On rotation throughout February
From the brilliant new Autre Ne Veut to a classic from Archers of Loaf with an amazing Bomba Estéro track and a great Mark Kozelek cover version there is surely something for everyone in the IWANT studio playlist - click the link below
2013-03-01 14:06:00 GMT
UDDERBELLY
It was great to be asked to create the 2013 campaign image for one of our favourite festivals, Udderbelly. This years festival takes place in the usual giant upside inflatable purple cow venue at Southbank Centre between April 12 – July 14 and boasts an udderly brilliant (sorry) line-up.
2013-03-01 14:01:56 GMT
ICON Re:Think
We were delighted to be asked to contribute Icon Magazines regular Re:Think feature this month (March 2013 iss 117). We chose what we considered to be the single most important piece of paper we are all given, the birth certificate. Pick up an issue and let us know what you think.
2013-02-07 13:35:35 GMT
Classic Tracks
First view of the book we have designed for Sample Magic, Classic Tracks – The real stories behind 68 seminal recordings. New York Times best-selling author Richard Buskin unearths the true stories behind some of the most iconic tracks ever recorded.
Beginning in 1951 with Les Paul and closing in 2009 with The XX, each chapter draws on original interviews and recollections of artists, producers and engineers to tell the inside stories or era-defining recordings. The book also features a wealth of archival photography, relevant studio techniques and creative processes.
We will post more on this soon.
2013-02-07 13:31:07 GMT
Jasmin Vardimon 2
We have recently designed this logo for Jasmin Vardimon Companies new professional development certificate programme. The identity will initially be used on the publicity material for the debut tour of a new production entitled TOMORROW.
2013-02-01 15:43:29 GMT
On rotation throughout January
From The Units and Kiki Gyan through to Debruit and Bruce Hornsby. Some interesting January tracks old and new have peppered the iwant studio.
2013-02-01 15:40:01 GMT
Greenwich Dance 20th Anniversary logo
We recently created this logo for Greenwich Dance’s 20th anniversary season. The logo takes it’s form from the grade II listed Borough Halls iconic octagonal wooden dance floor. The marque will appear across all promotional material through 2013.
2013-01-23 11:17:00 GMT
THEY DID PLAY RECORDS…
Many moons ago in my DJing days I ran, with some old friends, a great Sunday night on Essex Rd in Islington. The premise is an all too obvious one now but at the time the only night in London that was doing anything remotely similar was the Heavenly Social but we were much more diverse. We invited members of bands and anyone involved in music to come and play their record collection - anything goes. It began slowly but very quickly gained momentum with labels and artists calling up and asking to play, or for their artists to play. We had members of Happy Mondays, Simon Raymond of Cocteau Twins and now Bella Union, Bomb The Bass, Cornershop, Portishead, David Gedge, Bay City Rollers, James Lavelle and the list could go on and on. One new band that sticks with me was a young act called Simian who came and DJ’d a couple of times, loved it and went on to create their own mobile disco. Regulars at the bar and occasionally in the DJ booth were a new band called London Jelly who were chatting about starting a design agency called Airside, and another great designer Tom Hingston who I couldn’t quite pluck up the courage to ask for a job. Amusingly Sarah Cox was often propping up the bar with Jon Carter til late into the night (was funny to hear that she was missing from her Radio 1 job the next morning on several occasions after a good night). Notable spots at the bar were Kevin Shields drinking with J Mascis and a new band called the Strokes getting trashed when they came over to promote their first Rough Trade single before they blew up, they’d heard it was a good night. Ahhh good memories and it truly was the first of a kind, and it all happened for free, the night was free the bands/artists played for free, we didn’t get paid - I think the bar done pretty well mind you! So why this post… The Embassy changed hands years back and was never the same but I was truly saddened to drive past on Saturday to see it reduced to a Costa Coffee, progress hey? As part of the night we made the occasional mix we gave away - I spoke with Universal about a series of mixes or collections from the artists, they said it would never sell - late night tales anyone
anyhow this was the first mix - the date says 03 09 00 (really!?!) I think it still stands up
click here to enjoy in my nostalgia they do play records dont they
2012-12-12 13:12:00 GMT
Manifest Tone Best of Volumes 1-3
A collection of three EPs from Antibalas’ multi-instrumentalist Chico Mann is released today (Dec 10). Previously only available on vinyl, we worked with Soundway Records on bringing these amazing EPs together in one package. Described as a Dope mixture of Afro-Latin boogie heat, electro-cumbia shuffles and deep disco this package really is a must to end the year.
2012-12-10 12:26:00 GMT
We have just created this illustration for A Scream and an Outrage - A marathon weekend of new music curated by Nico Muhly. The weekend takes place at the Barbican 10-12 May 2013 and features the who’s who of new music explorations led by celebrated New York composer Nico Muhly and includes Philip Glass’s long awaited complete twenty Etudes for Piano
2012-11-22 14:39:12 GMT
John was recently invited to create a piece of work for a forthcoming exhibition put together by Belgrade based collective Lorem Ipsum. The show has been called Exquisite Corpse and is based on the surrealist technique employed to create a collective image, or moreover the game you play as a child where someone draws a head folds it over and passes it on until the last person unravels the comedic collection of parts (who new it had a name?!).
The exhibition opens 30th November and features contributions by the following artists/studios: Hort (Germany), Non-Format (USA/Norway), Grandpeople (Norway), Ville Savimaa (Finland), Mark Giglio (USA), Dopludo Collective (Russia), SNASK (Sweden), IWANT (Great Britain), Oh Yeah Studio (Norway), Pablo Abad (Spain), Nebojša Cvetković (Serbia), Biskoteka (Serbia), Flomasters (Serbia) and Lorem Ipsum Studio (Serbia).
2012-11-22 14:31:00 GMT
Sounds emanating from the studio this month WANT November 12
2012-11-20 17:02:34 GMT
IWANT design is a multidisciplinary award winning creative design agency based in East London.
Working for a broad cross section of clients, we specialise in art direction, branding, marketing collateral, illustration, digital, ideas and more. We like to work closely with our clients keeping a dialogue through all aspects and processes that may be involved in their project to ensure we produce beautiful relevant creative work that we can all be proud of.
Established in 2003, IWANT is the studio of John Gilsenan, Creative Director. John studied FIne Art at Central St. Martins and UEL before discovering graphic design. After working at a printers to gain experience John got his first job at a design agency in 1999, in 2001 he left and moved to Prague to begin freelancing before returning to the UK in 2003 to set up IWANT.
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