Pallett Belben Identity

I have recently been working on various projects, one of them has been the identity for a new jewellery company based in London called Pallett Belben. The image above shows the logo used on their business card which I also designed. The front of the business card is printed on recycled matt paper and the back is a shiny black vinyl.

The jewellery Pallett Belben makes uses a mix of materials and weaves fine gold and silver chains and leather to create really interesting on off pieces of jewellery (their web site is here).

Hit Club

As I have previously mentioned I am currently setting up a record label. To showcase some of the bands we have on the label we recently put on a night at the industry music festival In The City in Manchester. It featured just a few of the bands we're currently working with. The image about is the poster that was designed to advertise the night. Printed on thin grey newspaper and stuck up around Manchester the day before the gig as we wanted it to be a bit of a surprise.

New Typefactory Poster

While reviewing my Uni work I found a few things I would like to change and improve. One of these things was the posters I had designed for the Typefactory project. Above are 2 of the new designs. The posters have the depth and experimental quality that the previous posters had however these posters have a much more complete feel in my mind, the strong use of colour is much more striking and the experimentation with the letters from the logo is much more defined. There are going to be more in the series, these will be posted on my web site soon.

Hit Club Poster Ideas

As I have previously mentioned the Hit Club visual identity was released last Thursday, to go with it I designed, and had printed, a limited run of posters to be given away free at the exhibition. Above are two ideas I designed that we considered for the poster however we decided not to go with.

Best Of Manchester Exhibition - Urbis

The Best of Manchester Awards were held last Thursday night at Urbis. Max Moran who I work with on the club nights, web site and now record label (along with Dan Market) won the music award which was great. The opening of the exhibition went well and is now open until the 20th September.

There are limited edition Hit Club posters free in our display on the plinth in front of the Hit Club logo, they hadn't been put there when this photo was taken.

The night also served as the launch for the Hit Club Records visual identity. The logo can be seen above. I also designed a set of 4 posters 1 advertising Hit Club and 3 advertising bands we are going to release soon. The Egyptian Hip Hop poster can be seen in a previous post.

The photo above was taken just before we cleared away the ladder, box and other posters on the floor.

Hit Club Posters

As part of the exhibition we are unveiling the new Hit Club identity and with it a series of posters to promote the new bands we like. This is the first one for Egyptian Hip Hop - www.myspace.com/egyptianhiphop. It will be on show at the Best of Manchester Awards at Urbis so go down and see it if you have any spare time.

Urbis

The Best Of Manchester Awards exhibition at Urbis will included the posters I designed for Hot Club, This Town Sounds and the new visual identity for Hit Club Records, our new record label. Opens on Friday. I will post more about it soon. We set it up last week, here is a small sample.

Ah Um

Above is a development from a project I have previously posted. This is the promotional look book for the jazz bar Ah Um. To see the book in full please go to www.benseary.co.uk

5NYDAYS

I previously posted some development work from my 5NYDAYS project. Well now it's finished and above is the result. It documents 5 days I spent in New York and is designed to be a new take on a guide book that inspires and intrigues people instead of telling them directly where to go and what to do. It includes bits of conversations from when I was out there that tell people where curtain attractions are, ticket stubs, addresses and much more.

Joe Lean Poster

We (Hot Club) are putting on the comeback show for Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong at Deaf Institute in Manchester. We only confirmed the show the other day and it's in about 2 weeks so we had to get on the promotion quickly. I designed this poster which is a new style for Hot Club and a development from the DIP poster (previously posted).

Web Site

I now have a web site with all my work on, I'm currently updating it however have a look it's: www.benseary.co.uk

Journal

I haven't posted much that recently due to the work I've been doing in general and more specifically my Journal. It documents everything I've done this year, talks, projects, exhibitions among many other things. I will post some pages from it soon.

DIP

I have just designed the poster for the photography fundraiser. The poster is influenced by the Swiss style and Niklaus Troxler, I wanted it to be bold and to the point which I hope it is.

AH UM Development

I'm currently working on the content for the AH UM look book. I have been experimenting with the typography in the studio. The image shows how I've been laying out the type by hand to try and give it a more natural and energetic composition. More work will follow soon.

Typefactory Sign

The sign system for the TYPEFACTORY.

5NYDAYS Development

This is some more development work for the New York brief I'm working on. This is very much a work in progress. I have added a playlist to the project and have chosen a song for each day I was there that I felt gave a feel of the city. More work to follow.

New York Ideas

Above are some initial ideas from a project I'm doing about New York. More will be posted soon about it.

Intersections Hanbook

I got a copy of the handbook I designed for the Association of Art Historians conference called Intersections a couple of days ago.  Above are 2 images from the 112 page handbook. It was a good job to work on as I got to work on it from start to finish, had regular meetings with the client and sorted out printers. I also designed an identity and had to apply it to lots of materials for the conference. Images of these will follow soon.

Flyer

A quick turn around flyer for the Delphic single launch party this Saturday. There was a last minute venue change so I re-designed the flyer.

AH UM

New project for a new Jazz bar in Soho called AH UM. It's named after the Charles Mingus album from 1959. Publication to follow.