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Dixon Baxi: REMIX

REMIX:  A BOLD, RAW, IMMERSIVE MANIFESTO.

REMIX: A Raw Look Inside DixonBaxi’s Creative Studio

There’s something magnetic about seeing behind the curtain of a creative studio—not the polished portfolio pieces, but the messy, energetic reality of how ideas actually come to life. That’s exactly what DixonBaxi has captured in REMIX, their new 500-page manifesto that throws open the doors to 18 months inside their creative process.

More Than Just Another Design Book

REMIX isn’t your typical coffee table design book. It’s a bold, immersive experience that captures creativity in motion. Think of it as stepping directly into the studio itself—instinctive, energetic, and filled with the raw chaos that fuels great work.

The book brings together over a thousand images spanning design work, photography, sketches, and experimental ideas. But what makes it special is how these visuals are layered with unfiltered dialogue, Slack conversations, and candid soundbites that reveal the thinking behind the making.

Process Without Filters

What sets REMIX apart is its commitment to showing the unvarnished truth of creative work. The pages are packed with:

  • Never-before-seen projects and experiments
  • Fragments of process and discarded ideas
  • Raw notes and conversations
  • Mistakes and insights side by side
  • Two decades of accumulated creative energy

The book features long-form conversations threading through themes of invention, studio identity, and the tension between maintaining boutique edge while scaling up. It explores what it means to design for life and celebrates the pure joy of making things.

Designed to Be Explored

REMIX is deliberately non-linear and textured—a book meant to be explored rather than simply read from cover to cover. Every page offers something unexpected: a fragment of an idea, an experiment that didn’t quite land, or a sudden insight that changes everything.

The structure is both intentional and spontaneous, capturing how creativity actually works rather than presenting a sanitized retrospective.

A Cinematic Object

The physical book itself has been crafted with meticulous attention to detail. At 300 × 300mm and weighing 4kg, it’s a substantial hardback printed on 150gsm Essential Velvet paper. The production uses CMYK plus a special Pantone 802 Green, printed by Graphius as a limited edition of just 2,500 copies.

Made in Real Time

The creation of REMIX grew organically from SuperFutures, DixonBaxi’s ongoing cycle of invention and reflection. The studio generated over a thousand pages of material, then refined it through three full dummies and countless print tests.

At one point, the team laid out every spread across their 10,000-square-foot space, editing by sight to discover unexpected connections. The result weaves together remixed visuals, Slack conversations, and recorded dialogue into something that feels both structured and wonderfully chaotic.

Who It’s For

REMIX is a manifesto for anyone who believes in bold ideas, risk-taking, and pushing past the obvious. It’s made for designers, creatives, strategists, and anyone who thrives on pursuing something new.

In a world obsessed with final outcomes and perfect presentations, REMIX celebrates the messy middle—the missteps, the intuitive leaps, the work that doesn’t always make it to the final portfolio. It’s a book to live with, to pore over repeatedly, finding something new each time.

If you care about how things are made and why, this is a rare glimpse into the creative engine of a studio at the height of its powers.

https://www.dixonbaxi.com/case-study/remix

People Powered Press

As part of the Farsley Print Festival 2025 a Pop-Up Exhibition featuring People Powered Press.

The exhibition featured large-scale works hand-printed on the largest letterpress printing press in the world.

Made using Brico – a type design system created by Oli Bentley of Split, designer, visual artist and printmaker Anthony Burrill and wood type maker, designer and printer Thomas Mayo – the works include a 12-metre wide mural, a collection of individual letters 1.5-metres tall and a photographic exhibition of works installed across Bradford and Leeds since 2021.

Onesal – Visual AMSR

An Exploration of Tactile Textures in Nature

Natural sculpture formations set in seemingly impossible earth-like landscapes covered by living elements of surreal colors, each film travels through each almost at a micro level, witnessing its evolution.

The body of work delves into textural, tactile elements morphing, and interacting with each other in surreal environments. The work set off to blur the boundaries between nature and design, simplicity and complexity, in an uncompromised abstract way.

View Project

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

AZTDR™

The Designers Republic, led by founder and born rebel Ian Anderson, has shaped graphic communication over the past 30 years. It has done this through gravity-defying client work, revolutionary self-initiated projects, and provocative gestures. 

Under Anderson’s idiosyncratic leadership, TDR™ pioneered the idea of a design group with attitude. More like a band than a design studio, they changed the dynamic between client and design group, and uniquely, they acquired a following beyond the graphic design tribe.

Now, for the first time in book form, Ian Anderson explores his studio’s output, its concepts, its processes and its influence on a generation of graphic designers. 

Dismissed by some as “stylists”, Anderson demonstrates how the work of TDR™ is underpinned by conceptual thinking. The book delivers a unique insight into why TDR™ work looks the way it does, and provides a guide to the studio’s modus operandi.

I was lucky enough to grab a bundle from KickStarter and have my name featured in the book!

You can still grab a copy from UnitEditions here.

A-Track Kinetic Typography

Inspiring motion work from Dia for A-Track, a DJ and record producer.

Dia created a typographic identity system as the foundation for all design. A range of unique artwork created for varying assets working within a set of typographic driven parameters. From the more minimal expression of the brand seen in the website and tour flyers to a maximal expression illustrated in album covers and live show visuals.

dia.tv

What is Universal Everything?

Matt Pyke, founder and creative director of Universal Everything, calls his studio a “digital art and design collective”. And after 15 years of revolutionary work in the digital realm, UE has its first book – What is Universal Everything?

uniteditions.com