For Jane: With All the Love I Had, Which Was Not Enough

Bike Riding

2010-12-30T12:26:00.000-08:00

Design number two. I think they're both 1000x stronger than my last image, mainly as I spent more than two minutes on these.

Why should I be a heroine?

2010-12-29T11:24:00.001-08:00

My new tee-design for Book Club Clothing. I actually really like it. It's a quote from Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson. The only problem is, now I want to re-do my other design.

Tumblr

2010-11-27T13:52:00.000-08:00

It's called We Ain't Got No Money, Honey, But We Got Rain just for the crack.

Men Seldom Make Passes...

2010-11-12T14:58:00.001-08:00

Collaboration with Alex Frazer, soon to be available at Book Club Clothing

Never Judge a Book..

2010-11-03T05:05:00.001-07:00

Print made for Book Club Clothing available on the launch night and online buying coming soon, for details on how to purchase if you're unable to attend the launch, please email bookclubclothing@gmail.com

BOOK CLUB CLOTHING

2010-11-02T12:21:00.001-07:00

So Alex Frazer and I have decided to finally do something with our lives and BOOK CLUB CLOTHING is the result. We launch on the 10th November, which I'm both nervous and excited about. There's still plenty to me worked out and finished off, but please check out the website:

Book Club Clothing

Loving Vintage

2010-08-22T04:09:00.000-07:00

I recently got commissioned to do a logo and some flyers for the shop loving vintage (http://www.lovingvintage.co.uk). Here are the results, i kinda like them.

Folklore/Mumford update

2010-08-22T04:04:00.000-07:00

The idea was to send out the portraits as postcards, contained in a little book jacket,
and on the back of the postcards a snippet from the bands favourite folklore would be written, coinciding with the animal head.

The water, the water Didn't realize It's dangerous size The mountain, the mountain Came to recognize It's a steep and rocky sides

2010-08-22T03:55:00.000-07:00

Just some snippets from my water/earth zines.

Coffee Breath

2010-08-22T03:53:00.001-07:00

This was my attempt at a creative collective. I hope I still try and make it work.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard

2010-04-25T16:44:00.000-07:00

I found some sketches in my drawer, this was just me, drawing men i find attractive, you basically need facial hair and bad eye sight.

A White Blank Page

2010-01-14T16:59:00.000-08:00

So my self initiated brief was to create merchandise for the band Mumford and Sons (I wrote the brief myself and the band have nothing to do with this). I tried to mix the folk side of their music with the victorian sensibilities they seem to possess and project. The portraits were done using Windsor and Newton ink and a dip pen, the frames were done using a 0.05 pen.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

2009-12-13T14:12:00.000-08:00

I've finally got a university project i'm rather happy with, this is probably my second dabble at surface pattern design, but it's definitely an area i'd like to get more involved in. The brief was simply Scale. I found the Georgia O'Keefe quote and worked from there.

Photography by Shane Turner

Surface Pattern

2009-11-22T19:14:00.001-08:00

Two pieces from my surface pattern module i kinda liked :)

The Fall

2009-11-11T14:45:00.001-08:00

I bet she's scared her life won't leave any traces.

2009-10-21T15:54:00.000-07:00

I kinda like them.

Let Thy Words Be Few

2009-08-08T11:52:00.001-07:00

I'm not too happy with it, but it took too long to just discard.

Nabokov's Butterflies

2009-08-07T15:53:00.000-07:00

He's one of a few who is worth all the trouble.

pens and pencils.

2009-08-06T07:01:00.000-07:00

I've been going back to pencils after viewing the Contents May Vary exhibition at Urbis, Manchester. I am biased, being a Mancunian, but the Manchester showcase outdid the New York one by miles.

Attempt at 'texture'

2009-07-26T09:51:00.001-07:00

S'aight.

the best often die by their own hand

2009-07-19T17:52:00.000-07:00

After watching Factotum, it re-ignited my passion for Bukowski, hence the change of blog name and this post heading. If you haven't read anything by him, PLEASE do, his poems, his books, just perfection.

I still can't draw hands for the life of me. Practice practice practice .

red coat.

2009-07-15T18:25:00.001-07:00

Just a quick sketch before bed

Finally, an update.

2009-07-14T09:30:00.000-07:00

It's rather telling of my first year at Staff's that i won't be posting much from it, only from the past few weeks of my summer. Hopefully my final year will be better.

I've been experimenting with fine lines, detail, ornate decoration and finally, digital colour. I'm pretty happy with what I have so far, let me know what you think.

2008-07-29T12:58:00.000-07:00

Posters for a mock film festival, celebrating Michel Gondry's work. The images come from parts of the film, carved into little lino blocks. All the type was also hand carved from lino.

"the sea"

2008-07-29T12:48:00.000-07:00

The brief was to create a record sleeve for the band, 'White Fang' . The sea image

is a lino cut and the octopus is a wood cut, the type is from type-press letters.

bird print

2008-07-29T12:42:00.000-07:00

Just a quick lino cut print.

David Thomas Broughton

2008-02-12T15:24:00.001-08:00

Brief: To create promotional screenprints for David Thomas Broughton's album: It's In There Somewhere on Birdwar Records. Brief was given by Drew Millward, www.drewmillward.co.uk.

2008-02-12T15:16:00.002-08:00

I like buses, alot.

Illustration: Prints

2008-02-11T04:51:00.003-08:00

Prints done for Illustration brief, top 3 are lithographs, bottom one is a mono print.

Illustration:Drawings (Charles Bukowski)

2008-02-10T12:24:00.000-08:00

Brief: To illustrate book covers, I chose Charles Bukowski's Post Office (top) Women (middle) and Factotum (bottom). These are some rough sketches, done with my left hand.