Glam Devil

Like a Kenneth Anger Primary school project.

My daughter was doing some fantastic craft recently. When tidying up I spotted this, placed it on a piece of red paper and took a picture.
The Glam devil is now spread around thank you cards and boxes.

Sherlock in the fog

Last nights Sherlock was great. I had a pen and paper to hand. Moriaty was impossible to draw, whereas my scrawls of Dr.Watson made him look even more depressed than he was on the screen. I’ve tarted it up in photoshop a bit to give it some depth.

I’m having an exhibition

I’m very excited to have an exhibition of my paintings at FREVD café bar
from the 28th February to the 24th March 2012.

The last time I had an show was 20 years ago, also in FREVD (that one was in Oxford).

I’m working out which paintings to go in and thniking of painting a few new ones.
If anyone wants a painting (or to sit for me) drop me a line.

There should be a launch party which I’m just sorting out at the moment.
More information when I get it.

Here’s a link: http://www.freud.eu/cgi-bin/shop/page.cgi?file=bars.html

Sherlock Series 2: Episode 2

Drawn while watching the Hound of the Baskervilles last night.
Finished off on the bus this morning.
Mr Cumberbatch must have his own hair twirler this season.
It is obviously brilliant.
As was the writing, acting, lighting, camera sets etc.

Here’s some earlier Sherlocks:

http://trevormill.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/drawing-while-watching-the-tv-again/

http://trevormill.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/another-sherlock/

Made to measure

Worn in the USA, punned in London.

Sales Shopping

On Bond Street, The Alexander McQueen store.
I bought some pickles from Fortnum & Mason instead.

Broken crockery corsets are easy wash, but didn’t go with any of my shoes.

 

Christmas CD 2011

There might be one in the post… Technical hiccups… See you soon. Tx

School Newsletter 3: Christmas

The coloured blocks are where the photos of children were.
A six column grid was used with Stones Green Ginger wine and Radio 4 comedy.

Storyboarding

Some (non product based) frames from a storyboard
of a beauty product ad Brand Electioneering are making.
Thanks to my model (Tricia from the adjacent office)
I didn’t have to use to much imagination.
A quick photo shoot, then out with the tracing paper
and my trusty Pentel Color Brush #101 FR.
Then these brush sketches were photographed
and shadows added in InDesign.

I went to a fantastic party the other day…

And this was where the breakfast was.
My camera hand was a tad shaky.

Thank you so much Mo!

Self portrait from the inside

 

This just happened while doodling on the phone.
The post it note is about 3cm high.
Very Monday.

Bond, A David Reeves Bond (ok, voucher)

This took some time to get the scrollwork right.
Click to get a closer look as it looks a bit pathetic small.
It’s getting printed on banknote style paper.

Her name is THORPE.

Here’s a logo I’ve done for a friend of mine.
She makes beautiful scarves.
Her surname is Thorpe.

The type was designed to have a handmade feel. Strong and loud, with a quirk.
I used Wyndham Compressed as the starting point.
http://trevormill.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/new-typeface-no-2-wyndham-roman-wyndham-compressed/

The country of manufacture and washing instructions, in proper Italian as well as our mother tongue:

The swing tag. Featuring a textile design called Lacy Love.
The colour inspiration was the background of a photo of Audry Hepburn.

David Reeves Bespoke website(s)

David Reeves needed a website.
The original was holding page:

Then another page was added when you clicked anywhere on the main page:

This was very simple and just about did the job in a very quiet way.

After a while cloth logos came along which along with the email were made into buttons.

A very popular and content rich blog was made, a good lookbook page was founded and a nice facebook page was conceived.
These prompted a new look.
Originally it had a fun animation, but due to the quality restrictions inherent in the file format, this had to go. It’s worth a look though.

The new site is just a nice list of links with the range of masterful English tailoring options and a list of the top cloth manufacturers that he uses. All these are buttons (apart from the phone for obvious reasons). My knowledge of html and Dreamweaver is now slightly bigger. Anyway here it is in it’s unflashy glory:

See it for real at: http://davidreevesbespoke.com/

Pumpkin cake

My daughter wanted a pumpkin cake,
I wanted to do a white chocolate skull with jelly brains – another time.
Ingredients:
Cream and large white choc buttons for the inside and seeds
Home made orange dyed sponge for the flesh stuck with raspberry jam
Butter icing skin dyed bright orange
Colour icing for the tendrils eyes blood etc

I’m reading about the Maya at the moment so that might explain the malevolent aspect.

It was yum.

Virginia Plain typeface.

This came about around designing logos and packaging for clients.
I wanted something feminine and modular, a typeface where letterforms interacted with each other but didn’t touch too much, keeping their readability.

As for influences, there’s the First Roxy Music album (which didn’t have the single ‘Virginia Plain’ on it originally), Rio 6 cigar packets, Herbert Bayer as a lady, Herb Lubalin & Avant Garde magazine, the flight of bees, vinyl record grooves, Veronica Lakes hair, Marine Ices, Max & Sally kids stories and Mr Freedom.

I’m thinking about capital letters…

My sister’s exhibition flyer.

Aliceson is a very good modern artist. She is also my sister.
See http://www.aliceson.co.uk/ for work by her.
Margate with a bit of art would be a great day out.

For this flyer she wanted the image and some fairground type for the (a)musements logo.
I wanted to make the flyer look like an old film title sequence; Aliceson’s work usually involves film in some way.

Helloween Boogaloo Poster that never was

This very loud poster was to be screen-printed.
The main act couldn’t make it so the gig was pulled.
Yes I am DJ Trevumada.
The colour range is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK with a recommendation of a sprinkle of glitter on the black layer as it was drying. I really got into the idea of different sized dot screens and colour overlays and seperations.
The illustration has the theme of a sexy Frankenstien’s monster (I know it’s quite hard to see that).
Here’s the components:

So that’s Romy Schnieder, Terrence Stamp and the mouth of Brigit Bardot.

All the main type is made out of these bits of metal type I bought in Berlin.
The rest of the type is the trusty Alternate Gothic No.2 with different blurs and contrasts forced on it.

DR Bespoke: 4. He’s a square (user).

The Square is a neat piece of technology available in America.
Again with the pun. Again with classy and simple.
To find out more about this Square thingy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_%28payment_service%29

DR Bespoke: 3. Winter.

Snow.
I’ve been wanting to use this visual pun for ages.