Home­work­home­work­home­work.  I’ve got lots of it but for the past few hours ended up dick­ing around down­load­ing pat­terns, brushes, and gra­di­ents for Pho­to­shop…  Although, I don’t feel like it has been a com­plete waste of time, con­sid­er­ing some of these will help me do some future home­works.  In the end, I sup­pose it has been pro­cras­ti­na­tion…  Oh well, time to get to work now I suppose.

I’ve been work­ing on a Typog­ra­phy assign­ment.  My inspi­ra­tion?  Non-Format.  Never heard of these guys?  Well, two words: 1)BAD 2)ASS.  They do the coolest work.  Well, maybe I’m get­ting ahead of myself here.  For those of you who have had your head in the sand: Non-Format is a com­pany run by two dudes, Kjell Ekhorn (Nor­we­gian) and Jon Forss (British), who have worked together since the year 2000.  They have done a range of projects rang­ing from art direc­tion all the way down to fash­ion and yes, even typog­ra­phy.  You’ve prob­a­bly seen their work in The Wire, that music mag­a­zine, as they have art directed it in the day.  They are basi­cally just really, really, really good graphic design­ers, in my opin­ion.  Don’t take my word though, see for your­self and check out their site that I linked above.

So, I’ve had the visual inspi­ra­tion for this assign­ment, and you can bet your asses that I’ve also had the musi­cal inspi­ra­tion.  What have I been lis­ten­ing to inorder to design some kick­ass posters?  None other than Mr. Eti­enne de Crécy.  I’ve taken the lib­erty of upload­ing my favourite tune of his (that has been get­ting replayed over and over while I’ve been work­ing on these posters), ‘Fast Track,’ aswell as a live ver­sion he did where he mashes that tune up with Camille’s ‘Some­one Like You’ and Simian Mobile Disco’s ‘Never Be Alone.’  Amaz­ing stuff.  Also check out the video that I put up, which fea­tures ‘Fast Track’ and the amaz­ing live set de Crécy toured around with (props to Alfie for orig­i­nally show­ing me this, this set would make Daft Punk proud).  SO COOL!

Down­loads:

1. Fast Track — Eti­enne de Crécy
2. Fast Track Live Vs. We Are Your Friends — Eti­enne de Crécy

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