Tripped out, yet again

This is the front and back of a T shirt design I did for The Trip Out, a great 60s/70s bike/car/music weekender in Bedfordshire. The next one will be next September - I'm working on the artwork now!

This year I did stickers, T shirts, showcards and various bits and pieces for them, and they also used the logo to make leather keyrings and other goodies.

A spoonful of sugar…

I've just made this CD EP cover for Ma Polaine's Great Decline. I can't remember what advert the image was from now, but it's a fantastic drawing of invented machinery! Probably bile pills or some other revoltingly-named mystery remedy.

The machine for Business, Pleasure or Sport

This is the first of a number of vintage style adverts and posters I'm making for The Black Douglas Motorcycle Co., who are in the process of producing these fantastic bikes based on early 20s design but with modern engines for those who like all the thrill of biking, without the thrill of breaking down and pushing it along a muddy hard shoulder in the rain looking for the nut that fell off.

Fairground fun

Alongside my other work, I'm constantly working for the fantastic Carters Steam Fair, the largest vintage travelling funfair in the world. I deal with their posters, flyers, website, adverts and other bits and pieces they need as the season runs through. They're great to work with, and have become true friends - and they're some of the most hard-working people I have ever known. It puts my sitting-on-the-sofa-gazing-out-of-the-window job to shame!

If you're anywhere near Holyport this weekend, get down there!

The World of Wonders at London Wonderground

I was asked to design this set of six banners for the World of Wonders Sideshow, which was taking part in this year's London Wonderground. It was a good fun project (if not a bit last minute!).

Charivari Day

This poster was made for this year's Charivari Day, Folkestone's annual street carnival organised by Strange Cargo.

Fortune favours the bold…

 

I was asked to design this tattoo for a friend's son. He had chosen a piece of art he'd found online, but the text didn't say what he wanted it to, so I used similar Arabesque ornament with the correct phrase.

Hand-made stuff…

These are two posters I made for Lisa Oulton and the Canterbury Student Makers' Market, a new social enterprise which encourages young makers to get training in marketing their products, and which gives them free stall space on a monthly marketplace.

What do bears like for breakfast?

Chicken, sautéed potatoes, sausages, broccoli and carrots, apparently. This was drawn for SGS, as part of their sustainability campaign.

Careless Talk etc...

I have just designed this poster for JimJam Arts who are putting on a series of events in Folkestone this summer. They asked me to make this poster for an upcoming street festival involving various performers all over town. Their initial slogan - "Keep it under your hat" reminded me of Fougasse's famous "Careless talk costs lives" posters, so I decided to do it in honour of him.

JimJam decided that the "Keep it under your hat" slogan wasn't really working - "Word on the Street" is the name of the festival, so it was contradicting itself a bit. So they asked me to make a new poster:

This one features a few loony performers, and it's more inkeeping with the other posters I've made for them in the past - some of my favourites, in fact: