LONDON DANCE INTERNATIONAL
This is the instillation we created for this years London Dance International. We used the same location and dancer as previous for continuity and developed upon last years migration theme for the image. LDI is a series of professional classes that provide advanced level training for dance artists.
IWANT RESPECT
IWANT have been commissioned to design marketing materials for Brent Councils Summer programme including Brent Respect Festival, Brent Dance Month and Brent Libraries Summer Reading Programme. Above is the model we have already created for the Respect Festival print.
BUZZIN' FLY – SPENCER PARKER
045BUZZ, The Beginning by Spencer Parker, is the latest and 45th! 12" we have designed for Buzzin' Fly Records in six years. Only five more to reach the big 50 and we're looking forward to every one.
SOUND AND MUSIC
After five years of planning to bring together the UK's leading promoters of new music this will be the first time the four founding companies, British Music Information Centre (bmic), Contemporary Music Network (CMN), the Society for the Promotion of New Music (spnm) and Sonic Arts Network (SAN), speak to their audience under a new name – Sound and Music. Utilsing the logo created by Research Studios we have designed The First Season brochure including building and phtographing the model for the front cover.
BIRDS EYE VIEW FILM FESTIVAL 2009
March 2009 saw our second year working with Birds Eye View Film Festival. Once again we created the festival identity/branding and all marketing and onsite/onscreen display materials for this high profile film festival that takes place at the BFI and ICA.
SOUND & MUSIC and BBC RADIO 3 LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL
We are pleased to announce after a pitch heavy February IWANT have been commissioned to design marketing and publicity materials for new Arts Council funded contemporary music organisiation Sound & Music and full festival design for the BBC Radio 3 2009 London Jazz Festival!!!
FERTILIZER - VERY GOOD SHIT
As well as the two pitches mentioned above we were also successful in securing the re-branding of the Fertilizer Festival. The expanding festival, whose focus this year is on new music from Poland, commissioned IWANT to create a fresh new identity, full brand guidelines and all marketing materials for this years events. 2009 will see Fertilizer grow from an East London only event to a national tour as well as taking the event to it's native country of focus for the first time.
iDN FEATURE - BUT NOT JUST THE ONE
The current (16.1 Craft Issue) issue of international design journal iDN has a feature on IWANT and a feature on our newest team member Ciara Phelan. The issue is dedicated to craft in design and has interviews with IWANTs John Gilsenan and Ciara Phelan.
Rufus Wainwright's PRIMA DONNA at MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Manchester International Festival, the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events approached IWANT to help contextualise existing images and typography for songwriter Rufus Wainwrights debut opera Prima Donna.
LET THEM EAT CAKE
Let Them Eat Cake is an international fashion magazine with a focus on movers and shakers of the London creative scene - IWANT were asked to guest art direct and design the latest issue of the 116page publication (Issue 12, The Portrait Issue) which is available now...
GOING WILD - LONDON WILDLIFE TRUST
LWT commissioned IWANT to re-think and redesign their existing, very dated, free events and volunteering publicity material. Above are the illustrations we created that will make up the covers of the brochure and the A2 poster.
SOUTH BANK EMPLOYERS GROUP
South Bank Employers Group is the partnership of venues and major organisations of the South Bank, Waterloo and Blackfriars in London. Over recent years they have helped transform the face of the South Bank and late in 2008 approached IWANT to help refresh existing marketing materials including their event posters (illustration pictured above). We are currently working closely with their marketing team to realise several projects for a new awareness drive that will run throughout the rest of the year.
SOUND UK - MATTHEW BOURNE
the continuation of our fruitful association with contemporary music promoters and PR Consultancy SOUND UK has seen several exciting projects realised this year already. The best of which has been Matthew Bourne's Songs From a Lost Piano. IWANT illustrated and designed all marketing and publicity material for the tour in which Bourne brought old forgotten pianos back to life with new compositions.
SONY - THE SCRIPT
The beginning of 2009 has seen two more single releases from The SCRIPTs multi-platinum selling debut album. Breakeven & Talk You Down designed and illustrated by IWANT.
JAPANESE FASHION and SALMAN RUSHDIE
Some other projects of note have been a series of patterns IWANT have designed for Japanese fashion label BMDI-REDCLOVER and an illustration commissioned by Random House for a new edition of Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize winning Midnight's Children.
BUZZIN FLY
The latest two Buzzin Fly 12"s 041 & 042 Buzz have been Will Saul & Mike Monday's Zippo and L Kubic's Voyager. We have already completed 043 Buzz which is a Remix EP of Ben Watt's Guinea Pig that was released to critical acclaim at the end of last year and have just started work 044 Buzz, Manoo & Francois A's Today Is Tomorrow due for release in May and 045 Buzz, Spencer Parker's The Beginning due for release in June.
NEED 2 SOUL
Above are the designs for the latest party posters for club promoters Need 2 Soul as well as the packaging for Need 2 Soul Volume 2 mixed by Benji B and Glenn Underground.
9PR & FACTORY STUDIOS
Two websites we designed throughout last year just went live! - Music PR consultants 9PR and Audio design & Post Production wizards Factory UK.