A Concrete Soap Dispenser

So this journey starts in a pub talking about concrete. this project is to design a concrete soap dispenser with the wonderful Oli O'Driscoll and of course Kate Bradbury. Lets seee what happens hey.

Poster for Calum

Calum, the Kasabian looking, skinny jeans wearing, bear growing hero that he is, is sadly leaving Iris so I made this poster for his leaving do later.

WIP Vector Illustrations for AQA

AQA the examboard who brought us limbo, limbo like me, needs theri new site and collateral printed artwork illustrated....we tried tesselatign classroom objects, jigsaw books, cogs (cos you gotta). Working with young creative team Claire and Elena on this so hopefully Staurday will be full of light and inspiration..... we've now moved towards an identity involving twisting threads representing teachers, AQA and students all working together to get through the A-level changes.

WIP Illustration for Domino's

Yep the Pizza lads want some gourmet illustations and an instagram app for their fb page. So this morning after collating their new list ingredients, I sketched all the elements, scanned it in, switech it into duotone with Dominoes blue and then in illustrater traced some fill shapes and added a grain texture to all of them before multiplying the shapes onto the background. 

 This is the completed set of illustrations for the Domino's Instagram App. Now its time to come up with the name for it....... 

Our Hackathon Weekend - Party in my Mailbox.

One weekend, two girls and two laptops later. From concept to creation, Party in my Mailbox was a collaborative project between me and Chloe Watts from Saturday to Sunday.. After going to Deconstruct in Brighton last Friday we decided it was time to start The Hackettes. Designers and developers together making stuff, pointless or puropseful. Partyinmymailbox is a service aimed at young creatives to help them get a personal email to match their site or blog.

The Story of a Ring - From CSM degree show to my finger.

My first sketches that I sent to Kate.

Kates designs showing how we wanted a contrast between the gold and the concrete.

Off I went to the Central St Martins Degree show. I was anxious as I had left the same school 4 years ago but couldnt wait to see the new campus and meet people and see everyones work. I met Kate Bradbury there, a young jewellery designer who had made some amazing pieces combining concrete and gold. As I was walking out of the building in all its enormous glory I decided that I'd contact Kate and that together we'd make something. I sent her a few initial designs and she returned them with some further thoughts and a month or so later I have the most glorious ring made of concrete and yellow gold. 

Kate documented the journey for me so now I have these lovely photos of her process. From her studio to the "gold man" from pliers to a blow torch. Beautiful work. Thanks Kate.....next project...concrete soap dispensers...

Simply Innovate Posters

A quick task that we decided nned doing: collateral posters to invite students and inventors (even mumpreneurs, yep a real expression in the world of marketing)..

The Simply Innovate Movie

The final edit and we are pleased but there is a lot of improvement to be made for the next one.
The next one I think will involve a limited colour pallette and hopefully will invlove animals and forests.
So watch this space for more animations with paper.

Papercraft Animation for Philips

Coming soon is a paper animation me and Pete Brown have made for Philips Open Innovation Competition. Working with a hand on material like paper and then animating it digitally (Pete the hero) was a dream. Huge thanks to Kevin, Jo, Jane and the team at Philips for all your support on seeing through the project.

Instagram Mania for Washed Out

 I was asked by Washed Out and Philips to create a social campaign to launch their new site The Sound of Creation. Pulling nine quotes from each of the sections from the site I created nine visual posts that would be launched on the Philips Sound facebook page.

Identity and Icons for Philips Light Community

A little project to come up with a name, identity and icons for an inspirational PDF to send out to lighting deisgners for Philips Lighting Community.

MonsterBuild at Tooting Market

This was the set that I drew to model from.

Heads, hands, feet, weapons, hills cloud and mountains. These guys had a ball!

I received a brief to pitch a  project to go up for one night in Tooting Art Market so I approached Kate Innes and Henry Fraser to assist me. We drew up an idea based around Kates final year project around monsters. I was keen for the project to be experiencial so we combined our visions to make monsterbuild- An interactive dressing up project which brings out everyones innerchild. Like a photobooth but more fantasy orientated. Our wonderful friend Henry Fraser came along to film the project and whist eh await for me to finish the credits for the mini movie here is the first edit.

Secret Garden Party for Fudge

Off I go complete with new Lumix/Leica Lens Camera

I painted Ionas hair the night before with Fudge paintbox pink flamingo.

These girls were fanatastic, bumbags n all.

  

Fudge.com launches in September and I went to SGP to take some photos of the hair that attended. SGP is famous for its crazy dressers, catsuits, glitter and masks a plenty so off I went and between the mud romps and the dancing I managed to capture a few beauties. Watch out Brixton Village you're next!

The Bear and the Dinosaur.

I often forget how I need to keep drawing to stay sane and then suddenly I wake up weeks later and something is missing. It feels almost cyclical yet every time it happens I feel more ane more certain of what I love. This bear is the start of a new cycle  and next is a dinosaur that I'm doing for Orlando or T.E.E.D. More drawing, less thinking.

“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing.” — Pablo Picasso

Philips Timeline no 2

And here we have the second timeline photo for Philips, a more architectural response to sound which references the Philips Pavilion and the sharing capabilites of the philips Software through Spotify and wifi etc. Great fun to work with my watercolours again.

Poster for Jubilee Bake-Off

Beacause we are psyched for the long weekend. Because Peter Blake and Sagmeister turn me on and because I wanted to sit around piling together M n M's and eat lumps of marzipan. photographed each element individually then wrote dirrectly onto printout before scanning in.

Bussey Building Roof Painting with Fruit Palace

Love those Fruit Palace boys. Udi and Harry once again put on an epic night and me and Dani brought some folks down to paint live whilst the sun set over London. Bussey Building big up, it nearly beats Franks bar. And thats saying something. So much more to come with FP.

Bussey Building

Fruit Palace

Philips Timeline Cover Photo Illustration

Art Direction/Illustration for Philips Facebook Timeline. Here.

Worked on this illustration for 3 days adding in all Philips iconic designs from the 60's through till today and Kelly sent me over a pair of citiscape headphone, thanks Kelly.

Working on the second on this week.

Top 20 review.

Invitation for Fluff