Design Week...

Just picked up this weeks Design Week magazine, theres an interesting article on the 'hopefully' better 2011- with consultancies getting work in and starting to hire again, together with some figures for salary comparison between 2009-2010 (drawn from a recruitment agency questionnaire). Theres also a great piece by Garrick Webster that looks at illustration and the realm of technology. I got to throw in my 2 cents worth in 'talking tech'. Its funny that while everyone gives a valid comment about the subject- im the only one who mentions the costs involved in using tech to create! I often think its an overlooked area when people are talking about digital art, but maybe its just something that people are willing to accept mainly because traditional art materials are so expensive... at least with digital software your paint doesnt run out i suppose!

Anyway, if you get a chance to have a flick through it on the news stand or buy it, check out the article.

Vices show for London Miles...

In between bits and pieces i have been able to fit in this piece for a forthcoming show at London Miles Gallery. The show was originally slated for the end of March but has been put back a bit to May. As soon as the show details become available i will get them up here. In the meantime- heres my piece, the show is about modern vices and artists have been given a particular vice or guilty pleasure to run with. Mine was gambling and i really wanted to do something along the theme of the traditional tattoo pin-up of 'Mans Ruin' and this is what that evolved into.

Titled 'Mans Ruin', the final work is mounted on board and varnished, approx 44x60cm / 24x17" (minus frame) and will be on sale via London Miles Gallery. Below is the full image and a few details.

Daily Telegraph 70s Hair...

Heres another recent piece done for the Daily Telegraph fashion supplement. The article was about the big frizzy hair seen on the catwalk. It needed a fair amount of space for the typography / copy etc and to make it easier to shift i bled out to white on the right. I was trying to get this done at the same time as moving house so im not 100% happy with it, but i still think its a nice image. Not having seen the actual article yet i dont know whether they went for my original design or the alternate- after a request from the AD i removed some of the extra accent details. Below is the original artwork, a side by side of the two versions and a few detail shots.





Edit: weirdly enough i got a copy of the article page in the post today so heres a quick Instagram snap, bit of a shame the alt version got used...