Cutout Cowboy

Since I work with packaging nets so much at work I thought it would be good to apply it to something a bit more fun. Fitting onto a single A3 sheet, Cutout Cowboy is easy to put together with a pair of scissors and some pritt stick. I hope to do more things like this in my spare time.

Family Guy Range

As the biggest fan in the office I was asked to work with Fox on a new Family Guy merchandise range. I had some issues with the choice of phrases as I felt ones from actual episodes would be more successful, but after a lot of discussion with the LA department I managed to swing 'Where's my Money, Man?' onto the money tin, perfect! To the right is a shot of the product at the NEC Spring Fair 2013.

You can watch the clip here;

Where's My Money, Man?

Love Never Fails

Just a quick fancy text design for a friend's t-shirt business. The amount of colours are always a factor with textiles, so I enjoy creating an eye-catching design with as little as possible.

Recent Posters

 

Every now and then friends and friends of friends make some odd requests of me, recently to design a fake film poster about zombie meerkats as a birthday present of all things. (Blogspot just told me Meerkats was spelt incorrectly, and suggested Beermats).

Pick Me Up

This was one of the first ranges I got to work on after joining my new company.

It was great to be a part of such a cool idea and I'm glad to see it still selling well. I hope we can expand on this one day as there's so much potential.

Clients:  Debenhams, Independent retailers

In Service

Concepts for a new range based on the working class of the early 1900's. I wanted it to be predominantly text based yet still aesthetically pleasing. Needless to say that research into this project left me very appreciative of my job!

KALA UK

A friend of mine asked me to create her a Logo and temporary charity website for her final degree project. As she suffers from Lupus and Arthritis she wanted to create a competition for kids in the same boat. The children sent in their best alien drawings and the winner received an Ipad. It was great to be a part of something like this.

Creation of the logo as 2 children raising hands together came from numerous sketches before the eureka moment!

Greetings Card

Just a small illustration for the ball 'n chain. Felt good to get back into using my graphics tablet and working with Photoshop and work's always quite Illustrator heavy. Everything always feels a bit plastic when it's all vectors.

I'd be happy to use this as a potential greetings card one day, maybe once I've completed more. Definitely a theme I could expand on.

Seaside Range

Concepts for a Seaside range for Summer 2013. Don't worry they're decapitated for a reason! The idea is that all chosen products (ponchos, towels, windbreakers etc.) will have these illustrations on so that it will look as if the person wearing them will have a hilarious stereotype cartoon body, much like the wooden paintings with head holes that you find on holiday. If this goes ahead it will be for NEXT exclusively.

Clients: NEXT

Where's Wally BHS Exclusive

Mocked up complete Where's Wally range for BHS. I've loved Where's Wally since I was a kid it was a great honour to be asked to create the merchandise. Not too much creative freedom with the style guide but this shows the kinds of things I have to make out of card sometimes!

Clients: BHS exclusive

Private Detective

Business card and Logo design for a private investigator. The logo comprises of the initials creating the film noir style detective in the negative space. When I discovered this during my sketching process I knew it had to be! The client was very pleased with the solution.

Popout Maps

A small merchandise range for Pop out Maps, specifically for London based retailers. There is actually a Walton Street in London, and I made sure it found it's way onto each product!

Clients: Independent retailers

Moustache Grooming Kit

Concepts for a moustache grooming kit and mug for NEXT exclusively. This guy didn't end up going ahead but it was great to try a different spin and set us apart from the competition whilst the moustache trend was hot.

Clients: NEXT

Britain's National Drink

I was the art worker for this lovely range produced to tie in with all the patriotism surrounding the Jubilee, real happy with the final range as we got to use gold Pantones!

Some of the most intricate vectors I've ever had to draw, but sold in many different stores around the country, I still get excited when I bump into one of my own products in a shop.

Clients: Debenhams, Independent retailers.

Ring of Fire Cards Complete!

 
After many sleepless nights the Ring of Fire pack is finally complete. I recieved my first 15 orders just from saying they were finished on my Facebook status, and then had to take it off so I could catch up again!

Ended up doing 50 limited edition packs before approaching Tobar (Hawkin's Bazaar) with a mind to find a mass producer.

Clients: Hawkin's Bazaar

Pirate Model Sculpted

Today I received the sculpted model for the Pirate game. Insanely happy with the outcome produced by eBob. Here's a link to his website if you're thinking of getting models sculpted;

www.ebobminiatures.com