I've just done some work for Karen at Kaos-Arts.com - I was recommended to her by someone from my work placement in Digbeth last year. Which is pretty cool.

I just traced some park signage into illustrator which she created with some children.
Bit of a learning curve in terms of working in Illustrator while someone's watching!
I had taken on WAY too much work that week and was falling apart a bit, so my first externally-referred freelance project was nearly a bit of a disaster, but in the end things were OK.

http://www.kaos-arts.com

I've managed to convince my friends The Conscripts to let me do various things for them in terms of design, including working on their logo and designing their demo sleeve. Yay!
Formerly Fade To Sepia, they're a very dedicated and serious band, sounding kind of like The Fall, Joy Division, etc. Particularly in their 1st and 2nd world war-related affectations.
So I've got the likes of Factory Records to have a look at.

Dave of The Conscripts showed me a logo he had drafted together, the silhouette of a hand with a cross through it, and said that he wanted it 'stark'.
Here are my current drafts which are more or less done I think.





The demo sleeve is going to be a war artifact.... you'll have to wait and see!

I met a girl at a party recently, she saw these pictures which I took of my friend Abi and gave to her as a gift, and asked me to take some of her.

My camera isn't that good, I'm not a photographer and my Flash kit is a bit dim.
But I do like to have a go! And Photoshop can theoretically fix all ills.
I think I may have overdone that a bit.... I accidentally took all of the photos at 72 dpi though and had to do a bit of airbrushing!!
Here are a few of the 13 or so that made the final cut.

A very quick attempt at designing a logo for Rhubarb Radio in an attempt to ingratiate myself with Birmingham/Moseley. I didn't have a great deal of spare time and since there were design companies involved I didn't submit any more ideas.
I guess this was more of a swift exercise in typography and copycatism than a final design.
Overcompensating for my first design I think, which was based on a rhubarb and custard sweetie and, being hand-rendered to start with, looked like some sort of 70's hippiewagon daubing.

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