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John O?Callaghan?s ?Unfold? cover revealed!
In April 2011, the new album of John O?Callaghan will be released. ?Unfold? marks the next chapter in the impressive career of the number one Irish DJ, producer and label owner. While John was in the final stages of producing the album, he asked all creative minds to come up with a design for the cover of the album. Who wouldn?t want his or her design on the album of one of the world?s best trance producers? After many entries, John made the final decision and named Irfan Amran the official winner of the competition. His visual translation of ?Unfold? will be the face for the upcoming album by John, which is filled with uplifting trance with a blend of vocals, chillout and plenty of tech for the Joint Operations Centre fans. A great honour for a great designer. Time to hook up with the winner and find out about his work, style and love for dance music!
Congrats on being chosen the official winner of the John O?Callaghan ?Unfold? cover contest, Irfan! How does it feel to realize your design will be spread all across the globe soon?
Irfan: ?I can?t even begin to describe how awesome I?m feeling right now! It?s extremely overwhelming and I think it may take a while for me to fully absorb all this!?
Why did you enter the contest, what was the big challenge in this for you as a designer?
Irfan: ?I?m a big fan of John! When I saw the album design competition for his upcoming album, I decided to give it a shot although I never really thought I could end up winning. The biggest challenge for me was actually having John to notice my work amongst the possible hundreds of others!?
How did you translate that ?Unfold? feeling into a design?
Irfan: ?I put myself in John?s shoes and tried to really comprehend and feel what it was like having to constantly growing and developing in his career as a musician, to work around the production and to breathe into a new life with an addition member to the family. The most essential part of all that was how they all unfold for him beautifully and in sync. Using all these details that I obtained, I let it flow into a design like how I basically express myself in designing.?
Are you doing a designer study or work as a designer?
Irfan: ?At the moment, I?m studying engineering, albeit I spent a great amount of time treating Digital Arts and Design as a hobby. And although it is just a hobby, winning this competition is definitely the best thing that has ever happened to me!?
Are you a big dance fan? How does that reflect in your work?
Irfan: ?I?m a huge fan of the EDM scene, especially trance! I?m a designer with diversity of inspirations, ideas and genres. Big dance is all about creativity, expressing oneself and being true to oneself. These qualities that big dance possesses do not fall far from that of a designing?s.?
Is the cover for ?Unfold? characteristic for your designer style? Do you have any specialties?
Irfan:?For now, I?m still in the ?exploring? stage. I do not have any specific style to any of my artworks but I?d be more than glad to apply something new to my works every now and then. Once again, I would like to thank John O?Callaghan for this wonderful,wonderful opportunity.?
?Unfold? is set for release in April 2011. The first single, ?John O?Callaghan & Timmy & Tommy ? Talk to Me? will be released Monday the 14th of February, on Subculture.
jashic
Any updates on set times? Will be there early but curious since some friends may come in late.
LYNDSAYwhaaat?
Excited for this! Hope some of you guys can come up to 414 and say wadup :whip:
DaveT
Spesh/Kazell/Openers/whate: Open - 11:30pm
Digweed: 11:30pm - 2:00am
JOC: 2:00am - close
Source: Diggers said his set time is 11:30-2:00am. Put the other timeslots together from there. :p
bigperf
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Originally posted by DaveT
Spesh: Open - 11:30pm
Digweed: 11:30pm - 2:00am
JOC: 2:00am - close
thats a long way for kevin to travel to not get any time.
DaveT
lol, so Kazell is playing (I thought he was but was on none of the listings I received or flyers I saw before)
It says Spesh + Kazell, so maybe they're tag-teaming.
Andrieux
Upstairs and downstairs crackin tonight! :eyespop: Will def be working the stairs tonight. :D
DaveT
Now John is saying he starts at 11pm.
So I dunno
GeminiZ
On my way rite now!!!!
DaveT
Well?
rizo
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Originally posted by DaveT
Well?
went last min since friend had an extra tix and his wife was driving. missed kazell (if he was even there). heard some pretty good tracks from digweed but too bad JoC was on the line up as that ruined it for me and friends though that was expected once JoC was added.
