From the Archive - GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX ... And, how I got to design the Laughing Man. From the mid to late 90s, I had been designing for a Japanese game developer and music label, Frognation. At the time, I had and sent the guys in the Tokyo office a load of Prototype 21 stickers, which were liberally plastered around. P21 was a clothing label I designed for from 1992 to 2002. Dai Sato, one of the guys at Frognation, was also a scriptwriter at Production I.G. and had been working on early drafts for the animated TV series of Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex. With his laptop being covered in P21 stickers then admired by the director of Stand Alone Complex, Kenji Kamiyama, one thing led to another. I was sent a brief and invited to submit designs for the Laughing Man, a hacker central to the storyline. For this Laughing Man, it was the first time Production IG had chosen to work with a non-Japanese creative. That was the summer of 2001. #GhostintheShell #StandAloneComplex #LaughingMan #ProductionIG #KenjiKamiyama #DaiSato #Logo #LogoDesign #GraphicArt #GraphicDesign #PaulNicholson #Number3 #3 #III https://www.instagram.com/p/ChnJjhqLaHk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=