This is the second of two floral fabric designs I've created for a new menswear clothing label. The design will be printed onto cotton and used to make mens sweaters (although I'm hoping to get a small one to wear myself!). I drew the flower pattern using graphite, ink and watercolour, and then manipulated the colours, positioning etc in Photoshop.
Work in progress:
Initial sketches:
This is the first of two floral fabric designs I was asked to create by a new clothing label which is about to launch. The fabric is going to be printed on cotton and used for a range of menswear sweaters. I drew the flowers in graphite, coloured pencil and watercolour, and then manipulated them in Photoshop to create a repeated pattern. Above is a swatch of all the different flowers included in the design. Below you can see an example of how the flowers look as a repeating pattern.
Work in progress on my desk:
Initial sketch:
Inspiration:
My copy of the DOLOR 'Mysteria' Vinyl EP arrived the other day! Very happy with how it looks, I always love seeing my work printed, especially on a vinyl sleeve :-)
From the Piccadilly Records site:
"This 12” EP from Dolor is the second release from Technicolour, the label set up by the producer Photomachine. Dolor has already been championed by Ninja Tune / Brainfeeder artist Lorn, who's a big fan.
Dolor’s persona as a musician has been on the rise of late thanks to a mass of self-released material, including ‘Macabre’, ‘A Chapel For Velvet’, and other innovative collaborations with Milwaukee’s adoptahighway, and Lorn. His ‘Drugs’ mixtape with Lorn was also extremely popular.
This five tracker opens with 'Our Number', a synthwave love-on with future R&B and bass music - emotive slip-sliding autotuned vox, lush strings and atmospheric washes married to off kilter skittering 808s. 'Pull Me In' follows a similar pattern for its first half before taking a turn into darkness... 'It’s Sexy Outside' is also a game of two halves - slow and slinky to start with then heading to the dancefloor on a wave of speeding electrohouse beats. Title track 'Mysteria' goes for the full synthwave layering, letting the alt-R&B beats lead the way as the queasy synths slide over the top. To close 18andCounting adds a moody (and don't-try-this-at-home) rap to future hip hop 'Classic Is Over'."
This is the chair I recently painted by hand for furniture designer Charlie Crowther-Smith. Photographer Theo Cottle took the chair on an outing out and about in Bristol on Saturday and took some snaps of it.
I've just finished this, a hand drawn poster for Shambala Festival.
From the Shambala website:
"Well over a decade ago, a motley collection of dreamers, thinkers, artists, radicals and romanticists decided to get together under the stars over a summer weekend. We wanted to make a place to party, free our minds, lose our hearts, learn, discuss and be inspired and see what is achievable as a community.
Shambala is a space to play, to reinvent, revitalise and then to return to the world fuelled-up on the beauty of being alive. It’s a playground, a realm for wild experimentation and alternative education where unforgettable life skills are shared, learned and put to use.
We see Shambala as so much more than just a monumental party. It’s a haven, a think-tank and a happening all infused with a heartfelt, purposeful hedonism. So, let’s revel in being human, in all the things we do so well – the euphoric heights to tangible solutions- and see how much we really can do together."
If you haven't been before, I highly recommend Shambala festival, it's the funnest! I've been for the last 4 years and I love it. It's a magical village of joy, and a great way to see the summer out.
Scroll down to see work in progress and inspiration:
LONGER WEB VERSION (and full lineup):
WORK IN PROGRESS:
SKETCHES:
INSPIRATION! (Vintage Glastonbury... check the peacocks...)
I've just finished hand painting this chair for Bristol based furniture designer Charlie Crowther-Smith. It's taken me a few months to complete, but I've just been doing it bits at a time in between other jobs. I'm really pleased with the result, and excited to see the results of a photo shoot on Saturday by Theo Cottle, a Bristol photographer. I will post the photos when I get them.
The chair in my studio:
Work in progress:
Before:
Since December last year I have been working with the team that brought you Shambala Festival (best summer music festival in the UK imho :-), to create a brand identity for a NEW, more child & family oriented version of the Shambala festival, called Starry Skies. Above you can see some screenshots from the Starry Skies website.
POSTER:
This is the promotional poster for online use, for which I did the layout and typography, using Photoshop and Futura (an amusing sidenote - according to Wikipedia, Paul Renner, the designer of the typeface Futura 'was suspicious of abstract art and disliked many forms of modern culture, such as jazz, cinema, and dancing'):
MOCKUP:
This is a mockup I did early on, with a slightly different colour scheme and header to the final version:
HEADER DEVELOPMENT:
Scroll down to see the progression of the header from initial sketches to the final design, sketched out in graphite:
FOOTER:
This is the original drawing of the footer image, which can be horizontally repeated infinitely as a tile. Below you can see it in full colour, which was added digitally:
LOGO:
The Starry Skies logo, and a 'Wish You Were Here' banner which we were going to use on postcards:
FLAGS:
I have also design a series of flags which are being sewn by hand in Nepal to be used at the festival. I will post pictures once they are all sewn and ready and flying high on site!:
REFERENCE IMAGES:
(marimekko I think? correct me if I'm wrong):
Last night I was lucky enough to be exhibiting work in the First Thursdays project 'an art and music event on the 1st Thursday of each month showcasing Bristols wealth of music and art talent'. Held in Bristol at The Bank of Stokes Croft, a bar opposite my studio.
If you would like to buy any of these prints they are available for sale in my shop.
I showed some old work, but printed BIG (the two KUEDO images), some recent work (The DOLOR EP cover image, and the Flying Lotus image I did for Bonafide). But most excitingly for me, I got a NEW print made up that I hadn't seen printed before, the image I made for dj YO! MAFIA. It was really nice to see it in the flesh. Big shout out to the guys at NICHE FRAMES on Stokes Croft, who do all my printing, and did a beautiful job as always printing these...
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