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Kids these days...

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I was commissioned by Melbourne based design studio Kid You Not to design a poster around the studios design beliefs. In this case – “Design is art that makes itself useful”. I tend to agree.

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A 'tough-badge’ I designed for my buddies leg. He wanted a "D made of bones”. I’ll post the 'ink-on-skin' version later.

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WIP illustration of ‘squid face’ – for my bros KIDS OF ZOO.

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DDC played a Black Wire Records show with 3 of our favourite Syd bands. Water Illustration and poster design was done by me!

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Cassette cover art insert for New Zealand Band PSYCHIC MAPS. The album title - "HELLO, I'M CHARLIR SHEEN". The design was created in collaboration with the good people at FULL ON IDLE. A label devoted to releasing sweet Australian & New Zealand bands on tape. Keep up the good work F.O.L.

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Here's a poster for an in-store gig DUCK DUCK CHOP did with TEEN ARCHER at the best record store in Melbourne - Missing Link. It was a rad show. Teen Archer are a great band.

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Some photos I took of the final printed and pressed product. DUCK DUCK CHOP 7 Inch record in all its glory. Quite happy with the result.

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This is the DUCK DUCK CHOP 7 Inch Record cover art. I drew it back in the year 2000 and 9. It has 2 tracks which are titled BLOOD IN A PLASTIC BAG / FINAL. Essentially what we have here is a fat, naked man sitting on an office chair with his head in an oversized pencil sharpener. The "face sharpenings" are creating a loverly ravelling decoration that carries over to the back cover. Oh and he is flanked by his trusty finger-face dog. 

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And here's a photo of the final product. The KIDS OF ZOO - 7 Inch Record. I mucked up the print layout a little so there is a bit too much white space on the left hand side. 

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Cover art created for a 7 Inch Record by Melbourne band KIDS OF ZOO. They are seriously radical:

www.kidsofzoo.bandcamp.com

The KOZ text was done with a hand cut stencil and spray paint. Very ‘arts and craft’

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T-Shirt design I did for a rad Melbourne band called DOZERS. Keeping in theme with stating the obvious... here you have a gang (not pod) of whales. A Humpback, Sperm and Blue Whale, all 'breaching' (that’s an official term).

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Here we have a picture of 2 computer keyboards. One is normal. One is not normal. See if you can pick which is which.

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And here is the back cover art. Another baby drinking beer - cute huh? There was also an entire inside booklet that I created, but its probably not worth posting. Just photos and stuff.

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Third and final video for IBM Smarter Planet. It talks about Water conservation.

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Another video for IBM Smarter Planet. This one focuses on Transport.

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This is a hand drawn, stop motion piece I did for IBM Smarter Planet back in 2009. It focuses on Electricity.