Pinching Ourselves

The last couple of months have been pretty awesome for ca and me when we thought it couldn't get even huger, BAM, something comes up which makes us pinch ourselves and wonder if its all for real. The nominees we're announced for Plus Camerimage 2010 and in the music category sitting amongst the big names Lady Gaga, Gorillaz, Fever Ray, Florence And The Machine, Eminem and UNKLE et al is our clip for Murder By Death.

Plus Camerimage is an international festival dedicated to cinematography and our animated clip for Murder By Death's "White Noise" has been nominated in the music video category and to say we're chuffed is a huge understatement! We're excited just to be amongst great directors and to have our work seen by the jury.

Other things that have happened this week include; meeting one of our creative heroes, Deanne Cheuk, missing out on a SOYA award but huge congratulations to the winners and all the finalists, taking part in the I Can Draw You A Picture: Re-Building lab at LiveWorks, getting an ass-whooping in Scrabble, taking down our group exhibition ABD6 and parting with some favourites and enjoying a day in the sun at the Newtown Festival.

Capture the Fade Photography Exhibition opens at the Paper Mill Gallery this Wednesday and guest judge Bill Henson will announce the overall winner of the competition. Congratulations to our friend Gene whose work will be exhibited and good luck for the anouncement!!

One last thing for this Monday's post, ca and I have started work on our next series of type and thread pieces, below is a sneak peek. Oh and since ABD6 has finished up, the unsold pieces will be put up for sale soon on our site, we'll keep you posted.

/co

Designer Disco

Over the weekend Ca and I were part of the Designer Disco lane way exhibition for Sydney Design Festival. We forgot to bring a camera on the night to take pics of the light-boxes, dang, but here is the poster sans the light. Its called "Something Close To Nothing (but different to the day before)". The theme for the exhibition was music, so we took that line and played around with the idea of making nothing out of something....the solid space of the poster is made up of thousands of lines built up to create a flat texture...at least that was the idea. We hope the lyric isn't too obscure, can you guess which song its from? I hope we didn't give the impression we think music means nothing!

Thanks to Australian INfront and Future Classic for hosting the Designer Disco event.

Gotta Keep Cheering

True to our word, here's another Monday post....
Second stab at "You Gotta Keep Cheering, this time I've approached it with a scalpel blade and dusted off an old set square for some "precision" cut out triangles. I'm happier with this design, a lot more brighter than the first attempt and it was good to break away from drawing for a bit. I've got a callous on my finger, I suspect the A2 page worth of lines for "Something Close To Nothing" had something to do with it. Maybe I could whip up a thimble especially for drawing (or perhaps just cutting up an old glove might do the trick) for next time. Or, I guess I could learn to hold a pen the right way...

In the meantime we're exorcising our obsession with minute lines and patterns and have created some geometric based illustrations for posters, perhaps a t-shirt and for fun. Here's a process snap of the one of the designs.

Away from the desk we've had some fun at Jingle Jangle a "monthly night of Rock N Roll, Exotica, Soul, Rhythm N Blues, Beat, Rockabilly and 50s and 60s Pop" at the newly re-opened Good God Small Club. We checked it out for the first time and we'll definitely try to make it a regular thing. The music was great and the dancing was fun.

Sydney Design: Designer Disco

Co and I are just about finished creating our lightbox design for Designer Disco. "Australian INfront is extremely excited about bringing the Designer Disco to life with the record label Future Classic. This offshoot of Future Classic’s insanely popular underground clubnight Adult Disco burns the disco flame until late, late, late. Meanwhile, in the laneway behind the venue, an exhibition of lightbox artworks illuminate and enlighten. The array of cutting-edge Sydney designers involved include Alter, Future Classic, Greedy Hen, Leif Podhajsky, Like Minded Studio, Miricro/Maricar, Sensory,
Sopp Collective, String Theory, Toko and We Buy Your Kids."

10pm till late, Saturday 14 August
The Civic Hotel & laneway, 388 Pitt Street
Cost: $15

There's a typo in our name (we're Miricro/Maricar) nevertheless we're excited to take part along side these awesome designers. Here are some process shots of our design.

/ca

Album Artwork

A new batch of Global Village albums is live and in stores. This time round we visit South Africa, France and explore African Blues. As always it was an enjoyable mix of hand drawn illustrations, patterns and textiles. Also we have another album artwork design for Universal Music, for the compilation Songs For Sweater Weather. For this one we rummaged through our closets for the comfiest looking knits and broke out the thread and needle for some sewn type. Credits for the stripey sweater on the cover goes to our housemate Karen. This colourful sweater was bought on her recent trip to South America! Me and ca are pretty excited about all the great textiles, patterns and traditional handicrafts from there so it's on our list of destinations we have to visit.

Global Village designs created for Mathematics.

Global Village compilation artwork - Americana, Balkans & Caribbean

CD artwork for the third instalment of the SBS/Universal series of Global Village compilations. Created for Mathematics.

Empire of the Sun - Live Visuals for Parklife 2009

Live visuals created for 'Walking on a Dream' by Empire of the Sun, for their debut live performance at Parklife 2009. This was the finale for their set and was also used as part of their Aria performance. Created with Michael Blanche whilst at Mathematics. 3D modelling by Ben Dunlop.

You can view their Parklife performance here.
The live visuals for the rest of the set were created by Michael Blanche, Matt Kamen and Ben Dunlop.

Architecture in Helsinki - 'Like it or Not' video

Music video sewn and animated whilst we were at Mathematics. It was inspired by the work of Megan Whitmarsh and the imagination of Cameron Bird.

The video was featured in IdN as well as onedotzero's 'Craftwork' programme 2009!

The Living End 'Moment in the Sun'

Video directed by Josh Logue at Mathematics. For the video Maricor created the projection graphics that played behind the band and edited in the graphics and post effects for the final video.

After the Fall - 'Desire' music video

Directed and produced by Maricar and Elvira Wilkinson whilst at Mathematics.
The miniature forest and cave set was designed and built by Elvira Wilkinson, Maricar Manalo and
Andy Hawgood. Post and visual effects by Maricar Manalo and Michael Blanche.

Tim McGraw Website

Website for US Music star, Tim McGraw. A mammoth site designed whilst at Mathematics with a crazy amount of videos, music, pictures and content.

Site built by GEA.

Global Village compilation artwork

Series of illustrated covers we designed and art directed for the SBS/Universal

"Global Village" compilations while at Mathematics. We developed the branding 

from the logo design through to the series roll-out.

The Decemberists Website

Website for The Decemberists designed while at Mathematics.
Illustration by Carson Ellis aand programming by GEA

Weezer Website

Website design for Weezer. Designed while at Mathematics.

Eskimo Joe - 'Inshalla' album and 'Foreign Land' single Artwork

Album and single artwork for Eskimo Joe's Inshalla album, done whilst at Mathematics.
The cover art for Inshalla was nominated for best cover art in the 2009 Aria Awards!

Splendour in the Grass 2009

A collaborative effort done whilst at Mathematics with the help of Michael Blanche & Ben Dunlop.

MySpace Secret Show Posters

Limited run of specialty printed posters for the MySpace Seceret Shows series for The Presets, Fall Out Boy and The Kooks. Created while at Mathematics.














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MySpace Merch

Designs for tshirts, totes etc for MySpace. Created while at
Created while at Mathematics.

Michelle Branch Website

Website design for Warners US, done at Mathematics.
www.michellebranch.com

Bob Evans Website

Website design for Australian singer songwriter Bob Evans, done while at Mathematics. The birds in the navigation bar are songbirds that sing while you explore the site and the graphic icons below are dragable graphics that appear on the site to play around with and act as a secondary navigation.

The site was built by the GEA.