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Peace, love and total fucking Kaos

~nicowkaos — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:33:56 PDT

Hi there!

Just a little update about recent activities here at Kaos Grafix. The collaboration with Bones Brigade Records continues on solid basis. The new web site is coming soon (based on a Joomla! 1.5 framework with specifically developped template and modules) and some graphic material has been put together, like press releases sheets for Gronibard and Total Fucking Destruction, wallpapers and a flash e-card for TFD too... The latest two are visible in my gallery.

Don't hesitate to drop me a line (or two) for more infos on my activities with Kaos Grafix or for pricing: I'm cheap and my work is known for its quality.

Until then, keep care.

K

Dying Kaos

~nicowkaos — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:40:06 PDT

I'm proud, very proud, to announce that Kaos Grafix has been selected by Metaluna Productions to design the promo material of their latest movies ("Dying God", "Insanity"...) for the 2008 American Film Market.

If you're not familiar with Metaluna and "Dying God", let's make it clear: "Dying God" is an independant horror movie from the French director Fabrice Lambot starring no less than Lance Henriksen. Add to this that the OST has been composed by some of my favorite band, S.u.P. and you'd understand why I'm so proud!

Testimonial

~nicowkaos — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:14:17 PDT

I just came across that Carnavage interview dating back from late '07 in which Hichem is speaking about the work made by Kaos Grafix for the cover artwork and layout for their "The hairless fat carnage deed" MCD... It's written in French, so the translation's below...

"Xul : Pourquoi ce choix aussi gore de cet Artwork et quelle est votre relation avec Kaos Grafix??
Hichem : il fallait trouvÃ© une pochette pour habiller cet opus : sombre, gore et prÃ©cis ... et finalement on en a choisi celle la, elle Ã©tÃ© la mieux adaptÃ© Ã la musique ! On ne remerciera jamais assez Nico de Kaos Grafix pour son aide et sa collaboration il fait du trÃ¨s bon boulot"

"Xul: Why such a gore artwork choice and what's your relationship with Kaos Grafix?
Hichem: We had to find a cover artwork for that release: dark, gore and sharp... and we finally choose this one, it was the one that was fitting the music better! We will never thank Nico of Kaos Grafix enough for his help and his collaboration, he's great at his job!"

Simply put: THANK YOU VERY MUCH BUDDY !!!

Original page:
[link]

The sound of Kaos

~nicowkaos — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:21:40 PDT

The brand new French company "Relax Et Sons" asked me to design their business card and, from it, their whole signage. Thus a logo was created, a color palette and the whole stuff accompanying (letterheads, merchandise and so on...).

Relax Et Sons is offering at-home relaxation seances through the creation of live ambiant soundscapes. A quite innovative concept (at least here in France).

You can check the business card in the "Print" album of the gallery.

Have a nice day.

kaosphere

~nicowkaos — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:54:24 PDT

The kaosphere is the gate to my universe, first brick of the coming big bang that will see a lot of my personal web sites coming to life.

It's, somehow, an automated Cerberus made to gather the latest news from each and every of my sites, a kind of central point of information about my online life.

It has been put online today and it's interface (a wordpress template) is now featured in my gallery.

If you're interested in having your own wordpress template designed by me, just get in touch: prices are faire and I'm known for the quality of my works!

Yours,

KaÃ¸s

Total fucking destruction

~nicowkaos — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:03:26 PDT

So...

Work has started over again and I'm currently putting the finishing touches to a flyer ordered by Bones Brigade Records (from France) for Total Fucking Destruction (from the USA). If you'd like to see what it's all about, check the gallery!

Yours, Kaos

Back from the grave...

~nicowkaos — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:11:29 PDT

Yep, I'm finally back from the grave...

Things have started again where I left them some months ago... My life's a bit more "sorted" thus I can now work again on my projects...

I've opened a bunch of pages for them... There's a facebook page for Kaos Grafix and another one for Deathkult, my new musical project. There's also a myspace page for Deathkult (www.myspace.com/deathkult666) and another one that might come, one day or the other, for Kaos Grafix too... and this DeviantART page that has never been deleted and is coming back to life...

Since some months, I've worked for my long time friend Norman of Apathic View Productions designing the vinyl re-release of Gronibard's debut LP's cover (a gatefold) as well as some vinyl labels for Australian grinders BlÃ¶od DÃ¼ster (still for Apathic View Productions).

Right now I'm working on a flyer for Total Fucking Destruction (US) ordered by Bones Brigade Records (FR) and right after I'm gonna work on a new version of the Bones Brigade Records' website...

Just back and already quite busy!

No more

~nicowkaos — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:12:52 PDT

I've decided to stop all of my activites, sorry.

Warscars.com unleashed

~nicowkaos — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:23:10 PDT

Hi there!

It has been for a looooong time since I posted something here for the last time. But, the news are great and it's now time to share them with you!

First of, the Warscars.com (new official web site of that french grindcore band) is now up and running. Even if it's quite basic right now in terms of contents and functions, it's at least on-line and will be improved day and after day... But, more than all, I guess I can proudly pretend it to be the VERY FIRST Web site using the v1.5RC1 of the Joomla! framework to use that much the new templating capabilities of J!.

Yep, even if that's not that "evident" while browsing the site, people used to J! will see the clear difference in the layout output by the cmponents and modules and, for sure, that's a true landmark in Web design improvement for Kaos Grafix.

Talking of Kaos, besides improving warscars.com on a daily basis, we have several exciting projects we're working on right now:
- the Gronibard artwork for the re-release of their debut on LP (for Apathic View Productions)
- the re-vamping (Web 2.0 like) of kaosgrafix.com based on the new J! v1.5 framework
- a new, very very exciting project that we can't talk much about right now... but we will in some weeks / months, for sure!

As always, if you're interested in our work, just drop us a line at info@kaosgrafix.com !

Yours,

Nico W. Kaos

Gronibartwork

~nicowkaos — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:09:15 PDT

Hi there!

Apathic View Productions from Germany will re-release the cult debut CD of France's grind core extravaganza Gronibard this summer (with bonus and a very special limited edition too!) and so we've been asked to design it.

Being in the process of choosing the oritentation of the future artwork, different versions have been submited to the band among which one you can check in our "scraps" section.

Thank you for your time and, as always, if you're interested in having your next release / merchandise / web site or whatever designed by us, just drop us a line, our prices are cheap, honest and fair and we're know for the quality of our work and our professionalism.

Yours,

Nico W. Kaos

Release the Maggots!

~nicowkaos — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:23:11 PDT

Today we received a MySpace bulleting from Scrotum Jus Records telling the Maggots discography CD (titled "Dead and loving it") we recently "layouted" is out.

So, check Maggots at [link] and Scotum Jus at [link] for more details. In the meantime, take some time to check our work on this page and / or on our MySpace page at [link]

Cheers!

Maggots, Jus & Kaos

~nicowkaos — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:21:16 PDT

Hi there!

Well, just a quick update to let you know what's going on here at Kaos Grafix...

We're in the process of enhancing our web site in order to transform it from a DECENT web site to a GOOD one, and it takes time in development, testing and designing...

In the meantime, we've finished the layout for the Maggots CD Scrotum Jus Records from Singapore asked us. Maggots were a Dutch death / grind band and the layout (based on a Lou Rusconi artwork) is intended for their "discography" posthumous album titled "Dead and loving it". It might be released in April.

The "to-do" list still includes the following:
- Haemorrhage / W.T.N. split EP
- F.A.M. CD
- Warscars website
- Gronibard LP
- Altars of Gialo CD
- Scrotum Jus website
- Apathic View backdrop and web banner
- Zombie Ritual web banner
- Maggots web banner
- Scrotum Jus web banner...

More about all of this soon...

Yours, Nico W. Kaos

Entering Kaos!

~nicowkaos — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:16:44 PST

Hi there!

It's been a whole while since I didn't post new art on that page. Well, I'm done now!

As you can see on the left, the new KaosGrafix.com site is up and running and I'm quite proud of the final result, even is there are bugs to fix there and there and, most of all, have to replace all of the "transparent" .png files by good ol' .gifs as I recently dicovered all of Internet Explorer before 7.0 can't handle them correctly and replaces transparency by a (white?) background! Arg!

So, let's now concentrate on the next works... First came first served: Maggots "Dead and loving it" CD artwork.

Yours,

Nico W. Kaos

Tempus Fugit

~nicowkaos — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:06:22 PST

Well...

It seems that each hour I spend in front of the computer is disappearing as if it has last for a second only... Tempus fugit!

Am I abducted by aliens each time I'm turning the computer or am I falling asleep each time I'm seeing the Win XP logo? Don't know, but the result is that I've received the final versions of the Zombie Ritual and Carnavage MCD's and, of course everyone knows each one of us can always do better, I'm very proud of them anyway.

Now, the "to-do" list consists in:
- Warscars website (soon)
- KaosGrafix website (one day

And plans for future works being discussed are involving:
- Maggots (NL) "Dead and loving it" CD
- Haemorrhage (ES) / WTN (SG) split pic. 7" EP
- F.A.M. (PL) "Bullet(in)" CD
the whole three for Scrotum Jus Records of Singapore.

Finalized artworks but yet to be received as manufactured items include:
- Carnavage "the hairless fat carnage deed" TS

That's all for this update... tempus fugit and I have much work awaiting as you now know

Yours,

Nico W. Kaos

Censored (pt. 2)

~nicowkaos — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:08:17 PST

So funny...

Sometimes, thinking about many things in the same time just results in you to forget them all!

That's how I've been titling my previous journal entry "Censored" and finally forgot to speak about that censorship issue

So, as I said, the Carnavage CD cover is finished and sent to the pressing plant (in Germany). Unfortunately, the CD manufacturing company informed Apathic View production (the label) they won't print the CD cover unless there's a black card over it because the artwork is way too offensive and gore!

My vision on it, as I'm responsible for the artwork, is that the band, Carnavage, wanted a gore artwork, and so I furnish them what they wanted me to (parts - legs and arms - of a dismembered female corpse). But, as I don't like ripping off a rotten.com picture and put a band logo on it (so childish and un-professional!), I've re-worked these pictures a lot in order for them to be "acceptable" in terms of the "shock" they may bring to people watching them and to give the band and label a really professional and "design" image as I think most metal bands and labels are lacking such a "modern" imagery.

So, in my opinion, the artwork is not that offensive, but while trying to "censor" my artwork, the pressing plant will certainly gain Kaos Grafix more advertisement that I could have expected from that work!

Thank you very much for the censor!

Nico W. Kaos

Censored

~nicowkaos — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:54:06 PST

Well...

It's been a while since I have updated this page for the last time, but, the fact is that, at home, I don't have an Internet connection anymore and, at work, my proxy doesn't allow me to upload files anymore, so, for something like a week I'm gonna keep this page still...

BUT, in the mean time, the Carnavage and Zombie Ritual CD covers are completely finished and I'm working on a Carnavage TS, still for Apathic View productions from Germany and on a new look for kaosgrafix.com (I was very proud of the actual look, but with the crash of my hard drive - see previous journal entry I've lost all source files ;-(.

So, expect more samples / previews of my wurrent works in the coming weeks on that page, a brand new kaosgrafix.com site and new projects (like the Warscars official web site)!

Until then...

Praise the Kaos!

It's after the end of the world...

~nicowkaos — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:08:20 PST

Well...

While working on the finishing touches of the Zombie Ritual cover artwork my computer suddenly broke up and, after hours and hours of trying this and that I had to come to the conclusion my hard drive prematurely deceased. In the meantime, I was starting the process of backing up all of my recent works (the Zombie Ritual cover artwork, the Carnavage cover artwork, the Warscars website, the Kobra Kommando website and album tracks as well as the brand new Kaos Grafix site...) and all of this happened before the back up could have been completed...

So...

As of now, I have a brand new hard drive and (quite) all of my softs back BUT I lost ALL of my files during this accident and still have no Internet connection at home.

BUT...

I'm a tough guy (hehe!) and I've been putting together the Zombie Ritual cover artwork again in a few days. I'm still in the process of finishing it (the front cover and all four pages of the booklet are done, graphically wise, the tray card and the back cover too...). I've let myself a few day to lay back and see when I'm relaxed what can be done better on that particular cover and I've still some improvements to do to find the feeling of the one that was ready back. Thus this particular one (ZR) will be ready to ship on December 11th...

Now...

Here's the « queued » works in the order I'm gonna work them out:
Carnavage artwork (planned to be sent to Apathic View on December 22nd)
Warscars web site (planned to be unleashed during January)
KaosGrafix.com web site (planned for February)

In the meantime, I'm gonna work the Kobra Kommando album back again, but that's 16 months of work lost, so I have no idea of when it will be ready again ;-(

Making all for that technological drama not to affect you as much as it affected me, I hope this small change in the schedule is not such a problem for you...

Now it's time to answer my mail!

Yours,

Nico W. Kaos for KaosGrafix.com

Zombified!

~nicowkaos — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:55:10 PST

Here we are! The cover artwork for Zombie Ritual's forthcoming MCD, to be titled "Zombies from Tokyo" is done and both the band and label approved it.
Next on the list is the Carnavage MCD cover artwork, to be titled "The hairless fat carnage deed" and that you can check in the "scraps" section. It has been sent to the band and label for approval.
Next on the list, but in a very early stage of development is the Warscars web site which interface design can be found in the "scraps" section too..
As always, if you want a CHEAP quality design for whatever into metal music or erotic / porn business, just contact me!

They are everywhere!

~nicowkaos — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:35:40 PST

Here it is, the upload of the first draft version (new proposal) of Zombie Ritual's next MCD (to be titled "Zombies from Tokyo") is finished, you can watch it in my scrap-book...

As always, if you're interested in Kaos Grafix (my independent (web-) design company) to design your next CD / DVD release, your merchandise or to put you together a dynamic website, just don't hesitate to contact me or to visite [link] !

Thank you in advance!

kaosgrafix.com v3.0 goes on-line!

~nicowkaos — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:33:34 PST

After so many days of hard work designing a dark and intricating new interface better reflecting the company's clients profile (mostly extreme metal labels and erotic businesses), after having spent hours and hours developing a good looking Joomla! template from it (the site uses the v1.0.11 of the Joomla! framework), it's there!

KAOSGRAFIX.com is back on-line!

Well, the site's contents are quite basic right now (I just uploaded it afew minutes ago) and for some reason unknown it looked quite horrible on IE6 on a Win2K PC I checked it on briefly lately, but, on most configurations, above all with the mighty Firefox, it looks VERY satisfying and I'm starting the process of revising it (I'm actually already at the v3.01 of the template).

The site content won't evolve that much in the coming days for I have to focus on the Zombie Ritual and Carnavage cover artworks, but check it often as contents will at least be added weekly!

Nico W. Kaos

KaosGrafix.com v3.0

~nicowkaos — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:42:48 PST

You can now check in my scrapbook the future new look of the KaosGrafix.com web site (actually off-line). It will be darker and more graphic oriented than the previous version (2.0) which was focusing on CMS showcasing.

This revamped KaosGrafix.com site is to be up-loaded somewhere during December, but I'm gonna keep you posted about that, and will now focus on CMS templating and artworks for the artistic business (web development and design, CD & DVD covers, merchandise...).

Obviously, if you'd like to have your web site or whatever designed by me, don't hesitate to get in touch for (cheap and honest) pricing!

And, if you're in the good mood to, you can check my blog at [link] for more infos on my other activities (music for example...).

They hate the living!

~nicowkaos — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:23:05 PST

"Hating life" is the title of the newly available KaosGrafix design made available for YOUR band's next CD, DVD or whatever...

It was designed for a MCD cover artwork for the Japanese grinding thrash metal band "Zombie Ritual" who finally asked for more gore and more Japanese-oriented artwork.

Thus, it's now available for YOU! Don't hesitate to get in touch for cheap and honest pricing if you'd like this piece of macabre art to be your next album's cover!

Kompletely kaotic and deviant!

~nicowkaos — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:22:03 PST

I'm done with the addition of most of my « back-catalog » of works from 2000 to nowadays (the older stuff being lost for long...). I hope my work will be of interest to you and that you would find something in there to please your soul.

If you're interested in having your stuff (whatever!) designed by me (including large dynamic web-sites, that's no problem at all!), don't hesitate to contact me at info@kaosgrafix.com for cheap and honest pricing!

Yours,

An introduction to Kaos

~nicowkaos — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:03:00 PST

I will be using my DeviantART journal to post my works, but if you want to know more about me, my work and KaosGrafix, please check my blog here [link] for my blog (temporary) and KaosGrafix' site [link] (under construction).

In brief, I've started in '96 as an independant (web-) designer specializing in artworks for the (metal-) music scene, may it be for albums, DVD's or merchandising, for bands or labels and in the erotic business companies and artists. Right now, I'm trying to put together a design company to be named KaosGrafix which will be specializing in these afore-mentioned business and, particulary into CMS web-interfaces design too...

So far, I've been commissioned to work with/for bands and companies such as A.E.F.S. (France), Agathocles (Belgium), Agony Records (France), Apathic View Production (Germany), Blind Bleeding The Blind (France), Bones Brigade Productions (France), Carnavage (Algeria), C.P.L. (France), Damn Nation (France), Eropolis (France), Fuck The Facts (Canada), Gronibard (France), Karmassacre (France), Kobra Kommando (France), Meat5000 Records (France), Negligent Collateral Collapse (Czech), Pulverised (Canada), Sergent Slaughter (France), Suffer magazine (France), Sylvester Staline (France), Une Nuit Cent Lunes (France), Warscars (France), Whoretorn (France), X-TRM (France), Zombie Ritual (Japan)...