Following on from the X-Men, Fantastic Four and Avengers Family Trees back in 2011, I’ve now started working on the Star Wars Family Tree. It’s hopefully going to be pretty cool. Not sure when it will be finished yet, but hopefully fairly soon.
I’ll be posting most of the characters as I draw them daily on my Instagram account, so give that a follow if you’re interested in how it’s shaping up (I also post various other work in progress shots of jobs and projects I’m doing on there too, if you’re into that sort of thing).
Veeeery nearly there on the brand identity I’ve been working on (in collaboration with my main man Sam Knott) for new film production company Aura Films. Really happy with how it’s shaping up. I will elaborate at great length the thinking and process behind the design once everything is up and running.
Here are some Marvel Family Tree characters I drew that never actually got featured on any of the posters. At one point I was planning on doing a huge infographic of the entire Marvel universe with every character I could think of, but it was a pretty big job and time wasn’t on my side. It got pushed to the side for a few months while I was doing actual work, and eventually I figured that the boat had somewhat passed on the popularity of that idea. Plus I wanted to avoid being known as a one-trick pony who kept milking the same mildly successful project again and again.
That said, enough time has passed that I feel comfortable re-visiting the concept with some other ideas. More on that soon.
Archived Work
Band practice photography.
Photography taken several years ago when I used to be in a band. We’d all get together in the drummer’s home made practice studio (his parent’s garage that was ‘soundproofed’ with lots of layers of carpet and egg boxes) and jam for hours, fuelled by beer and cigarettes.
After posting them on my Flickr account they were noticed and some of them subsequently purchased by a design studio in London for use on a major UK music body’s website.
Archived Work
Zen Beauty Salon branding and stationery.
The logo was inspired by Japanese zen gardens, crossed with the clients desired butterfly icon. The general aim was to give the business a sense of elegance, peace and serenity, getting across the atmosphere of the salon itself.
A couple of years ago (when I was going through something of a ‘fine art’ phase) I played around with video art. The main concept I explored was the idea of capturing entirely still scenes that change slowly and subtly over the course of 10 to 20 minutes, giving the sense of a still photograph that looks slightly different every time you glance at it. Most of the results turned out to be incredibly boring and uneventful, but this one worked pretty well. The light was on my side and I managed to get my timing just right to capture the sky shifting from daytime to dusk.
I still find watching it quite therapeutic, and there are points where it looks almost beautiful (if I do say so myself). It is 15 minutes long, so if you decide to watch it and find yourself getting bored I’d suggest skipping to around 6 minutes in. That’s when it starts to look the most picturesque.
The fine fellows at the Colchester Film Festival are running a series of monthly screenings showing some of the better films that didn’t get screened in Colchester’s crappy Odeon cinema. The screenings will take place in our local big golden Firstsite art gallery, and each film will be preceded by one of the shorts from last years Film Festival. I’ll be drawing up an alternative poster for each of the features, kicking off with Dexter Fletcher’s directorial debut ‘Wild Bill’. If you’re local to the area then come along on Feb 11th; it’s half the price of the Odeon, shown on a much nicer screen and is by all accounts a smashing movie.
Pretty happy with this photo I took while flying over the alps on my way back from a trip to Venice (which I’ll talk about more later). Mountains are cool.
New Work
In my day job at Glyph we recently completed the new brand identity for the Football Business Awards, which is taking place at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium later this year. I got to draw a nice vector illustration and worked with my colleague Sam Knott on the logo and general identity.
The branding is based around that idea that business (the green element) has become such an integral part of how we enjoy football, if it’s taken away it alters the game entirely (the football in the logo becomes just a circle, the stadium a mere pitch). The awards were established to celebrate the unsung businesses that hold the game as we know it together.
Disclaimer: I don’t actually like football.
Very happy to announce that me and Sam Knott will once again be working on the branding and promotional materials for the Colchester Film Festival.
