→Brand refresh for events company. Knom and its series ‘The Local’ are back after a hiatus. I updated the Knom logo, incorporating their existing drum logo in a new logotype. Then created a bespoke logo for The Local, giving everything a type and colour scheme. The design for the events have monthly markers circles that are filled on the flyer to indicate when the events are happening. @thelocal_london
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#thelocal #MusicDesign #branding #domcooperdesign
→ A whole season for @project_blank_sd . It was a great series of events. I enjoyed designing, illustrating, performing, and being part of the journey.
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#ProjectBlank #MusicDesign #domcooperdesign
→ Program and promotional design for Other Minds’ concert of Galina Ustvolskaya’s rarely played piano sonatas, performed by Conor Hanick . Born in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1919, Galina Ustvolskaya’s expressive and vigorous music was deemed problematic in the USSR early in her career and did not receive widespread attention in her home country until the 1960s and 70s, and abroad only in the late 1980s. She taught at the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music from 1947-1977 and over the past three decades her music has experienced an increasing amount of performances and acclaim in the West. Ustvolskaya’s six piano sonatas were written between 1947 and 1988. The earlier sonatas have been compared by author Alex Ross to the “static, starkly dissonant pieces” of Erik Satie and the violent, cluster-filled later sonatas, a critic once referred to her as “the lady with the hammer,” are reminiscent of the piano music of American experimentalists Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, and George Antheil. I was asked to use Soviet colors and from there I chose modern type with a nod to constructivism.
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#OtherMinds #MusicDesign #GalinaUstvolskaya #EditorialDesign #SanFrancisco #domcooperdesign
@othermindssf@conorlhanick
→ Program and promotional design for Other Minds’ concert of Galina Ustvolskaya’s rarely played piano sonatas, performed by Conor Hanick . Born in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in 1919, Galina Ustvolskaya’s expressive and vigorous music was deemed problematic in the USSR early in her career and did not receive widespread attention in her home country until the 1960s and 70s, and abroad only in the late 1980s. She taught at the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music from 1947-1977 and over the past three decades her music has experienced an increasing amount of performances and acclaim in the West. Ustvolskaya’s six piano sonatas were written between 1947 and 1988. The earlier sonatas have been compared by author Alex Ross to the “static, starkly dissonant pieces” of Erik Satie and the violent, cluster-filled later sonatas, a critic once referred to her as “the lady with the hammer,” are reminiscent of the piano music of American experimentalists Henry Cowell, Leo Ornstein, and George Antheil. I was asked to use Soviet colors and from there I chose modern type with a nod to constructivism.
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#OtherMinds #MusicDesign #GalinaUstvolskaya #EditorialDesign #SanFrancisco #domcooperdesign
@othermindssf@conorlhanick
→ From Collection 08: I’m not sure when I bought this copy of Tales of Mystery & Imagination—probably awhile ago in London. It’s a Book Club Associates edition from 1979, first published in 1935, and includes all the classic Edgar Allan Poe tales. The illustrations by Arthur Rackham are great and quite varied. There are a few in colour, but I prefer the starker black-and-white ones.
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#EdgarAllanPoe #BookCover #ArthurRackham #TalesOfMystery&Imagination #Illustrations #CoverDesign #HorrorBook #domcooperdesign
→ From Collection 08: I’m not sure when I bought this copy of Tales of Mystery & Imagination—probably awhile ago in London. It’s a Book Club Associates edition from 1979, first published in 1935, and includes all the classic Edgar Allan Poe tales. The illustrations by Arthur Rackham are great and quite varied. There are a few in colour, but I prefer the starker black-and-white ones.
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#EdgarAllanPoe #BookCover #ArthurRackham #TalesOfMystery&Imagination #Illustrations #CoverDesign #HorrorBook #domcooperdesign
→ Input: Following on from the wisdom of Brian Eno, here is some input. A couple of weeks ago, I visited San Francisco for the first time, invited by @othermindssf to attend the festival I helped brand. We stayed in Haight, near Golden Gate Park. The festival was fantastic; I enjoyed all the performances. During my visit, we explored various attractions: we took in the park, art at the de Young Museum, indulged in book shopping at Green Apple, delicious food, visited SFMOMA, went hiking, and spent time with friends in Berkeley. A highlight for me was seeing the James Turrell skyspace and experiencing Ragnar Kjartansson’s installation, The Visitors.
OM Photos by ebbe roe yovino-smith
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#BrianEno #Input #SanFrancisco #Haight #GoldenGatePark #OtherMindsFestival #deYoung #SFMOMA #YayoiKusama #RagnarKjartansson #JamesTurrell #GreenAppleBooks #Berkeley #domcooperdesign
→ From the Collection 07: Cycloid II by artist Peter Schmidt. Serigraph, 1966. 42/60. Peter was a Berlin-born British artist, painter, and theoretician of color and composition, as well as a pioneering multimedia exhibitor and an influential teacher at Watford College of Art (where I studied after his time). He was friends with Brian Eno and created the artwork for Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). He also co-created the Oblique Strategies cards.
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#BrianEno #Cycloid #PeterSchmidt #Serigraph #ObilqueStrategies #TakingTigerMountain #domcooperdesign
→ Process: The other day, I went to see the Brian Eno documentary directed by Gary Hustwit. It was cool. Even though I’ve watched a lot of Eno’s work before, it’s always great to hear him speak. The generative format, where a different documentary is created each time, makes you want to watch it again and discover more.
Takeaway: Brian’s new routine involves not trying to produce output immediately after input. For example, he avoids reading the news before creating, as it leads to excessive focus on the news itself. Now, he skips breakfast (which used to include reading the news) and creates until lunchtime. I’m going try and remember to separate the two myself.
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#BrianEno #EnoDoc #GaryHustwit #InputOutput #EnoWisdom #domcooperdesign
