New work

I have been working on developing my work and doing a lot while I have had no internet connection. more work to follow

New logo that fits my work better.

I need to add some imagery to the back ground and this will be done just need to add my new logo and presto all finished.

Bank holiday = working on new pieces.

Sorry for the total lack of new work to show or even blog posts, I am currently getting back into working on my portfolio and come up with more work. I have been procrastinating for too long and need to buck up my work load with out further ado here are 2 pieces I am working on. The top piece was going to be handed in for a contest to design a t-shirt for ice cube but I was so busy at work I completely missed the dead line and the second image is in the early stages of of an illustration I am working on.

A new piece

This is my most up todate image for my rebranding I quite like the clean asthetic to it and hope to work on it a bit more soon.

New Direction

As Iam having to restrict myself artistically as I am without camera for the foreseeable future. I feel I should keep myself busy I feel I should complete some of the pieces I have started recently they will be a step up from the posters I have worked on in the past. Less photoshop more pencils and pens.

Linkin Park Artwork

Hello peeps I am sat back listening to Linkin Parks Hybrid Theory album and got looking at the art work and thought I'd do a post about one of my favorite bands post the millennium.
When Linkin Park came into the public conscious the alternative scene was full of Nu-Metal and alot of the hideous rap rock that gave rise to bands as diverse as Korn (originators) Coal chamber (Goth metal) Limp Bizkit (plain rap rock) Spineshank ( Industrial rap rock) and Ill Nino (Latin rap rock) it was a pretty dire time as bands like Slayer Metallica and Megadeth had pretty much lost the interest of the masses. There were a few bands worth keeping an eye out for like Converge, Killswitch Engage and Linkin Park having been lumped in with the Nu Metal crowd this was mainly due to their use of electronica and their use of rapping in their songs.
What struck me most was the visual element of the band in 2000 when Hybrid Theory came out you could not go far to escape the striking art work of Mike Shinoda. It was everywhere posted up in shops pasted in the rock magazines one of the good things about being signed to a Major label like Warner Brothers.
In his own words "the band had looked through books for inspiration on how to present themselves for the first time". What they chose was a winged soldier this was a way to describe the bands blending of Hard rockier passages with their softer electronica elements. There were various designs of the soldier on the singles cd sleeves.
As a piece of design I thought it was striking and a pretty good introduction to the band.
Contained with in the pages of their sleeve was a mixture of screen printed visuals along with hand drawn elements set against photographic film strips.

Next up was Meteora
The art work here was mostly photography based. A graffiti artist at work on a piece, here i liked the clean aesthetic of the layout and design it is hard to fault it really what I was originally looking for from the work was a bit more graphic in its execution. What I mean here is that on the Hybrid Theory art work there were hand drawn elements along with the screen printed visual.

Artist: The work of Mark Romanek

Of all the music video directors working in the 90s from Spike Jonze to Jonathan Glazer the music videos of Mark Romanek Stood out most. I did not know it at the time as that kind of information was not or rarely included when you watched a video on TV. In the early 00s when I was in university researching the videos of Nine Inch Nails for an essay on music and music videos that I came across the works of Mark Romanek. It was fascinating how many iconic 90s music videos he had worked on including Nine inch nail's Iconic Closer video and Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt".
I'd recommend the dvd The work of Director Mark Romanek to any aspiring photographer as well as any aspiring film maker.
as the dvd is now a good 6 years old you should be able to pick it up for a tidy sum.