When I'm 64

Ok so I have been reassured by my client in this instance that the chances of his Dad stumbling across my blog are pretty close to zero, so I have his permission to post this before the big day. The lovely Matt Stalker had the awesome idea of recording a Matt Stalker & Fables cover of the Beatles' 'When I'm 64' for his Dad's 64th birthday this Friday. Apparently his Dad had loved the poster I'd done for Mickelmas and Matt asked me to do a simple CD card in the same style for the recording.

Pa Stalker is a bit of a pedant by all accounts, and Matt wanted to work this into the design somehow. So we had Dad partying on the front and correcting spelling, grammar and punctuation on the back.

Can't wait for the big reveal this Friday! Happy 64th Birthday Papa Stalker! Ain't you lucky to have such talented thoughtful sons? :)

Henna-nanaananananaaaaaaaa

Wee illy for the day job, for a Curry & Cocktails evening. Rather liking this grainy texture effect; I draw the shapes in illustrator, bring into photoshop and add noise, then burn/dodge shadows and highlights into the grain. Its a sort of retro airbrushy effect. Expect to see more of this! I have already used it on another job for the ever-talented Matt Stalker; which I will post later in the month cos its TOP SECRET just now and if certain folks saw it, it would ruin a surprise. Watch this space. ;)

Fighting Cancer with Music

In a bid to make myself feel slightly less mince for working as a dirty advertiser, it is necessary to do the odd charidee gig. This one was for a mate of a mate. She founded Fighting Cancer with Music; and is looking to hold regular fundraising gigs in and around her hometown of Austin, Texas, and hopefully featuring at this year's South by South West music festival. My mate was building her website and asked very nicely if I would have a stab at a logo. While a genius at code Mr Coco is not so hot at the illustration side of things; he did, however, come up with the pretty awesome idea of creating a treble clef out of the cancer-awareness ribbon. So basically I was scribbler-for-hire on this one. But he loved it and she loved it so I feel I have banked a few more karma points. Ah. I'm off to run over grannies now.