May28
I’ve been a HUGE Doomtree fan for years, ever since my good friend and hip-hop guru Abjekt introduced me to their incredible music via a mix CD many moons ago. I’ve followed the work of the collective as a whole and all the individual rappers & producers solo projects, which never fail to blow me away! I had the pleasure of hanging out with the whole Doomtree crew here in Bristol a few weeks ago when they supported Yelawolf at the o2 Academy, and with Abjekt being good friends with the crew, we all ended up hanging out at the pub afterwards! I got the chance to chat with Sims and give him props for his latest solo album ‘Bad Time Zoo’ and in particular, tell him how much I love the tune ‘When It Rolls In’. The track has a really beautiful but haunting beat and the lyrics themselves are something I really connect with and the song has stuck with me ever since hearing it. So, with that in mind, I wanted to create a little something graphical to represent what the song means to me and that’s what you see above, I hope you like. If you haven’t heard the song then I very much urge you to, click here to listen to it on Sim’s Bandcamp! You can buy the whole album here or on iTunes too. Click here to see the graphic a bit bigger Wings & Teeth.

I’ve been a HUGE Doomtree fan for years, ever since my good friend and hip-hop guru Abjekt introduced me to their incredible music via a mix CD many moons ago. I’ve followed the work of the collective as a whole and all the individual rappers & producers solo projects, which never fail to blow me away!

I had the pleasure of hanging out with the whole Doomtree crew here in Bristol a few weeks ago when they supported Yelawolf at the o2 Academy, and with Abjekt being good friends with the crew, we all ended up hanging out at the pub afterwards!

I got the chance to chat with Sims and give him props for his latest solo album ‘Bad Time Zoo’ and in particular, tell him how much I love the tune ‘When It Rolls In’. The track has a really beautiful but haunting beat and the lyrics themselves are something I really connect with and the song has stuck with me ever since hearing it.

So, with that in mind, I wanted to create a little something graphical to represent what the song means to me and that’s what you see above, I hope you like.

If you haven’t heard the song then I very much urge you to, click here to listen to it on Sim’s Bandcamp! You can buy the whole album here or on iTunes too.

Click here to see the graphic a bit bigger

Wings & Teeth.


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May20

I just got back from a trip to Barcelona, where I went to the OFFF Creative festival. 3 days of fantastic speakers giving really inspiration talks, needless to say I’ve come back feeling super inspired to make new stuff.

I went to the festival with these fine folk above, and I wanted to snap some goofy portraits of us all, taken inside the venue because the huge white interior gave a really nice flat light, so I just asked the guys to pull a funny face!


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May03
I just updated the BÖIKZMÖIND website, with some links to buy the book/DVD, added the ‘Every Time’ video and made a bunch of wallpapers for desktop, iPad and iPhone featuring the Bunny himself, pictured above! You can grab yourself the desktop from the ‘Downloads’ section of the site, and if you haven’t already seen it, check out the ‘Every Time’ video to contextualize the image! www.boikzmoind.com

I just updated the BÖIKZMÖIND website, with some links to buy the book/DVD, added the ‘Every Time’ video and made a bunch of wallpapers for desktop, iPad and iPhone featuring the Bunny himself, pictured above!

You can grab yourself the desktop from the ‘Downloads’ section of the site, and if you haven’t already seen it, check out the ‘Every Time’ video to contextualize the image!

www.boikzmoind.com


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Apr27
Finally, here’s the gorgeous official poster for The Pirates! Band of Misfits, all that’s left for you to do is to stop looking at this and go to your local cinema and check out the film, enjoy!

Finally, here’s the gorgeous official poster for The Pirates! Band of Misfits, all that’s left for you to do is to stop looking at this and go to your local cinema and check out the film, enjoy!


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As well as the USA getting The Pirates! Band of Misfits in cinemas today, so does Canada! So I thought it only fair I make a bit of a special graphic for our Canadian friends too!

As well as the USA getting The Pirates! Band of Misfits in cinemas today, so does Canada! So I thought it only fair I make a bit of a special graphic for our Canadian friends too!


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Dear America, here at Aardman Animations in Bristol, UK we’ve been hard at work for the last 5 years making our latest stop-motion feature film; The Pirates! Band of Misfits, which is out in your cinemas FROM TODAY! I urge you to go and see it because it’s funny and it’s beautiful! To try and convince you, I took my minimalist Pirate Captain illustration I did yesterday and gave it a special stars & stripes makeover, I hope you like! Still need convincing? Well then check out the trailer right here!

Dear America, here at Aardman Animations in Bristol, UK we’ve been hard at work for the last 5 years making our latest stop-motion feature film; The Pirates! Band of Misfits, which is out in your cinemas FROM TODAY! I urge you to go and see it because it’s funny and it’s beautiful!

To try and convince you, I took my minimalist Pirate Captain illustration I did yesterday and gave it a special stars & stripes makeover, I hope you like!

Still need convincing? Well then check out the trailer right here!


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Apr25

I illustrated some of my favourite Aardman characters, with the minimum detail that I could get away with and here they are! Can you name all 10 correctly!?


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Just a little something I’m playing around with at work today… my minimalist rendition of our favourite duo, Wallace & Gromit! Click to see it bigger!

Just a little something I’m playing around with at work today… my minimalist rendition of our favourite duo, Wallace & Gromit!

Click to see it bigger!


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Live in Bristol? Well then come ride your bike (it doesn’t have to be a fixed gear!) on a wee short ride around town and then head up into Clifton to eat some fish & chips with us on Thursday night! I’m really keen to bring back the social and casual side of bike riding, which i feel has been lacking a bit here in Brizzle, so #ChipShopRide is my attempt to get everyone together to ride bikes a bit, do a lot of chatting and eating chips! So, come join us this Thursday (26th April) - Meeting at A Fair Cup, opposite the Hippodrome in the centre of Bristol at 6.30pm! Just cross your fingers it doesn’t rain as much as it has been doing these past few days!

Live in Bristol? Well then come ride your bike (it doesn’t have to be a fixed gear!) on a wee short ride around town and then head up into Clifton to eat some fish & chips with us on Thursday night! I’m really keen to bring back the social and casual side of bike riding, which i feel has been lacking a bit here in Brizzle, so #ChipShopRide is my attempt to get everyone together to ride bikes a bit, do a lot of chatting and eating chips!

So, come join us this Thursday (26th April) - Meeting at A Fair Cup, opposite the Hippodrome in the centre of Bristol at 6.30pm! Just cross your fingers it doesn’t rain as much as it has been doing these past few days!


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Apr21
In the South West? Well I’m speaking all about Aardman at the Cheltenham Design Festival tomorrow afternoon! It’s all happening at the Parabola Arts Centre, and my talk is 3-4pm so grab a ticket online and come on down!

In the South West? Well I’m speaking all about Aardman at the Cheltenham Design Festival tomorrow afternoon! It’s all happening at the Parabola Arts Centre, and my talk is 3-4pm so grab a ticket online and come on down!


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Apr11

More BÖIKZMÖIND fun, this time the t-shirt I designed for the DVD/Photo book launch that happened on Easter Monday! To coincide with the short film I made and the main film itself, the tee features the head & bow tie of everyones favourite furry star of the film, the Bunny!

My favourite bit of the tee is that it has a layer of glow-in-the-dark ink behind the main print, so once it gets dark, suddenly the bunny looks a bit sinister!

You can get your tee right here on the online store:
boikzmoind.bigcartel.com

P.S Thanks to my flatmate Ricky for being my model!


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Apr10

Here we are, the BÖIKZMÖIND (My fixed gear bike documentary) DVD and Photo book package is finally here! It’s been a fair few months in the making but so happy it’s now out for all to see, I’ve never designed a whole book before so really pleased with how it’s turned out!

The package consists of a digitally numbered 95-page 22cm photo book featuring behind-the-scenes photographs, notes & scans, cataloguing the creation of the film. The multi-region DVD features the full documentary plus a behind-the-scenes featurette, photo gallery and bloopers plus some other extras! The whole thing is bound together by a cord-embossed screen printed wrap cover, which is magnetically sealed!

A huge thank you to Ripe Digital for printing the books and thank you to Whiteduck Screenprint for printing the wrap covers! 

The DVD / Photo books are £29 and I’ll ship worldwide! You can get yours right here:
boikzmoind.bigcartel.com


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Apr09

To celebrate Easter and the launch of the BÖIKZMÖIND DVD/Photo book which happened today here in Bristol, I made this short film starring everyones favourite furry friend, the Bunny! So grab a cup of tea and put this in your eyelets, it’s entitled “Every Time…” and has a very important message in the film, so have a watch… Happy Easter!


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Apr03

This beauty here is the BÖIKZMÖIND ‘Boik’, lovingly put together by the excellent Freshtripe! This project has been ongoing for a long time and has had it’s fair share of trials & tribulations but it was finally finished last weekend and was proudly displayed for the first time at the Bristol Bespoked bike show at the Freshtripe stand!

My favourite part is the white-on-white graphics which have been applied to the frame of the bike, it’s only under closer inspection in the right light that the frame reveals statistics from the films creation!

You can see it in the flesh at the BÖIKZMÖIND Screening + DVD/Book launch + Q&A which is happening this coming Easter Monday, 3pm at The Watershed cinema here in Bristol! There’s not many tickets left, so grab yours here and you can also pre-order your DVD/Book to pick-up from the launch too!

Click here to read all about the components & story behind this beautiful bike, and a huge huge thanks to Jamie & Paul at Freshtripe for making the bike a reality!

freshtripe.co.uk | boikzmoind.com


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Mar28
5 years and thousands upon thousands of frames later, Aardman’s latest stop-motion feature film The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is out in the UK… TODAY! Make sure you go and see it, because it’s flipping brilliant! I’m so proud to be an Aardman-ite, especially when you see the sheer level of detail and craft that has gone into the film, the end credits alone are a thing of beauty! Not in the UK? Click here for Worldwide release dates!

5 years and thousands upon thousands of frames later, Aardman’s latest stop-motion feature film The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is out in the UK… TODAY! Make sure you go and see it, because it’s flipping brilliant! I’m so proud to be an Aardman-ite, especially when you see the sheer level of detail and craft that has gone into the film, the end credits alone are a thing of beauty!

Not in the UK? Click here for Worldwide release dates!


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