Not so ‘Metal’ anymore.
August 3rd, 2008Discovered P.R Brown of Bau-Da Design today reading the notorious Revolver magazine; by reading an article on Marilyn Manson’s Antichrist superstar album cover designs. Brown used to do jazz album covers before Mr. Manson hired him. And now, his list of clients include Disturbed, Billy Corgan, Godsmack, etc. I sense that he likes to portray a certain evil using disfigured human faces. Perhaps its sort of like a suggestion of brutality or the edgy violent and evil that could be found in some heavy metal music. See:
This is a clean one but check out Billy’s left hand.Looks like he burned himself or something?
But theres really nothing interesting to admire here but merely done for consumer satisfaction in my opinion. I find it not so ‘metal’ nowadays to put a really brutal evil face on an album cover with brutal bloody knife edge type for the album title. Or perhaps even hire Todd McFarlane for an album cover.
I wonder if Evil Ernie, the face for Iron Maiden for the past 20 years + will help a 15 year old mummy’s boy enjoy Iron Maiden’s music in the year 2020? Die-hards will disagree with me but who likes and cares about Iron Maiden when you can listen to Mariah Carey all day long.
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Read me.
June 25th, 2008I realized that its taking me really long to finish my Jan Tschichold book. Probably its just that greedy feeling trying so hard to memorize all the details in that book. Stuff like which year he started teaching at the academy, his typography manifesto, his association with Piet Zwart, bla bla bla.
So to gratify my loss, I started reading another book instead. It’s not that this book has a lesser weight in the reading or that I’m not being particularly absorbant in everything I read but well, I need to make full use of my time anyways.
Robert Brownjohn, Sex & Typography. Another hero, another cult designer, another individual I wish I could listen to in a conference or see some works exhibited somewhere.
On a lighter note, do you guys actually have a hard time finish reading a book? Any book really. I find it absolutely hard to do so. I usually finish reading a book in a few weeks. My girlfriend can do it in a few days.
I’m depressed because of this sometimes.
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Opposite attracts
May 22nd, 2008
Compiled a little of what goes against each other in life. From the top of my head, I scribbled down the following in a while. I’m sure they vary from people to people.
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Idea 321
May 7th, 2008Here you go; Idea magazine, for March 2007, volume 55, issue 2, no. 321. The green sticker is actually the price tag. Features the Works of Jan Tschichold from 1902 - 1974. With essays by Christopter Burke (who also authored Active Literature, another Tschichold book focusing on earlier works), Robin Kinross, John D. Berry, Jean-François Porchez on a little bit of insights on Sabon Next, etc. It also features his Penguin years, which is pretty insightful and serves as a good addition to geeks who dig the Penguin design history (read Penguin by Design by Phil Baines for more insights).
The Gill Sans (left) & Uhertype (right) spread:
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Something nice again.
April 29th, 2008Worked 18 hours non stop today. Only stopped for 20 minutes to grab my dinner. Todays one of those days I wouldn’t be proud of really. Despite that, am very grateful still that today was given by God. Another chance to live, another chance to breathe, another chance to be a much better person & another chance to say hello to everyone.
Mick & company accompanied me for the last 4 hours before I returned home with Shine a light. You do the math.
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missionmetallica.com
April 21st, 2008I have very high expectations for this album. Produced by the great Rick Rubin. There’s a website created specially for the new album as reported by Rock Radio.
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@ FiFFteen in Goa, 2006 
