Creative Review, November 2009

This month’s issue, which is all about the workspaces and work environments of designers/studios, features a photo of my/our home studio in the Comment section, accompanying my response on the CR blog Question of the week “Where do you work” —
Since 2005 Kleber …

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Comics this month (October 2009)

• Gantz #7 (Dark Horse Comics)

• Hellboy — The Wild Hunt #7 (of 8) (Dark Horse Comics)

• B.P.R.D. 1947 #4 (Dark Horse Comics)

• Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder #4 (of 5) (Dark Horse Comics)

• Fantastic Four #571 (Marvel Comics)

• Astonishing X-Men #31 (Marvel …

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Is the portfolio CMS the new black?

The other day I was checking QBN, and saw a thread titled ‘Free Portfolio Website’. The thread with the spam-sounding title turned out to be an invitation to beta test a new CMS ‘4ormat‘ (yes, I know it doesn’t add up) geared towards the ‘creative …

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Diagrams

Some of my work — I believe its the alternative Logan’s Run diagram poster — is included in Diagrams — Innovative Solutions for Graphic Designers, a new design compendium published by RotoVision.

The book even has my name on the cover next to some rather …

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Harvey Award for Comic Book Tattoo!

I just found out that apparently this weekend Comic Book Tattoo (which we designed) picked up another ‘Best Anthology Award‘, this time at the Harvey Awards!

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Computer Arts 167

The latest issue of Computer Arts (nº 167) is out on the stands and besides featuring a nice interview with Erik Spiekerman has an article entitled Launch your design career: Leading creatives recall how they mounted the ladder — where I amongst others tell you, in …

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Anatomy of a video: Diesel — Only The Brave

Back in February I received and email from David Rondel Cambou, a good friend of mine who runs the Paris-based design agency Hellohikimori, telling me HKI were working on a project for Diesel. David and his team were assembling a list of artists and designers they were …

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Comics This Month (September 2009)

Autumn’s here:
• Hellboy — The Wild Hunt #6 (of 8) (Dark Horse Comics)

• B.P.R.D. 1947 #3 (Dark Horse Comics)

• Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder #3 (of 5) (Dark Horse Comics)

• Fantastic Four #570 (Marvel Comics)

• Ultimate Armor Wars #1 (Marvel Comics)

• …

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Random bits

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Glen Barr: Haunted Paradise —1st solo European exhibit.

I just got an email from my friends at Mekanik Strip, one of the coolest comic shops in Europe (where I had the pleasure of working and spending money at the same time!) that they are hosting the first solo exhibit of underground artist extraordinaire Glenn Barr …

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Epic Illustrated.

Published between 1980 and 1986, Epic Illustrated was Marvel Comics’ answer to Heavy Metal Magazine and adult comics. For 34 issues, Epic provided a platform within Marvel Comics for artists and writers to go beyond the usual work-for-hire mainstream boundaries and …

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NES

Here’s a confession: I don’t own a game console. Coming from a male designer that must sound pretty weird. Almost every guy I know owns one — well, at least one. Especially my fellow web designers/developers. I’m more of a comic book guy (d’uh). I do get the …

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Handwriting.

Earlier tonight Liz asked me to help her with some preparations for a photo shoot she’s doing tomorrow (shooting some horribly expensive bling bling watches) and she needed me to write product facts in little notebooks and agendas to serve as props. In itself its not …

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An Autumn update.

Muller — Graphic Design, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

This weekend I finally had some time to give the site a slight refresh and add some new content. The past few weeks I’ve been considering the idea of using the Cargo platform as a way to make a quick …

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Designing Fistful of Blood — The movie.

For the better part of the last two weeks I’ve been spending my evenings and weekends toiling away at logo and poster concepts for the movie adaptation of the cult graphic novel “Fistful of Blood” by Kevin Eastman (!) and Simon Bisley (!), with Digger T. Mesch …

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Logo Design Vol.2 (Taschen)

Just found out that a selection of logos I designed between 2006 — 2008 are featured in Taschen’s Logo Design Vol.2, the follow to the 2006 release of the same name, which also includes some of my work. Always fun to be featured in a Taschen book (this is the 4th …

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Comics This Month (August 2009)

• VIKING #3 (Image Comics)

• Frankenstein’s Womb (Avatar Press)

• Ultimate Spider-Man #1(Marvel Comics)

• Ignition City #4 (Wrap cover variant) (Avatar Press)

• Battlefields – Tankies, part 3 of 3 (Dynamite Comics)

• Fantastic Four #569 (Marvel Comics)

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More VOLTA.

VOLTA Business Cards, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

Just finished another batch of cards for the crew at Volta, for whom I also designed the logo & identity a while back. Nothing new design-wise per se, but a continuation of the style, and the chance to use …

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Bang!

When a man with .45 meets a man with a rifle, you said, the man with a pistol’s a dead man. Let’s see if that’s true. Go ahead, load up and shoot.

— Joe

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siteInspire interview

Working for the music industry isn’t that different from other industries really, at the end of the day they’re your clients and you provide a service for them – the only difference is that they don’t wear suits (unless they’re Spandau Ballet) and you bust …

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