Musician as Designer

Musician as designer

Soundscreen Design creators of music inspired books, prints, apparel and homewares have just released the fifth installment in their Musician as designer series. The shirt created by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs features an image taken from a secret Yeah Yeah Yeahs show at the Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn NY. Other artists featuring in the series are Eye (boredoms), Bjorn Copeland (Black Dice), Jeremy Earl (Woods), Shawn Reed (of Wet Hair), Eddie Argos (of Art Brut) and Brian Degraw (of Gang Gang Dance). These shirts are pretty limited edition of less than 100 shirts so get in quick!

Reactable Live!

Reactable Live!

Reactable seeks to revolutionise computer-human interaction by developing interactive technologies and entertainment products with a focus on music production. The Reactable Live! project is an implementation of sound, shape and multi-touch which creates and entirely new way to produce music. This really has to be seen to be fully appreciated!

The Mixtape Club

The Mixtape Club

“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and… oh, there are loads of rules.”

Creating a great mixtape is definitely an artform. The Mixtape Club presents 10 people, 10 tracks and 10 album covers. Go discover some new tunes.

Gold Panda – You

Gold Panda - You

Nice unofficial video to Gold Panda’s song You. More on Gold Panda here and here. (via the Ghostly International Newsletter).

Ghostly International

Ghostly International

A new kind of record label, Ghostly International prefer to be called a multi-platform cultural curator. Combining visual art, music, technology and more, Ghostly really are the future of the music industry.

The Lion

The Lion

For when a song fits a picture, or a picture fits a song. The Lion. Beautiful.

The Small Stakes

The Small Stakes is a small design studio set up by Jason Munn which excels at producing band posters. The posters all exhibit an understated lo-fi feel and have been created for artists such as Beck, The Magnetic Fields, Yo La Tengo and more.

Cassette From My Ex

Cassette from my Ex

We love tapes! Mixtapes, even more! They helped many a shy teenager express their feelings towards a member of the opposite sex. Cassette From My Ex brings back a whole lot of nostalgia by not only showing us the playlists of many a long forgotten mixtape but also includes the story behind its creation. Beautiful. – Via PSFK