- Julian House
Julian House is a
graphic designer , amusician , and the co-owner of theGhost Box Music record label. [http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/reviews/fact01.htm Interview with Julian House] , "FACT Magazine" - from the "Ghost Box Music" website]Graphic Design
House is associated with Intro, a
London -based design/production direction company who work in many media. House is perhaps most known for hisalbum cover design; most notably forStereolab , Oasis [ [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/07/_the_sleeve_for_dig.html Interview with Noel Gallagher] , "The Guardian "] ,The Prodigy , andBroadcast [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1045522 Feature on Julian House] , "BBC Collective "] , but also forRazorlight amongst others.His work is largely
collage -based, and draws heavily on record sleeve design and comic book art, with an acknowledged pulp infuence - in House's own words, "the 'pulp' end of things which still informs me today, as much as classic design… Strange old vinyl LPs, paperback books, found ephemera…" In the same interview, House named many artists across many disciplines as influences, ranging fromPeter Saville ,Saul Bass andMax Ernst toWilliam Burroughs ,Bryon Gysin ,HP Lovecraft , andLewis Carroll . [http://www.soulriotmagazine.co.uk/julianHouse.html Interview with Julian House] , "Soul Riot"]Music
House releases music under the alias
The Focus Group on the labelGhost Box Music , which he is co-founder of withJim Jupp . The releases on the label tend to share a commonaesthetic , both in design and sound, which draws heavily on the sound of theBBC Radiophonic Workshop ,musique concrete , thesoundtrack s to documentaries from the 1970s, and library music.He lists his most recent work as collaborating with
Martina Topley-Bird , somepublic information film s forLive Earth , ongoing Ghost Box work and a musical collaboration with Broadcast.References
External links
* [http://www.intro-uk.com/ Intro, a London-based design firm with which House is associated]
* [http://www.ghostbox.co.uk Ghost Box Music]
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