up with the latest news, I recommend you join ASAP and start following people.

Keyshia Cole Vibe Cover

chidiubani — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:31:39 +0000

WOW…Loving the cover , vibrant colours and blending looks hot!

She’s really going all out with this ‘A Different Me’ thing, different styling, different music….very different/strange family life…… Ms Cole nothing like how she started out….but hey, metamorphosis is all part of the lifecycle of an artist right

Sponsorship

chidiubani — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:28:46 +0000

Many arts students will be looking to companies for sponsorship in the coming months, the run up to degree shows is often the first time many students will face the ordeal of finding someone to pay for private view drinks, printing costs etc.

The rules of combat are fairly simple:

Identify a brand that fits your own image / work
Make the sponsorship relevant to the contributor
Tell them exactly what you want and what they will get in return

Pleb Fiona Gall came in to our studio to visit us. When she told us that she was putting on an exhibition our first thought was ‘surely you’re getting an absinthe company to sponsor you?’ When Fiona confessed that she hadn’t even thought of it we were amazed, bearing in mind she called herself ‘Emerald Faerie’ – a blatant reference to Absinthe and she was holding the exhibition in the home of Absinthe in Switzerland, it seemed like a good bet.

She took us up on the idea and here’s what happened:

Her press release read:

‘A rare opportunity for you to meet Fiona Gall the artist behind Emerald faerie and purchase a unique piece of hand crafted art. She will be selling a range of pieces from her Faerie Antiques collection including faerie goblets, candelabras and butterfly cage candleholders.‘

How did you get the sponsorship – what did you say?

Basically I checked out their website, got the contact details, wrote an email and gave them a call. (They are small company I guess a bit like a family business) It was a bit awkward when I called the guy as he spoke French and I’m afraid that I do not. So he requested that I send him an email which I had already prepared. The next day he sent me a reply saying yes he would support my exhibition with bottles, fountains and some posters. That was it as easy as that! (Mind you he is based 20 mins away)

My email was as follows:

‘Dear Claude-Alain,

My name is Fiona Gall and I am a designer-maker, I create sculptural wire and glass lighting. I am based in London and my sister, however, lives and works in Neuchatel.

My work is all about ‘The Green Faerie’ and the concept of The Emerald Faerie was actually conceived after discovering absinthe 8 years ago at the time of the solar eclipse. Please take a look at the pdf file attached for the story of the emerald faerie; also refer to my website www.emeraldfaerie.com.

I will be exhibiting my work for the first time in Neuchatel at the end of March (31st) for one day only and though as it is the birth place of Absinthe it would be a wonderful idea/opportunity to make a connection between the ‘Artemisia distillery’ and my craft. And I also see from your site that you are celebrating ‘La Clandestine’s’ second birthday.

I am producing a flyer/invitation for the ‘opening’ on Saturday 31st, which will be mailed out a few weeks before hand, I am also planning to contact the local press to announce this event. I will be exhibiting/selling a mix of work from my Faerie Antiques and Twilight Garden collections at La Jouvence.

I believe that it will be a unique and interesting opportunity to promote The Artemisia craftsmanship in conjunction with emerald faeries creations!

Therefore I am hoping that you would be interested in supporting this venture by supplying a bottle or two for the exhibition, in exchange for free publicity and your logo on the flyer. Or indeed if you have any other suggestions, maybe we could display a few bottles along with the apparatus and business cards?

I look forward to your swift response as I have a very tight dead line for the printers.’

How did you negotiate the sponsorship?

I didn’t go in to detail re how many bottles etc as it is in Switzerland during the day and it will not be the same crowd as there is in London! A little will go a long way. I am going to his distillery next week to check it out and pick up all the bits.

What is the sponsorship deal?

Some bottles of ‘La Clandestine’ absinthe some fountains (for ice cold water to mix with the absinthe the traditional way)

What lessons have you learnt from getting the sponsorship?

Well firstly how easy it was, you just have to ask. To think a little bigger…I don’t have to do it all alone!

chidiubani — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:31:22 +0000

Barack Obama: American Color