• 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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Extremely happy with our first piece of livery for the new Generation Press van!
If you spot the GP van out and about, tweet its location to @GenerationPress using the #GPTweets hashtag for a chance to win a limited edition poster designed by ourselves for Generation Press!
Please excuse the crappy iPhone pictures, better ones to come.
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Swag in the newly designed GP Tube-Mailer.
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New Windows on Willesden Green is an Outer London Fund project, which is being delivered for Brent Council and Design for London by The Architecture Foundation.The project is an exciting opportunity to revive and improve Willesden High Road bringing positive change to the area. 25 different designs create an advent calendar of store-front window displays, encouraging people to see the local area and its shops in a new light.
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When we were asked by architects Studio Octopi to lend a hand on their window for the project, we were really happy to oblige! The studio had already designed the striking theme of the festive red ribbons to mirror the ceiling detail, and we added the finishing touches in the form of the type in three languages- English, Tagalog and Spanish- flowing across the shop front.
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You can read more here

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We've been working on an interesting new project for 'Close' an anonymous music collective. The website we designed for them has just been launched, see that here.
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Design/Typography/Photographic art direction by Build.
Photography by Benjamin Grillon.
Website development by Tom van de Velde.
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Custom typography—
As part of the project we designed a mono-linear-humanist typeface which will form the basis for the collectives identity.
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The Motherload.
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Thank me later...