SEPT 12: EYE CANDY FESTIVAL

I'm going to be curating a little space as part of the Oh Hello Collective for the upcoming design festival called Eye Candy which takes place 11-14th Oct around Birmingham. More details to follow but here's a bit more about the festival.

Eye Candy Festival, is a visual pop culture festival, that will be showcasing illustration, art and design through a programme of events in the form of exhibitions and meet-ups etc. There will also be workshops and a talks program with industry heavyweights.The event will be held in the Southside district of Birmingham, this is only a couple of minutes walk from Birmingham New Street station. The event is partnered with Birmingham Zine Festival which is running alongside the Eye Candy festival. For more information about Eye Candy then please visit the site to find out all that is going on from Thursday 11th October – Sunday 14th October. A full timetable is also available here.

SEPT 12: GIRLS WHO DRAW - MYTHICAL CREATURES

It's here.... very proud to present you with my new postcard book which hot off the presses this week.  Mythical Creatures is the fourth postcard book I have done with the Girls Who Draw Collective.  The postcard book is a collection of 24 postcards by 12 UK female illustrators, featuring the likes of  Gemma Correll, Kate Hindley, Ruth Green, Esther McManus, Kristyna Baczynski, Mina Braun and Sandra Dieckmann.

The postcards books are available in my shop Click here.

SEPT 12: TYPOGRAPHY GREETING CARDS

Here's my lastest series of typographic cards which will be on sale at my art markets and in my online shop very soon.  I hope you like them.

SEPT 12: THE VINE TYPE WALL

I've recently completed another type wall, this time for a well know Indian restaurant called The Vine, in West Brom. There's a little reference to the Albion in here to keep the baggies happy. Here's the master design - professional pics to follow. Click on the image to see in full.

JULY 12: NEW ILLUSTRATIONS

Here's a sneak peak at some of my new work.  Only this one for now... more to follow.  After working on the crust typo wall, more and more type is creeping into my work combine with my illustration.  So I have set myself a new little project, to illustrate some typically English sayings, like 'on yer bike', 'keep your hair on' and "its all going tickety boo' .  Hoping to get this one screen printed. What do you think? Click on the image to see it in full.

JUNE 2012: AIRE DO FESTIVAL

Post working with the lovely organisers from Beat Herder, they asked me if I could work on some branding ideas for another festival they were involved in, in West Yorkshire called the Aire Do.  I worked up a few designs, all of which had a illustrative slant.  This is the style that they liked the most - a hand-drawn biro design.  I've since created other collateral from postcards, to posters and banners.

JUNE 12: BEAT HERDER FESTIVAL DESIGN

Last year I went to a great little festival called The Beat Herder. I noticed their programme wasn't up to much and back in January, made links with the organisers and luckily they loved my work and it was a goer from there.  I firstly produced a style guide and draft layouts.  And since June it was all hands to the deck to get it complete in time for print.  This year's festival took place at the end of June and it was lovely to see the programme being put to use by the festival goers.  A little proud moment.

Hoping next year I will be doing much more than the programme and getting involved in the merchandise design and installations. Here's a few pages below:-

MAY 12: CRUST TYPO WALL

Back in May I was commissioned by Kancho Creative and their client Crust restaurant to come up with a typographic wall for the upstairs of the newly created pizzeria in Shirley, Solihull.  The theme was vintage Italia and pizza facts.  I got to work on designing a graphic that would span the 6 metre wall.  The wall was hand drawn by my trusty posca pens and a few splashes of coloured emulsion.  All in all it took 87 hours, and completed in time for the opening thanks to the help of my wonderful friends and family.

See what you think. Click on the images to enlarge

MARCH 12: CULTURAL CHAMPIONS DESIGN

Back in March (I'm playing blog catch up...yes lots of months have past since) I was commissioned to design this years Arts and Business 'Cultural Champions' awards certificate for Jaguar Land Rover.  Which celebrates those making a real difference to their local arts scene.  

Inspired by information graphics I came up with a design that incorporated correlations between the artforms, nomination dates and nominees.  The resulting design was used on the invite, limited edition signed souvenir booklet, poster and the certificate utilising a gorgeous embossed print methoD.   The awards were presented by Bob Warm (off the telly) at Jaguar Land Rover on the 29th March.  It was so nice to have lots of people coming to tell me how much they liked my clever design. (Proper pics to follow)

MARCH 12: FAKE MAGAZINE

Issue 4 of the wonderful Fake Magazine is out this week. I contributed a double page illo on the theme of nature. Here's a sneak peak of it.

There's also going to be a launch & live illustration event this Saturday - FAKE meets PointeBlank - From 2pm Saturday 10th March down at the 6/8 Kafé, Birmingham. Come see the first instalment of the PointeBlank exhibition, and celebrate us launching our Issue 004 - at the 6/8 Kafé, on Temple Row.

Its going to be ace so get yourselves down there!

For more info or to buy a copy of fake visit Fake

Infographic for Arts and Business

I was recently shortlisted for Arts & Business commission to design an artwork that would be used across collateral for the Cultural Champions forthcoming awards ceremony. I won the commission and one of the designs I put forward was a info graphic that would correlate nominations with artforms and other data. Through the work I've been collaborating with a cool bloke you might have heard of cmykern AKA James Griffin through his agency Clarkes Associates. The invite used part of the info graphic as a nod to the full design which Ive just completed. I cant put the full design up yet, as its top secret until 29th March, shhhhh.

BLISTERS THE DIRECTORS CUT- PRINT CLUB LONDON

Those lovely people at Print Club London are open for submission of screen printed posters inspired by movies - this time its 'Blisters - The Directors Cut'. Last year the show attracted some awesome designs from the the like of Jamie Reid, Mr Bingo, Stevie Gee, Pure Evil, Peter Stitson, Luke Insect, Anthony Burrill, Cept, Serge Seidlitz, Jon Burgerman and Kate Moross to name but a few. So get your thinking caps on and send your submission as a low-res jpg to postershow@printclublondon.com

The deadline is Sun 10th of June.

More details on the website http://www.printclublondon.com/news/category/blisters/