may 7th, 2012: check out my latest one-off poster, missions of palo alto. 4-piece series client.     encore label.     island records uk agency.     addiction worldwide creative director.     peter falloon production assistant.     sasha mbilika illustration.     alex varanese My favorite English R&B trio is back with another single about the trials, tribulations and traumatizing trivialities of the modern love scene. Like last time, my job was to place three immaculately photographed band members in an ultra-stylized tableau of urban deconstruction that feels both believable and surreal. This time, however, the goal was to strike a more muted, contemplative tone, and to uh… do the whole thing in something called "blue". To be honest, I'd never heard the term before, but after extensive coaching, in-depth psychotherapy and just a dash of ECT, I think I got the hang of it. The scene is a modified take on a piece from my second Urban Cartography series, with the ceiling removed and the background expanded to include the a devolving city skyline to match the last one. I reeled in the skyscraper deconstruction on this one, however, partially to match the mellower sound of the track and to keep the background from fighting with the foreground, which features concrete pillars and a segmented floor in a more advanced state of disarray. copyright © 2008-2012 alex varanese. all rights reserved.