David Airey, graphic designer

Music video for the deaf blind

Published on January 24th, 2012 Read the 10 comments »

Here’s a kind of science experiment that had me thinking.

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Musical typography with Citizen Cope

Published on April 15th, 2008 Read the 15 comments »

It’s been a while since I’ve published any creative music videos, so I’ve embedded a new one which definitely stands out in the crowd. The track, Let The Dummer Kick, by Citizen Cope, contains exceptional animation by Artur Dimke. Artur makes great use of typography, emphasizing each individual word with an accompanying effect.

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How to effectively advertise musicians

Published on July 27th, 2007 Read the 15 comments »

How do you advertise an event that features some of the world’s finest musicians? Simple. With a stunning piece of visual artistry.

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All I need is a little timelapse

Published on July 13th, 2007 Read the 6 comments »

I hope you all enjoy the calming music video from Air (above), have a fantastic weekend, and accept my apologies for not commenting on your own blogs for a while. It’s not for the want of trying.

Here’s a shout out to all of you (listed in this post) who offered up some constructive criticism through my last article.

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7 creative music videos

Published on June 20th, 2007 Read the 24 comments »

Ever since receiving my first LP as a youngster (Michael Jackson’s Thriller) I’ve had a strong passion for music. Here I piece together an excellent round-up of creative music videos. The first one (above), is Here it goes again, by OK Go. Enjoy!

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Justice DANCE music video

Published on May 5th, 2007 Read the 14 comments »

Something a little funky for the Saturday night build-up?

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Music band poster design inspiration

Published on April 7th, 2007 Read the 12 comments »

GigPosters.com is a site devoted to showcasing poster designs for the music industry. There’s a lot of underwhelming design in there (to be expected with the vast amount of posters available), but if you take a little time to browse you can find some gems.

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Here’s some audio cassette tape nostalgia

Published on April 4th, 2007 Read the 13 comments »

Remember those weekend walks to the music store? Mix-tapes were all the rage and you wanted a tape-to-tape recording. There were a lot of different blank cassette tapes to choose from. Seems like ages ago, doesn’t it?

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Gui Boratto CD cover design

Published on March 21st, 2007 Read the 7 comments »

With a CD cover as nicely designed as this, I wonder if the music lives up to expectations.

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Music you enjoy, but didn’t know

Published on February 21st, 2007 Read the 6 comments »

If you’re like me you’ll enjoy listening to music when doing some design work. You’ll also enjoy finding out about new artists that match your music tastes. There’s a nice FREE online music player that lets you enter your favourite musicians or bands and it’ll create custom stations around their music genre. For instance, in [...]

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