Zim & Zou.

How awesome are these?

A new follower on Instagram had some of these images on her profile, so intrigued to find out more I did a little Google search (good old Google), and this is what I found. They are the work of Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmerman from French graphic design studio Zim & Zou. They are from their Back To Basics project and are made entirely from coloured PEFC papers.

I love this walkman.

It even has a cassette.

That fits inside the Walkman!!

I also love this Leica style camera.

Which also has 36mm film!!

I absolutely love these pieces, the colours and attention to detail are amazing. If you want to see more of the project have a look at their Behance profile.

Jenson Button

Last Monday we had the pleasure of seeing Jenson Button drive an F1 car through the streets of Manchester. It sounded amazing!

Oaken Lee.

I have been a fan of Jake Flowers for a while now and am pleased to say that I can now call him my friend. So I was thrilled when he contacted me to ask if I would help to design the sleeve for his new project Oaken Lee. Jake wrote, recorded and mixed the whole EP in his 500 year old attic accompanied by Will Gauden on bass.

Jake sent me this illustration by Hetty Randle and said he wanted it for the cover.



I thought that the amazing skull illustration was lost in the text and Jake said that the EP had quite a stripped back sound so I removed the text and choose a nice script to use underneath. The quality of the skull really stands out now from the white space.
We decided to keep the sleeve black and white and choose red for the CD.



It really is a lovely EP but don't take my word for it, I love Jake so I'll tell you anything! Check it out for yourself here you won't be disappointed!