“Light In The Dark” is the first single from the long anticipated “Delay No More” album project by Spectrasoul. Released on Brighton based Shogun Audio they have teamed up with Mercury Prize nominee Terry Walker and Manchester vocalist Fox.
“These first two offerings represent polar-opposite extremities of style. As anyone who has ever listened to our music knows, we strive to produce a wide range of forward thinking, experimental yet accessible bass driven music”.
We have been commissioned to by the London Pleasure Gardens to create their revised brand identity and all affiliated marketing resources. Having seen the plans and visited the site this week we are very excited to be working with the LPG team on this vast regeneration project. Here is a brief overview:
“For over 200 years pleasure gardens were central to London social life. As fine ladies strolled in the lamplight, talents like Dickens, Mozart and Hogarth were inspired. Now, cutting edge culture in a 21st Century Pleasure Gardens will transform the heart of Olympic East London.
Long before festivals as we know them today, Pleasure Gardens were summertime venues where people from all walks of life converged to listen to music, admire paintings, stroll, drink, flirt and immerse themselves in the culture that defined this vibrant period.
The most famous pleasure gardens where in Vauxhall, but between 1851 and 1884 the Royal Docks had its very own Pleasure Gardens, named the Royal Victoria Gardens.
This is a two stage project to kick start the regeneration of The Royal Docks. The first stage involves bringing East London Culture to The Olympic Last Mile, the second stage aims to support the cultural legacy of the games through the provision of a multi-functional cultural destination.
Elements will include a concert stage, a floating restaurant & cocktail bar, landscaped walkways and wild gardens, artisan cafes and bars, a dome venue, a guerrilla art-hotel, riverside terrace, water-attractions including floating cinema & open-air summer shows.”
To get a better understanding of the project take a look at their website HERE.
Last year we were delighted to receive a commission to design the artwork for Leftfield’s live album Tourism. The album was recorded over a six date tour of Australia and culminated in the bands headline performance at The Future Music Festival in Sydney.
The package contains two audio CD’s as well as a live performance DVD. Initially the package is set to be released in Australia, but has also now been licensed to the UK for release later in the year. There will be a full case study on the filthy site coming soon.
The Tube opened it’s doors to the Brighton clubbing scene in late 2011. Along with the club’s identity, filthy were given the job of creating an eye-catching set of monthly listings for the venue. The venue wanted to display a florescent light-box as the entrance signage and the logo was
then created with this in mind. The monthly listing posters worked around each month being assigned a 3D icon / shape floating above the listings. Subsequent months featured vibrant colour changes to complete the look. To see more of our branding work click HERE.
This is the first print edition of our filthy newsletter, keeping you up to date with what’s happening at our seaside graphic design studio in the North Laine of Brighton. 2011 has been a brilliant year for filthy and we have been lucky to work on projects for some of the best known brands, such as Red Bull, Stomp and Virgin Records. If you would like to receive one of our limited edition posters please email your address to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The back of the newsletter features our ongoing #filthyfriday project. We have been photographing friends of filthy and general Brighton characters holding up our trusty filthy sign in order to promote our design studio. Each Friday we release a new shot on facebook, which is then tweeted using the hash tag #filthyfriday. To keep up to date with our facebook page click HERE, and make sure you never miss a #filthyfriday tweet by following us HERE.
On November 12th, Hush Your Beak our sister promotion company hosted the annual David Rodigan show at the Brighton Concorde. In the space of three years our Brighton shows have grown from a low-key Sunday night gig, to the most recent sell out show with over 800 punters coming down to see David play one of his legendary sets.
Rodigan was supported on the night by London’s mighty Heatwave collective and local Brighton lads Flatline. To keep up to date with the events we promote at Hush Your Beak click HERE. To learn more about the man himself click HERE, and to view the teeshirts and limited edition screen prints that we have designed for David click HERE.
Continuing their 50th release celebrations, Shogun Audio release part 2 of the highly acclaimed ‘Way of the Warrior’ EP.
We are so happy the way the project has come out and been received. You can buy your copy HERE. The LP has also been nominated for ‘Best Compilation Album’
in this years DJ Magazine ‘Best Of British Awards’ - you can cast your vote here: http://www.djmag.com/news/detail/3093
Also a massive Congratulations to Shogun Audio for receiving no less than 14 nominations across the board for this years drum and bass awards!
Stomp is a unique musical theatre of choreographed percussion, movement and physical comedy, with shows worldwide created by Luke Cresswell & Steve McNicholas. Stomp was created in Brighton, and has now relocated it’s headquarters back to our seaside home.
We were asked to pitch our ideas for a rebrand in line with Stomp’s 20th Anniversary, ranging from printed media to merchandise. Having won the account we are now pleased to be working with Stomp and you can expect to see our designs worldwide in the coming weeks.
Celebrating their 50th release, Shogun Audio unleash the devastating new compilation bringing together all of the artists, old and new, who’ve helped shape the label as they are today.
As well as the WOTW package, we been the design team behind forty of Shogun’s previous releases. To buy the album ion CD or affiliated 12” EP’s you can visit the Shogun Audio website HERE.
EMI’s multi-talented Nervo have announced the release of their first single “We’re All No One” featuring Afrojack & Steve Aoki having spent the summer opening for Nicki Minaj & Britney Spears on their massive Femme Fatale arena tour. While Nervo are fast emerging as the most sought-after DJ duo in dance music, the girls are equally at home in the world of contemporary pop penning hits for such artists as Kylie Minogue, The Pussycat Dolls, Jennifer Hudson and more.
Their big break-through as songwriters came when they co-wrote Guetta’s world-wide smash “When Love Takes Over” featuring Kelly Rowland, which charted at number 1 in 11 countries across the globe.
Having won a pitch to design the Nervo logo, we are proudly working with Mim & Liv on all aspects of their creative identity which ranges from record sleeves to merchandise. We expect very big things from Nervo so watch this space…
Ram Records, the pioneering drum & bass imprint founded by Andy C in 1992, commissioned Filthy to design a selection of one off sleeves for the record label.
Having been fans of Ram since the early 90’s, it was a privilege for us to put the Filthy stamp on a label whose artwork helped inspire us to become designers.
Brighton is awash with our promotional artwork for the cities inaugural Shakedown Festival which is taking place on Saturday 17th September. We provided the festival with flyers, posters, lamp post ad’s, bus stop ad’s, large format banners, tickets & lanyards.
If you are in town this weekend be sure to check it out. The line up features artists that range from Razorlight to Breakage so there should be something for everyone. For full details of the festival and details on how to buy tickets check the website HERE.
We were recently commissioned by Sub Focus to create a bespoke geometric pattern for the launch of his new website. The overlaid colour gradient references his self titled debut album artwork which was released in 2009.
The design has been implemented and used as the basis of the website, which features a cohesive view of Sub Focus’ career to date.
You can check out the site HERE.
Last Thursday our studio turned the ripe old age of seven. We celebrated with a few beers and a tasty BBQ on the balcony,
topped off with these lovely Filthy cakes hand delivered from the lovely Rebecca at The Looking Glass Bakery. Yummy!
We are extremely proud to announce that the first run of David Rodigan “Give Me Some Signal” teeshirts & limited edition signed screen prints are on sale today.
If you don’t about the man himself you can learn about his 40 year carreer HERE. And if you would like to make a purchase you can do so from HERE.
Filthy have been the creative team behind Life on Brighton seafront since it’s conception in 2009. Now in it’s second year we were commissioned to create the promotional material for the 2nd birthday
weekend. We popped round the corner to see Chris at Kensington Press and the overprinted, two colour litho posters are ready to hit the streets. See more of our past portfolio for Life HERE & HERE.
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Every two months we promote a club night at Digital on Brighton seafront named Hospitality Brighton. Over the years it has become one of the most popular nights that the city has to offer. Last September we celebrated the 5th Birthday.
Above you can see the limited edition folded A3 poster we designed to celebrate the event. You can keep up to date with all of our Hospitality Brighton news HERE. or you you fancy coming along to our next party you can check the line up & event details HERE.
Shogun Audio are proud to introduce the stunning and highly anticipated debut album from the longtime drum and bass authority, Icicle. Displaying an array of influences and ambition, ‘Under The Ice’ is a spectacular realisation of one man’s music that will delight drum and bass fans the world over. Here Icicle aimed to fully utilise the medium that is the long player with the highest amount of diversity, whilst staying true to his inner most influences and musical convictions.
From initial conception & art directing the photo shoot, through to delivering the final artwork and advertising campaigns, the album project was a pleasure to work on for Icicle and the Shogun Audio team. We are eagerly awaiting the return on the 12” single, EP & CD here at the studio and will endeavour to get the project photographed and up on our site when it arrives. For now there is a sneak preview of the album pack shot along with a interview from the man himself. Pre order HERE.
Having stumbled across a selection of our old stickers in the filthy broom cupboard we decided to share the iconic genius of our favourite heroes.
Terry Tibbs, Frank Butcher, Alan Partridge, Del Boy, Pat Butcher & B.A Baracus all hold an equally special place in our hearts. More info HERE.
With the website about to launch, we have been writing up our bespoke self promotion envelopes ready to send out this week. Each envelope contains one of our limited edition b3 posters. Here is an extract from the project description on our site:
To celebrate the release of filthymedia.com we produced a limited
run of posters advertising ‘Filthy Black Italic’ – a typeface designed by filthymedia.
The B3 poster is a tongue-in-cheek play on the generic viagra spam emails that many of us are familiar with. When folded out, the title of the email: ‘shoot further with your flamethrower of love’ is set in Filthy Black Italic.
Welcome to the filthymedia blog. We appreciate that sometimes a design website can show a lot of clean & polished final outcomes, whereas more often than not you want to know about the people behind a site a little more. We would hope that this is where our blog comes in. Here we intend to give an insight into our
studio, what we’re working on, listening to and laughing about. A link to our portfolio can be found by clicking ‘see our work’ at the top left navigation. You can also sign up to the filthymedia mailing list, email us or find our social network links in the navigation bar. We hope you enjoy the world of filthymedia.