We Have Band - You came Out

I was lucky enough to recently art direct  on David Wilson's  (Blink Ink) latest music promo for the London based band 'We Have Band'. The stop motion video is made up of thousands of photographs of the band member's faces and LOADS of animated  face paint! - very time consuming work but I think the results are amazing.... You can view it here on David's site or on youtube.

Grafik Birds

As sponsors of this year's Free Range show Grafik Magazine commissioned Alex Ostrowski and myself to make something for the show. We decided to craft a flock of recycled birds using old issues of the magazine and recycled paper donated by Arjo Wiggins, The five bird houses acted as post boxes at the private view - people were invited to write messages on feathers and post them through the windows. Thanks so so much to my lovely assistant Jess Dance for all her incredible help. She makes the most beautiful creations out of material, card and all sorts, you must check them out (here) 

Moray McLaren - We Got Time

You must watch this masterpiece (CLICK HERE) by Director 

David Wilson (of Blinkink), in which I helped art direct a couple of months ago - spot the wolf masks and mirrored objects I made! The animation is all done in camera, reflected on mirrored panels from an animated sequence on each record disc. To find out more about how it was made watch the 'making of' here.

'The Assembly' website

Last week I helped the lovely  Container Plus build these models for the website of new boutique agency 'The Assembly'. When finished every element will be brought to life by the power of animation!

The Fedrigoni Mountains!

The Fedrigoni Mountains have finally been unveiled! Pop along to the exhibition at the Fedrigoni Showroom in Farringdon to see them surrounded by an exhibition of wonderful work by Container Plus, Rob Hunter, Helen MacIntyre, Rude, Supermundane, Sophie Kern, Adam Hayes, Nous Vous, Nicholas Saunders, Chrissie Abbott, Marcus Oakley and Luke Best. Each illustrator was asked to 'visually explore' a designated mountain peak and document their findings on a B1 sheet of  Fedrigoni paper. Thanks SO MUCH to all 12 explorers who braved the mountain slopes! Thanks to Patricia and Guy Archard for the photos.

Fedrigoni Blog by Nicholas

Thanks to the very talented Nicholas Saunders for keeping up a great blog on  the YCN website!  He's got some great snaps (including this one) from the night of the private view showing off some of the artwork in the exhibition- you must check out his website and see his lovely work!

Wolf Masks

I made these masks for the very talented  David Wilson of Blink Ink to feature in his latest music video. I also made other props on the day of the shoot and so I'm very excited to see the finished video. From what I saw it's going to be amazing so I will post it up here soon!

Exploration Begins

On Monday we met up with the twelve intrepid illustrators to show them their mountain and give them their B1 piece of Fedrigoni paper so they can set off on their imaginary journey and visualise their exploration! Illustrator Nicholas Saunders is keeping a blog of his progress on the YCN site.

The Guardian

Last week I collaborated with Alex Ostrowski, Johanna Lundberg Kristina Grundberg and Elin Svennson for the Guardian's creative section. We were asked to produce some colourful 3D letters to accompany an article called 'creative stocktake'  which is about the value of creative industries during the credit crunch - interesting stuff!

New Studio!

The Fedrigoni Mountains

This month I am art directing a project with Alex Ostrowski for the paper company Fedrigoni. Inspired by the company's Italian roots, we are making an installation of model mountains made of Fedrigoni papers and inviting 12 illustrators to visually 'explore' them throughout March! 

Nothing Fancy Volume 9

Some funny images I did a while ago have just been put up on the brand new 'nothing fancy' website, created by Jay Waldron. The site showcases some great work by a number of illustrators/artists/ photographers who have all submitted work on the theme of 'Changes'.

Tangible Book

Happy Newman Year, I found out today that the new Gestalten book 'Tangible' has been released. It is the follow up of the book 'Tactile' and  showcases the very best in 'High Touch Visuals' . It was very nice of them feature me in it, an exciting bit of news for the start of the year.

Creative 30 Exhibition

Hello. Just thought I would put up a post about last night's exhibition! Lots of fun and thanks to Jen and Danielle of Vice for helping me get my little area looking nice...

UWE workshop

Before Christmas I was invited to give a two day workshop in 3D illustration for the first year illustrators at UWE...a very talented bunch! I asked them to create a 3D environment based on some randomly selected words. They rose to the challenge and some really imaginative stuff was produced :)

ESSER Music Video!

This week I helped art director, Helen MacIntyre on the set of the Esser Music Video. I met some dancing robots and spruced up the space pod. I can't wait until the video comes out!

Nomonotono Exhibition

Studio Banana invited Alex and me to submit an image for their exhibition in Madrid. We came up with this collage of drawings and doodles based on the many times we drift off into imaginary worlds. There it is on the top right of the picture. All the works were exhibited in colour order!

Alex and me by the Christmas Tree

We popped into AMVBBDO yesterday see the tree that we had decorated over the weekend. Many more people have written and drawn Christmas messages on the leaves which is exciting, and the sparkling lights make it look magical! Click here for more pictures.

Lets Go Dancing!

Finally uploaded my animation, Let's Go Dancing! to the web and you can watch it here.

Lots of stuff

Another image from the Rude Shoot...

Brown Thomas Christmas Windows

Finally got some photos of the window displays I worked on with MakeStuff for Brown Thomas in Dublin! You can see more pictures here ...

AMVBBDO Christmas Tree

I've had a fun weekend with Alex Ostrowski making a colourful Christmas Tree for advertising agency AMVBBDO, who exhibited my clown screenprints earlier in the year! It'll be up all month in case you fancy popping in to see it.

RUDE shoot

For the last two or so weeks I have been working with Rupert of RUDE, making brilliant 3D cardboard  illustrations and today was the day of the shoot! So here I am trying to prop up the lamp:

Cardboard Wings!

Today I finished making the cardboard wings for Nick Bentley who is using them in the film he is working on in Spain ...

The other day I helped out on a photo shoot with the lovely Helen MacIntyre who makes the most amazing props and sets...this shoot was for the musician Tim Exile and Helen had made some fantastical head pieces...

Winter Giraffe

One of the little images I did for Jay at www.nothingfancyvolumes.com 

32 Gingerbread Men

I have working for Beanie Brownjohn at Makestuff and we have been making all sorts of things for Christmas window displays. Here are some gingerbread men we are making for Brown Thomas in Dublin!

National Television Awards

Here's me on the red carpet at the National Television Awards 2008, before collecting my prize for best hat.......

Not really,  I was actually there working for the the set designer/stylist, Gillian O'Brien (www.gillianobrien.com) behind the scenes. Lots of fun and her work is amazing!

Creative 30!

It's very exciting, I have been put forward for this thing called 'The Creative30'! People can vote for their favourite 'creative'  and the winner gets a car or a load of money WOW! So if you're feeling nice you could vote for me :) There is also a short film of me in my little flat...just click my picture on the website www.creative30.net and vote away... fingers crossed!!

YCN World Shoot

The World comes together and it looks amazing!

Bristol Festival!

Last weekend, I helped the Bristol based collective, Hot Soup host 2 days of interactive art and music that included shadow puppet making, musical jamming and a cardboard city workshop! We also created a chill out area filled with cuddley cushion monsters, where people could rest their feet and draw after a day at the busy festival.

The World of YCN

I've been busy helping Bryony Birkbeck and Kristina Grundberg with the World of YCN, a cardboard metaphor describing what YCN do. So far I've made houses and some gingerbread men along with some other bits and bobs.

YCN LIVE Tree

Over the last few weeks I have been collaborating with Alex Ostrowski for the YCN LIVE Launch which took place at Village Underground in Shoreditch last week. The people there have turned some old disused tube trains into working studios! We got inspired by this and decided to rescue a dead tree from East London and give it a colourful new coat of paper leaves- bringing it back to life for the evening! We invited people to write or draw on a leaf and add it to the tree.

My clowns at AMV BBDO

As part of YCN LIV my clown screenprints are currently being exhibited at advertising agency AMV BBDO in London, alongside David Sparshott, another ex-bristol illustrator! Thanks to Alex Bec for arranging it.

'The Theatre'