Client: Personal
It was my last day at Poke and my last day in England for 6 months, so I organised a massive drinking game to celebrate! Congratulations to Dezza for winning, he now has his very own Tankard kept for him behind the bar at the Owl & Pussycat :)
I’ve always enjoyed making (and participating!) in these type of drinking games & charts, you can see a couple more in this post.
Client: Poke | Agency: Poke
This hasn’t been printed yet, but here’s a preview. At Poke we have to get our visitors to wear a sticker with the poke logo on while they’re in the building - something to do with fire regulations. We thought we could possibly use this to do something nice for our visitors, so we made this Sticker Saverbook. Basically it work like the old Green Shield Stamps, each time you visit you get your security sticker, when you leave you peel it off your jumper and add it to the book. So for clients who visit a lot, they can save up for some special Poke treats from our goodies catalogue :)
Client: Personal
This is an infographic of my 3000 mile route across America on the Continental Divide Trail, due to start walking in May 2008! I produced this to get my head round the basic logistics - The white markers are towns we’ll be passing through to get supplies, with the dates we’re hoping to get there. The black & orange arrows indicate how many miles there are in between each town, how many days I expect it will take us to cover the distance and the average daily distance we need to do to get there on time. It looks deceptively simple, but this took me hours and hours to work out, and went through many many revisions! The chances of us sticking to this are zero, but it’ll be interesting to see how close my predictions are.
Client: Personal
Illustration of the Poke band Crank! The weeping all seeing eyes are a nod to the origin of the bands name - it came from Kester who would joke that he spends most of his spare time wanking while crying in his shed. We shortened it to Cranking and found it hilarious, the band shortened it further to Crank!
Hopefully they’ll be t-shirts and alsorts to follow soon.
I also made a series of desktops of the band, as well as the individuals here.
Badger:
Dave:
Mattias:
Nico:
Igor:
Client: Poke | Agency: Poke
These are a some Poke characters I made for a series of limited edition visitor stickers, which guest of Poke have to wear in our building. They haven’t been made yet, but hopefully soon! You can see some more work from this project here.
The landing page:
Homepage:
Product page:
Massage Tips:
One of the many quiz questions:
Results Page:
Client: K-Y | Agency: Poke
Asite I designed and illustrated, it’s the Are you British in Bed Quiz or K-Y Jelly ;) We basically built a sex quiz located in a passport control booth (I didn’t think of the idea!). It’s pretty well done if I don’t say so myself, Dezza & Russ did the flash development, Mattias did the HTML and FaceBook application. So on give it a go, it is actually pretty funny.
Client: Orange | Agency: Poke
These are a few of the header concepts I drew up for the soon to released The Feed blog from Orange (not sure if any of them will get used). The blogs content is going to be reasonably technology focused hence the circuit board and twisted wires concepts. I think I preferred the little birdies munching though.
Client: Personal
This is a fictitious wine label I designed for a cardboard fancy dress box of wine outfit. The finished outfit, even dispensed wine, see some pics here! I also made it into a desktop which you can get here.
Client: Roome Consulting | Agency: Made in England by Gentlemen
Eleanor, my friend, ex flatmate and owner of Roome Consulting asked me to paint some paintings to decorate her new office. I’m a bit slow at painting, so I roped my girlfriend Nicky to give me a hand painting them :) They loved them, some of the characters even made on to their website which I also designed.
Client: Personal
This year the theme for my birthday party was cardboard, you could come as anything as long as you built it out of cardboard! This is the invite I designed for it. You check out some of the costumes here.
The Girls version:
The Boys version:
Client: Personal
Blokes (and girls!) should know their partners vitals stats… but we all need some help from time to time! I made these Christmas 2007 to try and take the guess work out of shopping for your better half. Print 2 out, fill one out with your sizes and give it to your partner. Get your partner to fill out the other and give it back. Then head out shopping!
You can download the pdf for girls here & and the pdf for boys here.
I did design a HTML web version (below) for Poke to send round as a Christmas card type thing, but sadly it never saw the light of day… If you’re a developer and are interested in making it happen, get in touch, would make a nice little site!
Client: Orange | Agency: Poke
This is a cityscape I drew for an Orange ad. I think it’s New York? Not sure, I based it on a photo I found on Flickr, but lost where I found the reference photo… I made this into a desktop, you can get it here.
Client: Oh Baby | Agency: Made in England by Gentlemen
My friend Ant asked if Me & Nicky would customise some Oh Baby baby clothes in any way we saw fit (to use in their shop window), of course we jumped at the chance! We ending up making them into baby clothes monsters, above is my Victorian punk rocker. Click here to see Nicky’s Convict muppet.
Oh Baby have a shop just down the road on Brick Lane and an online store here, you should check them out, they have some really cute stuff.
Client: Knotty & Kate
This is the wedding present me and Nicky made for Andrew & Kate. Basically just a couple of basic snake draft excluders, but tied together in a love/friendship knot (their surname is Knott!). I also designed their wedding invite that used a load of Australian (where Knotty’s from) flora & fauna twisted together to make a similar knot.
Client: Personal
I‘ve done literally hundreds of Alexisms over the years, see the ones I’ve posted on my blog. Basically Kester makes notes of random things that Alex says, emails them round work and I do little graphics for them… a lot if it is in jokes, but I think they’re pretty funny!
I’ve also done a few of the other pokers too:
