My work on SKY NEWS

After a phone call from a friend of mine I was alerted to a video on the SKY NEWS network which featured my old MD of Pier Publishing. The story aptly named 'Man's lifelong dream robbed by recession', tells the story of the magazine he tried to create which was ultimately destroyed by the current recession. I was the designer of the magazine and all other design elements and was proud to see my cover designs still on the wall and promotional materials on the 'power table'.

Car crash, tilt shift and more!

Before I begin have you checked out tilt-shifting? It's a nifty trick you can do if you can afford the £1,250 price tag for a lense, or you can be cheap and economical in this downturn and turn your hand to photoshop. Just check out this tutorial on how and you could produce something like the one above!

It's been a hectic two weeks:
Got crashed into by a TAXI,
Been designing a few banners, flyers, marketing brochures,etc,
Created a few web scamps for some free work I'm doing in the voluntary sector,
Bought two great books: Wandering off into space by Chuck Anderson and Seven Hundred Penguins

Currenlty I'm not feeling too bad as I recieved a call letting me know that my poorly car is not going to be crushed, but kept alive and fixed - WOOO!

On another note I'm looking for collaborators to do a bit more work with, so if you have a project - GET IN TOUCH.

In the next few weeks I plan on having my own book published called 'Anonymous', based on the branding for my free magazine, I'll keep you posted on this!

Birkenhead signage and WWF posters

Hey y'all.

It's been a cracking week, with my illustration being popped in to OFF 2009 Art Catalogue and having some signage put up which I helped design, craaaaacking!!

Photo's of signage will be up on my site soon.

Just created this little beauty as well in relation to brief for the WWF (not wresting, more World WildLife Foundation). Based on the rise of CO2 and what it is doing to not only humanity but also the water level and animals close to extinction. On the magazine front, things are still going ahead it's just crazy finding the time atm with moving house and things being all over the place and not to mention my commute to work from manc to Birkenhead everyday, although I do love a good car / train journey :)

Going through my boxes of belongings today I was chuffed to unpack my Nikon and do intend on sorting a photographic journey soon with a delicate bit of ambient DnB I reckon. On another note I'm also about to get together a few of my illustrations and writtens brain farts to throw into a hard-back book. As soon as it's sorted I'll chuck some piccy's on here and if you want a copy, I'll give it to you for face value and P&P on top :D

OOOO also, iPhone 3.0.... why on earth the device didn't come with everything a standard phone has from the beginning is beyond me, however I'd never part with my (Orange) iPhone 3G, it is a truly awesome phone. Coming to a phone near you is online content that reacts to the movement of your phone...HOW ACE!

Manchester

Currently back in Manchester now, I was unable to sustain living in a new city after being made redundant from the job I left Manchester for. I was the lead designer for a publishing house with their free Regional Lifestyle magazine. It was a shame it had to come to an end, but with the economic hound-dogs growling at the door, there was now way of stopping it.

I initially left Manchester to get my foot on the ladder of design, in doing so I was able to make good friends and acquaintances, one of which has given me a lease of life. Being offered a role as a Junior Designer within an In-House studio in Birkenhead where I'm involved in creating corporate literature, signage and some DM work. The only downfall is that I have to now commute from Manchester to Birkenhead - but I'm a firm believer of putting the hard work in to reap the benefits.

On another note, I've had one of my illustrations selected to be included in the OFFF 2009 Art Catalogue. OFFF is a three-day festival which showcases top digital artists, web, print and interactive designers, motion graphics studios, and new music adventurous. I was amazed to be selected and hugely appeciative to the guys at OFFF!



Things are also progressing with the magazine I'm formulating, currently about to get some submission forms together and then going to put together some data lists to send the out to. I've threw together a quick site at ANONYMOUS where people can get some idea of the ethos behind what we're trying to do.

I was also very lucky to be in Leeds the other night to see a band that's going to be huge: Emarosa. Cheers DAVE B for chucking me the heads up on SPOTIFY!

Hold tight as I'm still updating my site and will have some more work up soon.

P.S. I'm currently looking for collabs in and around MANC, so if your a creative and have an idea, thow it my way!

Love, London and Anonymity

Had a great trip to London and the pics will follow shortly... managed to pick up the elusive new fashion magazine 'Love' from W H Smith's in Victoria Station the other day and will delve deeper into it shortly. On another note, I must stipulate to everyone NOT to decide to go to London during a school Half Term Break, it was insane!

Managed to hit quite a few locations including...

• National History Museum
• Tate Modern
• National Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery
• Covent Garden ( Creme de la Crepe - the ultimate in Crepes! )
• Harrods
• Harvery Nics
• Soho
• Picc Circus
• Leceister Square
• and a beautiful chip shop in East Croyden
• MUJI has a great set of cheap fine liners and recycled sketch books for all you illustrators!
  

On another note, I've managed to get an 'Anonymous' project off the ground, the domain and holding page is set, however due to the time it take the DNS server to get configured, it won't be live for another day and a half / / / so watch this space!

Conde Nast is spreading the love

Relax don't do it, when you wanna go do it! - blares from the car radio, I'm on my way to London! The Barbican, brick lane gallery, royal opera house and the comedy cafe in shoreditch are a few places I'll be visiting.
I'll hopefully be picking up the 1st issue of new magazine Love, so I'll let you know my thoughts on it asap. I've brought my D40 along for the ride as well as my iPhone so I'm sure to do some keen blog communicating. Before leaving is also began collaborating with a design fellow called Matt Stokes on a mag idea which will hopefully take off as soon as I'm back from London.

On yeah, posters of my 'I love type' illustration are available from my main site for a small price.

What a Random House you have

Alo-ha, today has been quite a long day, from dropping PDF's off at the printers to frequenting the local book-shop where I was lucky enough to pick up a copy of 'The Random House Dictionary of the English Language'. The book was published around the 1960's and was apparently the first dictionary to use computers in its compilation and typesetting. From cover to cover, the amount of information ranges from a beautiful illustrated dictionary, then english to French terms, an entire map seciton, methods of proof reading practices and a whole lot more. Upon laying eyes on the beauty I could not help myself, it now sits between the 'Great British Book Of Editorial' and my signed copy of American Psycho.
In relation to the printers I have been able to produce a short-run of posters for my 'I love type' illustration, beautifully printed onto coated 190 GSM poster paper. They are available as a numbered series at a cost. So if you would like one don't hesitate to email me (email found on my website).
Other than that, I am busy busy creating my itinerary for my London visit and also hopefuly putting together a few plans for creating a Creative Publication - Watch This Space on that one.