I would like to dedicate the following Mexican cowboy and prawn to my very own exotic fruit pack man Jason. This was a list of changes that i had to make a while back and its been floating around my desk. My work is so fucking exciting! It really tests me to the cusp of my creativity, three cheers for the glorified DTP operator. Spare me your tears and let me crawl into a aching ball of branding hell. Thank you.

This is me stabbing fish, its a hobby of mine that i treasure and hold close to my heart. I don't think people realise the joy i get out of clip art, its save so much time for a lazy designer as myself. The body's are of me doing the skank in my bedroom and taken by Neil while we were blazed for another project i was busy with that never materialised. Its in my portfolio under random and was meant to be for a flyer for a JHB Live dub party. I used to stab rock pool fish with a homemade harpoon when i was a kid at the beach, luckily I'm not that violent anymore...

So Loyd lets me know this morning that the BLK JKS are playing at the Bohemian tonight, to which i immediately replied because this Thursday deal at the Bo seems to be happening every week now, random shit talking and finger pointing are usually in order with a bit of a tweak on the side plus Loyd is a trained professional in these areas of socialising. I thought i would make a flyer seeing that i have some time and send it out with the mailing list and see who turns up. When i called up the Bo they told me that the bands have cancelled... and are only playing on the 28Th. So here is the flyer but i still did not get the cover.

So then a couple of weeks later i eventaully made the final and moved a couple of elements around, the band "Us kids know" failed to show up including myself... and the BLK JKS opened up for the Bang. I missed out on Loyds little party though, pity.


Then i also found this little number i did for an article for Isolation on the Afrikaans death metal group called INSEK. I don't really use my illustration work that much in my layouts but in both these cases they seem to work nicely.

As usual my attempts to do graphics for my favourite local bands go without success , these are some ideas i sent to the Black Hotels a while back that i dug up out of my archive of unused graphics on my machine.

These ones were done with Jason's drawings (The one eyed man is king). My original thought was to do a whole series that fit into each other length wise to paste over all those other poster under bridges and stuff, the white posters with the black lines and red would stand out by a mile. i tried to persuade the Black Jacks with the same concept. It would have been cheap and you could smoke one up before you go and paste it up along the road side.

Maybe next time...

I'm am very good at starting something up until it is 90% done and then suddenly losing interest... I have been going through my projects on my hard drive and finding some bizarre unfinished ideas and concepts. This was a cover i was working on for the one eyed man Jason's zine called Back Issue. You can go check them out through his link on this page. Even though they were done i never sent it to him because of some unknown internal crisis at the time... NO DOGS BODY was a comic i used to do for Session magazine when it first started, none of the kids liked my cynical outlook on skateboarding and life and complained about it till we left it out of the mag. I was planning the elusive return of NO DOGS through Back issue but allas. Look out for a another Blog feuturing only the man himself and and vintage versions from his printed days to follow soon on this page. Some of the drawings on the cover are from Jason that i mixed into my layout.

The following was one of the comics i was busy with for inside but just like the comic of Satan attacking the earth earlier on this page (A FEW OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUALS), i never finished it. I have always been into the evolution of the species and this is basically my simple explanation of where we come from and my outlook on religion in general. A real modern day Darwin, fancy that...

These are two book cover ideas i sent to Deon Maas for his new book called WITBOY IN AFRIKA. So far he seems to like the second one more with the yellow. For some reason i will be so convinced that a certain person would like a certain layout with an opposite result. The pieces i read from the book were hilarious and i really enjoyed working on these covers.



And then he settled for a bit of a mix between the two, we replaced the legs with his own legs and added a new font. The book will be on shelf in Dec. for the Christmas lists.

I have been messing around with some EPS files that i found at work, breaking them down and rebuilding them. Re looking at shapes and finding new uses for them kind of makes sense inbetween the mindless factory design i do at work... "Every man has the right to his own madness." Dali