Riiminka product labels

Fast order: a simple two-sided product label design 50mmx90mm for Riiminka.

Live Herring ad in Arctic & Fabulous festival mag

Live Herring and Arctic & Fabulour Film Festival have been working together since the first days of Live Herring and it was only fair that we would buy ad space from the festival mag. Plus it's a good place for us to info about our activities - even so, when we have this great show and workshop coming next March (by Sami van Ingen).
One page A5 size black and white ad.

Animoitu liike - The Animated Movement

Finally - the time is here for animated movement...

In this year’s programme of the Jyväskylä based Time of Dance Festival there is a novel workshop that combines dance and media art: Live Herring work group organizes Animated Movement workshop in cooperation with Time of Dance Festival. The workshop is an open to all, walk-in workshop and it's organized in September 24-26 in Jyväskylä City Library.

The event is produced by Live Herring and planned by Matti Niinimäki and me. Matti and I got a joint grant from AVEK to prepare the project: Matti has concentrated on the technical side of the project and I have been working with the workflow of the workshop, the overall concept and on more artsy side background graphics - and ofcourse the printed material. The concept of the workshop was originally mine but has been since developed in co-operation with Matti.



The Finnish site of the project: www.liveherring.org/animoitu_liike
Read Live Herring feeds of the subject in English www.liveherring.org/tag/animated-movement

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

A three days workshop period took finally the whole week of preparing and changing the plans - especially when the target audience was not the original planned. When the workshop didn't sell out to its target audience, the orderer filled the course with its own workers and students. Which is ok otherwise but I had planned the whole three day session to a particular group of people. So, suddenly I stood there with a material I had made for many days and of which I had no use because the basic situation had changed so much. Everything worked out well however, and there were at least few people there who were very positive and thought that they had received a lot from the course. Still - it wasn't my best workshop, not even near.

The exhibition in Lahti will open in beginning of September and all the promo material with press releases and such should be already there. We made posters and invitation flyers and managed to post them on time but I still have to write some texts today and update my CV for the gallery. Actually, I was quite shocked when I saw the invitation flyer printed. I didn't require the proof before printing because I had to be in the workshop and because the image was totally the same as I used in the Jämsä exhibition (with absolutely no changes on the imagefile but the texts) and even the paper was the same. So, when after Timppa had posted all the posters and flyers and brought me one to see, I noticed that it was almost black and white. What the hell? It doesn't actually look very bad, but *it's not the original*. I have no idea if the posters are the same, since I don't have any extra posters myself but everything was shipped to Lahti. I have to go to the print house tomorrow to hear their explanation of this - and hopefully to get some price down.

Live Herring calling cards

FINALLY I got the calling cards ready to print. It only took about six months to move them from my laptop to my home computer and to change two minor thingies. Lazy me. But hey - we had something more important to do...

The card is double sided: the black side showing Live Herring is the same with every one and the other side holds the information of the card holder.

Flying (Live) Herring

There is a communal exhibition on the theme of flying in The Art Museum of Jyväskylä and of course Live Herring wanted to be part of it. We bring some old flying related films and also flying games to the exhibition. And our own flying agency A2 size poster - only three pieces were made.

I had so much fun in making this. I haven't been making printed material a lot and I've made even less anything vector based. This is most likely my first public / commission work made by using vector graphics. I used both Illustrator and Photoshop in designing this poster. I wanted the print to look old, so it was printed to offwhite matte paper - the printshop didn't have any yellowish paper on stock and we didn't have time to order one. But I'm quite pleased with outcome.

Live Herring 08 print design

How did I end here? My first ever printed two-sided REAL brochure (not those copied ones), a poster and a flyer...

The brochure design is a doubleside A4, folded in three parts, the inner sleeve showing the main works of the exhibition. The poster is very simple A3 size poster.


More about Live Herring and the exhibition going on right now (until November 23rd) from www.liveherring.org