Big Active have art directed and designed the new Subways album campaign. 'All or Nothing' is the follow up to the band's 2005 debut and is produced by Butch Vig. The imagery takes it's inspiration from the exploits of legendary stunt riders. More...
Big Active celebrate the enigmatic fruits of a new found collaboration between set designer Rachel Thomas & still life photographer Jenny van Sommers. This new story was conceived for online magazine Ponystep, the birth child of Boombox legend Richard Mortimer. View...
To celebrate the opening party for Wieden+Kennedy's new Amsterdam studio, Big Active were invited to exhibit a group show featuring a selection of hand picked images by W+K's favorite Big Active artists. Visit the exhibition...
This month Grafik magazine features a major profile on Big Active's influential set designer Rachel Thomas. Angharad Lewis visits her colorful studio to talk about fantasy, illusion and how balloons can be dirty. Read feature / View as PDF
Misha the bear was unleashed at the height of the Cold War, as official mascot for the Moscow Olympics of 1980. Big Active photographer Erwan Frotin has resurrected Misha’s iconic image alongside a series of other Olympic plush toys for the Arena Homme Plus Spring 2008 Olympic issue. More...
Not content with simply creating prolific works of illustration, Big Active's Parra also has an electric band. Flage is the new album from which springs the single Breakfast. Parra supplies the animated video (and the beats). Watch the video...
Big Active still life photographer Erwan Frotin's latest editorial sees him collaborate with up & coming set designer Gary Card for V Man Magazine. More...
Goldfrapp's new album 'Seventh Tree' continues our collaborative creative relationship with the band. As the album explores new ground musically so too the visuals take on a new sense of direction. More...
A dozen years after it's original release Beck's classic album 'Odelay' has been expanded into a two CD Deluxe Edition. To celebrate the release Beck asked Big Active to do some work on the original packaging, "We told him we'd like to deface the cover, he loved the idea so we got some biros out..." The album is out now. More...
Genevieve Gauckler opens a major new solo show at the MU Gallery in Eindhoven on 27th January. Food Chain takes the form of an exploration of our relationship with what we eat via a series of highly stylised and humorous educational charts. Visitors are taken on a fact finding journey from pleasure to disgust, life, consumption, decay and death. More...
Erwan Frotin's exhibition at the prestigious Villa Noailles in Hyères in Southern France is the fruit of several year's patient work collecting wild flowers from the region & adds him to a long line of pioneers and masters of photographic art that have produced images of flora from Fox Talbot to Mapplethorpe. The show is running between October 28th 2006 until January 6th 2007. More...
Big Active have won prestigious Yellow Pencils at this year’s D&AD Global Awards held in London. Gerard Saint and Mat Maitland picked up an award in the Graphic Design category for their art direction and design work on Beck’s latest album ‘The Information’. Meanwhile Big Active still life photographer Erwan Frotin was awarded a Yellow Pencil for his images created for London’s Sketch restaurant in collabortion with Ich & Car. More...
Big Active have art directed the packaging for the new single release by Keane in aid of the War Child charity. The sleeve design was created by Big Active in collaboration with illustrator Kate Moross. War Child works with children affected by war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
Big Active were invited to participate in the prestigious 2008 Publikum calendar. Creative Director Gerard Saint collaborated with our designer team and illustrators to create the numbered characters for the month of August. More...
Rachel Thomas' most recent project for Acne Jeans saw her create a set of out door sculptures consisting of a giant inflatable pair of jeans, a lipstick and pair of sunglasses for Acne’s presence at the Tranoi Femme fashion fair in Paris during Spring/Summer Fashion Week 2007. More...
The second Athlete album to be art directed by Big Active. Working in collaboration with image maker Stevie Gee, Big Active have created an ecclectic package that combines striking eblematic graphics with raw sketch book style imagery - suggestive of dicarded artists' note books. More...
The new album by The Enemy features art direction and design by Big Active. The creative direction is based upon railway destination and departure boards and this theme is applied across all aspects of the campaign, from physical packaging, to press and poster advertising, to animated online slots and digital downloads for itunes – providing a powerfully succinct identity to the release, which debuted at number 1 in the UK album charts. More...
Head, Heart & Hips – The Seductive World of Big Active’ is published by our friends at Die Gestalten Verlag. Edited by Big Active creative director Gerard Saint the volume features specially commissioned new work on the theme of seduction and pleasure. More...
