DesignersRepublic
"If I know what I'm doing, I get bored"
"If at first you don't succeed, maybe failing is your style"
"Failure in your own terms isn't failure, But success by others is your biggest success"
"Why would a creative person have favourites"
"You don't have to always like what you produce"
A- Age of chance
- Aim low and miss
- Affects Twin (album art witht he cost of each process of producing the album, deconstruct)
- Atoms, Vectors and Ghosts
B- Bureau people
C- Coca Cola (the glass bottle shape story- of how a distinctive bottle shape was needed in order for people to 'grab' a recognisable shape with in a large ie bucket of mixed drinks)
D- Dicks out now (humourous story of how the tenth album 'dix' was miss heard, fila brazillia)
- Dr.No-b font
E- Echo City (Sheffield Moor lights in order to look more like a city than the actual city in WW)
F- Flesh
- Freehand
G- GGG gallery (Ginto-graphic gallery) "more is more" destroys minimalist style.
H- Hey Rube! (circus connotations, inspired by album by Simon and Garfunkle)
I- Is this doable? (replication of the bing bang in print)
- Izzy Miachy (interactive t-shirt)
J- Jarvis Cocker ('futher complications album, reflecting pilates)
K- Kill Yourself (mirror reflection t-shirt)
L- LFO Sheath
M- Miloko (milk and chocolate relates images (milka), sweden alps shot of cow and armoured milker)
- Moshi Moshi Sushi (Japanese city scape in Canary Warf)
N- Networking (green car parking top level golfing game with designers)
- North of Nowhere
O- Oversteps (exercise peoples inperfection by drawing circles, album cover)
P- Parkhill
Q- Qube
R- Return, shift, power, control (was a piece of work which launched the downsizing project from a business back to being fun again)
S- Shop 33 (in tokyo, sell merchandise wrapped in 'sheffield star' broadsheets)
- Sissy
- Swatch Watch (designers supposed to be from London- so the best thing about London is the "train to sheffield")
T- Telia (future telepathy for communication telecoms company)
U- Up over down under (mlbourne reprise of Tokyo, "dow under" so upside down)
V- Vampire man
W- Warp Records (made to look dated view of the future)
- Wipeout (racing flagship for PS1 gaming platform. Very vague brief, "changed the way computer games look forever". Created a communituy of gamers e.g. forums)
-Work Buy Consume Die (consumerist pepsi logo) 'Fouco' as a translation of 'design republic in Japan, so have 'fuck-you' references
X- Richard X (Liberty X photoshot in car part warehouse)
Y- Yes/ No
Z- 20 Zermack Road (birth address)
After Ian's comment of "more is more" it led me to link his most famous works to the excess also seen in 'maximalistic' pieces. This was something I'd already researched, but the DesignersRepublic work which reflected the same style include;
