THE UNION PROJECT

A HANDRAWN MURAL I DREW UP FOR THE BOYS DOWN AT THE UNION PROJECT, A WINTER WREATH FOR THEIR SHOP WINDOW. CHECK OUT THERE DAPPER PRODUCT OF MALE GOODNESS RIGHT HERE http://theunionproject.co.uk

SHORT FILM BY ETHAN RUSSELL https://vimeo.com/115929740

FOLLOWED BY PRINTED CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR OUR NEAREST AND DEAREST THIS DECEMBER 2014. BIG UP TO THE U.PROJ BOYS AND ETHAN. THAT. WAS. FUN!

very.EXCITED

EASY JET round two

If you are flying EasyJet this month then you can catch my second 

commission for EasyJet in their flight magazine the Traveller…

With still the first commission I completed in the mag also. Illustrations on website soon.

Plus a little interview I was asked to do for the mag 

which turned out to be rather embarrassing!

unicorn birthdays

TWO of my dear dancing friends, from dancing in the Olympic Opening Ceremony with, had birthdays a couple weeks ago.  So just a little peek at their birthday cards…One blind contour/one line drawing of a unircorn, and the second a play on words and type. 

RICKY

After completing Rickys logo I hassled the studio Retro Press yet again

for a their magic touch to print these gorgeous buisness cards. 

My design made onto a metal plate hand printed with black ink onto brown recycled card.

Yet another little successful collab with the typogreek. 

the EAGLES

The EAGLES, my crazy netball team, won our league the other night and have been moved up TWO divisions. Thought this called for a little celebration so we are getting some tees printed. 

Little prep for the tee I am scribbling together for the TEAM.

Back

Front left chest

Just a little card done for my mamas birthday.

Lucinda Gosling

Little logo I just designed for Lucinda Gosling.. 

A very talented Freelance Advertising, Branding and Marketing Strategy Planner. 

MORE THAN A WOMAN

After the successful hit of the colouring book Thrill Murray, BELLY KIDS have gone and done it again and released a colouring book celebrating woman in hip hop exclusively for Urban Outfitters! 

I was luckily enough to be asked to submit a double spread, 

so this time I chose to illustrate the eighties players Salt 'N' Pepa..

Check out BELLY KIDS for more deets and other illustrations involved righttt HERE 

and not forgetting the MERCH you can buy from it rightttt HERE!

i l o v e s c r e e n p r i n t i n g

I have been screenprinting again! Forgotten how much I love it!

Have an event coming up in London where my work will be exhibited so thought I would start getting some prints together. 

This particular print has been taken from the collaboration project I have just completed with Retro Press. 

Miss Kat Lyle

I guess you would normally come across this idea at weddings, but after struggling to deal with one of my best mates passing away this month, I HAD to find a way to apply my creativity somehow to the celebration of my friends life, so I painted a tree... 

Been a while since I have used water colour, I forgot how amazing and therapeutic it is. 

I then took the painting to the funeral and used it to go around and meet all the people Kat knew and loved and got them to stamp their finger print onto the tree to make a full COLOURFUL tree. 

Just. Like. Kat.

There will not be a day that goes past when I will not think of you buddy. 

MISSING. YOU. TERRIBLY.  

THE GREEN COFFEE MACHINE collaboration

THE GREEN COFFEE MACHINE 

situated on the lovely promenade in Cheltenham have invested into a new shop space opposite Cheltenham's train station. 

They have asked myself and RETRO PRESS 

to team up and produce vinyl artwork for the two front shop windows..

 

 thePREPERATION: 

There's nothing like real life size measurements to understand what scale we were up against to fill with wonderful words and illustrations..so we taped down the two window measurements in a car park space of course! Fortunate for us the sun was shining and the local pub was still open for our well earn't pint after all our hardwork..

 

theARTWORK:

Obviously the artwork was going to be based on what the coffee shop offers, but as it was a company that started up in Cheltenham we wanted to have a Cheltenham theme running through the artwork. So we tried to create a race course through the illustrations and typography, with the horses ending up at the coffee shop...

window one..

 window two..

After sourcing the process and drawing up the artwork we are have now sent it to the printers! It has been a delight as ever collaborating with Retro Press, and hope to have many more collaborations in the future! This week/next week we will applying the vinyl at the shop so swing by and say hi yeah!

510FLATLANDS

A tee design I have done for a documentary in the making on violence in Oakland, CA. 

You can follow the production on instagram: 510flatlands - or via their website righhht HERE

Just drew up a fresh new logo for the young happening hairdresser Rick Harman. 

Roll up come get your fro cuts right here!

BIG DRAW CHARITY POSTCARD LOTTO AUCTION

Here is my entry for the Big Draw Charity Postcard Lotto Auction that Urban Graphic 

are hosting next Thursday 30th in their new studio shop in Bristol. 

Lots of different artists have contributed A6 postcards to be auctioned off to raise money for the charity The Big Draw!

You can see other artist's postcard entries by checking out their pinterest board rightttt here

RETRO PRESS MURAL

Working any extra hours I could find in the days belonging to the last two months, I would head over to this incredible hidden studio containing crazy letterpress owned by the hardworking company Retro Press. Here I painted a mural basing the illustrations on 'retro' household objects and things relating to RetroPress. 

Also I made a few parts interactive, for example I hammered in nails to the points of the antlers so you could hang coats/hats/equipment, or the clock face which is real so that tells the time! 

Plus a couple of real frames that I painted black to carry on the 3D effect.

I made a little stop frame animation documenting the process, and managed to dig out my old electric guitar to play a few riffs over the top for you too. 

Enjoy.. 

marriage contour

Just drew a 'blind contour' illustration for my friends wedding card who is getting married this weekend! A blind contour is drawing one continuous line whilst only looking at the subject and never at the paper…trusting your hand-eye coordination. Best thing about blind contour's are they are always spontaneous random illustrations, and there is a 50/50 chance they are actually going to turn out alright! #livingontheedge.

XYXX

I am now officially a creative for XYXX Design..

looking forward to future projects!

Wanna be part of the BADGE CLUB?!

On sale now on my new online shop! 

JAM SANDWICH

Just finished a logo for a new live music night 

in London called JAM SANDWICH

I believe the next event is March 7th, check it out here