Archive for July, 2009

31 JUL

Lovely vintage illustrations

I found this illustrated children’s book this morning in one of my local villages Hurspierpoint. I picked it up because it has some lovely vintage illustrations.

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30 JUL

French Navy Video

So here’s Camera Obscura’s video that goes with the single French Navy. It’s such a catchy, summery song, you’ll be humming it all day. Can you spot the swan inspiration?

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29 JUL

4AD

4AD who have signed Camera Obscura asked me to do a promo and a new single due to the sucess of My Maudlin Career. I’ve just recently finished the artwork for the promo Honey in the Sun and here it is.

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28 JUL

Cannongate Books

Another website where I worked with my friends at IfLooksCouldKill to help Cannongate redesign their Life of Pi website to coincide with the new 2009 edition.

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27 JUL

CCA Glasgow

The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow asked my friends IfLooksCouldKill in Edinburgh to help them with a badly needed redesign to their website. At the time I was working with ILCK and did all the site designs and layouts for the CCA website.

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27 JUL

Camera Obscura

4AD asked me to do the new website for Camera Obscura to go along with their new album released this year. They asked me to design it in such a way that it could be updated through a blog as it’s main content managment system (CMS).

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27 JUL

Hot Tin Roof

Up until recently I lived in Edinburgh and worked with the mighty IfLooksCouldKill. With my design and illustration skills and ILCK’s super coding skills we helped our friends Hot Tin Roof create a new website, powered by wordpress, making it really easy to update and keep a blog. Hot Tin Roof are a small PR [...]

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27 JUL

Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura have been getting me to do loads of quirky designs for merchandise they can sell whilst on tour and from their website. I did a few T-shirt designs for them based on some drawings I did. Can you spot the running Camera Obscura themes?

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27 JUL

Forth Valley College

This was a proposal I worked on and completed the ideas for, but sadly didn’t win. The brief had asked for quirky designs, and this is why I decided to use quite a bit of illustration. Unfortunately, I think it missed the mark and wasn’t quite what they were looking for but it was fun [...]

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24 JUL

4AD

As well as the album My Maudlin Career, 4AD asked me to do the artwork for French Navy, the single that Camera Obscura released at the same time as their album.

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