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

orr not to be

UPDATE
heres the mock ups of the front
and back cover




queensland singer songwriter emailed me
asking me if i could do an inkblot test
involving drums.piano's,guitars and his
fine self...this is what i came up with..

true story!!

all hours great and small

heres a copy of the beginning of the
email i sent the band which pretty much
sums this up..kinda
" Hey mister..heres the poster tried to
make it look like maybe if dali had got
into anti nuke propaganda or something
like that maybe if dali and warhol had
a love child who made peacenik posters..
anyways....

also mark from the small hours runs coolin
by sound a monthly indie night..heres a poster
for one of those nights..the last poster for this
and this current one is a reworking of art work
i did for the dlc art show night

shoot the player: the vivian girls

this was a fun return to shoot the player
althought we fought light and rain it was
a great shoot which culminated with a fan
love in while the girls played in the
middle of a surry hills roundabout

i hear the wolf at the door..

heres a poster im working on for
this theatre company..its a reworking
of classic childrens fables for both
the adelaide and melbourne festivals..
wanted to do something both graphic
and something like nordic folk art..
hope this conveys that