IWANT ARE LIMITED... BUT ONLY IN NAME - PLUS A BIG BIG WELCOME!
IWANT became a Limited company at the end of last month and at the same time we employed a very special talent in our new junior designer CIARA PHELAN. Ciara has just finished her degree at Brighton University, we had visited the Brighton degree show and were hugely impressed at the level of talent all round, but we definitely feel we have landed the best on show. We posted a couple of new projects above, two of which, The Mariza Programme at the Barbican and the Xmas Youth Dance Project for the Laban Centre, Ciara was instrumental in designing. The third is an illustration and flyer we designed for the SPNM shortlist 2009.
A BUZZIN' FEELING
As always there has been a plethora of artwork for labels Buzzin' Fly and Strange Feeling Records in the last couple of months including 'Buzzin' Fly Volume 5', Ben Watts first single 'Guinea Pig' in 3 years, The Unbending Trees debut and a mini EP from Tigercity to name a few phew!...
OPEN ALL HOURS
September has seen the first series of events under the banner of the Cultural Olympiad. Open Rehearsal is an exclusive series of behind-the-scene access events across all 33 London boroughs. Iwant designed and art directed the image and marketing material for the London Mayors Office...
SOLD SHORTS
The mighty short film event specialists Future Shorts finally release their first DVD collection of shorts. The new ident, image and marketing have been designed by iwant and DVDs are available in shops now...
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB at CARNEGIE HALL
Having been longtime fans of the original Buena Vista Social Club studio album we were delighted be asked to design the new 'at Carnegie Hall' live album. The brief was to reflect the original Havana cover in a New York setting. The packagae is a 6 colour gatefold digi pack with 32 page booklet and is released in October...
IWANT BAGGAGE
This is a sneaky peak at the range of bags IWANT have designed for Italian company Invicta. The bags have just been showcased at this years Bread and Butter tradeshow in Barcelona. They will be available at some point in 2009...
DANCING BIRDS
We have just art directed, designed and taken the photography for London Dance International, previously known as London International Summer School and made possible by Chisenhale Dance Space, Greenwich Dance Agency and Independent Dance, as well as being supported by Sadler's Wells amongst others. This is a three week series of professional classes aiming to provide advanced level training for dance artists. The inspiration for the artwork came from one of the tutors work which has a strong migration thread...
THE SCRIPT / SONY MUSIC
April brings the first release on Sony BMG from Irish trio The Script. We have
designed the ident and sleeves and marketing materials for the campaign that
should help propel this pop, rock, hip hop band into big things. The first
single We Cry has already been playlisted by all major radio stations and
been Jo Whileys 'Pet Sound'...
IWANT CHANGED / MILAN FURNITURE FAIR
iwant were recently asked to collaborate with Italy's Changed Design
on creating a graphic for tables to be exhibited at the 2008 Milan Furniture
Fair. The Boarder table is made from Wake Boards and features designs from
IWANT, Changed and Singapore studio Phunk...
FOLK ILLUMINATIONS / SPNM
For our first two projects for London based new contemporary music promoters SPNM we have designed and illustrated these two campaigns including flyers, posters, and e-flyers...
GO EAST / LONDON MAYORS OFFICE
The second annual East Festival brought our second project for the London Mayors
office. The six day festival is a celebration championing the best of East
London food, performance, history, art, film and fashion. We designed and
art directed the entire project - which included carrying around two sets
of east letters around london to be photographed. The project culminated
in the 32 page programme distributed across the capital and inserted into
Time Out and the Guardian...
BIRDS EYE VIEW FILM FESTIVAL 2008
2008s Birds Eye View film festival took place at the ICA, BFI and Curzon Cinemas
and was a massive success - Having designed the festival ident and art
directed the branding and marketing materials we rolled out the artwork
across a complete range of media including all print, advertising, web
banners, on-site banners, screen graphics, press pack, website and film
sting...
MLLE CARO & FRANCK GARCIA / BUZZIN' FLY
Our latest album design and campaign for Buzzin'Fly is for the beautiful electro-pop
masterpiece, Pain Disappears by Parisian duo Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia. We wanted to capture the playful atmospheric beauty of the record
in the artwork...
TRACTORS / TEA / BEATS
Other recent projects of note have been this illustration for Kimmo Pohjonen's Earth Machine Music Tour with Sound UK. Our latest design for our ever expanding body of work for Greenwich Dance Agency and last but by no means least the artwork for The 5 Beats event hosted by Need2Soul...