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.

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- m / Colorcubic™

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Thanks much in advance.

Peace

- m / Colorcubic™

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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.

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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.

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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.

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- m / Colorcubic™

Okay, so was I asleep the day Quality Control left the fucking building or something? I am just recovering from food poisoning for the 2nd time this month (that’s an entirely different post of complaints and explanations I’ll save for another day), but this is inexcusable, and certainly not helpful to my recovery. Before anyone asks, no, this is not the work of Colorcubic, thank God. So now you might be saying to yourself “then who cares?” Well, I do. Unfortunately I can’t tell you who kicked these… designs out (if I can call them designs at all), because I just don’t know. What I can tell you though is that these are for the ELECTRONIC MUSIC SENSATION OF THE CENTURY… YACHT! Yes, that’s right, YACHT. You know, the guy who wears a handkerchief over his face, carries a sword, and looks all hipster while ready to pounce. No? You don’t know him? Oooh baby! Rolling On The Floor, Laughing!!!!!!!! Laugh Out Loud, blah blah blah!!!!!!

Let me quickly move to explain our (being Colorcubic’s) position on this matter. We, (Christy and I) aren’t just passionate about the work we do, but the concept of design in all facets, by all people. Call it Aesthetic Bliss™ if you will, but whatever you call it, we’re defending it, and it’s a shame that the people who would call themselves the designers of this MARVELOUS work would allow something like this to hit any printer. I apologize if what I say next comes off as being somewhat “fascist?”, or tyranical, (yeah right, far from it), but one has got to take a stand somewhere.

For example, I like taking a fishing pole out to a lake on a yacht (no pun intended) and attempting to fish occasionally when the weather is good. I’m absolutely horrible at it. The worst ever, and because of that I’m not about to call myself a fisherman. Just because I have a fishing pole DON’T MAKE IT RIGH’!.

Real fisherman go out to sea on rickety ass cold boats for months on end, catch large amounts of beautiful, mouth watering fish (you know, the same fish that we all love for sushi), bring it back to port, and sell it off at great rates after they have risked their lives, and that winds up on someones table as food. Now, wouldn’t it be a real slap in the face if someone just came along and said, “hey… hey, I’m a fisherman. Yeah, yeah buddy. I’m a fisherman, I fish all the time. Wanna buy some fish?”, and they then proceed to open some gnarled burlap bag full of some of the worst specimen that couldn’t possibly be mistaken for fish, but before the atrocity could be prevented, some poor, uneducated fool buys into it, and then proceeds to convince all of his other cronies / lackeys / friends to buy this shit peddling rank sea bass. I don’t know about you, but I would feel obligated to step in and say, “take your 2 bit scam and beat it!” At that very moment, Michael Jackson would magically appear, and moonwalk all over that hustl’n ass. Hustle n flow baby, hustle n flow!

This scenario is exactly that, RANK SEA BASS trying to be passed off as my next roll of hamachi nagiri sushi. Sorry mutha fucka, but I ain’t buyin’ it, much less swallowin’ it. And Sorry to all you “die hard YACHT fans” out there, but this (in an ideal world… or my world of QA and perfectionism) wouldn’t peddle peanuts for poop, let alone exchange hands with an overzealous buyer. Unfortunately, nowadays, people have forgotten the measure of quality to shit (apparently). People are actually buying these five second run off to the screen printer, got no raisins in my brain-case, looks just like crappy, wannabe, rip you off and skimp yo momma Urban bullshit Outfitters t-shirts. Am I mistaken, and is shit suddenly the new gold? I’m sorry people, but this is wrong, stealing is wrong, and if you’re buying this, you’ve been robbed and left with what’s left at the bottom of some nasty barrel.

On a side note I must say, I’m especially moved by the “fucking positive” shirt. Great man, thanks, brilliant, a completely original slice of freshly baked pound cake. Seriously? Do FAUX witty catch phrases actually do anything for anyone anymore except make people angry? Maybe just me?

Here Yacht, how about printing this on a t-shirt instead, “With music to match, Yacht to trot. Just say no to faux!”

This is, of course, just my subjective opinion.

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- m / Colorcubic™

We decided that our office needed a mix to hail the coming of this beautiful Portland summer weather. Aphex Twin’s “Xtal” wound up on our mix. Originally featured on Aphex Twin’s “Selected Ambient Works 85-92“, this is an amazing song, and an even more amazing album. We highly recommend buying this. If you can find it on vinyl, even better. Be sure to give this a listen, and we’ll be sure to post more of what we have officially dubbed “the Colorcubic Helios mix.”

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We thought we should take this time to give a shout out to the individual entities who have deemed us worthy of featuring us on their sites. Thanks a lot everyone. We really appreciate all of the buzz.

Peace,

- m / Colorcubic™

Okay, so this is actually kind of old news, but I figure better late than never. About 7 months ago we submitted the Colorcubic business card to “the best of Business Card Design 8″ competition, published by Rockport publishing. About three weeks ago we received a letter in the mail stating that we were chosen to be featured in the book. I have to say, we were both completely blown away that they considered us at all. If you get a chance, you should definitely pick this up. Honestly, we’re still scratching our heads, trying to comprehend why they chose the design we submitted, but either way, Thank You Rockport!

- m / Colorcubic™