• CLOSE - Beam Me Up (Single).
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• CLOSE - Getting Closer (Album).
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• CLOSE - My Way (Single).
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It's been a real journey, and a long time since Will Saul contacted us about a new musical project that he wanted us to create a visual identity for. What started off as anonymous music project called CLOSE, Will sent us a few tracks, then eventually the album titled 'Getting Closer'. Will eventually 'outed' himself as the man behind the project with an amazing line-up of collaborators including Fink, Scuba, Joe Dukie & Appleblim.
The project finally got signed to the brilliant !K7 Records label and so far we have produced the artwork for the singles Beam Me Up, My Way and the album Getting Closer with another as yet titled single.
It's been really hard to sit on the album which we've had at various stages of completion for over a year and a half! It's an amazing album, and one we hope will get the recognition it deserves!

The CLOSE visual identity can be see on our site here.
A review of the CLOSE Fabric live show can be found on our blog here.
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Beam Me Up (feat. Charlene Soraia and Scuba) is out now, read a review here.
The album 'Getting Closer' is out on the 3rd of June.
My Way (feat. Joe Dukie) is out on the 10th of June, read a review/stream the track here.
Will also recently recorded a Radio 1 Essential Mix which can be downloaded here.
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CLOSE campaign.
Art direction, typography and design by Build.
Photography by Benjamin Grillon.

• FS Emeric (official poster) by Believe In.
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FS Emeric by Fontsmith.
FS Emeric is about what is happening right now. A sharper aesthetic that cuts across design disciplines — graphic, fashion, product, automotive. A reflection of the present that is accepting and open to whatever shape the future might take.
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To celebrate the launch of FS Emeric, Fontsmith asked 11 leading design studios from around the globe to create a limited edition poster. The studios are: Believe In, Bibliotheque, Lundgren-Lindqvist, Manual, Non-Format, Dixon Baxi, Pentagram, Studio Dumbar, Build, Hey, Atelier Bernd Kuchenbeiser & NB.
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• Def Jam tells you who I am by Build.
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Each studio was given a weight and asked to produce a poster using that weight. We were given Semi-Bold to play with and the poster above is the end result.
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Thought process: Words + Music.
I wanted to produce a print that shows off the type (obviously).
Hip Hop is the music I love, it's the music I grew up with in my youth.
Hip Hop is all about beats & rhyming.
One of my all time favourite Hip Hop albums is Public Enemy's 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'.
Sampling is a staple of Hip Hop, I researched the samples used on the album and this forms the basis for the design. This was then coupled with a big statement sample lyric from 'Rebel Without A Pause' from the album to counter the smaller text that forms the backbone of the poster.
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Screen printed by Dan Mather A1 onto 175gsm Colorplan stock and hand numbered, each poster has a limited run of 50. Fontsmith are giving away one randomly selected poster when two or more weights of the FS Emeric typeface are purchased (while stocks last).
Big thanks to Phil Garnham & Blair Thomson for inviting us to contribute to the project.
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View the microsite (including all the posters) here.
Purchase FS Emeric here.

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We have launched the (by)Build Shop print-on-demand service, and the first print in the series is Michael's Sunrise Over Manchester poster.
Originally designed for the excellent Print & Paste initiative, info on the project can be found here, and here.
All of the print-on-demand pieces are exclusive to our shop!

Choose from three sizes:
A2 - £30 / A1 - £60 / A0 - £120.

Buy 'Sunrise' HERE.

Look out for further designs added to the range in the very near future!
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Follow (by)Build Shop on Twitter and Tumblr.

• (by)Build Shop branding.
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***UPDATE: (by)Build Shop is now live: www.bybuildshop.com ***
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Our brand new store - (by)Build Shop - is coming very soon, this week in fact!
We have worked hard on our new Shop for several months, listening to feedback from customers and establishing the Shop on its own. (by)Build Shop is built from the ground up, overhauled with plenty of new features to help give a better shopping experience for you (and us!). Users can create accounts to manage orders and address information, register interest in reprints of sold out products and share items on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest.
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• 11 Years Show Catalogue.
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• Walt print by MCP.
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• Dick print by MCP.
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• Harvey print by MCP.
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The Shop will stock original products, designed and produced by the studio, available exclusively on the store.
Occasionally we will sell brilliant and interesting products by other people and these will be in the not(by)Build section.
It's also the only place to buy selected archive prints by Michael, and for UK-only customers, the frames as seen in our 11 Years show last September.
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• Tote & Catalogue bundle.
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To celebrate (by)Build Shop's launch we are selling a Blood, Sweat & 11 Years bundle - catalogue and tote bag - for £40.00 (for a limited time only) and we are also giving one lucky subscriber the chance to win an original Build print, even we won't have one! Details to be revealed on Thursday.
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Please follow @Build_Shop for details of the launch.

• Large version can be viewed here.
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We are over the moon to find out this morning that we are at (joint) number 23 in the UK Top 50 of the Design Week Creative Survey! We are right next to BarberOsgerby (and Neville Brody), above Royal Mail (36)!
We wouldn't have known about the ranking if Elliot a guy in our building hadn't come through and shouted '23!'.
So, thanks Elliot & Design Week! Amazing, very chuffed indeed!
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Unused/Rejected work - Sony electronics press/billboard ads (2005).
I still like these proposed press ads for electronics giant Sony. I liked the interaction/tension between the product photography and the strong bold graphic shapes.
The products (at the time) were thinner, could hold more songs, had more pixels, more colour and the graphic shapes were there to try and get that across in a strong bold way. I remember thinking at the time that these would look so striking on billboards. Oh well...
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MCP