Bird Vs Planes Poster

This week I got commissioned by the Brickyard to create a poster for an EP launch for an up and coming Cumbrian band Birds Vs Planes.

Image is the EP cover by tinhead.co.uk. Type by me!

Countryside inspiration

I'm currently designing a cover of Kenneth Grahames' The Wind in the Willows so here's some lovely colour inspiration.

 Stanley Spencer:

Henri Rousseau:

Ivon Hitchens:

Andrew Wyeth:

C-Art - Contemporary Vision 20 X 20

Last week the local museum in Carlisle, Tullie House, visited the studio to commission some programs and posters for a lecture centered around a current exhibition from C-Art, featuring the art of Cumbrian artists and craftspeople. 

C-Art supports and connects artists working and living in Cumbria, hosting open studios gallery openings and special events.

Contemporary Vision 20 X 20.

Thursday 7th February.

I really loved working on this brief even if I didn't enjoy cutting and folding 200 copies of it. The colours reflect those used by C-Art and while the logo is slightly cliché and massively overused the idea of 20 X 20 vision makes it effective and it looks super pretty on photos so there! :)

Contemporary Vision 20 X 20, development.

Little idea for the branding of a lecture at Tullie House museum. 

All they want is a program but I'm having fun branding it all anyway!

Home Screen Print Fun!

For Christmas my mum has a habit of getting most of mine and my sisters presents from charity shops and car boot sales and things didn't change this year when I got a battered old screen printing kit fresh from a farmyard car boot for a pound.
And its great! A bit hit and miss but for a first attempt I'm really impressed and excited to do more!

This was a quick design using a stanly knife to cut the screen (a piece of paper) that I made into a birthday card for my mum. See how it works! What goes around and all.
I really like them!

yay!

Underpass of Oneness.

Nothing says friendship, excellence and respect better that kids in onesies building a town right? ...right?

The city council is running a competition to redesign the underpass to the main high school in town and I decided to go for fun and simple (the wall is horrible and pebble-dashed so I reckon anything of great detail will be lost). I had a really good time drawing and designing these characters and I really hope that it gets somewhere. I'd love to get the chance to collaborate with some of the guys to paint a huage wall!

ONESIE PARTY! 

I got an owl onesie for christmas! 

:)

Swallow Hill

Identity and Branding for Swallow Hill Vineyards in South Africa.

   

The clients were extreamly open in their briefing, wanting only the inclusion of the swallow that sits amongst the vines so I just decided to run with it and have lots of fun!

Donde Esta Santa Claus?

For the past few weeks I've been getting some work together for the monthly Tigerprint competition, its been a wonderful distraction from uni work and the impending doom of a family Christmas.

And a colour one, just to prove colour doesn't terrify me. Honest...