Kids Club Illustration

Album artwork illustration for Kpm Music House

Virgin Active - Barbican

Just finished this 80's vibe commission for Virgin Active at the Barbican.

55DSL Pic+Mix - Photos

Heres some pics from my section of the Pic+Mix show @ studio 55 in december last year...bit late but anyway...



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THE 2010 SECRET WARS EURO LEAGUE

Get your hype hats on, the Secret Wars Euro League has arrived. The format has evolved this year from the previous 3 series...i still haven't got my head round how it all works but basicly instead of individuals going head to head each participating city has a team of artists.

Anyway I will be representing london alongside Mr Gauky, Alfa, Wen, Flawn, and Tony Riff.

Here are the 4 groups....

Group 1
Glasgow
Bristol
Malmo
Warsaw


Group 2
Bournemouth
Birmingham
Berlin
Lisbon

Group 3
Southampton
Dublin
Copenhagen
Paris

Group 4
Cardiff
London
Hamburg
Amsterdam

Heres how it all works according to mr Terry Guy...

"The rules are the same but the structure of the competition and dynamics of the battle are slightly different - see below for details. How the competition will work & when There will be 8-10 teams/cities involved in next years competition, and each city will select 6 artists to part of a squad. Each team will select 2-3 wildcard entries consisting of previous champs and general bad boys! The remaining members will be picked at the local qualifiers. City selection events - November / December 09 (Check Secret Wars website for dates)

• Each city will call out and actively invite people down to jam and show off their skills
• Draw will take place to decide what team is which group (A or B)

1st Round - Group league qualifiers

• Two groups of 4-5 teams with the top two teams qualifying
• Rather than a knockout cup comp, we have decided to make this a little more interesting and maybe fairer - Each game will be a league match with each judge vote and crowd vote worth a point!
• Each team will play home and away against the others in their group

Semi finals

With the top two teams going through from each group, we will be left with 4 teams.

The winner of GROUP A will play the 2nd place of GROUP B and the winner of GROUP B will play the runners up of GROUP A.

GROUP A WINNER vs. GROUP B RUNNER UP

GROUP B WINNER vs. GROUP A RUNNER UP

These will also be home and away ties - with the winning team decided on total points earned over the two games. If the points are level than it will be decided by the team who gets the most away points.

GRAND FINAL

This will be hosted at a neutral venue, TBC nearer the time"

It all sounds a bit too football if u ask me!

pic + mix 2 - Chu x Disco Teck

Tomorrow night!

Secret Wars @ Hoxton pony

Experimented with symetry and mirrors at the Hoxton pony last week in a collaborative effort with Mr Hicks.

photograhy by Jaysus www.jaysusphotograhy.com

New video production by the Pirates

'Pirates' are a new collective specialising in 'creative direction and excecution'

Founded by Jimi Crayon and represented by CIA, Artists included are...

• ALFA
• DISCO TECK
• JAMIE BROWN
• JIGGERY POKERY
• JIMI CRAYON
• JOSH HOWARD
• MR P

i didnt have the time to paint in this production, but im gonna post the video just because its amazing.

'We Like Colour' Time Lapse Film from alicja mccarthy on Vimeo.

look out for more pirates productions coming soon!

www.wearepirates.co.uk

www.centralillustration.com

Swatch MTV Playground - Athens

Flew out to athens with Mr Gauky last week for an England Vs Greece Secret Wars Battle, held at the Swatch MTV Playground event.

there was a 1000 euro cash prize up for grabs, and with the crowd being the judge, it was obvious from the start we weren't going to see that cash!

the greek artists...yellowish and some other guy

we needed a biger wall

this is the winning (unfinished?) piece from the greeks...

this is our piece...our concept was based on greek mythology with a play on words and depicted hades and cereberus the 3 headed dog, guardians of the 'london underworld'

fake smiles all around...

Anyway! we drowned our sorrows in raki, ouzo and some dodgy caribean import lager, danced like idiots and stole their girlfriends... ;)

Southampton Solent Student Union

Something for the music students @ Solent SU

Monorex 5th Anniversary Party

Photos by Ldn-mode.com

Belvedere 1X launch partys, Dubai & Abu Dhabi

Flew out to dubai last week with Alfa to paint at the launch of Belvedere 1X, at club 400. Haven't got any decent photos yet, so untill i get my hands on them, heres some pics of my phone.

It was a fun brief, and we had to paint the ceilings deface old paintings with flourescent paint for the party, which later on would be illuminated with UV lights.






Thanks to Brag Limited for bringing us in. Dropped this on the wall of their new office while we were in town...
http://www.belvedereix.com

Addict X Disco Teck

Heres my T-shirt design for the the Addict Clothing Artist Series, coming SS 2010. Catalogue available now.


www.addict.co.uk

Lisboa

keeping it brief due to internet problems! Drove to Lisbon in Portugal last week with 4 other guys in a tiny car. was a nightmare.

Got there eventually and painted with the LEG crew. heres a few snaps off my phone...


My tribute to MJ...looks more like Garry Glitter though.




more photos here...

Independance Day Streetwear Sample Sale

I recently designed this flyer for Out of Step Distributions "Independance Day Streetwear Sample Sale!". Theres going to be some hot shit up for grabs at rock bottom prices, so dust off them wallets and get your shabby selves down there.

New York City!

The 10 day Monorex invasion of New York is over, it was so much fun, i might even attempt a full on write up...

On arrival, Jimi Crayon, Alfa, and myself headed to our new studio (thanks Elura!) and started work on our canvasses for the Monorex group show. we had 2 days to produce the work.

The day before the exhibition, we were invited to throw a Secret Wars party in Marc Eckos office, where team Monorex would battle team Ecko.

Party in full swing @ Marc Eckos office...yep, hes got a basketball court in there.
First lines...
DJ Session
Monorex piece - by Disco Teck, Jimi Crayon & Alfa

my favourite insult from the yanks...


Our concept used 'Rex and the city' as the title and had 'ol Henry the 8th sat in the middle holding Carrie Bradshaws severed head on a platter...we added a Roast Rhino to the feast with a big apple shoved in its mouth to wind Mr Ecko up (which it did). It was a fair fight, with team Ecko grassping the 'live illustration battle' idea, and bringing some pretty funny disses (if not obvious social stereotypes). Of course there was no way we could win over the hugeley patriotic crowd, most of which had no idea who Henry the 8th was, or that 'Rex' meant 'king' in latin. So we lost...and raved it up london style till we got thrown out.




Next up was 'LDNYC' the Monorex group show, held at Gallery Bar, Orchard st in the lower east side.
Thanks to all who came down to see the work and meet us, its nice to know what we do over here gets noticed accross the pond! oh, and also a big thank you to the coach load of 18 year old cheerleaders that turned up around 11pm...you made it look a lot busier than it actually was!
Jimi Crayon
Disco Teck
Alfa


After a day off, we had the main London Vs New York battle, held at Public Assembly in Brooklyn.

This time arround we used the classic film 'the Warriors' as our inspiration, putting a twist on the Baseball Furies gang, with our own Cricket Furies, cruising around in a beat up london cab. We had one of the famous lines from the film 'can you dig it?!' on one side, with Obama (characature by the mighty Alfa) popping up on the right responding with his famous line 'yes we can!'. Get it?! clever innit.

Our 'Warriors' inspired piece...

New Yorks effort...

badda boom, badda bing. we won.

The last 2 events we were supposed to do got cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. Which was fine by me, after all that i just wanted to chill for a bit and go see the city!

And thats all you need to know!


Huge thanks to Monorex, Reebok, Elura, and Yumi for the hard work behind the scenes

Photography by Jaysus - www.flickr.com/jaysusphotography

Monorex 5th Anniversary Production

Its big!



spot the lampost...

'Dont Hate'

Took out the big one once again this weekend with the RT gang. alfa and myself painted different style hands interacting with each piece.

RT HACKNEY from rteam on Vimeo.

Secret Wars NYC

Click image to view larger!

Secret Wars - New York - June 2009 from Joe Hamilton on Vimeo.

video by Joe Hamilton, NY

Page in Daydream issue 6

"This sleek and sexy 6th edition of Daydream is jam packed with 80 pages of uninterrupted creative offerings, featuring photographers, writers, illustrators and designers. This is also the debut of Inua Ellams as literature editor for word-art submissions, so you are sure to find some surprise and solace in the wise, weird and wonderful words within the pages of one of the finest editions yet!

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Click cover image to buy your copy!

Face & Laces - Moscow

Flew out to moscow last week to paint in an England Vs Russia Secret Wars battle on the Reebok stand at the Faces & Laces tradeshow.


The tradeshow was held in a huge old soviet building that was originally used to comemorate the Russian space programme.



The Russian Piece, painted by Aske (Sicksystems), and Djagarta.


The UK piece, painted by myself and Wen. Our concept was to have two hairy russian chaps, bear baiting 'Cheburashka'. For those who dont know, that little bear character is a well known national icon and loved by pretty much all russians. we left drawing him to the last minuite, and managed to get a few laughs out of the tough crowd.

Did plenty of sightseeing and vodka drinking while i was there too...

more photos coming soon...

http://www.sicksystems.ru/
http://www.myspace.com/facesandlaces

'Tailored by England' - Umbro commission

took 13 hours, a sketchy scaff tower and 4 guys just to get this wall white.

script logo painted by the crayon and myself.

100 Minutes of Havana x Secretwars - Monorex Vs Intercity

Old news now, but heres some photos from 100 minutes of havana party where we painted a 40ft x 20ft wall in 100 minutes. For a much better write up than i could ever give it, go check these...

Creative Review blog

weheartstuff


Photography by www.watchlooksee.com

Logo Design

Various clients. All created in Adobe Illustrator

Represent London

Ball-Dog

Spent my weekend painting this epic wall with the RT family.

some nice night shots here...

Havanna Club Commission

L to R: Stika, Jimi C, Alfa, Mr K, Teck (click to view larger)


Cuban vibe mural for Havana Club Rum, in preparation for their '100 minutes of Havana' party on the 4th March @ the village underground, where we will be staging a huge secretwars battle. email havana@balancepr.com for guest list.