December Studio

The December Studio is a collection of creative inspiration, thought and distraction displayed alongside my personal design projects and an ever growing collection of paper and print.

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Greeted by this gorgeous piece of print by @HumanAfterAll @weaponsofreason this morning.

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Poster by Noma Bar f http://www.pinterest.com/pin/43558321371252992/

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Fantastic look and feel to the @GFSmithpapers Portrait of a Company #paper #print

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Just received this cool little package from @lookandyes & @Imeus #goodpostday

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Icon Design for Social Media compiled and published by @Counterprint #Design #Book #Print #SocialMedia #InspiredBuy

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Setting up a temporary home in my corner of the @Default_Blue studio for these little dudes until the new home studio is sorted!

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The fantastic new book from @lwlies — What I Love About Movies

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New logo/branding work for a boutique consultancy focusing in Education ICT. #logo #branding #design #Education #ICT

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A much glossier edition of @lwlies ... but with the same great new print smell! #lwlies55 #truthandmovies #mapstothestars #davidcronenberg #JulianneMoore #illustration #inspiration

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We never had any friends later on like the ones we had when we were twelve (for Hero Complex Gallery’s ‘King for a Day' – an art tribute to the works of Stephen King, Los Angeles, March 2014)

18” x 24” giclée print, numbered edition of 30, $40. Show opens March 21st with remaining prints available online soon afterwards (at the gallery’s discretion).

With Stephen King perhaps best known for his horror stories, I thought it would be interesting to go for something different, and tackle Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me for this show. It’s based on Stephen King’s novella called The Body, but apart from anything else it’s a film I have a real soft spot for.

I wanted to capture the film’s sense of fleeting childhood (which results in our feelings of nostalgia for that heady period in our lives), and of how quickly boys will become men, both naturally and through peer pressure. I thought that blending Gordy, Chris, Teddy and Vern with the campfire smoke might be a good way to get this ephemeral feeling across.

The tree-line along the base is like a compressed ‘map’ of the story in a way. Starting at the treehouse, we move along to find the campfire as the centre point of the story, then come to the deer that Gordie sees (but keeps to himself). The body isn’t shown, but of course it’s the unseen thing that’s compelling them forward throughout the entire film.

It was interesting to watch this film for the first time in many years, seeing it now as a father. That feeling of camaraderie and friendship is captured so brilliantly thanks to great performances by Will Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell, but as a parent you can’t help but think how you’d worry if your own child ever ran off like that!

Thanks so much to Hero Complex for inviting me to the show, and for using a detail from the piece as their Facebook event cover to announce the exhibition.

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Superb illustrative cover on the latest issue of @lwlies ft’ @TheMuppets #MuppetsMostWanted

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David Lynch for @themooks #DrawLynch

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Have you been watching True Detective? If you’re in the UK then unless you are a no-good illegally-downloading lawbreaker then the answer will be ‘I have not, but I sure am excited about seeing it when it starts this weekend on Sky Atlantic’.

Well True Detective is GREAT, and here is a little editorial spot i did to accompany it’s launch. I promise the girl in the antlers will make more sense when you see it, but i was pretty happy with how this turned out.

For those of you without Sky, i recommend you take the law into your own hands and track down the five (of eight) currently aired episodes, if only for the staggering six minute tracking shot that concludes episode four. Amazing stuff.

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2nd Editorial image for Little White Lies - Inside Llewyn Davis

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I know we're only 3 weeks in but this may well be the best advert of the year...

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Three years ago I decided to jump on the infographic train and created the Coenfographic, an infographic that charted the films of the Coen Brothers from Blood Simple to True Grit, connecting the most prevailing actors throughout the years by film. After posting it on my blog the piece went viral overnight, and in just under two weeks it was viewed close to 1 million times — picked up by Yahoo!, /Film, The WSJ, CQ, JoBlo, NotCot, Metafilter, Kottke, and Forbes to name just a few places. Since then interest in the infographic has been steady, and last year it was featured in a Coen Brothers exhibition in Paris. So with Inside Llewyn Davis opening on Friday here in the UK, I thought it was a good time to revisit and update the Coenfographic. So here it is: The Coenfographic V2, now connected up to Inside Llewyn Davis. Lets see if lightning can strike twice :)

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Finally framed my @ArtVCancer ‘Bending Time and Space’ piece. #DonnieDarko #Studio