Tuesday 24 May 2011

Monday 23 May 2011

Bon Bon Bakery Logo - From a Piping Bag to Photoshop



With a piping bag and a whole lot of butter icing I piped one letter after the other, a 'b' and 'o' and an 'n' and then repeated each letter over and over until I felt that my hand eye coordination did the letters justice and until I'd covered our kitchen table sufficiently with sugary buttered letters. I then photographed the most legible of the lot and drew over the photographs with makeshift tracing paper (a paper table cloth pieced together with ducktape) before scanning it in....oh and then we ate all the letters with brown bread.....odd but quite delightful.

Wolfish





Tuesday 17 May 2011

WE BREED UNICORNS



Me and Chloe finally decide on a name for our future web based design projects.
Combining illustration, graphic and web design with her web developing and digital strategies skills we hope to breed a few unicorns along the way.
Here is our new holding page and collaborative business cards.
Image: Jess Gough.

Sunday 15 May 2011

Sunday Times Article - Painting by Numbers


Article in The Sunday Times by Fiona McLeod , photographed by Bryan Meade.
Read more at www.sundaytimes.co.uk/home

Saturday 14 May 2011

He Draws Man // I Draw Facial Hair

Me and Ollie Bremner started this post project a few weeks ago. The idea being that we post each other stuff via snail mail alone and that the other then works on top of it, namely bearded men and imaginary animals : Imaginanimals. I like the idea of silently reacting to someone else.
Here is one: his before & my after.

Rookie Creative Shoot in My Bathroom




The Rookie Creative Team came over to 15 Grove End Road to shoot this amazing model. Betwixt my 1960's brown floral bath tiles and our smashed door..... and she's rocking it.
Photographer Tommy Clarke
Stylist - Sacha Harrison - Rookie Creative Editor

Me and Chloe are doing the redesign of her new site which will be launching in June....

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Pentagram Meeting & Invasion







I had a meeting with Pentagram today to discuss the branding development at NHE and had the most amazing and insightful meeting with John Rushworth. Upon departure I decided to have a short stop off in the ladies toilet to deposit a small flyer about cottage collective and the artists that are involved. Follow the links below to see their work.....

Tuesday 10 May 2011

I-Frame Design for Mahiki Facebook Fanpage


Built/designed this Iframe to connect people with Mahikis social networks ie Youtube, Spotify and Twitter. The concept is based around Honey Mahikis beach hut and each floor is clickable and reveals a different part of her house. It'll continue with sections for competitions, games and hopefully some gifs.....

Illustration for Mahiki's new //VIP// Room.

The new NOTEL MOTEL room is about to launch in Mahiki. Working on the new menus and illustrations for the room and the website.

Monday 9 May 2011

-----FOR-JARR-------



Nicholas Jaar. 21. Godman.
Hopefully want to make this into a largescale model....maybe.
Click here to listen.

PRIMAVERA SOUND WITH JESS.


No biggy just off to Primavera with my darling sister and my darling friend Jess Gough.

These are two photos from Secret Garden last year. Giant twister was G.O.O.D.

Check out her ridiculous ability to capture beauty and insanity here.

Skulling for Somethinkblue Magazine

My third, for an article for Somethinkblue called Making time Making Lines.
Click here to read article.

QUOTE FOR MY SISTER

LOGO AND WEBSITE REDESIGN FOR DARE2


Logo and website re-design for online eco magazine nearly finished....archive page to do and then boom!!
Click here for old site.

Thursday 5 May 2011

The Printing Press in Our Garage....




A new project and a new incentive. Leo has set up his printing press in the garage along with rows and draws and shelves and mountains of typefaces and letterblocks. Yesterday we learnt how to set up the press and print and by golly was it nice to create an image using wooden letters, to feel the bite on the press as you pull it down to print and then to lift up the newsprint away from the blocks and feel the tacky wetness of the ink.
Computers. An afterthought in comparison.

Manipulated after scanning. Computers are helpful I guess.

Monday 2 May 2011

Cottage Collective






It started as a little thought and now after a week of splendid bliss painting the skies, drawing the shadows and living in a hedonistic heaven we return with more plans. Beautiful people must live a beautiful life.

8 Artists. One House. One Week.

The Article will appear in the Sunday Times on the 15th July.