Here is the Leon Jackson video for Creative that inspired the No Talent Jones key art in an earlier post. The link in the earlier post has been broken because of copyright issues in the US.
Many people have emailed me asking about Jackson and the song. I like the song and the video. I don’t know why it was never released in the US. That’s the music biz, I guess. The video was used as an inspiration because No Talent Jones will be about a modern day crooner.
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This project happened during the summer. I’m now allowed to chat about it.
While Mike Binder was working on the script for his next feature film project, he asked me to start designing key art to help flesh out the look and feel of the movie. No Talent Jones is a musical comedy set in Detroit. Mike was trying to sign Leon Jackson to star. Jackson was the winner of The X Factor, Britain’s version of American Idol.
Mike liked the retro Blue Note Jazz look of one of my early comps and wanted to explore that direction further. I used one of Jackson’s music videos as a resource. I presented these three designs in horizontal format that would be used for both outdoor and online.
Mike liked the top one with Jackson’s arm extended. I created a web page with the lock-up that will promote the concert accompanying the screening in selected cities.
The project was due to be shot this winter but is being delayed for six to nine months. Leon Jackson has agreed to do the project.
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Before Double Down decided on their primary logo, my client John Kozan was torn between two directions. So, when he decided start a swing record label, he asked if I could tweak the comp that I presented to make it the primary logo for the company. Kozan always liked the masculine feel of the logo below.
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John Kozan, the bandleader from Double Down sent me a photo today from their recent gig at Swing 46 in New York City. I designed their band logo a few months ago and recently had it applied to their drum set.
Here’s the photo with drummer Jay Lepley sitting at the drums with the new logo applied. John really loves how it turned out. I think it really pops. Especially in a dark jazz club.
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Green Galactic is a marketing and production media company specializing in youth culture. They create public relations and events for musicians, indie artists and filmmakers. They asked me to create a new logo on spec and I agreed. All that they asked was that the logo remain green and that it include the reflected Gs of their current logo. Here’s their original logo.
I presented one logo that was intended to look youthful and active. I wanted it to be dynamic and convey a sense of driving towards a hub.
I used more than one color of green and included a flourescent color that would work well with their guerrilla marketing efforts. Here is what was presented.
Time will tell whether they choose this logo to represent their new identity.
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I like to work on small projects with low budgets sometimes as much as the bigger budget, high-profile jobs. Agents For The Audience is a site in development that didn’t have much money to spend, but I took it on because I thought I could turn it around quickly.
Garth Meyer, one of the founders, described it as a site that will review movies, music and TV “from the point of view of the audience – as opposed to the more highbrow critics.”
They wanted to use a short acronym so it may catch on, so I went with AFTA with a supporting descriptor. I sent them just two black & white ideas. They went with this one.
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