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The trailer for my brand new Domestika course goes live this Friday! This one’s been in the making for a while — and you’ll finally see what we’ve made for you! More info soon, including the Q&A session we’ll be streaming LIVE!
House of X / Dawn of X / Reign of X / Destiny of X.
From 2019 to the present day, the logos and brand marks designed for Marvel’s X-franchise.
With the next phase in Marvel’s X-Men cycle, Destiny of X, releasing this spring, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to showcase the family of logos to date.
This week sees the release of X-MEN #1, as Marvel’s flagship title of the X-Men franchise relaunches two years after the Dawn of X release — reflecting the growth of the line. X-MEN #1 is my 13th Design Variant cover for the X titles, and my 2nd X-Men #1 cover. Available now at comic book shops everywhere.
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Coming this autumn from Gestalten Books and Marvel —MARVEL BY DESIGN looks at the rich design history of the publisher. Excited to share that the X-Men rebrand work is included. The book will be released in September across Europe and in November in the US.
Official description:
As one of the most recognizable brands in the world, Marvel has spent the last 80-plus years inspiring generations of creatives through its approach to visual storytelling.
Marvel’s comic books, in particular, established a distinct graphic language that has found its way into mainstream culture, including 1960s Pop Art and present-day digital culture, gaming, advertising and more.
Marvel By Design will celebrate the company’s visual language with an in-depth exploration of the design process behind the brand’s most recognisable graphical elements including logos, covers, lettering, layout, and colour palettes. Readers will learn how the renowned Marvel Method established a unique approach to the creative process and how that process can serve as a template for creatives working beyond comics.
Throughout the book, Marvel by Design will connect the dots between comic culture and its undeniable influence in every creative field including the evolution of graphic design, editorial design, movies and visual culture at large. Highlights include:
An expansive, five-part visual encyclopedia, highlighting examples of Marvel’s exceptional approach to logos, layout, lettering, cover design, and colour palettes.
This section will feature insights from some of Marvel’s most renowned contributors including artist Klaus Janson and letterer Todd Klein, among others.
Essays from famous graphic designers including Mike Essl and Paul Sahre, as well as from well-known Marvel contributors including letterer Chris Eliopolous and designer/editor Carl Potts.
An oral history of the making of House of X, featuring Jonathan Hickman, editor Jordan D. White and designer Tom Muller.
Case-studies that trace the visual evolution of ten iconic characters.
Hundreds of images from Marvel’s past and present.
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Marvel just announced the next comic in the X-Men franchise, the first in the Reign of X cycle: WAY OF X by Si Spurrier and Bob Quinn. Here’s the logo I designed for the series, and check out that killer cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli!
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/nightcrawler-new-x-men-series-si-spurrier-way-of-x
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Nice way to end the year with the ‘Dawn of X’ design variant covers I created for Marvel receiving a Typography Award of Excellence from Communication Arts, and being included in their 11th Typography Annual, released next month/year!
https://www.commarts.com/project/32169/marvel-entertainment
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The cover design system for Marvel’s current X-Men franchise event ‘X of Swords’, running across the full line with 3 main titles anchoring the story at the beginning, middle and end. Each cycle is colour-coded on a variation of the core event colours: blue, black, white.
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The X-Men “Dawn of X” rebrand picked up a Bronze award in the Publishing category at the Brand Impact Awards.
Very grateful and honoured; and great to see brand design for comics and pop culture recognised this way! eXcelsior!
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With Comic-Con 2020 coming to a close, Mondo is wrapping up their Comic-Con@Home experience with a range of new X-Men merchandise, including a new ‘Dawn of X’ Slip Mat, and House of X/Powers of X enamel pin — designed by me based on my own rebrand of the relaunch of the X-Men franchise last year.
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Here’s the cover and 1st page design of LOST SOLDIERS, the new comic from Ales Kot and Luca Cacalanguida; with Heather Marie Lawrence Moore, Aditya Bidikar, and myself — published by Image Comics.
In stores JULY 29!
Reserve your copy at your local comic shop now!
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Excited to show the cover and masthead design for BLACKING OUT — now funding on Kickstarter — a new oversized hardcover graphic novel by Chip Mosher & Peter Krause, with Giulia Brusco, Ed Dukeshire, and myself on design. Here is the cover by Peter and me.
Support Blacking Out on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacking-out/blacking-out-a-graphic-novel-by-chip-mosher-and-peter-krause/
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The cover designs for Marvel’s DAWN OF X Vol.1–6 collections. The books collect the recent X-Men franchise series chronologically and following the story narrative across the relaunched series with each book containing the corresponding numbers of the series (Vol. 1 contains all Nº1 issues, and so forth). The unifying design system across the collections puts the X front and centre, in order to create an iconic cover design that stands apart from everything else on the shelves.
Cover art for the books is by Pepe Larraz and David Curiel (Vol. 1, 4–6) and R.B. Silva and Marte Gracia (Vol.2–3).
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BLOODSHOT is now out in cinemas worldwide. I was tasked with the design and application suggestions of the logo for RST (Rising Spirit Technologies), the in-story corporation that revives the titular hero played by Vin Diesel. The logo is applied throughout: on-set and on costumes. Huge thanks to Sony, director Dave Wilson, and producers Dinesh Shamdasani and Vin Diesel. Thanks Dinesh for bringing me on board and the shout out in the credits!
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Here is the cover for BLUE IN GREEN — the upcoming horror graphic novel by Ram V, Anand RK, Aditya Bidikar, and myself on design, published by Image Comics.
The A.V. Club has an exclusive first look: https://aux.avclub.com/jazz-meets-horror-in-this-exclusive-blue-in-green-first-1842311200
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12 Months, 12 logos. A year’s worth of working with Marvel on the rebrand and relaunch of their X-Men franchise and family of series.
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Last post of 2019! Last one out of the gate for 2019! Here’s the cover design for Marvel’s DAWN OF X Vol. 1 collection, featuring brand new art by Pepe Larraz & David Curiel — in stores February 12, 2020!
Happy New year!
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My comics output of 2019. The year started off with the collected editions of DAYS OF HATE Vol.2, THE NEW WORLD, and THE WEATHERMAN Vol.1; and the release of THE WEATHERMAN Vol.2 issues #1–5 (#6 drops in February 2020). And then Marvel and the X-Men came knocking and I’ve spent the best part of the year designing the new X-Men master brand and identity, the complete publication design language for the franchise and the logos for all the new series relaunching the X-Men family of books; and worked alongside Jonathan Hickman creating the now ubiquitous “data pages” that runs through the series.
More is coming in 2020. Stay tuned!
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