Tramlines Hantu Collective Merch 2011

Heres the the design I've submitted for this years Tramlines Festival merchandise, and I'm pretty happy with it. I wanted to capture the fun and explosive vibe that's in the city for that one summer weekend a year. I love Tramlines as it transforms the city and theres always good bands to watch.

I'm happy with this collaboration between Hantu Collective and Frooly, both Sheffield based creative businesses and hopefully we'll be able to work on next years festival merch... providing they go down well this year. Hint hint.

You can order them through here -------->

GZA and My T-shirt

So heres photo evidence of GZA wearing the t-shirt I designed for him! (earler post, below) I'll admit I'm still feeling pretty smug about that but hopefully I'll be able to design t-shirts for the other remaining members of the Wu-Tang Clan in the coming years.

But for now you can read a more detailed post about the GZA t-shirt project on the Hantu Collective website.

Protect Ya Neck Son

I've put this design together for The Hantu Collective to give to GZA when he plays his gig in Liverpool on the 21st April. Hopefully his entourage will like this.

Bright Project Video

Here's a promo video shot for Sheffield City Council to document our workings for the new clothing collection in league with the Bright Project. Big thanks goes out to Charlie and James from Ogle Productions, Thomas, Aaran and Jack.

New Hantu Wolf Design

It's seems these days I have to find time to keep up with designs for Hantu Collective. Luckily when I do feel inspired and I get a day or two to myself I can throw something like this together, a design that crashes and bites. The mood I'm feeling for this month is quite frantic, so I'm taking inspiration from that and will create a little collection of fighting animals. The final version of the print will be on charcoal coloured t-shirts, I might have to save the white t-shirt colour way for something special.

Road Safey Project

For the past 2 weeks I've been working on a t-shirt design for Sheffield Council's Road Safety Campaign in collaboration with the Hantu Collective. The brief was simple as they wanted the designs to not have a hard line message but to look interesting and have more of an underlying message and poke a bit of fun at the theme. We decided that we would use reflective vinyls on the t-shirts so they would have functional use as well as a statement behind them.

This is what I've got so far...

Don't Panic Panda

This took me around a week to finish off, with a lot of starting and stopping. My housemate, Mat runs the Sheffield division of Don't Panic, a quirky promotions group originally from London (you may have seen their envelopes with flyers and limited edition posters in them).

Mat's been pestering me over the year to draw a panda with a machine gun for him and so I folded. Here it is and I quite like it, even though this particular panda looks a bit vicious. I think he's going to have this as a t-shirt and he's the only one who will have the print. How selfish!

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...

Inspired T-shirt Designs from Threadless

Here's a pick of some of the best designs for t-shirts I've noticed on Threadless.com
The good thing about some of these designs is that you can get sucked into the little worlds they're illustrated around. My favourites is the Black Triangle and the Umbrella lady.

My T-Shirt In The Top Ten of Swish Swosh

I'm pretty happy to announce I've made it in the top ten at Swishswosh.com with my "Love Games" design. It was the design I was hoping would make it, as I'm sure there are many game geeks out there like me who see what I tried to do with this.

For a whole month they will count the sales for the tees and who ever has the most hits will win some cash prize money... heres hoping I get a whiff of that.

www.swishswosh.com/getaloadageo