fallyrag feature

wow, after showing them a bit of my stuff the good folks at fallyrag online magazine decided to run a feature on yours truly, check it out here:
fallyrag: stirring the unknown

exhibiting!

if you happen to be in cambridge you can check out some drawings and prints i have for sale at this exhibition along with 12 other artists work.
it includes many differnt diciplines including illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, textiles graffiti and print.
made possible by the good people at changing spaces

more promotion

on top of the leaflet and business card i did a huge window display based on how the shop is also a free gallery space/ a place for artists and people to come and see each tohers work, to sit and draw, generally use a collaborative creative space.
as such i did two massive acid spray can people flinging their styles at each other.
was fun to apporach something like graffiti which is i think very set in its ways as a physical medium (paint/markers on the wall, paper stickers etc) and use my voice which has a more collage and digital base to get the same message across, i feel like ive brought something a bit new to a very established art 'movement'
in situ:


digital piece:



also a side project one afternoon when i was getting square eyes from too much photoshop i did some little hand painted pieces and left them around norwich for people to find, if someone picked them up they were 'rewarded' with info about the shop:

stickyfingerz promotion

well heres what ive been working on for the past 3 weeks, stickyfingerz is a graffiti shop and communal art space here in norwich and the guy who runs it (tony) also does workshops for schools and youthgroups, so as part of my uni work i designed a leaflet for his workshops and a business card for him and the shop in general

final leaflet design:


inside:


business card:






had alot fo fun taking ym own photos of peelign paint etc and learning new photomanipulation techniques to make all the effects on these, really happy with them image-wise.
had a bit of trouble with the 'stickyfingerz' text, old version was hand written graffiti style, (can be seen here and here on my flickr. but it was decided a more blocky graphical but still handmade typeface woiuld be better from a design point of view, although i think i prefer the way the old one looks.
i guess i still have a ways to go in getting an intuition for what looks good textwise.

new stuff

our current brief is to design promotional materials for a local independent business,
heres a sneaky peak at what im working on..

editorial madness!

yesterday we were given a morning editorial illustration project at NUCA,
we were given the choice of a few articles from the guardian and i chose this one by writer oliver burkeman.
we had 15 minutes to come up with an inital array of ideas, then 20 minutes to refine a couple and then after that produce a final sketch, all within an hour.
i was very happy with my final sketch so went ahead and did it. its the only time i can remember going from initial idea to finished piece in a matter of hours and was really quite fun, heres the process:
one of about 8 mini sketches after 15 minutes:

furthur 20:

final sketch:

and the finished piece:

penguin design award

finally sent off all my stuff to submit this cover for the penguin design award.
cover is for perfume by patrick suskind, quite a mental story about a man who only understands his world through smell and ends up killing alot of girls in his quest to own their scent.
i really enjoyed making this, stepped out of alot of comfort zones and the end result is somehing im really proud of.

2nd avenue

had the oppurtuninty to do some art on the walls for a cool little clothing and boutique shop in lowestoft the other week, along with sam and other very talented Shhhh collective artist jean le roux.
heres a few pictures from the day

littlechimpsociety

a post of mine got featured on the blog 'the little chimp society' the other day.
check it out here

communal doodling

last week we had a little doodle jam/art battle in the SU bar, heres a few pics of the outcomes.:first pic is my stuff on the left, and some by fellow nuca student sam harrons on the right who currently runs SHhhh clothing and arts collective

second pic is by another nuca student matt musk who makes a zine sold around norwich called putrid skrawl.

and....go!

what better way to kick off my first blog than with showing my first ever pieces of 'published' work, wooo!
two of my drawings were picked to be included in the latest edition of StoreHouse the NUCA student union magazine, the title all submissions were working under was 'Secret'.