Liar's Beach: The unputdownable thriller of the summer

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Yeah, so in mass abduction, the album, packaging, to the videos to the tour all kind of felt like you were watching, and you were like, you were in this world with that character. Over the last eight years or so, something that's slowly come into the discussion is the idea of bands having one creative that oversees everything across the board. It's no secret that some of the most exciting, boundary-pushing and considered design work is the product of beginnings that are a far cry from the clean white Post-it note-strewn walls of design studios. Co-founder Brian Roettinger is now a two-time Grammy-nominated artist and graphic designer who's designed cover art for the likes of St Vincent and JAY-Z, winning Rolling Stone's Album Designer of the Year award in 2009.

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Then fellow prep-schooler Greg Holliman is found unconscious in Jasper’s pool, and everyone has something to hide – Jasper, his beautiful sister Eliza, their older brother Wells, and their friends. Michael Linden – or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals – doesn’t belong in wealthy, storied Martha’s Vineyard. But it felt like there was a natural pivot away from the music side of our practice with the effects of the pandemic, especially on live music, and artists stopped putting out records for a little bit. With music stuff, I think you have to deal with a lot more people from the label people from management.Greg’s accident is written off as just that – an accident – but with no shortage of enemies, Linden begins to wonder if someone wanted to see Greg hurt. We spoke with Roettinger about music as a "gateway drug" to design, the changing nature of album design, how skateboarding informed his design work and more. Yeah, it was juggling two worlds: it would be cultural work at the Institute day-to-day, and then when I went home, I would like work on sort of books for galleries with artists or albums with bands. So my first real professional job was working at an architecture school in Los Angeles as the in-house art director and designer.

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Every day, something had to either be designed or go to print or there was a new project in the works.Katie Cotugno is the New York Times bestselling author of eight messy, complicated feminist YA love stories, as well as the adult novels Birds of California and Meet the Benedettos. Alongside Willo Perron, he's now one half of the studio Perron–Roettinger, which works across print, book design, identity, interiors and live projects. Before I was thinking about design I was playing bass in bands and hanging out with a lot of my friends who were in bands.

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However, his design beginnings are inextricable from his past as the bass player in a band, playing shows and designing records for other acts in the same scene, like No Age, Liars and Beach House. I think a typeface can have as much importance as an image regarding how it feels and its aesthetic, and how it makes people feel. She studied Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College and received her MFA in Fiction at Lesley University. One sort of gesture and applying it to everything, it's more about the aesthetics of the photography, sort of the visual language of photography, that the tone of the photography to the tone of the videos, all kind of So, as they had, they had a similar meaning a similar feeling.Nara book design Are there any broad similarities or differences between working on music and art or cultural projects? I think having some sort of relationship to it somehow, whether it's liking the person or liking it for the references and its importance in culture.

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And so, at the end of the day, it feels like it's not under the same roof, and it can be a bit messy. Her books have been honored by the Junior Library Guild, the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee, and the Kentucky Association of School Librarians, among others, and translated into more than fifteen languages. So what we're able to do visually and what sort of stories we can tell within one image is very different now you're relying on a little square.Bands like No Age, Liars, Beach House…I was just doing the designs because we were friends, we all kind of all grew up with each other, so it was just a natural thing, "do you want to design our record? One thing that changed with music is that that the album cover began to shrink and diminish: we started with an LP 12 by 12, then skipping a few formats, we went down to CD, which is five by five, then we're going into online, mp3 and iTunes, which is two by two, now we're looking on our phone, which is one by one. When I started to get more and more work like that, one day after five years working there, I just realised I didn't need to work at the school anymore. Launched in 2009, we explore the best in creativity and deliver news, inspiration, insight and advice to help you succeed.