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Everything Everything Re-Animator

Everything Everything – Re-Animator is out now.

I had the pleasure of working directly with the band to produce the Re-Animator Vinyl, CD & Cassette artwork.

3D photogrammetry scans were provided by Jon, who passed them on to OneTenEleven to work some Cinema4D magic.

Find out more about the project at studio.oneteneleven.com.

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Studio Culture Now

Unit Editions Latest book ‘Studio Culture Now’ is now available to Pre-Order.

Studio Culture Now is the essential guide to setting up, running and developing a design studio. It offers bang up-to-date advice and guidance for designers working in a world of rapid change.

Featured studios include:

Atelier Dyakova, Champions Design, Civilization, Design by Toko, DIA, ÉricandMarie, Formist, Google Design, GUNMAD/Or Type, Hansje van Halem, Helmo, Hey Studio, Hubertus Design, Jade Purple Brown, Julia, Morcos Key, My Name is Wendy, Neubau, Office of Craig, OK-RM, Parámetro Studio, Peepshow, ps.2, Regular Practice, Sara De Bondt studio, Sarah Boris Studio, Studio Rejane Dal Bello, Vrints-Kolsteren, WeShouldDoItAll, YesYesNo.

Having backed the project on Kickstarter look out for my name in the book!

Find an excerpt from the book here.

36DaysOfType

I am participating in this years 36DaysOfType for the 3rd time. The project was briefly on hold due to Instagram blocks, but is now back on!

This year I am focused on producing a custom experimental typeface. I have concepts designed and will be refining and posting to Instagram day by day throughout March.

By early April OneTenEleven should have its first custom typeface!

Keep an eye on the new OneTenEleven Instagram profile here. Follow the 36DaysOfType project here.

Audio & Geometry

After researching generative audio & geometry I came across this amazing experimental R&D project by Simon Russel using Houdini.

Simon’s Audio-Geometry-Exploration has some great insights into using Midi to generate geometry using Houdini & Cinema4D.

Maybe it is time to explore Houdini!

Here are some of my favourites.

Generisch Mono @YWFT

Generisch Mono is a monospaced version of Generisch Sans. Generisch – a german equivalent of generic – sans serif typeface has gain its own place among designers and earn such popularity due to its “simple” design.

Generisch is influenced by early grotesk typefaces from early 1900’s when sans was starting to get popular and used as a body type. Some old ligatures such as ch ck and ng are present in generisch (not the ct and st tho), old style numeral for better typesetting experience and more.

Generisch Mono

Codec Pro @YWFT

Codec Pro is the newest incarnation of the Codec family, developed in 2017 by Francesco Canovaro, Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli as a research on the subtleties and the variations on the theme of the geometric sans-serif design.

The original typeface has been completely redesigned and expanded to feature a wide range of eleven weights, from the hairline thin to the bulky fat, while the character set has been extended to include not only latin, cyrillic and greek but also arabic, farsi and urdu scripts.

A veritable swiss-knife for the designer, Codec Pro also includes a wide range of alternates and stylistic sets that cover all the subfamilies and the moods of the original type system. So while the standard set (Codec Cold) has terminals cut parallel or perpendicular to the baseline, emphasizing geometry for a more construceted look, stylistic set 4 (Codec Warm) uses open diagonal cuts and humanist shapes to give the typeface a gentler, warmer feeling. Set 3 (Codec Cold Logo) comes alive with funky ligatures, while Set 5 (Codec Warm Logo) stretches uppercase characters horizontally for a dynamic, unexpect effect

Codec Pro

Melt Yourself Down – 100% Yes

Album Artwork for Melt Yourself Down – 100% Yes. Due for release 27th March 2020.

OneTenEleven was commissioned by Blackstar London & Decca Records to design the double vinyl album sleeve.

The cover illustration was supplied by Canadian artist, Queen of the double eyes Alex Garant

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Cables

After being part of the cables.gl private beta programme, I have been experimenting with the platform over the last few months, to say I have been impressed is an understatement.

Cables is the creative code platform I have been waiting for.

Cables is a tool for creating beautiful interactive content. With an easy to navigate interface and real time visuals, it allows for rapid prototyping and fast adjustments.

You are provided with a set of operators, such as mathematical functions, shapes, materials and post processing effects.

The platform is now open for public beta. Sign up here.

Find my Cables profile online here. I will be continuing exploring cables throughout 2020 so keep an eye on my profile.

Here are a few of my early experiments.

X-Particles Challenge 2019

My submission for XP-Challenge 2019 – X-Cloud.

Created using Cinema4D & Rendered in Cycles4D, with minmal post in After Effects.

I challenged myself to learn some of the new tools insydium’s latest release of X-Particles. xpExplosiaFX & xpFlowField were utilised to control the direction of the cloud simulation. Custom shaders were created with Cycles4D using the Point Density Texture node.

The scene was back lit with Cycles lights and volumetric lighting added with the Cycles Volume Scatter node.