I’ve just designed a new CD package for Colin MacDonald’s superb new music sax quartet, Saxophilia. The group is performing new work in concert again so I also designed two posters for performances over the summer of 2023. The font is, once again, “Restraint” by Marian Bantjes and Ross Mills. The poster images are from my ongoing body of ICM work centred on natural elements and the play of light in relation to time and gesture. The CD cover image came from a tabletop session done during covid originally intended for an ambient video series.
I really enjoy working for Friends of Chamber Music and designing each season’s posters and digital advertising content. This year has been no exception! I pulled back a little bit from last season’s more abstract approach to include hints of instruments. The main display font is Landmark which seems to me to combine a hint of a neon showbiz with solid tradition.
In the last few years I’ve had the opportunity to meet and photograph some of my favourite visiting artists who record for the ECM label in Germany. They’ve also been some of my favourite portrait sessions and I use the occasion to write about and highlight their new releases and concert appearances on my personal blog and on social media. I thought I’d post a few here. Upper left is the awesome trumpet player Avishai Cohen prior to headlining the Chutzpah Festival. Upper right is one of my favourite cellists; Anja Lechner, photographed at the Seattle Art Museum. Lower left is Simin Tander who was here for the Jazz Fest after a stunning performance at Christ Church Cathedral. Finally, lower right, a percussionist with few peers; Thomas Strønen, photographed at Ironworks prior to a recent Jazz Fest engagement.