Now Then Magazine July Issue

I've been humbled this month with an interview and feature in Now Then Magazine, a popular free publication based in the heart of Sheffield. They regularly feature artists as their main angle and they use up many pages with artwork from the featured artist, I've kept copies as collectables from certain artists features such as Nick Deakin and Lord Bunn in the past.

Copies of the magazine are free and can be found in most independent bars and boutiques around Sheffield!

Hey Sholay

Sheffield based band, Hey Sholay have been making waves in the local scene as well as winning a poll with the NME to win a gig slot at this years EXIT fest in Serbia. I'm a big fan of their music with their galloping drum beats and distorted guitars and catchy melodies. Listening to their music paints a picture in my head of how I'd approach their artwork, even though two members of the band look after the artwork which is very fine art touching on illustrative angles.

Here I wanted to play with my use of water colour textures and a bit of linear pencil drawing, I had a lot of fun working in this, just purely because it's been ages since I've worked on any personal work.

Sarah Mac Album Artwork

I'm still finding it hard to find a spare moment just so I can update my blog and keep things up to scratch. The past month I've been mainly working with local musicians in and around Sheffield. In particular, I've been a fan of Sarah Mac's blend of genre stroke pop song writing and instrumentals, she's even cooler and down to earth when you meet her in person so her music more or less fits well with her being.

I was asked by Liam at Mixed in Sheffield who's been mixing the album for Sarah, to produce some artwork for her new EP titled, Everyone Knows. Jumped at the chance, I instantly had an idea in my head, some might say slightly predictable and admitted the design concept was predictable on my part but I thought in context to what I know of Sarah Mac, it suits well.

New Website Banner

Heres my new website display banner, which I'm quite smitten with. I've been meaning to update my website for a while and it seems I'm never too happy with my layouts and such but this time Ithink this will stick around for a while. Check it out at getaloadageo.co.uk

The Stars in Stripes Take Over Rotherham

Since the beginning of December 2010 I and the other illustrators of the Stars In Stripes have been busy drawing onto the windows a giant indoor space owned by the Open Minds Theatre group. Armed with paint rollers, emulsion and posca pens we've scrawled on all of the windows and gathered an extensive back catalogue of our live art work from the past 2 years ranging from Tramlines to the SOYO live art events.

We base ourselves as a Sheffield collective and we're very honoured to have been invited to Rotherham to show the city what we can do, our current Rotherham resident, Sarah Abbott has taken the lead and put her signature floral style to good use, linking all the work together with her linear and bold patterns.

We're curating our first group show under the Stars In Stripes banner in the centre of Rotherham for 2 weeks only and we're going to kick start it with an opening evening on Thursday 27th January where we'll be drawing on t-shirts, putting DJs on to spin some tracks and selling cupcakes, cakes and raffle tickets. I'm sure if I mention that there will be beverages and hot drinks it might perk some attention too.

Some Recent Work

Heres a showcase of some work I've been commissioned for this month.

Dead Young Records - Allo Darlin'

The boys from Leeds at Dead Young Records asked me to quickly knock up a gig poster for Allo Darlin' an intricate indie pop band from the US. I'm pleased with this design as photoshop is becoming more of a presence in my work for neat little effects.

PLUG - Jump Around Valentines Tattoos

For the Valentines Night at Plug, they've asked me to design some temporary tattoos for their traffic light party. The premise is that people put these tattoos on themselves to indicate if they're available, taken or a bit curious.

Covert Sound System

As some of you may know I've been working on the Covert Soundsystem promotion material over the past year. Covert is an electronic music night held at Plug night club every Friday night here in Sheffield, as the popularity has grown so has the artwork, the owners wanted the artwork to evolve and become collectible. Heres the design for the front of the new February flyer run.

Gaslight Club: Christmas Flyer

I've designed a new Christmas themed poster for the nice lads from Dead Young Records for their Gaslight Club event based in Leeds. This year they're holding an evening of live bands and carol singing at Holy Trinity Church, which I can imagine will feel very festive.

New Website!

Finally it's taken me around 3 years to update the look of my website and I must say it feels like buying a new coat or a new pair of trainers, refreshing. I've managed to post up some recent projects, notably the Tramlines Times illustration work I did for the festival newspaper.

If you guys have any feedback on the website itself then please let me know!

getaloadageo.co.uk

Tiger Splash

Here's a new piece I've been working on over the past week, incidentally during the World Cup in South Africa, with that being on TV all week, the colours they've used in the graphic design, the adverts that are blaring out from the screen gave me some influence to put this design together. Tigers are pretty cool cats anyway and I always wanted to make a nice Tiger inspired t-shirt design, I think I've found it!

This will be in stock at the Hantu Collective online shop within the next month!

Don't Panic Adidas Original Write Up

I'd been interviewed by Don't Panic Sheffield in relation to Adidas Originals and their campaign to find original creatives in cultural cities.

I always find it a bit weird reading about myself when its in print (or screen)

GEO LAW - DONT PANIC ADIDAS

Counterfeit Write Up

Here a link to a nice write up from Sheffield online music blog, Counterfeit.

GEO LAW - COUNTERFEIT

Spanky Van Dykes Poster

A new alternative bar has opened up in my old university haunt of Nottingham. Spanky Van Dykes is Nottinghams answer to Sheffield's Bungalows & Bears (due to them being owned by the same people)

My friend Jeremy and Vanessa are putting a Japanese music themed night on and asked me to design a poster for it. This is what I came up with. I've noticed I've been drawing a lot of girls and animals this year, seems I've found my comfort zone.

Teatopia At The Millenium Gallery

For all you people who love their cup of tea, there will be an exhibition at Sheffield's Millenium Gallery from July 2010 celebrating and marking our obsession with having cuppa. I was commissioned by the curators to design a tea towel design which will be displayed amongst others supplied by www.todryfor.com. I won't post up my final design but I can upload the ones which were not chosen just to give you a taster of what's in store. The final tea towel will be sold at the gallery in limited numbers.

www.museums-sheffield.org.uk

Gaslight Club: Leeds

I've been involved with The Oporto Bar and Dead Young Record's Monday evening of live folk and acoustic music. Here's my first poster/ flyer design for the lovely chaps.

www.deadyoungrecords.co.uk

Hantu in Esquire magazine?

Fashion and lifestyle magazine, Esquire contacted me and my colleague Angga at Hantu Collective, wanting to feature one of our Bear T-shirt designs for their July issue. We quickly latched at the chance so hopefully you'll be seeing one of these printed out on a glossy page soon...

Covert Sound System March Flyer

Me and graphic designer Chris Smith have designed the flyer for Plug's Covert Sound System night. I'm going to keep to a sci-fi theme to each monthly design so expect to see more posters and flyers dotted around Sheffield!

Ledgard Jepson Wall Art Video

I'd forgotten to upload this to the blog, but here's the video footage of the day I spent at Ledgard Jepson's studio doodling away on a perfectly pristine white wall. Why they allow me to do such thing I do not know, but its great fun none the less!

This Is Chemistry Wall Mural

The past week I've been in Bradford for 2 days drawing on the walls of This Is Chemistry, a PR and Design agency with a beautiful studio space and wonderful friendly staff.

The idea behind the illustrations on the walls are based around process and robots as fun decor for clients and staff to enjoy, I've certainly enjoyed doodling away for them even though I've mashed up most of my sharpies pen collection. Oh well. I've never drawn such intricate scenes before on such big spaces but it is a lot of fun and offers me room to add in hidden extras and easter eggs for people to spot.

I still have another 2 days to complete the job with one more wall illustration to start and to add spots of colour to rest of them. Can't wait to see how it all turns out!

Lord Bunn Poster Design

I'm a big fan of good poster design, especially if artists use the artwork as a means to display good imagery. This poster for Bungalows & Bears made by Lord Bunn is one of many good things coming from his pen and pad as of recent months. As well as having a nice sense of graphic design within this piece I'm a fan of the illustration itself.

Good Stuff.

www.lordbunn.com

Ledgard Jepson Wall Art...

I was at it again, this time Sheffield based graphic design agency Ledgard Jepson asked me to spruce up one of their main walls as they're going for a fresh look for the new year. You know me, I love ruining white walls... More photos and a video hopefully to follow and uploaded to their website and mine.