LDI London Dance International

Tracey Thorn album campaign – Client : Strange Feeling Records

After the successful design of Tracey Thorn's previous album campaign, Out of The Woods, Tracey approached us again to design the album artwork and campaign for her new album Love And Its Opposite. Produced by Ewan Pearson and featuring Hot Chip's Al Doyle, Jens Lekman and Courtney Tidwell the album is already causing a stir. The first single Oh the Divorces is a limited 7" clear vinyl only and was released on Record Store Day. The album is due for release late May.

Art direction | Branding | Design | Advertising | Digital marketing | Bespoke font |


LDI London Dance International

iwant shortlisted for FOUR! Music design awards

We were very surprised and delighted to hear iwant have no fewer than 4 projects shortlisted in the first ever Music Design Awards supported by the illustrious EYE magazine. The projects shortlisted are; design for Matthew Bourne's Songs From a Lost Piano for Sound UK, design for the BBC Radio 3 London Jazz Festival 2009 for Serious, The album package for the Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall for World Circuit Records and our website for PR company 9PR. That's nice.


LDI London Dance International
LDI London Dance International

Birds Eye View Film Festival 2010 – Client : Birds Eye View

This is the third year we have been invited to design the identity, branding and marketing material for Birds Eye View Film Festival. The festival takes place at the BFI and ICA London and showcases the talent of women working within the film industry. The project includes branding, print design (brochures, flyers, posters, banners), on-line marekting, onscreen visuals. This year we created a bespoke type face 'Bird' that we hope to see more of in the future.

Art direction | Branding | Print design | digital Marketing | Screen Visuals | On-site branding | Bespoke font design | Print buying |


Respect Festival

Stop Making Sense Festival – Client : Stop Making Sense

We have recently completed the festival ident and print materials for a new festival brought to you courtesy of one of the former owners of Big Chill no less. The festival will take place over three days and nights on an island in Croatia and features a very healthy line-up.

Art direction | Design | Marketing & publicity materials | Digital marketing |


Buzzin Fly 045BUZZ

Buzzin' Fly 50th 12" sleeve design – Client : Buzzin' Fly

After seven years and a steady increase in the output from label Buzzin' Fly we finally reached the 50th! 12" release. Having designed the previous 49 we wanted to make this one special. The package is a double gatefold, gold foil to most of the front and back, heavyweight vinyl, gold inner bag, free high quality digital download of all the tracks plus an A2 poster featuring the artwork of all 50 12s!

Art direction| Design | Illustration | 12" single | Bespoke font design |


Sound and Music

Mademoiselle Caro & Franck Garcia LEFT – Client : Buzzin' Fly Records

Having designed the debut album for Parisian duo Mademoiselle Caro and Franck Garcia it was a pleasure to design the follow up LEFT. The title is a reference to La Rive Gauche or Left Bank area in Paris that became synonymous with the Freanch New Wave, this inspired the use of simple black and white images on hot background colours for a contemporary archival look.

Art direction| Design | Album packaging | 12" single |


Sound and Music

Lucky Soul Album campaign – Client : Ruffa Lane Records

Working directly with the band on their second album was always a pleasure. The album included images by Hollis Brown Thornton and iwant. Part of the brief was to design a new logo that would adorn all the bands marketing. The first single was a double AA sided numbered 7" released on Record Store Day.

Logo design | Album packaging | Single packaging | Tee shirts |


Sound and Music

qun branding – Client : BMDI Red Clover & qun

Logo and branding design for new Tokyo based clothing label and shop qun.

Branding |Logo design |


Sound and Music

Pulse branding – Client : Pulse

Re-branding for London based film company Pulse, Formrly known as Pulse Films.

Branding | Logo design | Brand Application and guideline |


birds eye view festival

Music Matters – Client : Future Shorts

On-site posters and marketing material to raise awareness of Music Matters. Music Matters is a collective of people across the music industry, including artists, retailers, songwriters, labels and managers, formed to remind listeners of the significance and value of music in a time when the industry is under threat from illegle downloading. The event took place at London's Cargo.

Marketing & Publicy design |


LDI London Dance International

London Jazz Festival – Client : Serious & BBC Radio 3

It's been an amazing privilege to work on this years BBC Radio 3 London Jazz Festival. After winning a five way pitch at the beginning of this year IWANT have designed the branding and full marketing campaign for one of the largest contemporary music festivals in the world. With over 250 shows at more than 50 venues across the capital, running from Fri 13 – Sun 22 November make sure you pick up one of the 100,000 brochures that will be knocking around to check out the full schedule. Check our FLICKR for more images as we have them.

Art direction | Branding | Print design | digital Marketing | Screen Visuals | On-site branding | Print buying |


London Wildlife Trust

London Wildlife Trust
London Wildlife Trust

Going Wild – Client : London Wildlife Trust

LWT commissioned IWANT to re-think and redesign their existing, very dated, free events and volunteering publicity material. Above are the illustrations we created that make up the covers of the brochure and poster. The eight page brochure, printed on heavyweight uncoated recycled paper, doubled as an A2 psoter.

Art direction | Illustration | Design | Print buying |


South Bank

Various Event Publicity – Client : Serious

We have been working on a huge number of tours for Serious in the last few months promoting some amazing and illustrious acts as well as some future stars.

Marketing and publicity design | Various print | E-marketing design |


South Bank

Brent Christmas & Holocaust Memorial Day – Client : Brent Council

Branding and design for two rather different events for Brent Council. The Christmas festival illustration spans the fold out eight brochure and featured on all on-site signage and banners. The Brent Holocaust Memorial Day butterfly is made from hundreds of discarded hole punched paper dots.

Marketing and publicity design | Illustration | Photography | Various print | Print Buying |


South Bank

Ali Farke Touré & Toumani Diabate – Client : World Circuit

Having designed the Grammy winning In the Heart of the Moon a few years back it was honour to be asked to design the follow up album for several reasons, none more so than this is the final recording of the now legendary Ali and Buena Vista bassist Cachaíto López.

Album design | Logo design | Publicity design | E-flyer


iDN

Iwant Press

We have had some nice press recently including EYE magazine's (issue 72) feature Designers as Illustrators that focuses on the work of '...eight leading practices'! A Grafik showcase (issue 175) featuring our work for Sound and Music's The First Season brochure, and a 4 page feature in the Craft Issue (issue 16.1) of international design journal iDN including an interview with IWANTs John Gilsenan.


Prima Donna

Rufus Wainwright's PRIMA DONNA – Client : Manchester Int. Festival

Manchester International Festival, the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events approached IWANT to help contextualise existing images and typography for songwriter Rufus Wainwrights debut opera Prima Donna.

Design |


Let Them Eat Cake

Let Them Eat Cake Magazine – Client : LTEC

Let Them Eat Cake is an international fashion magazine with a focus on movers and shakers of the London creative scene - IWANT were asked to guest art direct and design the latest issue of the 116page publication (Issue 12, The Portrait Issue) which is available now...

Art direction | Magazine design |


South Bank

Marketing design – Client : Southbank Employers Group

South Bank Employers Group is the partnership of venues and major organisations of the South Bank, Waterloo and Blackfriars in London. Over recent years they have helped transform the face of the South Bank and late in 2008 approached IWANT to help refresh existing marketing materials including their event posters (illustration pictured above). We are currently working closely with their marketing team to realise several projects for a new awareness drive that will run throughout the rest of the year.

Marketing and publicity design | Campaigns | Various print |