Monday 8 December 2008

OVER SATURATED MESS


I was living in Edinburgh in the nineties. I spent my last few years there as a youth worker. Helping design workshops on Safe sex mental health and safe drug use. I even worked for a great group, which is still going, called Te-Pooka. We made giant wicker puppets with schools in the north of Scotland to bring a kind of Pagan message of unity through art type thing. I loved it, we had a great time. I was doing practical art - designs for flyers and the like. So then I moved down to Brighton with my special lady friend (Ruth) and started doing tee shirt and logo designs for clothes shops. This was before the tee shirt thing exploded into the over saturated mess that it is now.

IN THE BEGINING




HI - so - i thought i'd use this new blog o mine to release some older comic artwork that never got to see print, that i'm still quite pleased with. Firstly a collection of iconic type figures that i produced at the end of the ninties. Inspired by Dexter's Lab, i found these highly designed shapes were to clumsy for the more subtle storytelling i was wanting to do.