A new batch of postcards & stickers arrived courtesy of moo.com. I'll share in more depth later, but here's one on the back of my motorcycle helmet...
If you see me passing, try to keep up.
Vintage Lights...
I am absolutely in love with vintage light bulbs... a few extra pennies, but well worth it. Here's a shot of mine firing up. Staring directly at a lightbulb is bad right?
Making Tables...
Here's a coffee table (read display piece) I made back in October. It took roughly 2/3 days and was made out of old wooden palettes salvaged from Brixton market, with a little help from the girlfriend (she held stuff). We stained it, ordered some old hospital wheels, bolts, and drilled various holes in stuff. Then I ordered some custom glass from a local glazers in November for the top and underneath, not too bad considering most of it was guess work...
And finally, found a neat little way to slot in my Aaron Draplin poster to sit under the glass earlier this month. Mission complete. Pay me some monies and I'll make you one.
And finally, found a neat little way to slot in my Aaron Draplin poster to sit under the glass earlier this month. Mission complete. Pay me some monies and I'll make you one.
Nick Names & Back to Blogging...
WELL
BLOW
ME.
I've finally decided to stick up a post. Blogging seems like something I used to do fairly frequently but now most of my meandering dribble goes up on Twitter & Facebook?! Social Wha!?! Did I get bored with it, perhaps? Did I run out of things to talk about? Unlikely. Why then? Who know, who cares...
...I'm now wondering how to fast forward the best part of a year, I've left Inferno, have been freelancing since June at a number of places, almost solidly, other than a brief trip to Istanbul & Xmas festivities.
I spent 5 months at a new start up The Champion Agency (well it was new last May), so 'new-ish' now. Profero for a couple of months with some old friends, B-Reel NY & London on some product innovations which should be out soonish, and since early Jan - Ogilvy One.
I've launched a greetings cards range with another Illustrator/ Art Director friend of mine Woody Woods, which you can kindly purchase through the link here. Lets face it there's worse things you could spend your money on. The series is called Nick Names. People's names you've mentioned and now you can finally meet them, albeit graphically.
...And also working on beefing up Single Creatives and hosting the single mingle next week (now booked up) & not forgetting the wonderful YCC crew. Lots of epic stuff coming through the pipeline on that, so keep an eye on the site.
BLOW
ME.
I've finally decided to stick up a post. Blogging seems like something I used to do fairly frequently but now most of my meandering dribble goes up on Twitter & Facebook?! Social Wha!?! Did I get bored with it, perhaps? Did I run out of things to talk about? Unlikely. Why then? Who know, who cares...
...I'm now wondering how to fast forward the best part of a year, I've left Inferno, have been freelancing since June at a number of places, almost solidly, other than a brief trip to Istanbul & Xmas festivities.
I spent 5 months at a new start up The Champion Agency (well it was new last May), so 'new-ish' now. Profero for a couple of months with some old friends, B-Reel NY & London on some product innovations which should be out soonish, and since early Jan - Ogilvy One.
I've launched a greetings cards range with another Illustrator/ Art Director friend of mine Woody Woods, which you can kindly purchase through the link here. Lets face it there's worse things you could spend your money on. The series is called Nick Names. People's names you've mentioned and now you can finally meet them, albeit graphically.
...And also working on beefing up Single Creatives and hosting the single mingle next week (now booked up) & not forgetting the wonderful YCC crew. Lots of epic stuff coming through the pipeline on that, so keep an eye on the site.
[Inferno Intros - 001]
Here's a little something I've been working on with a couple of pro-active peeps at Inferno. Here's the official ...post.
It's a little labour of love and fun side project, and between us we created the evolving identity, intros, filmed, edited, produced and sourced the acts, all in less than a week. First of many hopefully, certainly a space to watch...
::::[Teaser]::::
::::[Katzenjammer]::::
::::[Erin K & Tash]::::
::::[Poster]::::
::::[Obligatory Pin Badges]::::
Happy World Book Day
I LOVE BOOKS.
A little thought I had - and since it's World Book Day it seemed like a good time...
A little thought I had - and since it's World Book Day it seemed like a good time...
and if you're wondering where the inspiration came from... it was a journey to work last week.
Big Bowls...
Last Friday was the latest in the Inferno socials, bowling at the All Star lanes in Bloomsbury. I'm not actually that great at bowling so I thought I would hide the fact by designing the invite for it, and here it is.
However, once I got going, I figured out I was a natural... we were only playing half games and imagine my surprise hitting a triple strike on my final go or a 'turkey' as 'they' say in the correct lingo.
Aaron Draplin...
A couple of weeks ago, Paul & I went down to the sketchy streets of Shadwell, for an event 'Tall tales by a large man', that large man being Aaron Draplin, a designer out of Portland, Oregon, famous for the likes of Obama (The President), Nixon (Not the president, the brand), Nike Air Max (before they were cool), Field Notes (Mole Skine's biggest rival) and the now infamous COBRA DOGS! It was literally the best talk I have ever been to, there were tears (his), laughter (ours) and I have never left a talk so inspired. It's well worth checking out the Draplin Design Co site here
I managed to grab a LTD edition print of his poster too which I'll share, in due course.
You can grab a little insight to what Aaron was like here:
America Is F*cked.......(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on Vimeo.
But more importantly, there's an awesome write up by Paul on the Inferno blog here
I managed to grab a LTD edition print of his poster too which I'll share, in due course.
You can grab a little insight to what Aaron was like here:
America Is F*cked.......(Graphically at least) from Jess Gibson on Vimeo.
But more importantly, there's an awesome write up by Paul on the Inferno blog here
Designer's Elbow...
It's not as weird as you think. But does anyone else suffer from this?
Lack of arm hair on the elbow, I think it's where I use my mouse / Wacom tablet.
Never noticed it before, thought I would share it. Can you spot people in the street that work in an office? I challenge thee!
Lack of arm hair on the elbow, I think it's where I use my mouse / Wacom tablet.
Never noticed it before, thought I would share it. Can you spot people in the street that work in an office? I challenge thee!
Quarter past a button...
Here's a little something I made for the lady as part of her Christmas present. (She's had it already, so I'm not ruining any surprises).
Purchased a wall clock from Ebay for a few quid, then nipped to the local market (which just so happens to be the biggest in South West London) picked up a wide array of buttons from various little sketchy looking stalls, the more interesting the better, otherwise you can just double up... and of course, some white spray paint & super glue and Voila!
Stanley's Globe...
Just before we first moved into our shiny new offices in Covent Garden, I nipped over to Stanley's Post (Post production company, full of lovely people), and they gave me this fine t-shirt.
Disregard the photo pose, naturally I didn't take it.
Then shortly after they sent the crew at Inferno some lovely little welcome gifts soon after. (And my oh my, I LOVE freebies).
...and now I'm getting to my point.
The Jam Jar Snow Globe Competition.
A DIY snow globe kit with lots of little goodies to glue, stick, mould, mix, oh and a little added Glycerin, to thicken the water (I always thought this was something explosive... Nitro Glycerine? Perhaps?) I even added some white-tac as snow ball as seen in the work in progress design above.
Without further adieu, here's mine:
The distortion on the glass ruined my perfectly positioned Santa & Xmas Tree, so naturally I added a Panda from a colleagues desk, and made it a lovely little box, of the same said wrapping paper that I keep banging on about and Voila! It might not win, but it looks good on a desk.
Disregard the photo pose, naturally I didn't take it.
Then shortly after they sent the crew at Inferno some lovely little welcome gifts soon after. (And my oh my, I LOVE freebies).
...and now I'm getting to my point.
The Jam Jar Snow Globe Competition.
A DIY snow globe kit with lots of little goodies to glue, stick, mould, mix, oh and a little added Glycerin, to thicken the water (I always thought this was something explosive... Nitro Glycerine? Perhaps?) I even added some white-tac as snow ball as seen in the work in progress design above.
Without further adieu, here's mine:
The distortion on the glass ruined my perfectly positioned Santa & Xmas Tree, so naturally I added a Panda from a colleagues desk, and made it a lovely little box, of the same said wrapping paper that I keep banging on about and Voila! It might not win, but it looks good on a desk.
Ooh-La-La...
Inferno had a secret santa this year (like they do every year), although this one was my first Xmas here... So here's a small section of people using the wrapping paper I made the week before last, mainly because it was free and mainly because a lot of people had left it to the last minute. Proof that it works, I suppose.
Oh, and here's the poster I made for it... The theme was burlesque, so I went for a simple graphic piece, rather than the other three more illustrated versions I created. Little bit of inside knowledge for you... Baranis' (the venue) interior architecture honestly did resemble the shape of the suspenders. Coincidence?
Oh, and here's the poster I made for it... The theme was burlesque, so I went for a simple graphic piece, rather than the other three more illustrated versions I created. Little bit of inside knowledge for you... Baranis' (the venue) interior architecture honestly did resemble the shape of the suspenders. Coincidence?
Give Ebay a sense of humour...
Why on Earth not?
I call it sense of humour searching.
Note: Check out the fine print (click to make it bigger).
Where touchscreen will take you...
With all the touchscreen devices taking over the market - in pretty much anything/everything digital, I wonder if, in future generations, we'll end up with fingers like this...
Rrip
I've launched a little side project of mine, mainly for fun, but probably just another thing to keep me busy. It's called Rrip. It's a range of custom wrapping paper (Random, I know). I decided to make my own this year and felt I could offer it out for things like birthdays in the future.
For now it's free, because you have to print it out yourself. In the near future there will be a shiny new site called Rrip.it - but it's just forwarding for now.
Here's a few samples to get you started:
(If you use it, all I ask is that you please send me a photo).
Xmas No.1
Xmas No.2
Ice Flakes
Xmas No.3
MINIMAL INK
Some, non-Xmas samples too.
Draplin Inspired
Pop
Nighttime
Kelly
Logo Design...
Here's a little design project inspired by playing with Triangles... It's not perfect, but it's a work in progress, I think the K is a little awkward still. I quite like the simplified M though. Below is a detail of how I put it together.
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