To celebrate Dua Lipa’s Glastonbury 2024 headline slot, we created a fun site to allow her fans to create their dream setlist for the show in anticipation of the special moment. They could browse her entire catalogue of tracks, preview them, and create a custom tour poster with the dream setlist on it. This could then be downloaded, saved to Spotify, and shared to Facebook & X.
The result was a resounding success, with her fans using their created setlists to host streaming parties over the weekend.
To coincide with the (roughly) 10-year anniversary of BIG TV, the band and [PIAS] were keen to give Ritual and BIG TV the special treatment that their first album, To Lose My Life, released a few years previously. Working closely with the band and label, we took the original albums and enhanced the covers with foils, created new expanded booklets with new photos and essays from the band and others who contributed to the albums. Each release received a second disc of additional unreleased material to create lovely packages.
The end result for each is a 2LP special edition, 2CD special edition, and coloured vinyl 1LP – all of which we are very proud of.
To promote Pinks Worldwide tour, we worked closely with the Parlophone team to create a fun and unique setlist generator, powered by Spotify. Based on the original iPod, fans can scroll through the tracks with the dial, listen to previews, and save the playlist to Spotify and share it with their friends on Facebook and X.
To top it off, we decorated the dressing table with a selection of Pinks’ favourite things.
To promote the release of Pink Pantheress’ first album, we were instructed by Warner Records to build a site led by the album artwork. The lead-up to the launch included fun activations using customised tongue-in-cheek Captchas relating to the tracks on the album to see the fans guessing, followed by the full launch for the album.
We worked with Easy Life (now Hard Life) for the digital aspects of their second album, ‘Maybe In Another Life…’. The campaign spanned the website for the release of the album, which had some fun items – the house changed with the time of the day the fan visited. We produced this alongside some side projects, like an accompanying estate agent site, and sadly, to the end of the tenure being called ‘Easy Life’, due to the legal pressures from Easy Group. What’s next?
A fun project – not only to celebrate one of the greatest labels of the 20th century, but combining great content with interactive tools so fans can share their creations on socials. It gave fans who visited the story of Trojan Records, as well as the tools to make their own personalised Trojan label, plus montages of the iconic label designs to create and share too.
We were asked by the lovely people at [PIAS] to create a site for the Editors Best Of, “The Black Gold Archives”. The idea was to have an interactive timeline based the band’s history – presented as a series of gigs, albums and events, which fans could contribute to with their memories, and subsequently share to socials. We worked closely with Editors’ management, creating a site we love – its a great combo of clever tech and awesome design.
Its built on WordPress, has dynamic loading / unloading of content so its lean and works on all devices, allows user uploads (with admin moderation), uses the history API so it’s super smooth page transitions between sections, and uses Youtube video heavily. The user, once their submission has been approved, can download a customised image with all their memory details on.
Around 2017, Nick Mason, drummer of Pink Floyd, was looking to do a one-off gig playing his favourite early Floyd tracks – from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & A Saucerful Of Secrets. For this, they needed a poster. We happened to be in Haight Ashbury, the psychedelic Mecca of San Francisco, when we took the call – it seemed somewhat natural to use the Bill Graham / Fillmore aesthetic as inspiration.
Initially, this was a single gig; however, the tour exploded to include UK / US / EU dates – so far we’ve created album artwork, DVD packaging, posters, all kinds of merchandise, the website, tour backdrops, even drumsticks!
Around 2017, Nick Mason, the drummer from Pink Floyd, was looking to do a few small gigs playing his favourite tracks from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & A Saucerful Of Secrets. They needed a poster to promote the gigs and we duly stepped up, inspired by posters of the era from the UK & US scenes. The Dingwall’s & Half Moon gigs turned into a tour – and over time, we’ve designed the accompanying material, including two limited edition posters for the Roundhouse gigs in 2018 & 2019, only available on the respective nights.
2018 – Roundhouse, round drums, round poster. Pink Floyd launched their musical career in the Roundhouse way back in 1966 – it is their spiritual home. To celebrate the return of the longest-serving member, Nick Mason – he commissioned us to create a unique poster – it was an instant sell-out.
2019 – The Saucers returned to the Roundhouse the following year, and once again instructed by Nick to create a companion poster to the previous one from 2018. This one moves the design forward with kaleidoscopes and subtle ‘two’ references to reflect the second coming – mirror images and Nick’s return to using two drum heads.
Trojan Records launched a campaign for the 50th anniversary of the hugely influential hit single ‘Young, Gifted and Black’. To celebrate this, we worked with Trojan to create a fan wall where visitors to the site could upload stories, images and memories of their experiences being young, gifted and black.
Legendary drummer, Mick Fleetwood enlisted an all-star cast for a one-of-a-kind concert honouring the early years of Fleetwood Mac and its founder, Peter Green. We built the website for BMG to promote the concert, highlight the night, and feature the recording of the concert.
Five Finger Death Punch, according to Spotify, are their second biggest streaming metal band after Metallica. Management and Spotify were keen to capitalise on this and give the band even more exposure around the promo for their latest album, “And Justice for None”. We created a playlister using a record player metaphor – moving the style and design forward from the Rolling Stones one we’d created earlier, we now updated it with improved CSS animations throughout, and added a custom playlist cover.
Joel Corry, known from the hit show Love Island, is a well-respected DJ and producer. To promote his latest single and DJ appearances, Warner / Atlantic wanted to offer a competition.
We built a microsite around the mechanism of the display of in-flight screens in aeroplanes – the plane was updated dynamically over the duration of the competition, as we flew Joel to Zante.
We worked closely with Warner’s in-house design team (The Firepit) to build a fun viral site based on their designs. Fans were encouraged to unlock clues on the site by exploring Ed’s socials and media. The clues were released automatically over the course of a week, so we saved the fans’ progress – when the fan had discovered and entered all the correct answers, a video featuring a new acoustic track was unlocked.
For the next release of the Kinks in BMG’s ‘Art Of The Album” collection, we took the fabulous original LP artwork and went to town, animating it and bringing it to life. We created a fun parallax site in keeping with the rest of the Kinks campaign.
Working closely with the Crüe’s label, Eleven Seven Music, we built this playlist creator to promote their music alongside the Dirt film premiere on Netflix. For such a glossy outer, it hides a tech-heavy back end – not only does it allow the fan to listen to Mötley Crüe tracks in a fun way using a turntable – it allows the fan to create a playlist, reorder and edit the tracks, and gives it a custom playlist cover with the fan’s name embedded in a suitably Rock & Roll image, a Mötley Crüe JD bottle.
Many years ago, we worked on the 30th anniversary re-issues of NMTB and its four singles for Virgin Records, so it was great to be working with the Pistols again. We worked closely with UMG and Scotty of the management team to revamp both the front end look and feel, and make the old backend easier to edit and add content – it hadn’t been touched for some time. As long-time fans of the band, we are really proud of this one!
Around 2017, Nick Mason, drummer of Pink Floyd, was looking to do a one-off gig playing his favourite early Floyd tracks – from Piper At The Gates Of Dawn & A Saucerful Of Secrets. For this, they needed a poster. We happened to be in Haight Ashbury, the psychedelic Mecca of San Francisco, when we took the call – it seemed somewhat natural to use the Bill Graham / Fillmore aesthetic as inspiration.
Initially, this was a single gig; however, the tour exploded to include UK / US / EU dates – so far we’ve created album artwork, DVD packaging, posters, all kinds of merchandise, the website, tour backdrops, even drumsticks!
To promote the latest release for The Kinks in BMG’s “Art Of The Album” collection, we created a whole slew of microsites, featuring original album artwork, mostly animated. We created a fun parallax site in keeping with the rest of the Village Green campaign, animating it and bringing it to life.
When BMG signed The Kinks, they called us to work on the digital output. We worked closely with the in-house team and Matt Dixon at Band2Market, who drove the project between them. Initially, we worked on the smaller parts of the campaign – a microsite for iTunes remasters, and a few things here and there – followed by a total revamp of their main website. For each release in The Kinks catalogue, they are producing boxsets, and each of these has a microsite – Village Green & Arthur, to date.
We love the Stones! When asked by Universal to create a Spotify Playlist creator, we jumped at the chance. This was promoting ‘The Studio Collection: 1967-2016’ vinyl boxset.
We figured an interactive turntable would be great – show off the albums, show off the music – listen to the tracks, and make a playlist to save to Spotify and share.
We had some unusual technical challenges to overcome with Spotify, WordPress and sharing to socials, and proud of the way we worked around them so it is seamless to the fans.
We worked with Ninja Tune on creating this Spotify Playlister to help promote What So Not’s studio album ‘Not All the Beautiful Things’. It is based on a musical journey – the visitor is presented with WSN’s journey first, then asked to make their own to share with friends. This uses the Spotify API extensively, features loads of animation and interactivity, and is then presented in a fun timeline that can be shared to socials.
Working closely with the Rhino team in Burbank, we worked on this brand new box design containing ten faithful reproductions of his original albums, and a 32 page booklet with an essay and photos.
The cover aesthetic continues through the booklet, and was used on other marketing materials too. All the albums were recreated from scratch, where possible – not just scanning and retouching, but recreating the line work, resetting the type, keeping the die cuts, and faithfully recreating the labels.
Superseding the first of the boxsets, and capitalising on the initial concept, we once again worked with Billy and the team at Rhino / WMG in LA to move the design forward.
This time, instead of just working on the design of the box as if it were a Nudie suit, we worked with Jaime Castaneda, Billy Gibbons Taylor at Nudie, to create the embroidered design for real, as a proper tangible object with rhinestones.
Queen, one of our favourite bands. This was built for the 40th Anniversary of News Of The World. Working with the UMG team, we created an online newspaper with slick animations, long-form articles, videos, audio, images, galleries… the newspaper of the future!
We worked with Blondie’s management team on creating a new site around the time of Pollinator, their latest album. We took the existing content, gave the entire site a facelift, and updated the backend and content.
To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Kick, INXS’s seminal album, we built an interactive fan wall pulling in feeds from Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Built into the site is a custom image creator so fans can add INXS graphics to their photo, which can be subsequently shared to socials.
You know what you don’t do? You don’t mess with classic album covers. Unless you are Phil Collins, that is.
We worked with Phil on concepts and ideas for a reissue campaign of his catalogue. One of the riskiest ideas we’ve ever proposed grew legs – updating all the album covers in his discography, with current photos. This, understandably, went down with mixed opinions – ‘I’ll eat my hat if this sells well’; ‘It’s commercial fucking suicide’ were two highlights from meetings we attended.
Amusingly, the ‘Take A Look At Me Now’ title came way later into the project – for a long time we didn’t know what to call it. Rather obvious in hindsight.
Over twomillion sales later, all has been forgotten, even celebrated – we’ve got the awards to prove it.
A boxset featuring the first five ZZ Top albums. The cover of Fandango (one of the albums in the box) shows Billy & Dusty in Nudie suits – we discovered Billy is a fan of these, to this day – so we proposed creating the cover in homage to them. We created a whole series of Nudie-inspired embroidered elements, and made up cover designs from these. The back of the box is fittingly based on the back of the jacket Billy is wearing on the cover – it is a map of Texas.
Working with the Burbank Office of Warner Music, we created this site while the new, second series of Twin Peaks was airing – both to tie in with the show (hidden clues!), and to promote the OST. Under a strict NDA, we were given assets and details of the upcoming episodes, and baked secrets and details into the site. The site was designed to look like a character’s homepage from the Web 1.0 – fun in itself, and a resounding success – in the words of Slate.com: “…staring at the graphic design will make your eyes bleed like you just sailed face-first into a nuclear mushroom cloud…” High praise indeed! (I think…)
Website for the release of the On Air album, with an interactive radio with snippets of audio from YouTube. Created for UMG.
A real fun, far-out project for Warner Music – a psychedelic compilation from the label that contains the best of the genre.
You know what you don’t do? You don’t mess with classic album covers. Unless you are Phil Collins, that is.
We worked with Phil on concepts and ideas for a reissue campaign of his catalogue. One of the riskiest ideas we’ve ever proposed grew legs – updating all the album covers in his discography, with current photos. This, understandably, went down with mixed opinions – ‘I’ll eat my hat if this sells well’; ‘It’s commercial fucking suicide’ were two highlights from meetings we endured.
Amusingly, the ‘Take A Look At Me Now’ title came way later into the project – for a long time, we didn’t know what to call it. Rather obvious in hindsight.
Over two million sales later, all has been forgotten, even celebrated – we’ve got the awards to prove it.
We’ve worked with Bryan for years, on multiple Roxy Music and solo projects. The latest release, ‘The Island Singles’, was through Island / Universal. To give the box more interesting feel, we used the international single artwork and the mark from Bryan’s personal business cards of the time.
Spotify playlist creator, based on the coloured vinyl in the boxset – the visitor is presented a few choices, and a unique playlist based on these is created for the fan – this can then be shared to socials.
We have worked with Genesis for years – first as in-house designers at EMI (via Virgin Records), and for the entire history of VVVOID. We have covered all kinds of formats: Boxsets, reissues, websites, best of comps, merchandise, tour posters… most recently with the just announced 2020 Tour.
The most recent album from the legend Bryan Ferry. I have worked with Bryan and his team for a many years on various Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry albums, and was called into work on this one. The photoshoot had already taken place so we worked on the cover designs and the rest of the album. Three physical versions were released – a deluxe large format hardback book, a smaller casebound book, and a standard CD. The album was complemented with an iTunes LP, which I worked on with the guys over at Vert Pixels.
This was a documentary, released in cinemas, that followed the members of Blur around as they went on their 2009 reunion tour. We worked on the entire campaign – the packaging, artwork, posters, in-theatre displays, and promo material. The film was nominated for two Grammys, too.
Original Hits started out as a small range of six titles. It has now been running for a couple of years, and has over 30 titles in the range.
We have worked with Genesis for years – first as in-house designers at EMI (via Virgin Records), and for the entire history of VVVOID. We have covered all kinds of formats: Boxsets, reissues, websites, best of comps, merchandise, tour posters…
All six of Radiohead’s albums were re-issued by Parlophone in 2010, and I was fortunate enough to work on two of them – The Bends and Hail To The Thief. There were two versions of each album – the special edition (shown) and a digipak version. The Bends special edition came in a box, with postcards, wallets, and two extra discs – rarities and demos, and a DVD of promo videos. Hail To The Thief also included a huge fold-out map, like the original promo edition.
We have worked with Genesis for years – first as in-house designers at EMI (via Virgin Records), and for the entire history of VVVOID. We have covered all kinds of formats: Boxsets, reissues, websites, compilations, merchandise, tour posters…
Working closely with Mike Rutherford, (of the band) we created this image in a photography studio – we were keen to make it ‘for real’ instead of relying on digital trickery.
We have worked with Genesis for years – first as in-house designers at EMI (Via Virgin Records), and for the entire history of VVVOID. We have covered all kinds of formats: Boxsets, reissues, websites, best of comps, merchandise, tour posters… most recently with the just announced 2020 Tour.
We have worked with Genesis for years – first as in-house designers at EMI (via Virgin Records), and for the entire history of VVVOID. We have covered all kinds of formats: Boxsets, reissues, websites, best of comps, merchandise, tour posters… most recently with the just announced 2020 Tour.
Working closely with Mike (Rutherford, of the band) we created this image in a photography studio – we were keen to make it ‘for real’ instead of relying on digital trickery.
The Human League – one of the most iconic bands of the 80s, and still going strong! This compilation has all their 12″ remixes and rare B-sides on.
Luke Haines, part of the Brit Pop movement in the 90s with The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder, decided to release this album of Rarities and B-sides with EMI, and I was drafted in to do the design work with him.
A greatest hits collection for Kim Wilde. It was packaged in a glossy white slipcase, which really finished the whole package off.
I received a Gold disc for this project. Initially not thought to be a huge seller, it went on to surprise everyone and ship 150k – and rightly so, it is a great album.