When we started first fold records, we loved the idea of having a mascot or character that could represent us and do our dirty work, that character became the Doctor. With the June release of our second issue of arts/culture publication premier pli, we thought it was time to introduce first fold books’ very own [...]
Archive for the 'First Fold Design' Category
Meet Edd from first fold books
Published by April 27th, 2012 in First Fold Books and First Fold Design. 2 Commentsfirst fold books logo
Published by December 11th, 2011 in First Fold Books, First Fold Design and premier pli. 0 CommentsOur designer Alex Bermingham, who is behind first fold’s branding and visual identity, has been busy creating a new and very exciting set of logos, type and branding for first fold books. Alex’s work is ahead of our second volume of premier pli and a new dedicated website for first fold books, more details to follow.
Supersonic Marketplace
Published by October 16th, 2011 in First Fold Books, First Fold Design and First Fold Records. 0 CommentsWe are pleased/delighted/ecstatic to have a stall once again at Supersonic’s Marketplace, we had fun last year taking it in turns to man/person the stall or see acts familiar and new. We will be selling our fine back catalogue of limited customised CDs as well as new A3 prints from Gareth Courage created for the festival. [...]
Gareth Courage Exhibition
Published by June 18th, 2011
in First Fold Books, First Fold Design and Gareth Courage.
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First Fold get to play out some improvised electronics for Gareth Courage’s opening, we are also launching premier pli our new magazine/journal. It is all happening on the 8th of July between 6-8pm. Free event, beer, vino and nibbles and all welcome. The exhibition coincides with the Birmingham Zine Festival. 8th – 22nd July 2011 [...]
Wizards Tell Lies Vs Gareth Courage
Published by March 22nd, 2011
in First Fold Design, First Fold Records and Wizards Tell Lies.
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Gareth Courage‘s stunning illustration for the forthcoming Wizards Tell Lies album. Many of Gareth’s posters, inspired by first folds constantly evolving soundtrack, are available as framed or unframed limited edition prints, check out his new website for details.
Spunkle Music for DXing
Published by November 16th, 2010
in First Fold Design, First Fold Records and Spunkle.
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Next release schedule includes Spunkle‘s Music for DXING, the CD master arrived in a customised envelope, the design by James Davies is part of his ongoing postcard series. Jim creates and sends out postal art regularly to a friend or contact, before sending them out he scans and posts them on his flickr account. It is [...]
First Fold at Supersonic Marketplace
Published by October 25th, 2010 in First Fold Design and First Fold Records. 1 CommentThank you to all the people who stopped by our Marketplace stall during the Supersonic festival, we managed to catch a couple of bands, Melt Banana were sounding great and did a couple of electronic numbers before doing their full band guitar thing, very much our cup of tea. Keeping it on a Tokyo tip [...]
Craig Earp Vs Papa November
Published by October 20th, 2010 in First Fold Design and Papa November. 1 CommentIllustrator and experimental photographer Craig Earp has created two images for the CD version of Papa November’s Book Two The Well, The images will also be available as a limited edition run of ten prints for sale at the Supersonic music festival held at Birmingham’s Custard Factory.
First Fold Player
Published by October 15th, 2010 in First Fold Design and First Fold Records. 0 CommentsOur very own Ben Neal has been busying himself with the creation of a bespoke first fold media player, the players job will be to stream first folds back cat for your listening pleasure. The idea was to have it up and running to coincide with the new batch of releases but technology dictates the [...]
Generic Packaging
Published by September 25th, 2010 in First Fold Design and First Fold Records. 0 CommentsOne of the things that is very satisfying about working with designers, is when the projects they have been working on and have been describing, finally take their intended form. In this case Gareth Courage designed the new batch of First Fold generic digipacks, these will now go to the bands and it will be [...]
