…or Lacoste for Vault49.  Either way, a match made in heaven.  The Lacoste peeps have got a great vision, and Vault49 are part of it.

Myself and John were part of a shoot today in the Vault49 studio – all dolled up in the finest Lacoste threads and kicks ready to be featured in Lacoste editorials in the US.  There was absolutely, positively, no make-up involved.  Honest.  Don’t let Chris Goldteeth tell you otherwise.

Adam popped out of our office earlier to take a few snapshots.  Damn its freezing outside, but its a beautiful place to be!

Earlier in the month we created this great graphic brand identity and illustration for ClubCard, the first universal and instant Retail Rewards club.  This is the beginning of a long-term relationship with a great client – look out for more in the series including a planned Vault49 animation .

New animation from Vault49 for Ministry of Sound’s Clubbers Guide to 2010…. ‘av it!

…your clients will send you pictures like this:

Happy new year to everyone… it’s going to be so so so good!

We just finished creating a new triple CD release for Ministry of Sound, album artwork, digipack, and motion.  A wonderfully creative process and one which brings together a lot of our passions and ambitions for 2010.

And this was our second-choice paper-cutout piece for the cover… we were in love with this piece for a while, but finally separated our attachment to it after realizing that the option above had more kick and legibility on the shelves.

It’s always a pleasure to work for the Sunday Times, and their Style Magazine provides some of the most fun editorial briefs around.  Here’s a couple of illustrations we just created for their upcoming issues on the subject of horoscopes… particularly Aries and Virgo.  It’s all a load of hocus-pocus if you ask me… but maybe I was destined to be a naysayer.

The fine folks over at Click For Art are about to release something special, and of course we had to get in on the act.

These are some of the first off the press – a limited edition washbag and eyemask set.  Well, we say washbag, but it could just easily be a pencil case, stash-bag, or…

Buy them here…  just in time for Christmas! (Or Ded Moroz day for the Russians among us).

Vault49 worked together with Quirk & Hyll to develop illustrations for their new website homepage. Our work is featured alongside other lovely Debut Art familios.

See it live here.

We’ve decided we’re going to have a Russian Christmas this year, in honour of Kat, our nomadic Russian designer.  Apparently, Christmas was banned in Russia in 1917 so they came up with this dude called Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) instead of Santa Claus.  He is the shit!  Straight out of Power Rangers…