Fiona Clayton Farewell Show!

I recently got a followup commission to create a second poster for Fiona Claytons' upcoming gig at the Brickyard in Carlisle. Fiona is having a baby in the new year so the band are putting on a farewell show to say goodbye for a while.

I tried to continue with a similar theme from the first poster, keeping the colour schemes and the summer camp feel. This ones all packed up and ready to go away for a while.

Best of luck to Fiona, Jan and the band for the future! If you're in the area go support!

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Fiona Clayton

Gig poster for folk rock singer songwriter Fiona Clayton. Really enjoyed doing this one. 

Courtney Pine

I recently got commissioned to create a poster for the jazz musician Courtney Pine. I'm not really that down with my jazz but this guys a pretty big deal and super nice to work to. 

I spent what felt like a year colouring that sax and then the venue chose to go with my admittedly cooler but less fun first typographic poster attempt. Which I totally get. But I still like the sax. Definitely a combination of visuals I want to play more with. Especially that celestial cartography stuff.

Yeah, listening back to this I can definitely tell why they picked the other poster... 

Beans & Jakarta

I did some typography for a poster. It was quite nice and relaxing.

I've also got about 164 other illustrations and bobs that need scanning, colouring and prepping and I will get them up eventually! Life's just kinda got in the way right now, which is sort of nice but needs to move over soon so I can work.

Jakata Club is quite nice too! Nice to see a little cumbria band making it big on Mahogany.

                 

A First and lots of adventures!

It has been a crazy month of excitement, adventure and far too many smelly megabus trips, so heres an update on life. 

I GOT A FIRST!!

So thats kinda exciting you know. 

It's what I've been aiming at but it was still a massive shock and I am so, so fucking proud. Hard work and loving what you do works!

As its the end of uni we've had our DEGREE SHOW (With my posters!) and I'm happy to report that it was a success. Lots of wobbling up step ladders and swearing at double sided tape later and we had a lovely exhibition space full of arrows going off into the wide world.

Pics Steph Stilwell

 Each graduate designed arrows in their personal style to represent the different directions they'd be exploding out into the world in. I decided to hone some skills, experiment with colour and have fun!

A lot of hard work but totally worth it so my family could final visit where I spend all my daylight hours.

 ( P.S. I love you Studio <3 )

The Exhibition website can be found HERE! 

Then we went on lots of travels in Cumbria and Scotland.
I finally got to visit the cool bit of Hadrian's Wall (from robin hood prince of thieves!), stumble across amazing little villages in the lakes, partake in ritual coursework burning before climbing SCAFELL PIKE. 12 hours later I was on a horrendously smelly megabus home to cornwall (via London and the globe theatre) where I spent the weekend before zipping back up to London (New Blood!) and then to oxford and back again. Mad month!

Here is a taste of my CUMBRIAN ADVENTURES: 

Its been a great month all in all. Saying goodbye to my home of three years and greeting the future with arms wide open! (Ahhh gooey feelings :)

Finn H. Drude is the Business.

My good friend and comrade in the visual arts, Finn H. Drude is going out into the world of film and sheep soon! (he'll be moving to Wales) and he wanted some business cards. 

So Ta-Dah! (thats about it.)

 

also today I was about 1mm off a trip to A&E after reshaping my index finger. Ouch.

Actually this is the card I wanted to make. Bratwurst cutie!

Semester Two Farewells.

So I'm officially finished with my education at the University of Cumbria. 
Its been a blast. Really.
Here is the work from my final semester:

Bagatelle Comic book Cover.

So it turns out my comicbook piece for the anthology is going to be printed in black and white... sooo it was suggested that I design a possible cover for the anthology as well using the same style and colours. And here it is. Super cuffed (:

 

Luckily the comic book colours do convert to black and white well and the contrast means that everything is still visible and identifiable.

Degree show posters.

So I'm stilll working on my seed packaging. The major designs are there I just need to work out how to print the origami, say hello to indesign my new bestie.

The tutors spotted me working on these fellows and then decided to art direct me on another final show poster. So fun and productive but aggh I want to finish this brief now please.

 Take note of the little man pooping in pink...my tutors thought he was a blast...yeah.

They also picked one of my one day posters to develop for the show. Unfortunately they didn't like the title 'Umlaut (spelt in umlauts)' or Hergestellt and suggested WUNDERBAR!

Which makes me think or bras and drinking...

One Day Brief. Oh the horror!

Today we had the dreaded one day briefs. Where the tutors set a series of design tasks and then set off a foghorn. The day was mainly for the graphics students but I love one day briefs so yay!

The brief was to design several hypothetical posters for our up and coming final show using only a selected few low grade images and shocking 90's typefaces.

(Warning lots of blue and orange to follow.)

This piece is entitled: 'Jade discovers the Umlaut keys on the mac....Goes nuts.'

We also had to create little invites based on each of the posters: 

Hooray fun! Not sure I'll use any for the final show but still.

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!

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! 

:)

Urban Sketching

Urban sketching in Carlisle, Cumbria.

Very cold, wet and miserable but so much fun!!

Issuu book to come!