Poster!

This was spotted at Victoria station. It's the poster for Anno Dracula, a great horror novel written by Kim Newman. We did the cover, so it's great to see it up and out there in the world! You can read an excerpt here. Now go buy the book. Go on.

Also, check back in a week or so and we'll be posting a 'making of' for the cover, showing the various prototypes and alternative concepts we went through.

- Martin

The Greatest Stuntman in the World

Vic Armstrong, the 'World's Greatest Stuntman (TM)' was on BBC Breakfast last Friday talking about his forthcoming autobiography. If you click this link, you can watch it (the interview with Vic is about ten minutes in). Failing that, look, here he is:

The subtitle of the book is also basically it's synopsis: "My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes".

Vic's an amazing guy, with some incredible stories to tell of his time working as a stuntman for some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. The best thing is, he's still doing it - he worked on the recent Thor movie and is currently working on the new Amazing Spider-Man reboot.

It's a book well worth checking out - and I'm not just saying that because we designed it:

(Nice to see the beeb used the cover design as their backdrop...)

- Martin

Doctor Who: Companion Chronicles - The Memory Cheats

One of the problems of working in publishing is that there's such long lead times and embargo periods on things, you have to wait ages until you can admit to having even worked on them!

There's some hugely exciting stuff I'm dying to post online but it'll just have to wait. In the meantime, to whet your appetite, here's a CD sleeve we did for Big Finish a few weeks ago. It's especially timely since the new series of Who has just started on the beeb (and if you'll allow me to geek out momentarily… IT'S FREAKING AWESOME!)

Find out more about The Memory Cheats by clicking here.

– Martin

Icons

Huzzah! A book I designed for Titan last year has been nominated for an Eagle Award! Icons: The DC and Wildstorm Art of Jim Lee is in the running for Best Comics-Related Book.

If you have a moment, please pop along here to vote for it! Here's some images from the book:

You can see more at our website: amazing15.com

There's also a rumour circulating it might be up for another, even more prestigious award... More on that as we get it!

- Martin

Sucker Punch Review #2

The Art of Sucker Punch, a huge doorstep of a book designed by myself for the upcoming movie, has been reviewed on cult nerd site AintItCool. Here's a screen grab of the review - click to embiggen (or click here to visit the site). Nice!

Mart

Uncle Boonmee

I've long been a fan of designer and illustrator Chris Ware. Jimmy Corrigan is a benchmark of tiny-picture funny and some of his book covers are awesome, like this one.

This is a poster for a film I'm not at all familiar with, but it jumped out at me from the wall of other posters on Apple's trailers website and a bit of googling revealed it was, indeed, by Mr. Ware. It's an utterly joyous piece of work.

Invite

This is an invite we did for our Titan leaving party, based on the inspiration for our company name. Frankly we should both be ashamed of the arguments we had about who was gonna be Spidey…

And this is the original cover...

Martin