What I've been doing

Aaages since I last posted. I've quit college, got myself involved in the daily drudgery of reception work..."Good morning Hudson Sandler"...and had some bloody good summer fun. I've had a couple of commissions and made some other bits and pieces, including a new sketchbook for myself. It's shiny and bright gold and I'm starting in it now, with collage and paint and spit and blood and all the things I used to love doing and thinking. Good things will come from it I hope. Back to the good old days.

First a comission for the Sorrell Foundation with a set of characters designed to represent the various people involved in the big design process to rebuild secondary schools in the UK. I was involved in this and so are professional designers (such as that guy from Grand Designs) and the best bit is that the pupils are the client, with all the power and input that that includes. The characters are to try and give the kids something to latch on to when we're talking about the people when they first hear of them in the initial presentations. I had to design representations of the pupils' peers, an architect, the head teacher, a representative from British Schools for the Future, a pupil (i.e. one of the clients themselves), a builder, someone from the government and someone from the Sorrell Foundation (e.g. me).

Rough sketches:





The full cast:



And an example of the bits in between, you'll need to click to see the animation:



Then there was a logo I was doing for a friend. It was basically a refinement of an original logo I was given. I was going to do this and try reinventing it entirely as well, but I lost momentum and then lost the original file so the whole thing crashed and burned. Someone else is doing it now :( I think it's ok.



I also made a sketchbook and card for my bezza mezza Sara.

Birthday wishes from Bruce Springsteen:



The slip case for the sketchbook:



The sketchbook itself:



A family shot:



And the sketchbook in its protective case:



Finally, a shot of my own new sketchbook. I'm loving shiny shiny gold. And it's like a mirror. As will be the contents. God I'm good.



Shiny!

By the way, if you did want a sketchbook for yourself or as a present I'd be more than happy to take commissions. I can do just about any cover (paper, card, fabric etc.) and paper type and I can sew things on them (I had a stuffed doll on the front of one of mine once) and so on and so on. Anyway, pimping myself sounds odd so I'll stop there, but just so you know....