Eye Art

Minatoy

2006-11-15T15:58:00.000-08:00

Plastic Party People

2006-08-12T09:55:00.000-07:00

Found this knocking around on a cd in a box of miscellaneous tat under my bed. My mate's Stu and Al from Love The Action in Manchester always used to go on about 'Plastic Party People', ie: tarted up scenesters. In the end I think the ante on the P count got upped to 4 and it became 'Pretentious Plastic Party People'. Hmm.

Note appropriate use of bevel and emboss filter in Photoshop, though it is obiterating some of the detail. Whatever. This shit is old.

Elephant

2006-07-31T15:50:00.000-07:00

Can't decide whether the addition of the grime princess in the corner over eggs the cake. Meh.

All's Well

2006-07-31T15:48:00.000-07:00

A bit of SE5 centric wibble.

Sales

2006-07-06T15:18:00.000-07:00

Inspired by the Spice Girls 'Girl Power!' manifesto, a walk up Oxford Street, and Doppelganger's blog. And Operation Wolf.

Post something, anything.

2006-07-01T05:22:00.000-07:00

TBDL

2006-05-26T08:05:00.000-07:00

Personal identity. Been kicking round a few ideas for this but I reckon this is the one.

Skulls

2006-05-20T03:50:00.000-07:00

Concentration

2006-05-15T13:58:00.001-07:00

Role Reversal

2006-05-06T03:30:00.000-07:00

This was something I recently did for a piece for WMB magazine in Ireland. The theme was how some women are now the breadwinners in some families, and the traditional roles have been reversed with men now being the 'house husbands' as it were. The brief was to take the kitschy cliche of the 50s American breadwinner returning home to his dutiful wife and reverse the roles.

They were happy with it I think, though they wanted to make some slight changes to my initial design. Plus I'm glad someone knew which way up the olive goes in a martini.

Unrest

2006-04-21T03:05:00.001-07:00

SE5

2006-02-21T15:03:00.000-08:00

I see Camberwell as a place of contrasts, like places in all the cities I've known in fact. The division between rich and poor is stark here, the turn of a street, if in fact even that.

There are bits of this area that are hugely ugly, and still others that are to me at least charming if not exactly beautiful; but then that's my perspective.

Alleys of Your Mind

2006-02-20T13:20:00.000-08:00

Inspired by the Cybotron tune of the same name.

Not sure about this.. It's alright. All done in illustrator but I'd originally planned to work up the scanned image in Photoshop. Must. Wrest. Myself. Away. From. Illustrator!

Lockstep

2006-02-16T08:44:00.000-08:00

This is a font I've had knocking around on my Mac for time.

It's an all caps display face, influenced by stencil fonts, designed to tesselate and kern up really tightly.

Some of the letters need more work and there are some inconsistencies, but overall I quite like it (for when I did it).

If I could get at Fontographer, I'd make a real font out of this puppy, as it is, it's all drawn in Illustrator currently.

Witch & Wolf

2006-01-30T17:08:00.000-08:00

That witch's tit drama in full.

Thanks for stopping by.

Space Bird

2006-01-19T11:46:00.000-08:00

Another, darker space bird. Photoshop seems to do odd things to illustrator files when It opens them – most noticably making blacks noticably lighter.. hmm.

Batgirl Meme

2006-01-17T06:48:00.000-08:00

As Sigh 9 pointed out, there seems to be a bit of a craze for drawing Batgirl at the minute, so I thought I'd get involved. Did something different from my usual approach, and hand drew it, then coloured it in Photoshop using my Wacom tablet.

The style's a bit like Moebius/Crumb; I like to think anyway.

Music Logos

2006-01-13T10:28:00.000-08:00

Again a couple of blasts from the past, namely last year. The first is for my friend Dunc's night 'First Floor Funk' (it was on the first floor, right?) which we DJ'd at on a couple of ocassions. It was at the Funky Munky, which as a venue can get very cramped, so I tried to make the logotype reflect that, whilst still giving it a feeling of movement and excitement.

The second was for my friend Dave Connaly's neo-disco fusion group 'Love The Action', which consists of him, and various other scarily talented Mancs, including Stuart Whitehead and Zed Bias from Phuturistix (don't think he's a Manc though).

Soul Central

2006-01-11T08:56:00.000-08:00

Some developments in the DJ Phaze mix CD cover. Note the 'Z' in Phaze as Duncan informs me it's 'Phaze' rather than Phase. Anyway. The image he wanted for this was a Japanese bullet train, and to this end he'd found some slightly ropey jpegs on google image search, which would break up when printing quicker than you could say "72dpi".

I had some misgivings about the content as well, but sticking with it, I went for a smooth looking vector illustration, and attempted to emphasise the perspective of the image to give it contemporary dynamic feel that reflects the music (liquid drum and bass) I also attempted to carry over the Japanese feel through the typography. The Phase logotype's angle, and paralleling of the central illustration is a tip of the hat to Tokyo design studio Power Graphixx, and with the title on the right I've attempted to reflect the layout of traditional Kanji characters.

Back and insert to follow.

Boiled Frog

2006-01-09T06:42:00.000-08:00

An oldie from last year. This was a flyer for a friends thatre group in Edinburgh, which got mixed reviews, but I'm told people liked the flyer.

The play was about 90s new york socialite/pyscopathic club killer Michael Alig, who was later played by McCauley Culkin in the fick 'Party Monster'. The girls in question originally wanted me to do a straight rip of a club flyer from the era - for a club called The Limelight. There were problems with this though. First off the flyers were pretty shit, and in turn were a rip off of some american cereal packet with a toucan on it. Go figure. I thought a pastiche of a pastiche was out, as who in Edinburgh knows anything about early 90s New York club flyers, or indeed early 90s American cereal packaging. No-one would get it.

Instead I opted for a Factory Records style industrial look, with a modern twist, as Peter Saville's design was an iconic look many associated with that era of clubbing, and importantly, is a visual cue I thought people in the UK would get.

It was a hell of a lot more minimal to start, but I got no amount of earache about how they wanted it 'more glam', and fair enough, Alig and his crew were as camp as Christmas.

So this is what it ended up like.

Phase Logo

2006-01-06T10:06:00.000-08:00

Seeing as it's so quiet I've returned to an old project.. A logotype and cd cover I've been working on for my mate Dunc in his guise as DJ Phase. I managed to delete a healthy amount of worky in a bout of slightly too enthusiastic formatting a while ago, so had to backtrack a bit.

Here's the logotype. It looks quite Designers Republic but that's kind of the look I was going for. The red 'sun' ties in with the art direction of the CD cover, to follow shortly. It was also meant to reference half of a phase diagram - which looks a bit like a wave, and wasn't working for me as was.

Beasts

2006-01-05T14:46:00.000-08:00

Right, first up an old 'beast' I did a while ago, followed by a more recent creature in the same style; The Space Chicken, hurtling through space. You can tell he's a space chicken by the green chevrons on his chest and the wierd sonic beam he's projecting, which I imagine is something like the chittering bleat uttered by King Ghidra, the three headed golden dragon in Godzilla.

Robot Respect

2006-01-05T05:54:00.000-08:00

The Old Grey Stuff

2006-01-04T15:47:00.000-08:00

Remixes

2006-01-04T08:19:00.000-08:00

Graphics from another illustration I did which I've had a play with.

Glitching The Night Away

2006-01-04T05:56:00.000-08:00