∆ JOEY DEAN ∆

Christmas Party - Sucking Lemons & Holy Twist Records

2010-12-12T03:28:00.000-08:00

Flyer designs for Sucking Lemons and Holy Twist Records Christmas party, featuring The Cads, These Ghosts and So Called Humans

Alternative Version

Greetings To The New Brunette

2010-11-29T09:12:00.001-08:00

A limited set of letterpress prints created during my time at Hand & Eye. The prints are created from traditional font types and typographically render lyrics from the Billy Bragg song 'Greetings To The New Brunette'.

Original Print

Enlarged Version

Letterpress Components

M83 - America

2010-11-22T07:58:00.000-08:00

Concept music video for M83's 'America'. Taken from the album 'Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts'. Footage borrowed from the BFI Creative Archive Licence Group and the Prelinger Archives.

Halftone T-Shirt Design

2010-11-18T07:22:00.000-08:00

A completely self designed and printed t-shirt, for no purpose other than pure enjoyment.

Los Explovisos

2010-11-08T06:38:00.000-08:00

Poster design for South American garage band Los Explosivos' small British tour.

These designs were a collaboration with Graphic Designer and Illustrator Aaron Kitney.

Alternative Version

Flying Over

2010-10-20T07:59:00.000-07:00

Poster for French Rock & Roll band Flying Over's short stint of upcoming London shows. Tour compiled and promoted by Holy Twist Records.

The Vandelles

2010-10-19T04:14:00.001-07:00

Tour poster for Brooklyn based band The Vandelles. Tour arrange and promoted by Holy Twist Records.

Franko Fraize - The 140 Show

2010-10-15T07:27:00.001-07:00

Artwork for Franko Fraize's new E.P. The 140 Show.
The title of the E.P. references Franko Fraize and DJ I.C's underground radio show and as such, the imagery for the front cover also reflects this.
The 140 Show is largely available by download, as well as through a limited edition of 100 printed and pressed CD copies, from www.frankofraize.bandcamp.com.

Front

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Holy Twist Records Poster Design

2010-10-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

A rather dark and psychedelic poster design for a show put together by Holy Twist Records.

As always, there were a bunch of unused designs on the project, which I've lovingly displayed below.

June On The West Coast

2010-09-19T09:34:00.001-07:00

What started out as an initial experimentation shooting digital video for the first time, resulted in a small music video for Bright Eyes' June On The West Coast.

The Cads

2010-09-17T07:58:00.001-07:00

Emerging band The Cads were invited to tour Germany with Darwin Deez and so this poster was created in homage to the tour. You can see The Cad's tour video, which features my artwork in the opening shot.

London 1970

2010-08-24T08:14:00.000-07:00

An illustrated conversation about a generation of Londoners that vacated the capital city during the 1970s due to overcrowded living conditions.

Kaleidoscope Magazine

2010-08-21T06:28:00.000-07:00

A men's fashion magazine designed for emerging fashion journalist and stylist Daniel Higgins. Daniel has styled photo-shoots for magazines such as Recognise, and worked for the UK's biggest selling mens magazine Mens Health

The concept behind Kaleidoscope Magazine was to present each issue's articles as conflicting or opposing viewpoints on contemporary topics of discussion. This was reflected in the design and layout of the magazine, which pits one clean cut sans-serif page layout which makes good use of white space against a raw, hand rendered, cut & paste style page layout. All while retaining an identical visual aesthetic in terms of column width and bleed space, that reinforces their connection to the same magazine.

Open publication - Free publishing - More kaleidoscope

Twenty-Seven Days In Thailand

2010-08-17T07:27:00.001-07:00

This short film exploring a twenty-seven day expedition through Phuket, South Thailand, has been pieced together from over three hundred photographs documenting the journey. Photographs taken by Elliott White, Joey Dean and Simon Nunn during the Summer of 2009.

Reflections On Modern Living

2010-07-13T13:40:00.000-07:00

Inspired the texts of 1960s revolutionary thinkers The Situationist International, 'Reflections On Modern Living' is a pamphlet designed to advocate an emphasis on enjoying living life rather than striving to reach any kind of capitalist 'goal'. A limited amount were screen printed on newsprint and then distributed to the public at specific London Underground stations.

DOWNLOAD a digital PDF of Reflections On Modern Living and email it to your friends and colleagues.

Open publication - Free publishing - More situationist

The 140 Show

2010-07-12T16:32:00.000-07:00

As Franko Fraize continues to write and release music, I continue too, working with him to direct his visual identity.

We collaboratively came up with the idea for the music video for his latest release The 140 Show, which I then filmed, directed and edited in just two weeks.

The video adopts a 'Fly on the wall' technique, following Franko as he embarks on what is a regular journey to his and DJ I.C's pirate radio show which the song has been named after.

The video won a position at the BBC Norfolk Introducing Music Video Festival, in which it was displayed in The Forum, Norwich's popular library and community venue throughout June and July.

Blighters, Heartbeat

2010-05-10T16:39:00.000-07:00

A 7" single sleeve designed for New Wave band Blighters. The single is called Heartbeat and utilises photographs of Love Heart sweets, a well known past time favourite, to reflect the nature of the song. This images springs to life when viewed through the 3D glasses that come free inside the 7" single sleeve. You can buy the 7" single at HMV or in MP3 format at Play.com

Front

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Label

Part of this brief was also to create the whole general identity for use on the Blighters Myspace Page. Below you can see two screenshots of the Myspace web layout, which adopts the same identity present on the Heartbeat single sleeve.

The 7" Single on sale at HMV

The MP3 version of the single on sale at Play.com

And finally, the single is available to buy through iTunes

Double Flintlock

2010-05-07T13:23:00.000-07:00

A T-Shirt designed for Norfolk hardcore-punk band William English.

As with their E.P. sleeve, the band wanted to represent their Old English inspiration.

The t-shirt shows a mixed media approach, combining the images of traditional Flintlock pistols (reduced to black illustrations), and a loose illustrated typography of the band's logo.

T-Shirts being sported at a live performance.

William English, Home

2010-05-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

An E.P. designed for Norfolk Hardcore Punk band William English. The band take much of their inspiration from Old English aesthetics and folk tales.

The photographs for the cover were taken by Julie Dean, on a battle re-enactment taken place on a celebratory day for English revolutionary Thomas Paine. They were then digitally manipulated in order to age them, and photographed against a damaged, white wall to give the suggestion of a museum or gallery type setting.

Final photographs were re-touched by Nick Cantle.

Buy the E.P. here

Artwork as published in Rock Sound Magazine.

The Meeting Place

2010-04-28T13:16:00.001-07:00

The meeting place is a short film I created as a third year degree project. It explores the stylistic features of foreign film. It does this by manipulating expected stereotypes of 1960s French New Wave cinema, such as British actors who look European and shot against the background of London's streets in a typical black and white grain. By combining the features of foreign film with strong beacons of British identity all the important cinematic techniques used to achieve the 'foreign film' are made more apparent.
The loose storyline follows a young man traveling to meet his heartbreaking ex-girlfriend who is returning from a new year in Paris with her new husband.

Thee Vicars Tour Posters

2010-04-25T07:50:00.000-07:00

This is a collection of tour posters made for Thee Vicar's 2009 Psychotic Beat tour.

Only the top two were used by the band to promote the tour.

Grey Lights

2010-04-13T16:34:00.000-07:00

Grey Lights was filmed and edited in the summer of 2006 and documents the local skate scene in and around norfolk as it was at the time. It was my first attempt at making a short film and shows footage from a variety of local skaters such as Simon Black, Simon White, Ben Brooks and Michael Camp.

I've finally managed to get it online feel that it's best viewed at it's own website www.greylights.tk

Officially Published

2010-04-01T11:36:00.001-07:00

The E.P. that I designed a while back for Franko Fraize & Lyrical T has finally had critical review in the E.D.P (Eastern Daily Press) newspaper - 'The country's top-selling regional newspaper'.

This is a great feat for both them and me, as their E.P. - my artwork has been officially published!
You can find the E.D.P website here: http://www.edp24.co.uk

Something In The Making

2010-03-27T04:54:00.000-07:00

Franko Fraize, a Norfolk based rapper commissioned the design work for his and fellow rapper Lyrical T’s

Something In The Making E.P. that was recorded and released independently in 2009.

The resulting artwork was a combination of design process and material gathered from a fly on the wall photo shoot as the artists recorded the E.P.

To be able to clearly place text over the repetition of photography I used the found object of masking tape, with hand scrawled typography over the top. This found imagery also finds itself on the back of the booklet and on the very back cover. To stop the use of this found imagery from getting too dull, and with a priority on legibility on the inside pages, I used rigid typography and grid structure. This found and scanned imagery combined with regulated typography and grid structures, creates the perfect balance of visual stimulation and legible information whilst also suggesting a D.I.Y nature that reflects both artists personas.

I have entered this piece of work into Grafik Magazine's design competition Grafik Design Awards. Stay tuned to see how it does. http://www.awards.grafikmag.com/

Below is a photograph taken in Norwich's independent record shop Sound Clash, in which you can see the CD for sale in the front of the 'Grime' section.

Hard Up, Hungover & the Bastard Landlord

2010-03-24T10:09:00.000-07:00

Have a stroll through two skint undergraduate creative's lives as they explore life, love and loss.