Julian House - wk 5

Julian House is a man with many titles. He works as a graphic designer, a musician and the co-owner of the Ghost Box record label. Julian House is associated with Intro which is a London based design/production company that uses many different types of media. House is most known for his notable album covers; Stereolab, Oasis, the Prodigy, Broadcast and Razorlight along with others.

As a graphic designer, House enjoys using the collage format and heavily indulges in creating art for record sleeve deigns and comic book art. There is always a pulp influence in his work that House uses as a point of reference when creating. Successfully, House took part in the 2012 film Berberian Sound Studio where he designed work for the movie as well as      producing posters and ephemera for use within the film.

 For House’s music career, he releases music under the name The Focus Group on the label Ghost Box, which he is co-founder of. The label produces music that share similar aesthetic both in design and sound. His most recent work was collaborating with Martina Topley-Bird, some public information films for live Earth, continuous Ghost box work and a musical collaboration with Broadcast. He is known to be a man with many talents and one who enjoys each one.