Extremely excited to announce the release of my latest work! The project was the redesign and development of the Carbon Art Wave Board range, looking to create a completely new look to reinvent and reinvigorate the boards aesthetic appeal…

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This weeks favourite photo is a sneak peek at a project I’ve been working on for a while…a new redesign of Carbon Art waveboards! Featuring all new illustrations and graphics that can be customized – letting board buyers choose their colour and choose the image for their board.

Releasing soon so will keep you updated with the full reveal as soon as I can!

I was stoked to be asked to design the Tshirt again this year for the New Zealand Wavesailing windsurf Nationals. This was the final result, featuring a fairly realistic illustration of the kind of conditions we usually get around here for the event. The style follows on from last years design and was of course the main highlight of the event for most competitors…well apart from maybe the winners .

This was an invite design I did at the end of last year. Using some imagery from an old kids book, I cut out the bits I wanted and recoloured to fit the occasion. Then time was spent playing with the type to fit with the image and working it into an inviting invite design.

Here’s a few images showing some of the process behind the creation of the Cubes I made for the recent Splore festival 2010 (see previous post). The brief and concept was all about creating something for festival goers to enjoy, interact, have fun and tie in with the theme of Midsummer Nights Dream 2050. An added essential was that it had to be able to survive 3 days with 7,000 people…

The concept I came up with was to build sixteen 40cm squared cubes with letters on several sides, patterns on another and one side that when fitted together correctly, formed a complete image.

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*Ok, well strictly not completely free as you will require paper and pencil and also have to devote the time and effort to doing it yourself!

That’s right, go grab yourself these awesome free PDF books on art, illustration and painting and learn some great stuff! The drawing instructional books by Andrew Loomis (a great American illustrator 1892–1959) are now out of print and available to distribute due to their public domain status.

If you have any interest in the art of drawing, painting, illustrating, even design, then these really are great books to go through, learn and tell others about.

Head on over to these locations to download and spread the awesome resource and skills of Andrew Loomis:

Escape from Illustration Island
Placid Chaos
http://fineart.sk/
Alex Hays

Here is my entry to the “peace is…” competition going on over at Social designer. I went with something that focuses on the fun side of things and that the idea of peace is a simple one within everyones reach. And of course the easy to remember message that Peace is truly AWESOME! Head on over to check out the entries and if your feeling generous vote for mine thats if you like of course!