30 November 2010

Langton Brewery New Festive Beer Label - Welland Innkeeper

Here is the latest beer label I designed for the Langton Brewery based in Thorpe Langton, Leicestershire.
They needed a label designing for their festive beer for 2010 which is called Welland Innkeeper.
The illustration has a little bit of a biblical influence with a few festive colours thrown in.
The beer is for sale as a 500ml bottle and also on draught in certain public houses in the area.
Please feel free to comment, and if you see the bottle or the pump clip out in the real world let me know and feel free to send me a pic so I can put it on this blog with a hearty thanks!

A large version of the artwork

15 November 2010

Symitry IT leaflet and poster advert design

I have recently finished a few designs for Symitry IT based in Market Harborough.
They provide IT services to many businesses across the UK. They also have a great retail store at 34/38, The Square in Market Harborough.
A design was required to promote their business to business service on one side of the three fold leaflet and the retail store on the reverse. A poster was also needed using a very similar design to the leaflet.
I tried to use the idea of 'symmetry' within the general design and mainly based the colour scheme around the companies corporate colours.
Please feel free to comment and let me know what you think!

Front of leaflet...


01 November 2010

Red Rabbit Rooter Character Design

I thought I would change things a little on this blog, and hopefully add some extra interesting content. In the past I have only put an image of the final artwork on my blog. But from now on I am going to add the earlier stages of a project too.
These extra bits of artwork could be sketches and vector development work, as well as various colour choices, shading and highlights and the adding of little details etc.
I'm hoping these extra bits of info will help paint a clear picture of how a project develops from the initial idea right through the various stages of design until the final vector artwork is created.
This first project is a character design for Red Rabbit Rooter, which is a drainage/sewer company from Pennsylvania in the USA.

Brief
: A character needed to be created based on the Red Rabbit theme. He needed to be a positive happy face for the company and show quickness and speed, he also needed to be carrying a plunger to symbolise the sewer business.

Initial Sketches :







Vanilla Recruitment Open Day Poster

Vanilla Recruitment in Market Harborough needed a poster to advertise their open day.
(it's on Saturday 6th November if you need a new job by the way!)

27 September 2010

An interview with me on Vectortuts+

Wow! It's online right now. An interview with me on Vectortuts+!!
Click this link to go to the Vectortuts site and read the interview.
Please feel free to leave your comments and let me know what you think!
Woohoo!

21 September 2010

My latest iStock upload! 175 illustrations and counting!!

I've just uploaded my 175th illustration that has been accepted into my iStock portfolio!
Here is the image depicting a cheeky frog with a bright idea...

20 September 2010

Scary Severed Hands!

This way to the scary Halloween party...!
A new illustration available on iStock.

Also some variations on the colour schemes...

07 July 2010

Hot Wok! Chinese Chef and his Super Cooker!

An illustration of a Chinese chef.
Created for use on various media to promote a shiny great super cooker!

DMF Business Card - Front and Back

Business card front and back designed for DMF Construction.

03 June 2010

Malt and Two Veg in action!

Malt and Two Veg proved to be a big hit at this years Leicester's Summer Food and Drink Festival.
The beer was made by Langton Brewery especially for the event.
The label artwork (which was created by myself) was used to publicise the beer in the form of large posters and t shirts.

The image is courtesy of riponia.wordpress.com

27 May 2010

Leicester Market Summer Food and Drink Festival

To celebrate Leicester's Summer Food and Drink Festival a new beer has been created especially for the event.
A competition was held by The Leicester Mercury newspaper for readers to come up with the name of the new beer.
The winning name was thought up by Megan Murray of Duncan Murray Wines in Market Harborough who came up with the name 'Malt and Two Veg'.
The Langton Brewery has created the new brew which will be on sale at this year's event.
Here is the final close up of the artwork and the beer label as it will appear.

A Wild Car Journey

This is an A3 illustration created for Dave Riley.
The concept was personal to Dave and the final artwork was printed to create a one off framed piece.

26 May 2010

Welland Warrior Beer Pump Clip

The new beer called Welland Warrior from The Langton Brewery.
Below is the pump clip design and a close up view of the actual warrior!

Welland Poacher Beer Label and Pump Clip

The Langton Brewery has a new beer named Welland Poacher.
Here are the designs for the beer bottle label and the pump clip...

New Logo for The Healthy Mutt

This is the new logo designed for The Healthy Mutt.
A great company who provide products for dogs with "natural ingredients of unquestionable origin"

New Logo and Business Card Design for Palomino Detailing

Palomino Detailing needed a logo designed and some business cards.
Here's the final outcome...

19 April 2010

DMF Construction Logo

DMF Construction needed a logo for the company and these are the results...
The logo has two versions to appeal to differing clientele, one with the character and one without.

New Logo Design for Guts & Bolts

This is the new logo designed for Guts & Bolts the US software company.
Loved the name of the company and was a fun project to work on.

24 February 2010

London 2012 Olympics

A little illustration depicting the race for the london 2012 Olympic games.
This image is available in my iStock portfolio.

Exploding can of Jelly Beans

A can of exploding jelly beans. And why not...
This was a promotional illustration for a storytelling workshop

Christmas Card for Michael Gerard

This is the Christmas card created on behalf of Michael Gerard.
Quite self explanatory really, but a lighthearted design was required to capture attention.

The Hot Frog is loose!

The Hot Frog character was created for an IT company based in Jersey.
He needed to be quite simply a frog and to look hot (and cool).




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