The works of Madeleine Peyroux have really stuck out to us recently. One piece in particular is a cover she did of Elliott Smith’s song “Between the Bars.” The original is a very beautiful piece, but this cover takes the original to the cleaners, and then some. If you can appreciate good, classical jazz, with an emotional mix of melancholy, we think you’ll appreciate this cover as much as we do, especially the breakdown with the piano, nylon guitar, upright bass, and beautiful sounding brushes over the snare drum. PARFAIT!!!!
Alright, so we finally sent off our submissions to Communication Arts yesterday. Now we wait, and hopefully at least one of our submissions will make it in. I was going to post which submissions we went with, but I think I’ll wait until we hear whether or not we got in.
On another note, we’ve just recently been invited to join the Behance network. When it comes to social networking sites, Behance definitely takes the cake. If you haven’t been there yet, it’s a pretty dope network of multidisciplinary media professionals, and everyone is super responsive, and very friendly, so I would highly recommend checking it out. Unfortunately you can’t just sign up and get a profile. You have to be invited to get in. Either way, if you get in, take advantage of the tools you have at your disposal. It’s truly a great way to make new connections in various creative fields.
We just recently (about 4 weeks ago) purchased a Canon 40D digital SLR. We’re still familiarizing ourselves with it, (as there is somewhat of a learning curve initially). We did, however, take a little road trip over to marine drive by the Portland Airport to have a little photo shoot adventure. It seems that most of the shots we took were pretty right on, although I suppose that’s the result of several weeks of tampering with settings just to get the initial shots the way we want them to turn out. Anyway, we thought it would be fun to share the results. These shots were taken with the stock EF28-135mm lens that comes with the 40D. I must say, we’re pretty satisfied with the results so far. Anyway, hope you enjoy.
This was a pretty fun piece to work on. Bang-On (a pop culture, lifestyle t-shirt company, originating from Vancouver B.C., Canada) commissioned us to design a postcard for their grand opening in Frankston, Australia. Looks like we’ll be handling all of Bang-On’s Frankston collateral print projects as well. The grand opening is supposed to be amazing. Wish we could be there to experience the swag. They did promise to take loads of pictures, so we’ll try to snag some and post them here.
Today a friend referred me to the Andre Perry website, and I must say, I’m ashamed to admit that I had no idea who Andre Perry was until today. Better late than never I suppose. Anyway, I don’t even know where to begin. This is such an amazing studio, and the Le Studio (I apologize for redundancy) brand is super duper.
Apparently this studio was one of the first sophisticated, wold-class, environmentally friendly, audio / visual studios started by Andre Perry in 1974 (a 1962 Grand Prix du Disque award winning studio musician). Anyway, click here for more information on Andre Perry, as the history of Le Studio is really fascinating.
Yet again, another track that we featured on our “Colorcubic Helios Office Mix.” This track was produced by Thomas Fehlmann, titled: “Du Fehlst Mir.” Not exactly sure what that means, but it’s a beautiful track, and an even more beautiful album which it’s featured on, titled: “Visions of Blah.” I’m also pretty fond of the packaging as well. The type looks like Futura [medium], but the A, V, M, and N throw me off a bit. Usually the A, V, M, and N are sharp at the cross section in Futura [medium], but here on the cover they’re flat at the cross section. Oh well, maybe it’s some extended family. Anyway, beautiful album, beautiful song, and worth picking up.
This piece is actually a remix of an event poster that we made for my Electronic Music Moniker, Masmöd. I have to say, I prefer this piece to the original. Christy and I are still deciding whether or not we want to include this along with our other submissions to the CA competition. We have to make up our minds by tonight, because the deadline is tomorrow. Either way, this was really fun to mess with.
I apologize in advance if the title of this post comes off sounding arrogant in anyway. On the contrary, we’re just really excited about the coming of the new year. Although we’re a bit early, we’re always thinking about how we can improve Colorcubic. We’ve really been on each others cases about nailing down our design and development skills, and never getting comfortable with where we are as far as design goes in general. I guess what I’m trying to say is that we’re never really satisfied with the work we produce. Instead, we’re always trying to raise the bar in some way or another. Anyway, this “2009″ print is our final submission to the Communication Arts competition. We’re keeping our fingers crossed in hopes that they’ll choose some of our work. Whatever the case, all of it was fun to work on, and if we don’t wind up in this publication, then we’ll shoot for something else.
Okay, so we’ve narrowed down the selection of brand identity work that we want to submit to the communication arts competition to these two pages. Unfortunately we are only submitting five identity pieces, so as you can see we’re in a bit of a pickle. Any help deciding would be greatly appreciated. We have until Monday (June 9th) to make our final decision. Feel free to leave us a comment, or send us a message to help us decide.
Here is another one of the prints that we are submitting to the Communication Arts competition. We decided to do this a little differently by posting our reworked version along side the original photograph (which was taken by: Debbie Baxter) just to give anyone who’s interested an idea of the process it took to produce this piece. This 11 X 17 print is a promotional piece for the Australian baby rock apparel company: Rock My Baby. This was a really fun piece to work on, and we put a lot of effort into it, so hopefully Communication Arts will except the submission. Wish us luck, and enjoy.
Here is another one of our “Colorcubic Helios Office Mix” tracks. This one in particular is very much at the top of our list as far as emotional sound content is concerned. This track is a remix by Planet Boelex titled: I Met A Girl With Butterfly Wings. The image featured above isn’t necessarily associated with the release of this track, but I believe it was designed by Planet Boelex himself, although I apologize in advance if that assumption is wrong. Whatever the case, I’m personally impressed with the simplicity, and use of colors. Planet Boelex was originally introduced to us by our good friend, and occasional model Drew Wiltsey a.k.a. White Car. Anyway, we hope you enjoy these listening pleasures.
This is one of three prints titled “Leisure” that Colorcubic is submitting to the Communication Arts competition. The sly buck sitting in the tufted chair, emitting light and bling from behind is Drew Wiltsey of White Car. We’ll be sure to post the other 2 prints soon.
