We love comics.
Comics break the rules of storytelling, invent new ones, and break them again – more often than almost any other media.
We are also fortunate to know – and occasionally enjoy the twisted guidance of – one of the best writers in comics and speculative fiction: Mr Warren Ellis.
Warren is actually to blame for coming up with the name BERG for us back in the summer of 2009, based on our shared love of Nigel Kneale.
So, we were thrilled when he said yes earlier this year to Jack’s proposal of working together on a storytelling project.
The result, coming in early 2011, is SVK.
What is SVK?
It’s going to be a very beautifully-printed object – a graphic novella, drawn by one of our very favourite artists – Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker – who Warren collaborated with on “Lazarus Churchyard” back in 1991. I think I’m right in saying it’s their first major collaboration since then…
We can’t tell you too much more just yet, as they are both currently hard at work on it, but Warren describes SVK as “Franz Kafka’s Bourne Identity”.
Brilliant.
It’s also a story about looking, and it’s an investigation into perception, storytelling and optical experimentation that inherits some of the curiosities behind previous work of the studio such as our Here & There maps of Manhattan.
For us – it’s also an investigation into new ways to get things out in the world, and as a result we’re talking about SVK now because we’re looking for people, brands and companies who would like to be in the SVK project…
Looking for advertisers
There are going to be a small number of opportunities to feature advertising – which will be as inventive as the story itself. We’re talking to people now, so that we can go to print with them in February 2011.
If you’re in advertising or marketing, and you’d like to talk more about it, email info@berglondon.com with “SVK” in the subject.
8 Comments and Trackbacks
1. joe said on 17 December 2010...
Sounds positively spectacular. Did you happen upon this when it was doing the rounds?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/17/advertising.pressandpublishing
2. Tom Muller said on 17 December 2010...
Looking forward to this! Sounds very, very interesting.
3. Alex Steffen said on 27 December 2010...
Wow. What an exciting collaboration! Can’t wait to see what you guys come up with.
4. K.Lehman said on 1 March 2011...
Are advertisers the only people, brands, and companies you’re looking for? I have enough skills that at least one of them would be useful…
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