First Floor Under Campaign

These posters were produced for First Floor Under by the Italian branch of TBWA, the ad agency. They were made to illustrate a campaign about music piracy, consisting of 6 poster images. Here is my selection.

Design A T-Shirt For The Legendary Band Queen In Celebration Of Their 40th Anniversary And Help Fight AIDS

Legendary group Queen, have been captivating audiences for decades with their inimitable brand of theatrical rock n' roll. With over 300 million global record sales, an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a Guinness Book of Records award for the most successful UK album chart artist ever, the Queen story is one of the most remarkable in modern rock culture. 

Across the band’s 40 years, Queen's iconic logo has branded millions of album covers, inestimable quantities of sought-after merchandise, and a world-wide hit musical, ‘We Will Rock You’ which has been seen by over 12 million people. Through all of this, the Queen Royal Crest has become firmly imprinted into the global conscience and become one of the most instantly recognized logos of all time.

Now Queen are collaborating with Talenthouse on three separate initiatives; the first is to ‘Design a t-shirt for Queen’. The initiative offers fashion designers, illustrators and graphic designers the chance to become part of Queen’s visual history by creating their very own t-shirt design bearing the band's famous logo. The selected t-shirt will be sold in Queen’s online stores, on the band’s official site www.queenonline.com and on the Mercury Phoenix Trust website www.mercuryphoenixtrust.com. The winning design will also be featured on the band’s Facebook page, which claims over 7.5 million fans. All proceeds will be donated to fighting AIDS worldwide through the Mercury Phoenix Trust, the charity set up in Freddie Mercury’s name.

The winning artist will receive $1,500 and a further 10 designers who receive the most votes will share a prize pool of $1,500. All submitted designs will be reviewed and judged by Queen band members Brian May and Roger Taylor.

The deadline for submissions is April 19, 2011 with voting taking place on April 20 – 27, 2011. The winning design will be announced on May 5, 2011. To participate, fashion designers, illustrators and graphic designers are asked to download the Queen crest and submit their t-shirt design in .jpg format to http://www.talenthouse.com/queen-anniversary-design-a-t-shirt

Mick Rock's retrospective at the Idea Generation Gallery, in London

Celebrated as ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s’, Mick Rock’s images define rock n’ roll. Mick Rock launched his career in 1972 with his portrait of David Bowie, documenting the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust,  and shot the videos Life on Mars and Space Oddity. 

He also spent the next four decades capturing the most fascinating and exciting characters in rock music: from Queen, Debbie Harry, Courtney Love to Mick Jagger.

Coinciding with the publication of Rock’s new book Exposed: the Faces of Rock n’ Roll (available to purchase in the gallery), Rock: Music includes many previously unseen and unpublished images, as well as rare and unexpected portraits from some of Mick’s classic shoots.

"London in the late sixties and early seventies was a hotbed of creative interchange. The prevalent hippie philosophy united all manner of artists, musicians, film makers, models, designers, actors, writers, and photographers into a unique and fertile community. My timing was excellent. Curiosity and circumstance drew me into the flame of rock n’ roll." - Mick Rock.

Until the 16th January.