Patent Pending Industries

Its not gone un-noticed that Dots and Spaces has been neglecting its duties in terms of bringing you interesting bits of design to add to the clutter (of life). So I thought I'd address this, with a mention of Patent Pending Industries who are a print firm that do lots of cover art and posters for Subpop and the like, coving bands like Stephen Malkmus, The Hives, Belle and Sebastien etc. The designs that first caught my eye come from Jesse LeDoux, and this was after seeing a great cover for Hot Hot Heat's Bandages. In fact, all the PPI designs are first class. There's lots of Saul Bass influences in the poster work. The great thing is that the sum of the information comunicated is negligible to the overall effect created. I mean, they don't just tell you which band is playing, they give you the feeling you're already watching them...still with me?

I feel a Saul Bass entry coming on...