Sunday, 7 June 2009

Working with Noodoll

For the past month I have been contributing with the lovely people at Noodoll. With the help of illustrator Luke James, Yiyang Wang has recently published a great little children's storybook called Ricehead's Revenge, and are now developing a range of toys, wallets and gadgets based on the book to bring to shops nation wide.... and it's my task to handle the design, starting with a promotional send out to vendors.

Riceroar and his seven friends live in a deep dark haunted forest, so we came up with the idea of creating a collaged set based on aspects of the book. 





The draft of the design...




Introducing (from l-r) Riceroar the ipod case, Riceroom the purse for bits and bobs, Ricemon the phone case, Riceowl the purse, Ricelight the pencil case, Riceapple the purse, Ricebat the screen buffer and Ricestorm the camera case...



So three weeks worth of cutting and here are the developmental shots...



The background.



All the elements ready to be set up.


And it's now ready for the creatures!!






Soon to be updated when our photographer comes into get the shots... and with the poster designs.






Monday, 12 January 2009

Design work at Amelia's Magazine

A few of my magazine spread designs from my placement at Amelia's Magazine.... on the shelves now!



A piece on how to make your own clothes with designer Gossypium




An interview with pop band Das Wanderlust.




A decorative piece on collecting animal prints.




A case study on Indian artist Kanak Shashi.




An interview with the ethical fashion designers People Tree










Thursday, 8 January 2009

My animation

To a recent animation I have made for Jefferson Airplane's song "White Rabbit" click HERE to link to my embarrassingly basic website and scroll to the bottom of the page.

Wednesday, 10 December 2008

The new Amelia's Magazine is ready to go!!

Finally after all our hard work, the new Amelia's Magazine has gone to print. Scheduled to be on shelves just before Christmas... have a peek at the new issue and some of my designs HERE!! 

Monday, 1 December 2008

Dahlia Boutique christmas decorations

A few commissioned christmas decorations for the Dahlia Boutique on Oxford Circus...















Monday, 10 November 2008

cutting and sticking at the last ever Amelia's Magazine!!

Busy busy busy designing with Amelia and her splendid crew... here are some little snippets of titles and decor I have been playing around with this week.




These little chess people are made from stamps and sparkly bits to decorate the border of a music profile. And below is some people and tree bunting for the header of the review for fashion collective funnily enough called "People Tree!!" 






Saturday, 1 November 2008

a touch of cartoon for Dahlia Boutique

When I got the commission to illustrate for the new Dahlia Boutique website they were pretty tight about what they wanted.. cute clean cut vector girl cartoons. Not my favourite approach to illustrating, but it pays. 

So, here's what I came up with.