"Illustrator & Graphic Designer hailing from The Steel City of Sheffield, at your service"
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Digital Arts Magazine: June 2010
Digital Arts Magazine commisioned me to write a short tutorial covering my techniques with merging illustration and digital photography. This was a lot of fun produce as they provided me a random stock photograph and I had some days to mull over what illustration I would create. The end result was that of my little characters running around a stately home under the mysterious fog.
This is indeed my very first commisioned editorial piece which I'm very pleased with and so I hope more come along my way.
Child's Play Exhibition: June 2010
These are my 3 individual pieces that I've submitted for my collaborated exhibition project alongside painter Jane Faram. Child's Play is a collaborated effort involving Sheffield's finest illustrators and artists who have been picked to come out from hiding and show piece their work to an open brief. I'd managed to rope in quite a few artists from Nick Deakin, Jonny Wan, Lord Bunn, Mute & Lee Bamforth. My pieces come from my wandering imagination, probably something I inherited from a young age, I was given pencils and paper as a means of keeping me occupied as my parents would buy me toys but would get bored of them quickly. The 3 images I've submitted more or less highlight the power of a child's imagination and how raw and at times destructive it can be; ever built a tower out of blocks and then felt inclined to smash it down?
The exhibition is from the 6th of June and running until 4th July in the Forum Bar in Sheffield.
Hair Kandi Salon Wall Murals: June 2010
There's a relatively new Hair Salon in Sheffield by the name of Hair Kandi, well it used to be on Ecclesall Road but now has moved to the city centre of West Street. The owner's Dave and Sara commissioned me to draw pieces on 2 separate walls, the main reception area and the hair wash area where they play films on projector and use a wall as the screen. The Projector wall area was very fun to do and as they gave me free reign I was able to mull over some ideas for a week and just get down to drawing.
The second piece was intended to be drawn live during their launch party, which to me was a scary prospect, what if I fell down from my perch, or smudged so badly I couldn't disguise it... luckily I didn't fall or fail and managed to produce one of the most proudest pieces I've ever come up with. It was more or less a re drawn portrait of my friend Alex Godwin and again one of my favourite pieces.
TeaTopia Tea Towel Design: June 2010
My sample tea towel which I designed for the Tea Topia exhibition at Sheffield Millenium Galleries arrived the other day and I'm very happy with it! The towel was supplied by To Dry For, which produce really nicely designed tea towels with a modern twist, using all sorts of illustration styles. Teatopia will be running at The Millenium Galleries Craft Room from July.
Hantu In Esquire: June 2010
I was pretty pleased to see my Grizzly Bear Ts-hirt design printed in a favourites section of Esquire Magazine with a small write up. That coincides pretty well with the new launch of the Hantu Collective website where we're looking to be a lot more hands on with events and goings on around Sheffield and highlighting things we like around us, such as music and art etc.
Kelham Riverside Project: May 2010
I was commisioned by Ledgard Jepson of Sheffield once again to create a big mural piece for one of their clients. The Kelham Riverside complex is full of offices, business spaces and living quarters for new young and creative professionals. The mural piece itself was to cover an area of 48 square meters which required me to climb scaffolding and ladders and adapt my style to a more commercial general feel but either way it was a lot of fun.
Don't Panic Article Write Up: May 2010
The wondertful people at Don't Panic have pieced together a short write up in collaboration with Adidas Originals to talk about Originals within major cities. you can read the article if you click on the image below.
Hantu in Esquire Magazine?: April 2010
Leading mens and womens fashion magazine, Esquire emailed this month to let us know they wanted to put some of our t-shirt designs on their featured section for July. I was happy to find out they loved the bear illustrations and so fingers crossed we will see those in print!
JDA Wall Graphics: April 2010
Leeds based marketing agency, JDA commisioned me to hand draw some interesting and inspiring graphics for their main office wall and recreational area. The basis for the main office was a loose idea of growing ideas and processing them. The recreational area job proved alot more fun as I was given creative freedom to dot images around the room, into the corners, above door frames and even above light switches.
Gas Light Club Leeds: April 2010
Leeds is host to many bars and music venues, one such bar, The Oporto and Dead Young Records have been in touch to commision me for designing posters and flyers for their live folk nights on Mondays, the Gaslight Club. Dead Young Records have some interesting local bands on their roster I'd advise you to check them out.
www.deadyoungrecords.co.uk
Teatopia Exhibition: April 2010
Another project I've been keeping under wraps in league with Sheffield Millenium Gallery. I've been commisioned to design a tea towel for the main display for an exhibition celebrating Britains great love, yes tea. The tea towels will be produced and sold by www.todryfor.com as limited edition stock. Again I won't be able to post up an image until the exhibition kicks off in July but here is one image of my many tea towel ideas.
Digital Artist Magazine: April 2010
Keep your eyes open for the June issue of Digital Arts magazine for a Geo Law tutorial spread! That's right I was given my first editorial commision where I had to create an image merging photography and illustration together, and then write about it to show others what tricks I have up my sleeve. I won't post up an image on here until its published, just to keep in with the suspense.
Alice In Wonderland T-shirt: March 2010
Coinciding with the release of the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland film, I was asked by Jeremy Arblaster of Unquiet Desperations to design a t-shirt print that will be sold for an opening of a new bar in Nottingham. I obliged and had a lot of fun putting this together.
Plug Covert Soundsystem: March 2010
The new monthly flyer is being distributed around Sheffield for Plug's Covert Soundsystem night, it's becoming a popular fixture on a Friday night with its incredible stage set design and its mash up of electronic music.
This Is Chemistry: Feb 2010
Wall murals seem to be the rage at the start of 2010. Bradford based design and PR agency, This Is Chemistry got in touch with me to draw on their walls of their lush studio space. Naturally when I see plain white walls all I can see is a nice blank canvas, I jumped at the chance here to draw robots and construction to mimic the busy activity within their work space.
DQ Wall Painting Film: Feb 2010
Heres the footage of me and Mat Atinson from Sheffield's Don't Panic branch painting the inside of DQ night club way back last November 2009. I remember cold evenings and Mat getting on the decks spinning tracks as we were both painting this effing big wall.
Initially the boys at DQ wanted a "giant wave" going through the back wall of the main room, I happily obliged and had a lot of fun.
Ledgard Jepson Wall Art: Jan 2010
Heres the footage of my epic wall drawing I did at Ledgard Jepson based in Sheffield. The Brief was pretty simple, they wanted some artwork to adorn the walls for when they have client meetings and brainstorming sessions. To me it was a good excuse to just doodle the way I enjoy to, although it was a bit daunting having people watching me from their desks but I hope they think I did a good job.
New Illustrations: Jan 2010
This month I've been making time inbetween working at The Hantu Workshop to keep up with some illustration work. This month I'd been asked to produce pieces for an upcoming newspaper project based in Sheffield and also for some more designs for Hantu Collective. Heres a sneak peek at whats going on.
Covert Soundsystem: Jan 2010
I've started the new year on a fresh page but still the same mind frame, getting ready to throw myself into work and what better work is there than helping the branding of a new night at Plug? I've been working with Sheffield based designer Chris Smith (www.airgum.co.uk) on developing the visuals for Covert Soundsystem's night at Plug in Sheffield. These little characters will feature heavily on monthly flyers and poster designs, which will also support their stage design and other sorts of decor. Can't wait to see how it all turns out.
Tera Melos Gig Poster: Jan 2010
Uneven Blonde have put together a good gig for Bungalows & Bears in Sheffield. Tera Melos have a good garage rock sound with fusions of other styles in their repertoire. I've kept to the same style of visuals for this poster from the previous Portugal. The Man poster from last year.
Exhibition Planned for June 2010
Remember this image? It's one of mine and artist Jane Faram's own illustrative pieces from our Do your Best/ Do Your Worst exhibit in Sheffield's Forum cafe. We've another exhibition planned for June of this year, but more details will be released later on from this month. All I can say that it'll be like child's play...
Hantu Collective For an Exposed Award?: Jan 2010
The past couple of months since Hantu Collective have been stocked in Arcade (www.ilovethearcade.co.uk) have been hectic but a lot of fun to say the least. The designs have been getting a good response and now I can walk around Sheffield and see people wearing my designs (to my secret delight of course) Thanks to the people of Sheffield we're in the running for an Exposed magazine award. I'm not ever the optimist so all I'll say here is thank you to those who even considered putting us to vote! Wish us luck!
