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

Zine B

My piece entitled The Bacchae, which features in the newly released Zine B, curated by the extremely talented Jake Blanchard of Tor Press. The Zine features work by a great selection of illustrators- Chrissie Abbott, Hoagy Houghton and Joe Crocker to name just a few.
Click HERE for more information

Wintery

Nymphs and Dior!

Another collage from the Forest series, the ongoing project I've been working on. I've been doing some experiments using more colours, patterns and abstract shapes to create backgrounds.

In other news I went to the (extremely glamourous!) private view for the fantastic new exhibition Dior Illustrated: René Gruau and the Line of Beauty at Somerset House last week.

The show is a retrospective of the work of illustrator Gruau and features his collaborations with the fashion house throughout the decades, along with a selection of contemporary illustrators' homages to some of his pieces. Personally its the style, the movement and complete simplicity of Gruau's illustrations that I love, they perfectly compliment the Dior style. He is the king of fashion illustration!

The exhibition also features beautiful graphic design by Studio Frith. Wonderful stuff.

Wood Nymphs continued

Some more work in progress from a series inspired by tales of wood nymphs.

I have been thinking for a while now about the idea of forests/nymphs. A lot of folklore I read explores in various forms the female spirit, and its link to nature- the symbolism is obvious, but there is something in these different representations of 'women', nymphs, goddesses of natural elements that interest me.

More to come soon

Oxfam

A belated post of a poster design I created for Oxfam's Oxjam Kilburn Fashion Show last month.