Downtown Calling is a film by Shan Nicolson about the late 70s – early 80s music scene in downtown New York City. Narrated by Deborah Harry. Produced by our main man Ben Velez with design, logo, titles and packaging by GHAVA.
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Just received promo copies of the upcoming Bear In Heaven album, Beast Rest Forth Mouth due to be released on Hometapes in mid-October. We’ve been working closely with the amazing illustrations of Laura Brothers for the upcoming release.  Stay tuned for the whole package; CDs, LPs, posters, t-shirts, etc.

Shan Nicholson directs Downtown Calling, a documentary about the evolution of New York City’s fertile music and art subculture during the chaos of the late 70’s. GHAVA was brought in to develop the title design, as well as the promotional materials. Music supervision by otaku

Creative Time TV is a new online program from Creative Time, presenting video works and series.

Creative Time is a nonprofit organization that commissions and presents public arts projects of all disciplines. They strive to commission, produce and present the most important, ground-breaking, challenging and exceptional art of our times; art that infiltrates the public realm and engages millions of people in NYC and across the globe.

Our submission was one of two runners-up and was featured on Creative Time’s YouTube Channel.

See a few more versions here.

Check out GHAVA’s branding work for L.A.M.B in use. The above TV commercial for Gwen Stefani and Coty Prestige’s collaboration, “L” Fragrance gives a bit of shine to the logo family GH developed back in 2003. Gwen’s debut fragrance is now available at NORDSTROM where many other products blazing the identity we created can be found.