Various Artists / IdN Pro / Iconography 2: Life / Multimedia / 2004
A selection of the motion graphic works included on IdN Pro's Iconography 2: Life(2004). The second volume in their series on icons explores the work of over 90 designers and how Icons are formed, created and manifest stating "At its most fundamental, the icon is a summation - either of a simple message, such as "No Smoking", or of a whole movement, era, and attitude."
In addition to 300+ pages of visual inspiration from some of the most Iconic graphic designers of the 2000s such as Meomi, Neubau, Andy Walker for Nike, and Stapelberg&Fritz the 2 book set included a CD-ROM full of design assets so users could immediately start creating their own work. As usual a copy of the CD-ROM content can be found here.
Music is the appropriately named Music(Evilnine (Punk Rocks) Mix) by Ils(2002) from the single of the same name on Adam Freeland's Marine Parade label. Speaking of, there is an interesting parallel between this track and the content of Iconography 2.: Life. At the time creative fields all over the Western world were producing a massive amount of anti-American imperialism themed work, of which a considerable amount appears within this book. While this track has no overt political themes Adam Freeland memorably mixed it with Saul Williams' Non In Our Name (There's also a Cold Cut remix of this track) to open his May 2003 BBC One Essential Mix. A set that also included remixes of Rage Against the Machine and Radiohead and was broadcast mere weeks before Radiohead's polemic against the war on terror, 2003's Hail to the Thief.