I had the honour of being involved in Lunartiks ‘Mini Tea Tour’ where a big bunch of artists customised his ‘Mini Tea’ vinyl toy as part of a travelling exhibition! They were unveiled in Berlin at the wonderful Pictoplasma character design conference!

Well above is my custom, I tured him into one a Plague Doctor, complete with hooded cloak! The standard was incredible, you can see ace photos of each & every design right here!

Big thanks to Matt aka Lunartik for letting me be a part of the fun!

Ouch! today I spent the day in the tattooists chair, getting another Ollie Munden original inked onto my feet! There’s no meaning behind these, I just love Ollies work and really wanted his twist on the classic day of the dead skulls. They were inked by Justin Cota who did the ship on my calf who’s a master with the detail and did Ollies design justice!

I’m going to have to make peace with flip-flops for the next few weeks I think!

Happy Easter from me & BOIKZMOIND! Things have been turned up a notch on the film recently so stay tuned to the facebook & twitter channels, as I’m going to announce the premiere date & location very soon! Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy scoffing a bunch of chocolate eggs, I know I will!

I’m very happy to say that I’ve got an interview in the latest issue of Burst Magazine! You can download the PDF by clicking the above image or clicking here

Big thanks to Ali for including me in the mag!

What a location! Not one but two interviews in the bag this weekend for BOIKZMOIND. Things are really gathering pace now, Ive got all interviews transcoded and on my Final Cut Pro timeline, ready for review and cutting up! The 20th August premiere date is going to come around real fast I can tell you!

Stay tuned to the website, twitter and facebook page for more updates!

So very excited to give you this first sneak peak of what I’ve been working on at Aardman. So before Christmas I had an idea for a game that I got super excited about, I came and told my colleagues here at Aardman Digital and they really liked it. We’re taking it forward here and although I can’t reveal anything yet, I can tell you that the protagonist is named Dew and the game’s called ‘Dew Drop’…

Anyway, we bought the domain name last week and decided to build a fun teaser to live  on the domain. Ben Reid, the resident web genius at Aardman brought it to life using nothing but HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript, utilising and customising an awesome ‘liquid’ script kindly given to us by Hakim El Hattab. The result is a good ol’ fashioned bit of fun and hopefully a bit of intrigue too…

Be sure to sign up to find out the latest with Dew in the future! Oh, and why not move your browser around or double-click the lil’ fella…

www.dewdropgame.com

A sneak peak of a little something that’s coming real soon, just my wee designs for a certain plush protagonist… Keep your eyes peeled!

So stoked to say that BOIKZMOIND is part of FixedAndWhat’s very first periodical newspaper and it’s an absolute corker! Beautifully designed & put together, they’re FREE and in Bike stores all over the place. If you can’t get your hands on a real one then you can check out the PDF here or click the image above, the BOIKZ interview is on page 14-15!

Thanks to the F&W guys and can’t wait for issue 2, support independent productions!

Whilst watching MPEG Streamclip transcode a terabytes worth of footage for my bike film BOIKZMOIND I stared blankly at the Facebook ‘Like’ button. I don’t know why I didn’t twig earlier that ‘Like’ is a lot like ‘Bike’ and then when I thought that the ‘thumbs up’ icon looks a lot like a hand-gripping handlebars, well I had to do something about it, so here it is!

I’m sure a million people have already thought of this but I wanted to make the graphic anyway! I opened Firefox, went to a page with a Like button on it, used Firebug to change the text of ‘Like’ to ‘Bike’ and then screengrabbed the button. I then blew it up to 4800% in Illustrator, making a grid of pixel squares and then colour-matched each one so at the end I had a vector version of the pixelated button.

I turned the thumbs up on its side and started making the drop bars for either end, matching the pixel-edged colours to make it ‘together’, and here we are, a bit of Sunday graphics fun!

** Update: Ahh I knew it wouldn’t be original, the good people of howies already beat me to it! Thanks to Andrew for letting me know! **

Another cracking BOIKZMOIND interview in the bag, this time Bex Cleal, one half of screenprinting firm Whiteduck was the subject. I’ve still got a mountain of footage to collect and a bunch more interviews to get but I think I can start laying what I have down in Final Cut Pro, making the film actually take shape!

At the same time I’m designing the custom bike I’m working on with Freshtripe as well as the photobook / DVD package that will be available at launch, so theres plenty to keep me busy! I’m also going to cut a brand new trailer closer to the launch too so keep your peepers peeled for that!

As always, stay tuned to the website, twitter and facebook for all the latest!

My ‘HLP JPN’ design has now been screen printed up by the lovely people over at Whiteduck Screenprint in Bath and is available to purchase as a pack of 3 A5 designs (by Bex Cleal & Ed Cowburn) for just £15, with all proceeds going towards the Red Cross Japan relief fund!

So, pick yourself up a lovely set of prints and help a great cause that really needs our help here

Thank you! I just wanted to write a quick blog post to say thank you for all your donations & support from my sponsored silence on Friday, you helped me raise £1,000 for Red Nose Day! I want to write a full blog post this week about it all but for now i just wanted to say thank you. You can still donate here if you like too!

Stoked to tell you that the brand new BOIKZMOIND website is now live! Built in HTML5 & CSS3 by web genius Ben Reid and designed by myself in the Swiss minimalism style, the site is a slidey scrolley bit of fun, with all the info on the film so far!

You can navigate through the site by using the left-hand navigation but you’re rewarded for manually scrolling down by stumbling across little bits of content placed in between the main sections! So, what are you waiting for? Hop on over and check out the new site:

www.boikzmoind.com