Metropol Noir

Metropol Noir was designed for the MTV 1995 European Music Awards brochure. It was presented as a set of A3 prints and a pack of illustrated ‘bubblegum’ style cards, each Illustrated by one of the top European comic talents of the day, all housed in a recycled card folder. The overarching story was written by Alan Moore, and it has become the holy grail of Moore rarities. Given away free on the day, copies have topped $800 on Ebay – and that’s for the standard edition. There were around 50 copies of a limited edition produced, in which the cards are supplied as a pack and the posters as separate, unbound sheets. Winner of a 1996 Gold Award, BDA International (Broadcasting Design Award). The font itself is a very casual latin semi-serif, designed as if cut from paper and, in use, had other characters pasted within it.