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Spotlight 001 - Leo Elstob: London, UK
With a plethora of designers to choose from I had to make a big decision. I knew I had to go down a different route than the normal rave flyer designers you will expect to see on this page.
This would-be group of artisans and musicians have been promoting the vast spectrum that is house music, with a good deal of of success in London for over the past ten years. For roughly four years now, the collective have been busy putting pen to paper to publish the Faith fanzine. For my first venture into the spotlight I call on the visual talents of designer and DJ Leo Elstob.
On the following pages are party flyers, stickers and a range of flyposters from his adventures with sidekick and long time partner-in-crime Stuart Patterson.
Spotlight 002 - Paul Rickus: Amsterdam, NL
For the second journey we have to hop across the channel to see our cousins in the Netherlands.
This designer caught my attention when we went over for our first visit to Amsterdam a few years back, and they design in a similar vein to another group of designers we are interested in. Paul and the Ocktak collective design and promote the weekly Bullitproof drum and bass nights at the Mazzo venue quite near to Amsterdam centraal station. When we got the chance to visit their studios in the east of the city, the design team pointed out and showed us a vast portfolio of other organisers they have designed for in central Europe.
Only quite recently, Paul and the team have recieved some international acclaim as their designs where featured in the "Los" and "Dos Logos" graphic books. Alas Bullitproof and Ocktak is no more, so to occupy their spare time Paul the team have created new ventures 310k design studios and the stickerwar website with other like minded artists, vandals and musicians.