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My band, Copter, had been planning to do a Warriors Revue for some time and this year it came to fruition.
Our good friend Mr. Radar made a 30 minute condensed version of the movie and we played along with the visuals creating a musical narrative, a kind of rock opera! For the event, I made subway tickets for entry, Warriors vests for the band (can’t take credit for the design there) and designed a poster with an old school Jack Kirby comic book feel, evoking imagery of the time in a way that hasn’t been used for the Warriors before (to my knowledge).
The whole thing was a fantastic success, with over 100 gang members turning up ,in colours, for Sirus’ big speech!

Typoshirt One is a book published by Index Books, the first book to focus exclusively on T-shirt typography. Spanning message and logo T-shirts to more abstract and arty models that transmit more cryptic messages, I contributed with the Black Mekon t-shirt design based on Larry Flynt’s infamous court attire, with a twist conceived by my pal (and stylist to the stars) Ian Witchell.
Thanks to Pris for making the shirt look so good, and thanks to Lee for the photos (my copy of the book got stolen by the postie!)

Many moons ago I decided to make a brand for my good friend Gary Wood’s film making endeavours, as a way of saying thank you for all his selfless hard work as part of the ColdRice family.
I wanted to make a retro style logo, the 1950′s kind of ‘friendly’ mascot that you would see on bottles of bleach or milkshakes, but with a spin that encompassed a bag of recognisable icons to really hit home that over-the-top Americana branding sensibility. I had too much coffee and went ridiculously over the top with 24 variants.
When I gave Gary the stylesheet with all of the logo variations, he was ecstatic, and 5 minutes later he called me, “Steve, I’ve got another 30 ideas, Beethoven, a Droog, Einstein…”

God bless Mr. Radar and his endless enthusiasm.

Been a while, going to try to get a bit more regular with posts this year. Worked on a nice project for Nokia just before Christmas, illustrating a poster for their short movie ‘The Commuter’ starring Dev Patel, Charles Dance and Pamela Anderson which was shot entirely on Nokia’s N8 handsets. Yeah, weird. Anyway, I thought that I would share some of the illustrations, a painted style for that action movie effect!

Poster for a ColdRice party, continuing the theme of comic book-esque soul singers

There’s a nice feature over at Graniph Labs, did a series of tees with them a couple of years back and hope to do some more soon.

This is great going thru all my old files, found a bunch of pictures from the Pop which was an exhibition of gig poster art. I had around 10 pieces displayed, lots of ColdRice posters. For all the colours and painstaking hours I spent on some of the ColdRice posters, my favourite was always this Weird War poster I made which took about 10 minutes. Always the way isn’t it?

Yeeeears ago Levi’s comissioned me and my buddy Stef to do an instore painting at the opening of one of their stores. I decided denim, rock n’ roll, so I did a portrait of a girl who wants to be Iggy Pop and we surrounded it with printed confessions from groupies.
Here’s the initial sketch I did and some photos from the event. yeeeears ago and I still have the free jeans they gave me!

More dust bunnies! A ruck of rough concept sketches for the cover of Segas Bayonetta.

More stuff I’ve found under my hard drives cushions while I was spring cleaning, this was something I worked on with frequent collaborators Fluid Design for Sega’s Mad World. We needed a handful of sketched front cover concepts and as the game has a very specific look I couldn’t really stray too far so just lots black & white with blood and anger. Fun!