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The Designers Republic (TDR or miTDR for short) is a group of graphic designers, founded on July 14, 1986 by Ian Anderson, and based in Sheffield, England. It is known for its anti-establishment aesthetics. from Warp Records website. ...
from Warp Records website. ...
Incunabula, released by Warp Records in 1993, is the debut album by the electronic music group Autechre. ...
Autechre are an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale. ...
Image File history File links Cover of Appetite for Disctruction by Funkstörung. ...
Image File history File links Cover of Appetite for Disctruction by Funkstörung. ...
Appetite for Disctruction is the first regular album by the German IDM group Funkstörung. ...
Michael Fakesch and Christian de Luca 2004 in Munich Image © 2004 Marek Vogel Funkstörung (German for transmission interference, sometimes also spelt Funkstorung or, more rarely, Funkstoerung) is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch, a duo of IDM producers hailing from Rosenheim, Germany. ...
Image File history File links screenshot PS1 wipEout, made by me This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ...
Image File history File links screenshot PS1 wipEout, made by me This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game. ...
Wipeout is the title of a series of futuristic anti-gravity racing games, originally produced by Psygnosis for the PlayStation video game console, with other versions of the game produced for the Sega Saturn, DOS, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation Portable formats. ...
The original PlayStation was produced in a light grey color. ...
Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
This article is about the city in England. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ...
Anti-establishment defines a certain view or belief that goes against the conventional social, political and economic principles being used in society. ...
History
Initially, Ian Anderson founded TDR to design flyers for the band Person to Person, which he managed at the time. His first ideas were inspired by Russian constructivism. From their beginning, the works should be viewed in contrast to the current understanding of design (Quote: TDR is a declaration of independence from what we perceive to be the existing design community). A Flyer can refer to one of the following things: A leaflet or pamphlet A person who operates an airplane A military rank, most common in the German Luftwaffe (i. ...
In education, constructivism is a learning theory which holds that knowledge is not transmitted unchanged from teacher to student, but instead that learning is an active process of recreating knowledge. ...
The Designers Republic were introduced to a larger audience by their record covers for the English electronica label Warp Records. Because of the anti-capitalist tendencies in its work, the company has a majority of its clients in the music and entertainment industries: TDR designed the covers of CDs by Autechre and Aphex Twin, but also for artists such as Funkstörung, Supergrass, Pop Will Eat Itself and Towa Tei. Electronica is a rather ambiguous term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ...
Warp Records is a pioneering independent UK record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the most enduring artists in electronic music. ...
CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s...
Autechre are an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale. ...
Richard D. James Aphex Twin (born Richard David James, August 18, 1971, Ireland) is a UK-based electronic music artist, credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, acid, drum and bass. ...
Michael Fakesch and Christian de Luca 2004 in Munich Image © 2004 Marek Vogel Funkstörung (German for transmission interference, sometimes also spelt Funkstorung or, more rarely, Funkstoerung) is Christian de Luca and Michael Fakesch, a duo of IDM producers hailing from Rosenheim, Germany. ...
For the police method of 1980s Northern Ireland, see Supergrass phenomenon Supergrass is an indie rock and Britpop band from Oxford, UK. Currently the band consists of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes, Danny Goffey, and Mick Quinn. ...
Pop Will Eat Itself (PWEI, or the Poppies) was formed in Stourbridge, England with band members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. ...
Japanese-born DJ Towa Tei (テイトウワ, Tei Towa) first earned notice for his production work on the Jungle Brothers 1989 LP Done by the Forces of Nature; the following year he shot to fame as a member of the downtown New York club trio Deee-Lite, scoring an international hit with...
Outside of the musical sector, TDR created the visuals, packaging and manual for the Playstation game WipEout, the interface for the PC game Hardwar, and packaging and posters for the first Grand Theft Auto. They cooperated with the Swatch company in 1996 to design their own watch. They also designed the packaging for Sony's Aibo. The original PlayStation was produced in a light grey color. ...
WipEout is the title of a series of futuristic anti-gravity racing games, originally produced by Psygnosis for the PlayStation video game console, with other versions of the game produced for the Sega Saturn, DOS, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Playstation 3 formats. ...
An Alienware PC Personal computer games are games played on a personal computer. ...
Hardwar (sometimes stylized HardW[a]r) is a 1998 science fiction simulation computer game developed by the Software Refinery and published by Interplay and Gremlin Interactive. ...
The original Grand Theft Auto, PC Version Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a video game created by DMA Design (now Rockstar North) and published by ASC Games in 1997. ...
Swatch is a brand of stylish and inexpensive quartz watches produced by The Swatch Group Ltd. ...
1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758), NYSE: SNE is a global Japanese consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ...
The Aibo ERS-7 resembles a dog AIBO is one of several types of robotic pets designed and manufactured by Sony; there have been several different models since their introduction in 1999. ...
In 2001 the book 3D → 2D: Adventures In And Out Of Architecture, which presented an overview of the different works of the group, was released. The book was preordered by over 3,000 fans, but could only in part live up to the high expectations, because many of the included designs were considered rather conventional. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
Current members are Ian Anderson, Nick Bax, Matt Pyke and Bob Sanderson.
Influence The work of TDR had great influence on the development of graphic design, especially in the fields of web and cover design in the electronica scene. Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ...
Web design is the design or designing of a web page, website or web application. ...
Cover may mean: Cover (container), a lid Cover (telecommunications), a communications concealment technique Cover (philately), generic term for envelope or package Cover (law), a remedy for the breach of acontract for the receipt of goods. ...
Electronica is a rather ambiguous term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ...
Style The Designers Republic's works are playful and bright, but very minimalistic, mixing images from Japanese anime cartoons and subvertized corporate logos, with a postmodern tendency towards controversial irony, featuring statements like "Work Buy Consume Die", "Customized Terror", or indeed ""Made In The Designers Republic"". Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. ...
A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Japanimation. ...
Postmodernity (also called post-modernity or the postmodern condition) is a term used by philosophers, social scientists, art critics and social critics to refer to aspects of contemporary art, culture, economics and social conditions that are the result of the unique features of late 20th century and early 21st century...
Adolf Hitler: layered visual irony? Irony is a form of expression in which an implicit meaning is concealed or contradicted by the explicit meaning of the expression. ...
Works TDR worked in a diverse range of media, including: CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s...
A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...
DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ...
Web design is the design or designing of a web page, website or web application. ...
// Music Video A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film or video meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ...
In marketing, a corporate identity is the persona of a corporation which is designed to accord with and facilitate the attainment of business objectives, and is usually visibly manifested by way of branding and the use of trademarks. ...
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