nerds know that these are the people who have helmed about 90% of the art direction and design for the chems album covers...i just wanted to know about negativespace. kate is easy enough to find at her rep, Big Active.com, but i never found out about negativespace.
i always liked the first wave of art direction better, for the album covers. what does everyone else think? i think the last negativespace did was the single for block rockin beats...
ed, can you help with the negativespace question?
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Posted 03 March 2007 - 2:14 AM
best album art ever, in the world:
a tie between Dig your own hole (i mean all of it, not just the cover) and Surrender, the whole surrender era artwork was so... wonderful, happy and... fuck i cant place the word, its so nice and hippie
a tie between Dig your own hole (i mean all of it, not just the cover) and Surrender, the whole surrender era artwork was so... wonderful, happy and... fuck i cant place the word, its so nice and hippie
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Posted 04 March 2007 - 9:01 AM
What what really struck me about Kate Gibb's art work for the Chems is not only the style, but the way she used a technique to to create the style.
I read a blurb with the Chemical Brothers once, and they were describing the art and why they felt Kate Gibb could compliment the album Surrender. I don't remember word for word, but it was along to lines of Kate working in layers - her art for Surrender was created in layers, so that it was textured - in a way that Surrender is textured in sound.
I think it was Sneaker who posted something about an exhibit of hers a couple years back.
I really enjoyed her work on Come With Us. I think the image of Star Guitar is brilliant, it's beautiful. It is my favorite Chems artwork.
But going with negativespace. I dig it too. There is something about the art that compliments Dig Your Own Hole so well. And I just dig the Elektrobank artwork!! Classic. ;-)
I read a blurb with the Chemical Brothers once, and they were describing the art and why they felt Kate Gibb could compliment the album Surrender. I don't remember word for word, but it was along to lines of Kate working in layers - her art for Surrender was created in layers, so that it was textured - in a way that Surrender is textured in sound.
I think it was Sneaker who posted something about an exhibit of hers a couple years back.
I really enjoyed her work on Come With Us. I think the image of Star Guitar is brilliant, it's beautiful. It is my favorite Chems artwork.
But going with negativespace. I dig it too. There is something about the art that compliments Dig Your Own Hole so well. And I just dig the Elektrobank artwork!! Classic. ;-)
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Posted 05 March 2007 - 3:37 AM
the killer chemical brothers version of sho (which I believe was negativespace's choice...?)
what a sweet logo
what a sweet logo
He put on a turn-down collar, a black bow, and wore his Sunday tail-coat. As such, he looked spruce, and what his clothes would not do, his instinct for making the most of his good looks would.
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Posted 05 March 2007 - 3:50 AM
Regardless of the source, the Chems have always associated themselves with talented visual artists, incl. for their live shows. It's one of many things I really respect about them.
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Posted 07 March 2007 - 7:18 AM
-> Vegetable Vision = live visuals
unless that Veggie Vision be negspace?
unless that Veggie Vision be negspace?
He put on a turn-down collar, a black bow, and wore his Sunday tail-coat. As such, he looked spruce, and what his clothes would not do, his instinct for making the most of his good looks would.
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Posted 07 March 2007 - 11:10 AM
oh my goodness! youre right, so sorry. i have no idea how i got that mixed up. did you see that documentary, or something, where they talked to VV? i remember seeing it in the 90s, i just have no idea now...
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Posted 07 March 2007 - 11:17 AM
Would love to see a documentary about that.
I really dig all the artworks - surrender has to be my fave tho , and ptb my least favorite. Star Guitar will be my fave of the singles , but if i have to choose an albu, and all the artwork that comes with that , DEF surrender. Love all the psychedelic looking imagines of very 'normal' situations.
I really dig all the artworks - surrender has to be my fave tho , and ptb my least favorite. Star Guitar will be my fave of the singles , but if i have to choose an albu, and all the artwork that comes with that , DEF surrender. Love all the psychedelic looking imagines of very 'normal' situations.
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Posted 08 March 2007 - 4:16 PM
Been a chemical brothers fan for a long time but never really looked at the credits at the time for who did the early album artwork. Kinda funny I started my design business in Toronto when I was still in high school called negative space without knowing.
Great artwork.
Great artwork.
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