DON'T TOUCH THE FADER//

A poster for a friend back in my hometown for an Electro night at Tunbridge Wells Forum in April. It's gonna be BIG. Have a butchers here.

Under/One/Sun.

Just some preliminary logo ideas for a charity festival called UNDER ONE SUN, which is due to be held in the summer in my hometown, Tunbridge Wells. I have a correspondence with one of the organisers of the event and I have been asked to come up with a logo which will be all-emcompassing for the feeling of the gathering and affixed to all banners, letterheads, merchandise.
I decided to use the emblematic and seemingly obvious circle as the starting point, to both represent the fun of a festival and impress upon the onlooker a sense of unity between those involved.
The font used is a progression of Helvetica that I created to make the banal and ubiquitous typeface into something that is less recognisable and portrays a feeling of youth and vigour.
I am going to play around with some 3D models on similar themes to branch out from computer graphics. Bear with me.

ONEMOREWINDMILL.

The most recent addition to the set and my favourite yet.

And my next government-funded purchase will be..

This beauty. Only 500 have been made so I'm going to buy one and just never draw in it. Perhaps use it as a door wedge or something, anything but a sketchbook. Get it from here.

Make, don't think.

Tying in with my Astronomy project, I decided to set myself the mini-challenge of creating a five frame story in five minutes. Outrageously simple stuff, but it helped me to make more and think less. Looks real nice, too.

Windmillerns.

I found a beautiful book in the library on Windmills when I was researching the countryside for a zine I'm doing with a friend. A happy accident, you might say. I have been practising my illustration technique as I have realised I have no real strong drawings of late. I aim to do about ten of these drawings and then release a small number of zines which I will hand-bind with Justin's help.

Matchbooks.

Hugh and I found a box of old tat outside a derelict house at New Cross Gate a couple of weeks ago, and these were inside. I'm used to generic Bryant & May matchboxes, I've never seen anything like these before. They denote that they have come from as near as Islington and as far a way as New York City. I want to translate them into a series of screenprints, perhaps A3 each.

Facelift.

I was getting pretty bored with the general appearance of my blog, and because I haven't had a lot of work to put on here recently, I thought I'd give her a makeover. She's getting on now, bless her, but looks at least a year younger.
In general, I'm pretty disheartened at the moment; my course isn't going as well as it should be, I seem to be constantly tired and belly's kinda got me. Uni has been a bit of an effort recently. I'm not performing because I never know what the tutors are looking for and I spend far too much time doing my sketchbook and not enough being proactive and making shit before I think about it. I made the sets called 'Clancy Wilde' after being strongly influenced by the Leeds DIY scene, but my efforts seem to have gone unnoticed. I pulled out a poor mark in my assessment and I'm just hoping this all heals itself once we start on the proper pathways (if i get onto Typo/Graphics or Illustration).
As for home life, things couldn't better. Nearly everyday I'm greeted home by friendly faces, a cuppa and a fag, sometimes even a warm XBox360 controller. We still eat altogether and just generally spend the majority of our waking hours doing 'family activities' like washing up or watching tv. If you hadn't already guessed, this would be the most obvious reason that I'm lacking motivation. But who gives a shit, y'know? It's not like it's my finals and I've got a day to do them. This is how it's going to carry on for a while, I hope, but one day I will buck up my ideas and do some work that I'm proud of.

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Clancy Wilde.

Nearly finished.

Clancy Wilde, Space Detective.

A series of sets I am currently in the process of making for my First Lines project.
Based around the principles of the Film Noir genre, the storyboard follows a small-town American astronomer/ space detective.
I don't want to give too much away, because I'm pretty excited about what the end results will be myself, but all the sets will be photographed on B/W film in a studio.
Bringing influences from Orson Welles' seedy low-light films to Leeds based art collectives Nous Vous and Kraffhics, I really wanted to go all DIY on this brief's ass.
More to come soon.