Helped out on this

As part of the Whitworth Art Gallery's grand finale Lucy made this recreation of Jacob Epstien's Genisis sculpture in the park and I was fortunate enough to have a full on week helping out with it. It was hard work but well worth it and I learned a lot about weaving with willow. It gave me some ideas for some rather large pieces I would like to do as well.

Positive Posters Design Contest

Each year the Aussies at Positive Posters run a contest to find a poster that tackles the issues of the day and ones that the contributors care about, I love it and enter whenever I have the time to. These are my contributions for this year.  Food, water and natural resources areone of the most important topics of discussion for a sustainable future so I wanted to find a nice simple graphic way to describe these ideas.
my entries on the Positive Posters site

The Noun Project

You don't need me to tell you that The Noun Project exists, but here is a link to my portfolio of original icon designs created for the Noun Project. And if one or two are not enough the above collection is available on some stock agencies.
so check it out here

Live to ride

I am a borderline cycling obsessive and I have been doing a load of bike themed stuff lately, must be the... weather... well, it was....
so today I made this and I am still chuckling to myself. Stay tuned for a few equally ridiculous variations on the theme.

get it here for the walls or here as a wearable parody.

One Day Pop up at the Chinese Arts Centre

The wonderful venue in Manchester, The Chinese Arts Centre are hosting a one day pop up for local artists, check it on FB HERE
Titled 7 hours it is to explore the temporary nature of things and was lit with glow sticks to facilitate this as when the light ran out the show was over.

showing him my stuff and having all of them selected as a single piece

I am participating and exhibiting a couple of photography pieces in this show.
here's the website for the event at the  Chinese Arts Centre :

The must have T-shirt of the BBQ summer season has now arrived, to much fanfare.

So I made this shirt, it's a bit of fun for the summer and as you can see comes in as much colour variety as the sauces it pays its respects to.
You could purchase it Here at Skreened or Here at Red Bubble or even Here if you like. Have a great summer and don't stop grillin!

Need reasonably priced design work with a fast turnaround?

Poster for Manchester Piccadilly Vertical gardens

A fantastic project by some great people to grow a vertical garden on the ugly grey concrete wall in Piccadilly Gardens, check out the links for info on the project.. in the meantime here's a poster.
http://manchesterpiccadillyverticalgardens.blogspot.co.uk/

Tour Poster

A fairly simple tour poster for Cornish poet Aaron Kent to support his charity tour.

Check out what he is doing here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/feeling-hostel-aaron-kent-spoken-word-tour?c=gallery http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/feeling-hostel-aaron-kent-spoken-word-tour?c=gallery

Merry Christmas...Everyone

So I like to make Christmas greetings... this is this year's effort...have a great holiday season everyone!!


oh, do you want to see some of the past years efforts as well? oh, ok then...

that was last year, what can I say.. I was actually in space... can't really discuss the details.. clearly.


there are others...
many others..
Like this...you can't be too careful.. just sayin.

ok fine.... here are the rest...

Clearly not the best year ever..

Hmmm..... she is still not on the nice list... whatever, all her fault!

Seriously though, have a bloody good christmas, all of you!

An album cover design I did

A fun little album cover project I did this weekend  for this album by Aaron, talented guy!
Have a listen. It will be available to download here: http://twoinformalfeet.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/09/05/aaron-kent-imminent-conversations/

http://aaronkent.bandcamp.com/http://aaronkent.bandcamp.com/

positive posters contest entry

Positive Posters  http://positive-posters.com/

my first ( and maybe only) entry this year... the brief is simply .. help, illustrate help without using words.
I went for interactive.. choose your own way to contribute to the world, with tear off tags.

new shirts and stuff

Here are a few new shirts I did recently

Manchester Artist's Bonfire

Coming up this Thursday:
http://manchesterartistsbonfire2012.tumblr.com/
This is the piece that I burned, one of the last of this kind of protest pieces I made, it was time to do other things.

Here's some press coverage of the event, there will be more going on as the project continues.

A video with Rosanne and the artists explaining the event is here http://www.artplayer.tv/video/395/manchester-artists-bonfire-2012 http://www.artplayer.tv/video/395/manchester-artists-bonfire-2012

 

The BBC

The Telegraph

gig posters

a couple of posters for some upcoming gigs in the bar.. nothing fancy but .. job done.