who are those masked men

picasso had his blue period ..i have my men in
odd masks period...boy and bear is an idea
thats been around for ages.except i made him a
sun god..and the small hours started off as a simple
man has a cassette for eyes idea and then got wildly
out of control

two more boxes ticked

when i started out there was a few things i wanted
to achieve..silly dreams but goals nonetheless...
getting on phone poles in front of my house..check

having posters on the walls under the rail pass was
a big goal as i photoshopped my work on there for
my major display at design school and i wanted that
to happen for real..and yup...check





getting in the MX was another silly dream but
it happenned and thanks to ruth i saw it

got a nod

as part of the collective shoot the
player we were nominated for this
years smac awards ( sydney music ,arts
and culture awards) ..the night was
booze filled and fun even though we
lost out to trendy knitters

shooting made public

heres some of my shoot the
player photography used for
promos for their upcoming
show at carriageworks..
also my pic got into art
monthly mag ( which amuses
me that my photos not artwork
is the thing that make it in)

home boy

i was asked by an old
friend to contribute
work for her upcoming
group show..what i thought
would be something fun on
the side turned into an epic
production of type filled animals
and re-worked urban icons..
the night it self was busy and
hot as hell but fun none the less

hoot-ananny

i've been thinking a lot lately about
about breaking things down into very simple
shapes and when you start to train your eye
to do so its amazing how quickly you can see
something in something else completely unrelated
case in point..seeing an owl in a reel to reel
machine...its a fun trick and one i intend to
do more

ps ..its something they taught us first term
of design school but i have only just applied..
sigh

all hours great and small

chattin' up

the info less version of this little
space oddity ..it kinda reminds me of
paul revere crossed with the movie
poster for dune

Australian Musicians Co-Operative

logo image for the newly established
Australian Musicians Co-Operative..
while shopping with dim and jack at
the mall this image of a cyclops like
metronome popped in my head..it was
" its so crystal clear in my mind"
that it was just a matter of constructing
it...if only every job was like that..


this image will be used not only on
stationary and such but flyers and
other promo stuff

one dream coming true...

One thing i wanted when starting out
was posters i had made on telegraph poles
out the front of my house..even though
these are edits of my work for shore thing
i still consider it a dream come true

cultural mash up

fuck i love this poster..i will be heartbroken
if it gets rejected...its a representation of
what i love doing most at the moment which is
mashing up 2 or more cultures or subcultures to
get a weird hybrid..

in this case its a mexican wrestler with a native
american indian...but thats not the only mash up

my fave thing is the venetian with ghetto blasters
i wanna do a poster just with that



update
heres the spin off street press i did for the same
gig...i like this venetian B-boy so much

make soup not warhol

UPDATE
as per the bands request the string has been
replaces by giraffes ..which i love as they
kinda remind me of musical notes




Band rebranding concepts for local
sydney band kempsy

its what is inside that counts

UPDATE
just a few more for the wallpaper design











these are the first few images for a house and home
related group design i have coming up...
the doily art is to be framed and the type filled
animals( lots more to come) will be the wall paper

those tumbling tumble weeds

heres a business card concept for
tumbleweed productions

HALLOWEEN MESSAGE FROM JACK

flying over the cuckoos nest pt 2

this cover may change*







so i have been working pretty
hard the last few weeks on this
mainly due to the fact that the
ideas kept evolving and getting
more and more epic ..
it kinda feels very early gilliam
to me but without the production
problems

a randon bit of silliness

this popped into my head on the
train home one day and to amuse
myself i mocked it up..i would
like to make this a shirt though..

a good card-io workout

a saul bass inspired double
sided biz card

flying over the cuckoos nest

UPDATE
heres the cuckoo clock naval captain
theres other ranks to come



this is the first image from a
compilation cd i am working on..
its a mix of new uni bands and the
idea is that this cuckoo clock boat
is flying through different landscapes
waking up dormant planets..
so dormant planets that resemble apple cores
and cuckoo crew men are still to come

ahh to be shore...to be shore

after more than a months work..over thirty monsters
,over fifteen variations on one monster , many smiles
and walking styles. a sydney coastline , many many fish,
a total underwater environment and a lot more work that
goes unwritten about..heres the final image minus the type
plus me finding it in the brag with my gal dim late at night
in the city..check out that cheesy grin