Jan Švankmajer - Jabberwocky

Inspiration

Polish and Czech film posters from 1960s.

75 Peters

Sir Peter Cook is an iconic British architect, founder of Archigram and former director of the ICA.

I am involved in an exhibition along with 74 other illustrators to commemorate his birthday. Each illustrator was invited to create a portrait of Sir Peter, which all will be auctioned for the charity Architecture For Humanity. My contribution, which you can see above, is a screen print.

'75 Peters' is curated by the Adam and Eve Project in partnership with Sir Peter and begins on 26th October in Brisbane- details above. As you can see the line up for the show is fantastic with some brilliant illustrators: Mike Perry, Andrew Rae and Ian Wright among many many more involved.

All the artworks in the exhibition can be very soon viewed here: http://theadamandeveprojects.com/75peters - the online auction will also take place here starting 26th October.

Pan Tone

Earlier this year I was approached by the German musician Haushcka to create an image for his forthcoming album 'Pan Tone'. It was Released last month by Berlin record label Sonic Pieces: a label which focuses on releasing handmade and limited edition CDs and EPs.

The album is a musical collaboration between Haushcka, an experimental pianist and Hildur Guðnadóttir an Icelandic cellist, and was originally recorded when the duo performed in 2010 as part of Arctic Circle - Bubbly Blue and Green festival at Kings Place in London.

Each composition is named after a different Pantone colour, each a different colour of the sea, and so the design of the EP and illustration follow in this theme. I produced an illustration for the inlay using only two of the Pantone colours from the album, plus black. The image is inspired by the Leviathan sea monster myth.

There is a limited number of the EP and CDs, each embossed and numbered, hand bound and beautifully designed by Sonic Pieces.

Grey Magazine

Grey Magazine is an biannual fashion Magazine. It's 5th issue for AW11/12 is out now, and I was asked to create two illustrations to accompany a collection of poems by JM Parham themed around London, seen here above.

I will always love working for magazines like Grey- aside from it's design, it combines literature, fashion and illustration in such an innovative way.

I have posted some photos of the issue below just because I was so impressed with the quality of imagery featured. For me the stand-out features are a fantastic photographic story by Todd Hido about the New York public library, and Julie Verhoeven's contribution, both of which are artists I hugely admire.

E. R. Coiff

Hello, I realise I haven't written anything on here for a long while. Summer is a strange old time I think, everything slightly grinds to a halt. Anyway I have been working on some nice projects over the past couple of months, including work for Grey Magazine, Hauschka and Berlin record label Sonic Pieces and currently working on some pieces for upcoming exhibitions.

I also went to Morocco on the train.

More of that to come soon. In the meantime, and on a totally unrelated subject here are some pictures of some really very nice shop fronts I took in France earlier in the summer.

Bicycles

Vintage Bicycles at Herne Hill velodrome.

Book Covers

Some favourite book covers from my collection. I have a large and ever growing collection of the Bibliothèque Verte Hachette children's books- I like the very idiosyncratic 1940s illustration and heavy typeface combination.
I think I'd like one day to have the Woodland Birds Penguin cover made into a wallpaper. The owl print is magnificent.

Andre

Tweet Tweet

I feel I need to embrace the scary modern world of technology, so with this is mind, I am now a member of Twitter. I will be saying things HERE, FOLLOW ME if you like

New New Website

I have a brand new website designed by my extremely talented friend ED. There is some new work and commissions on there so have a look here

Adam and Eve

My road became shamelessly patriotic on Friday 29th and had a raucous street party, here are some pictures.

In other news I was recently invited to join the Adam and Eve project, an new online web broadcast, where a community of artists, writers and musicians feature their work, updates and collaborate with one another. The project has all sorts of interesting folk as members: Will Self, David Shrigley and Barbara Hulanicki among many more. To follow my stream click here

Paris,LA Japan Issue

Paris,LA Magazine's SS11 issue is dedicated to Japan, and above is a fashion story I was commissioned to produce exploring the influence of Japanese culture on current fashion. Art direction by Dorothee Perret and Laurent Folcher
Paris,LA is always a pleasure to work for- a beautifully designed and unique magazine, definitely worth a look.
Visit here: http://www.paris-la.com for more information

Time Out Shanghai February

Rather late in posting this, but here's a cat-based illustration for last month's issue of Time Out Shanghai, article written by John Sunyer, a review of the book Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar.

ALICE BY TEMPERLEY

Last year I was hugely excited to be asked by the fantastic Alice Temperley to provide the illustrations for a range of T-shirts for her SS11 Alice By Temperley collection.

The collection is inspired by the 'Last Queen of France', Marie Antoinette. Above is the first design, a Cameo print white vest top-I will post more as I have them.

To see the full collection, visit www.alicebytemperley.com

The Clock

Anyone who is near the Southbank centre from right now until 6.30 tomorrow evening MUST go and see Christian Marclay's 24 hour film The Clock, a beautiful moving collage. I was tempted to stay all night

Japan continued

Developing imagery created during a commission about Japanese fashion (coming out soon), I have been exploring colours and layers in screenprinting.

The Ride Journal

An illustration featured in The Ride Journal, Issue 5 which has just been launched. Have a look HERE for more information- it is a lovely magazine for people who love bicycles, highly recommended

Japan

An image from a commission I'm currently working on exploring Japanese fashion.
More to come soon...

Happy New Year!

Some dancing ladies to start off the year