Space Invaders

The Space Invaders project is about The idea to "invade" cities all over the world
with characters inspired by first-generation arcade games, and especially the now classic Space Invaders. They are all out of tiles, meaning they can be cemented to walls to help keep the ultra-pixelated appearance. The reason that space invaders where chosen is because they are a symbol of our era and the birth of modern technology, with video games, computers, the Internet, mobile phones, hackers and viruses. And "space invader" is a pretty good definition of what there doing... invading spaces!

Van Liveries

I have always found vehicle liveries a very good and interesting way of advertising. I also feel that they are sometimes overlooked when people think of ways of advertising products. These images are a series of designs that I feel shows that liveries can be very effective ways of displaying a product.

Hello Rockview (Steve Vance)

This is some pages taken from a cd insert booklet. The booklet is done in a graphic noir style and contains all the albums lyrics in a story. The love the artist's (Steve Vance) style and I have been lucky enough to have asked him some questions about his work and he has also sent me some of his work. The rough sketch is one such example.

Made You Look (Stefan Sagmeister)

Stefan Sagmeister.
I have been amazed by this book ever since I came across it a few years ago, not just by the content but also by the amount of clever and innovative ideas that has gone into its design, a few of which are pictured here.

Star Wars Posters

STAR WARS, George Lucas's stunning sci-fi masterpiece, is arguably one of the most inventive and entertaining film series ever made, garnering generations of loyal fans who are forever imprinted with the memory of its characters and dialogue. However I have always been attracted to the posters that accompany each film. I love their mix of old painted style mixed with fantasy/futuristic content and I always take a look at them when I am stuck for an idea on a project.

Bravia Paint (Sony)

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Bravia Paint Advert.
The latest Bravia TV ad featured massive paint explosions - It took 10 days and 250 people to film. Huge quantities of paint were needed to accomplish it, this had to be delivered in 1 tonne trucks and mixed on-site by 20 people.

The effect was stunning, but afterwards a major clean-up operation was required to clear away all that paint!

The cleaning took 5 days and 60 people. Thankfully, the use of a special water-based paint made it easy to scrape-up once the water had evaporated.

Keeping everyone safe was also an important factor. A special kind of non-toxic paint was used that is safe enough to drink (it contains the same thickeners that are sometimes used in soups). It was also completely harmless to the skin.
The new BRAVIA TV commercial was directed by award-winning director Jonathan Glazer, who is responsible for a dazzling array of original work in the fields of commercial, music video and film production.
His credits include videos for bands such as Jamiroquai, Massive Attack and Radiohead, some of the most memorable ads for Guinness and Stella Artois, and the feature films Birth and Sexy Beast.

Bravia Balls (Sony)

Bouncy Balls: The BRAVIA Commercial

When you're introducing the next generation of television, you want to make an impact - but that doesn't mean you have to shout at the top of your voice. And it doesn't mean you have to be predictable. To announce the arrival of the BRAVIA LCD and 3LCD range, we wanted to get across a simple message - that the colour you'll see on these screens will be 'like no other'.

Sending 250,000 multi-coloured 'superballs' bouncing down the streets of San Francisco may seem the strangest way to do this, but that's exactly what Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig did for the BRAVIA commercial in July this year. San Franciscans have seen some unusual things in their time, but even this gave them something to talk about. And we've got the feeling that this commercial is going to do exactly the same thing.


Music from the Sony BRAVIA ad

The beautiful track that sets the mood for the commercial is 'Heartbeats', performed by José González from his critically-acclaimed debut Album, 'Veneer'. Released as a single in January 2006, 'Heartbeats' went straight into the Top Ten in UK & Ireland, followed by a sold-out concert tour.

We met José during his recent UK tour. Watch this three-minute special on 'Heartbeats', with an interview about José's musical roots and what he thinks about the BRAVIA ad.

Matt Siber Info

ARTIST'S BIO

Born in Chicago in 1972, Matt Siber grew up next to Boston in Brookline, MA. With a Bachelor’s degree in History and Geography from the University of Vermont (1994), he has an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2003). He has worked as a commercial photographer for such clients as St. Lawrence University, The Salvation Army and Hooked on the Outdoors Magazine. Now primarily a gallery artist, his artwork is part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography and is represented by Galeria Antoni Pinyol in Reus, Spain, and Galeria La Fabrica in Madrid. His images have been published internationally in such publications as Art Forum, Flash Art, Aperture and EXIT Magazine and he has received grants from the Aaron Siskind Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council. Matt also teaches beginning and advanced digital imaging at Columbia College Chicago.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith go to Paris (Matt Siber)

The images in this series were made in Paris over a five-day period as the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, opened in France. As the media blitz blanketed the city, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith (or Brad and Angelina) appeared at dozens of intersections around Paris at several times larger than life-size. This form of advertising helps to blur the line between the celebrity and the character they play as well as the line between cultures. The spectacle of the imprinting of these characters on a culture inspired the photographs.
The 22 images in the series are intended to be viewed together as an installation. The group of images is considered one piece.

Compare to (Mat Siber)

Compare to… addresses issues of visual brand conformity and its exploitation and perpetuation of packaging design as a powerful visual signifier in popular culture. Partially inspired by Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup cans, Brillo boxes and Coca Cola paintings, these images present the viewer with generic, store-brand or off-brand products that visually play off the packaging design of major, well-established brands. As Warhol sought to show the cultural significance (fame) of long-established brands, Compare to… seeks to take the idea a step further with lesser brands riding the visual coat-tails of the major ones.