hubcups

This was a personal project I did a while back that I found the other day. I went through a phase of drawing the hubcaps of the cars parked outside my window. It was intriguing to be able to guess the brand of car that the hubcaps were from just from the design of them. I found the patterns and designs pretty cool when they were simplified, so I vectorised them and stuck them on cups. I was going to look into getting some printed if enough people were interested in them, although I'd probably make my own original "hubcaps" so I didn't get into copyright problems. Either that or maybe they'd make for some promo gear for a car/wheel manufacturer. Who knows, I just did it for fun because I thought they'd look cool.

feel free to drop me a email or comment if you were interested or just wanted to say hey, I like getting emails. Enjoy.

Star Time Adventure Watcher

A month back Brandon Graham revised an old art-meme with his version of Moebius' Starwatcher in the hope that it would cook up like Apple Pie. It certainly seems to be. I've only recently, since my trip to Vancouver, found my love for Moebius' work. This is mainly due to Brandon, when staying at his, handing copies of 'bius' work to look at and i'm thankful he did. I really fell for Jean Giraud's (Moebius) style of aesthetics and technique and his ethereal colour and characters. Seeing as this Starwatcher  seemed like a fun thing to join in on, I was inspired to do, and no-one had done it yet, an Adventure Time tribute. Because I fluffing love that show. 

So here it is, I've been working on it on and off for the past few weeks, in-between work and things. Warcel had the pleasure of throwing in some alternate ideas after I had drawn up the line work so I'd like to go back to it and alter bits or do an alternate version with Beemo as the focus and push more of Jake's bombastic attitude into the image, but I feel ready enough to post this one.  It's been a pretty fun journey to take with this, I was originally going to go for a more Moebius or a Cell Shaded venture, but I was really attracted to the AT title cards. They bring in this crazy painterly juxtaposition of styles against the simpleness of the cartoon that works really well. So I thought, let's do that!

 enjoy.

boxes.boxes.boxes.

And we're back. None for ages, then two in a night. This is one of the mutherfudgers I've been working on over the past trio of weeks. Loading is going mobile with its coffee, and it needed some snug little boxes to contain the bean dust cans in. So here's a sneak preview of said packaging. It was a real fun little project, and a huge curve learner. I got the opportunity to design and create everything myself from the net upwards, which is fun, but having the responsibility of getting it printed professionally this time, I've been triple checking my triple checks to ensure its right. 

We went with a retro/tribute to Mega Drive™. It was great fun to do, and surprisingly personal also, I grew up with the Sega Mega Drive, Sonic was my absolute hero as a kid (alongside Earthworm Jim). I've always loved their style of aesthetics, and it felt nice to celebrate that and try to keep it alive whilst giving it a modernised, coffee related spin. I hope you enjoy it. 

To accompany the box+tin I designed a little double sided "Instruction Manual". I recreated the pictorial safety notices with game item/character related ones. Some are more abstract references than others.

Here's a little close up iconparison of the original (bottom) and Loading's game versions (top).

If you would like to lend a hand to help get these puppies born you can help Loading get funding for the print costs by voting: here It only takes a minute and costs yee nothing. And you stand yourself a chance of winning some of the powder gold known as Mega Coffee in its shiny box as well as some gaming goodies. It would be much appreciated folks.

Take it easy

hmmmm....

Well this is a well over-due blog update.  It's been a weird couple of months of moving about and doing bits and neglecting pieces. But here we are and although I've not posted anything for a while, it's been bugging me that I haven't, so here's some stuff. 

I'd like to kick start this with a tribute to a good friend of mine, Angelo Trofa. Just because he's a radical italian dude and a great designer. I've had this batch of post-it notes depicting the incredible Football tekkers of Luke illustrated by said rad-man from when we were at college together. I've been meaning to .gif for a while. It's sentimental, so I thought I would share it for you college peeps of the past.