Our font ‘Bonus Every 2000 – Rounded’, designed for Uryutsushin magazine, was featured in The Best of Custom Letters 2009. If you haven’t seen this blog, it’s well worth a look, full of inspiring custom made typefaces & illustrations.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year.
We realize that our site hasn’t been updated for a while, apologies for that. Hopefully we’ll get around to it soon, along with a few long-awaited improvements to the site. We’re working hard on this, fitting it in between a busy schedule of exciting work. 2009 has been a busy year here at c.a, new clients, new work, and new prospects. Sit tight and we show you more soon.
Here’s to a rewarding 2010.

We’ve been so happily busy completing the redesign of Uryutsushin—Kyoto University of Art & Design (KUAD), quarterly magazine—that we completely forgot to say anything about our Pecha Kucha presentation last night at Nishinomiya Konan CUBE. You’ll be happy to know everything went well, even if we were a little nervous. Roger Palmer, one of the organisers of the event had this to say about our presentation: “I think a lot of people were genuinely awed by what they saw”.

For those of you who haven’t yet seen our sites slideshow function take a look here:
all works
all applications (client works)
all collections (other works)

Our work for Alton Miller’s ‘Selected Works’ and ‘Souls Like Mine’ feature in the new book, ‘Color In Graphics’ published by maomao publications and edited by Ana Labudović. (ISBN 978–981-245–663-2)

From the introduction:
“The array of colors, images and languages that surround us is so vast that we are constantly discovering new meanings to everything we see. In this book, we feature and categorize a selection of contemporary graphic design and illustrations we feel intentionally or subliminally provoke certain sensations.”

The book also features an interview with Japanese designer and art director Taku Satoh notable for his direction for 21_21 DESIGN SITE in Tokyo.

James along with his IAMAS colleagues (Kyo Akabane, Shigeru Kobayashi & Nobuya Suzuki) are holding an Gangu Project (toy project) exhibition this Christmas at AXIS Gallery, Tokyo. On display will be a number of prototype toys, including our Minotaur Cubes. We’ve almost finished designing all the material for the exhibition comprising of poster, DM, leaflet and the space itself. You can see some of the design on our Ma blog and we will update a full collection here soon.

IAMAS Gangu Project – Work in Progress
AXIS Gallery 12月25日(木) – 27日(土)

Reflective Records have a new homepage (feature designs from collect.apply), with their back catalogue available digitally from November 6th exclusively at Beatport.com.

We’ve just finished designing the new flyer for Carl Craig’s Demon Days November event. Taking the Demon Days design in a new direction, with a new logo and series of repeat patterns to roll out during November and December.

November 6th event at APT, 419 W.13 St, New York, NY 10014.

Julien Jassaud will hold a solo exhibition at Super Gallery in Paris, curiously titled; “Préparez une tarte aux pommes en partant de zéro, il vous faudra d’abord créer l’univers.”
The opening party is on Friday 10th October from 18:00–21:00, and the show runs until the 25th.
Pop in if your in the neighborhood, well worth the visit.

Super, 49 rue de Maubeuge, Paris

As part of the Ogaki Biennale, James will be joining Keiichi Irie & Akira Suzuki among others, to discuss the revitalization of contemporary urban society through story telling.
Friday 26th September—19:00–21:00, Ogaki Event House.
Check the Biennale homepage for more information.