No Allegiances has been asked to serve as UI design consultant to Playlouder for their revolutionary ISP-based file sharing service. Details are hush but in effect users pay the ISP a monthly fee on top of their standard plan in exchange for unlimited music downloads which stay within the network. The revenue from the monthly fee is then shared amongst the repertoire owners, making everybody happy and introducing a new model of music distribution and culminating with everyone holding hands, singing (properly licensed and paid for) songs and dancing on the corroding corpse of The Man.

As everything is in progress there’s not much to show except for these pretty pixel people living in their perfect pixel world where music is shared freely (but where the artists and labels are still remitted fairly for it).

Further updates as they come. Playlouder logo designed by Stylorouge

One of my favourite bands Thursday ran a T-shirt design comp towards the end of 2007. I submitted a couple of designs and while this one didn’t make the cut (the one that made it to the shortlist was this) I received an e-mail from their management asking if they could use it.

“Fuck yes”, was the reply. I don’t think they’ve printed it yet, I’m not sure if they ever will, but I’m just chuffed as all hell that they were even close to using this for merch.

This design made the shortlist for a merch contest that Thursday held last year.

It ended up coming in fourth but a few weeks after the competition ended Thursday’s management contacted me and asked to use this design in an upcoming range. As per the Heart design it’s not seen the back of a sweaty meathead in a moshpit yet but I hold hope.

‘All You Need Is Me’ was the second release from Greatest Hits. The patterned paper on this was made of snakes, globes, eyes and stars.

Also released as two 7″s and a CD wallet.

See also Morrissey Greatest Hits and That’s How People Grow Up

Cover photography by Jake Walters.

A design for Morrissey’s show at the Paris Olympia in February 2008. Originally intended to be a limited edition poster, the merchandiser decided to not take a punt on a run of 100 posters for an individual show.

This design was run on T-shirts instead. Again in the Vienna Succession style, although this one features Nike holding a wreath surrounding a bomb—the figure of Nike was taken from a Vivat ribbon in the Imperial War Museum.

See also Morrissey Roundhouse Poster