coupe d’état / emerging international sounds / Australia wide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2007 / 6 week project

A compilation of exotic sounds and grooves designed to be a lush international listening experience. We revisited the image the launched this compilation series, reshot the head pieces and contrasted the image with a slab of raw plywood and crimped paper…

global village / World and accoustic sounds / Australia wide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2008 / 6 week project

Illustration developed by studio designer Sarah Pickering.

The studio was commissioned to develop music packaging for SBS‘s seminal travel show Global Village.

The series has an ongoing theme that explores exotic creatures that populate all corners of the earth. We submitted a range of creatures and a beetle was selected for it jewel like qualities. The illustration of the exotic beetle was developed by our image maker in residence Sarah Pickering. A quirky botanic rendering of the beetle was selected and the final rendering was completed in watercolour and pencil.

Fever Italia / The Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2008 Italian Film Festival / Australia wide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2008 / 6 week project

Illustration developed by studio designer Andrew Ashton.

Illustration developed by studio designer Sarah Furzer.

Fever Italia / The Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2007 Italian Film Festival / Australia wide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2007 / 6 week project

CD packaging design is a regular project in the studio. The budgets are modest, the market is saturated, time lines are tight and the client has to ensure everything has been accounted for.

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So Frenchy So Chic / The Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2010 French Film Festival / Australia wide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2010 / 6 week project

A wonderful diva pitted with coarse stenciled title type and the spare uncomprising type of Mr Frutiger, in blue jeans mode.

So Frenchy So Chic / The Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2009 French Film Festival / Australiawide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2009 / 6 week project

This year our diva emerges from the garden

So Frenchy So Chic / The Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2008 French Film Festival / Australia wide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2008 / 6 week project

In 2008 our diva celebrates the showing of colour

Producing the communication work is a simple and chaotic process — engage the canny eye and talents of Kat Macleod, Ortolan, to develop the season‘s diva; with diva in hand the studio madly puts together the packaging and promotion collateral; all under the constant supervision of Filter Music‘s founder JF (the Frenchman). This process typically takes place in the closing and crazy weeks of Christmas. 2008‘s diva makes a departure from collage and rendering to bold dashes of painterly colour contrasted with the whim of sparely cast pencil marks.

Thanks again to JF for your ongoing and inspired support.

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The studio was commissioned to develop a house wine packaging for Pearl Restaurant, inspired by Pearl‘s Sommelier — John Evans. Interpretations and images of our Thin Man were developed by illustrators Jane Reiseger and Sarah Pickering, which was then fused with Thin Man typography executed in a red foil that blocks over modest black printing. The range starts with a Pinot Noir, a white wine and sparkling will follow soon.

By Jane Reiseger

By Sarah Pickering

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At the end of the day series, Oberon / Studio Pip and Co. image making project
Photographer Andrew Ashton / April 2010

At the end of several days during an Autumn Easter at over 1200 metres above sea level in country New South Wales, Andrew was consumed with a light that is brief, intense, colours vivid, glimpses haunting and momentary. Who needs a crappy conversation filler when a day can end like this.