Merg Birds

Prep drawing for IMA Design Vilage
Things to buy, Hebrew to learn...

Soon....

Curzon Cinema & Don't Panic Comp Entry

A Night with George A. Romero


Thank you to all my Droogys for voting! And if you havent voted yet, better get to it quick! Voting ends tomorrow! YIKES! Will let you all know how it goes!

Link to vote is embedded in the title!!

In print

This book came out a few years ago and features on the cover a project that Kim and I did on light drawing & long exposure photography!
Book author: John Ingledew
(Main Image) Cover Photography: Kim



And I believe this went to print much more recently, design and finish by ilovedust, illustration by myself. Below is the original image, photography provided by Graphia Book
Book author: Marley Gibson

First of new series of drawings I believe

L'Etranger by Albert Camus

Read this quite a while ago and had been meaning to do an illustration for it for a very long time! Well, here it is depicting one of (many) pinnacle scenes in the book. I chose to leave the gun out of the image, as I didnt feel it necessary because for me it is the boiling heat of that day and the bottled up frustration within our protagonist which I felt were more vital in describing the scene...

Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti

In the net...

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Ive been hearing so much about this book (by the same author of No Country for old men ) called The Road The imagery described to me has been feeding my imagination aplenty and I had a bit of spare time today so I put my pen to paper and came up with this! I feel bad for drawing something Ive not even started reading yet, but its even worse when someone has to hold back their creativity, surely?

Enter the weird world of Shiro the hobo cat!

"The cat on the wall was too cool for school, and when he was cut and betrayed ice alone poured from his veins." Oscar Wilde

X Mas gift for my flat mate buddy!

The mug in the above picture is based on a design by design maverick Dane Whitehurst of the PlayCoalition He and a few other folks have been getting into the climbing scene and the appendage on the mug (which is one of those grips you get on the training walls for climbers) replaces the usual handle of your average mug! May the extreme tea drinking begin! Happy Christmas, Chums!

Portrait numero 2: Yoko et John

War Is Over

Portrait numero 1: Sun Ra

Sun Ra claimed that he was of the "Angel Race" and not from Earth, but from Saturn, (he) also developed a complex persona of "cosmic" philosophies and lyrical poetry that made him a pioneer of afrofuturism as he preached awareness and peace above all.

One that slipped through the net!

This little baby was originally planned for the Artful Dodger show in New York but due to budgets etc she didnt quite make it to the party. The plan was to have this and possibly another printed onto vinyl and then stuck onto pillars around the ILD exibition area, I totally forgot about it until speaking to a friend about skulls and this popped into my head! Cliche as illustrations of skulls are, they're a lot of fun to draw and I just can't help myself...

Thank God For Sales!

I still have no money to go buy anything tho...

Show Me The Munny

Here is a Munny I did with Ilovedust which was made specially for a talk but ilovedust head honcho at New York's Society of Illustrators it was also given as a gift to the friendly folks at Nooka Watches! Heres a link to a review of the Talk at S.O.I





Click the images to get into the detail and the story which starts from the right leg right around the front, to the back of head and then back to the front! Its my bastardized version of Odin's Quest for knowledge and power! Normal everyday shit.

TimeOut London New Talent Issue

This came out a few months back-been a little busy n a bit lazy with getting this one out!

ARTFUL DODGER '08 NEW YORK FASHION WEEK

Photos above by Cleveland


Recently I was very lucky to be a part of the design company ILOVEDUST who got helms deep involved in the Artful Dodger Party to launch their latest line of clothing for 2008 as part of the New York Fashion week. Here are a few photos and some more here Oh yeah and Jay Z was there too along with Beyonce.

Thanks a lot to the good folk at ilovedust, Spread and Artful Dodger!!

Also we got some behind the scenes action of the event!
The design above of the invitation was created by the almighty Matt of ilovedust




And a close up of the Airforce Ones along with Nooka watches, all customised by the ILD team for the ARTFUL DODGER show!
Nike x Nooka x ILD

And heres a few of the event itself...

Hanging out with the BETATANK design team who were visiting to perform in DEITCH'S Parade, unfortunately delayed til Spring due to bad weather! Partying it up nonertheless the night before!

Eyal, Jules and Joeseph Malia of BetaTank, a photographer Cleveland who was also exhibiting at the Chelsea Art Museum and Mergs outside the venue, enjoying some fresh air

The very friendly, very busy crowd

And the following morning...

Coming Soon...

John, Paul, Ringo & George and their lost album.

Somewhere in hell NO.3

Alex gets comfy in his new home and practices his social skills on some nice ladies! Whatever next?

Somewhere In hell NO.2

Having left home over the regurgitated porridge incident with Alex's old ma, he sets out far and wide for human flesh and high-adventure! Just like all the cool kids these days.

Somewhere In Hell NO.1

He HATES You! Alex's (Mummy's 'Eggy weg') first full movie scene; where he renounces the demon bird's way and sets out to find his own intestines for breakfast!

Silver, a Mergs' Best Friend

aaa...I loves the smoke theme, here it has manifested as mergs silver...

One of my favourite beasties: the hitotsume, below in silver along with original sculpey rendition.

Below Top: the bird of my dreams...with a bit of intestine in her mouth...classy! The mergs silver Tengu avec gut in beak! And right at the bottom is a hybrid of the Kappa at the front (left) and a squid with pointy tentacles at rear (right)!