Tuesday 12 July 2011

BOOK COVERS - The Politics of Aesthetics

Potentially the start of a new ongoing proj, similar to Andrew Joyce's drawings of dvd covers, I finished The Politics of Aesthetics the other week and thought it would be an interesting way to respond to the text by making an illustration for each book I read. From that I thought it makes sense to instead focus on a cover, to try and 'get' the book in a succinct drawing. Obviously this is going to be a steep learning curve but stay tuned for progress. Not sure which of these works best but the idea is the same. Also probably owe a lot to the design of the first issue of ..Ment journal which is fantastic and you should get your hands on. ANYWAY, 2 versions:

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Sunday 10 July 2011

Ides - Tropical Waste

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The super dudes at Tropical Waste asked me to do another drawing for a feature on the musician Ides. Check it out here.

Wednesday 6 July 2011

Poolga

I did some iPhone wallpapers for the nice people over at Poolga, and they are available to download over there.





Available at Poolga, here, and here.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Recent zines

Few more updates coming in the next few days, but had some drawings in some zines that came out recently so here they are.

Melanie's great Shape & Situate is back for the 2nd issue and she asked me to contribute a poster about an inspirational woman, so I did Louise Michel as I'd recently seen Paul Mason talking about the Paris Commune at the Really Free School and also just moved to East Dulwich where she spent a time while in exile. Here's the spread.
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Also Sarah Tea-Rex compiled this zine of stories and articles about the increasingly likely prospect of Graduating into Unemployment. I've put up this comic too much already so I promise this is the last time.
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Both zines are available from my distro.

Also last month was the International Alternative Press Fair and I used my mad grafik design skillz to put together the programme. Laid it out and did the drawings and stuff but NOT the drawing on the cover & that was on all the flyers. I didn't do that. I just did the text and the drawings of buildings and the thumb (quite happy with that) and the banner and all that. Enjoy.
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oh & also you can now get my Great Anarchists zine from The Idler Academy in notting hill/royal oak, and from Microcosm in america. Microcosm were nice and called it "An ideological sledgehammer of awesome!"