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Last week I had the honor and privilege of seeing The Tragically Hip live in the UK. I managed to make it to two shows, one in London and one in Manchester. Throughout their nine month 2009 tour across Canada, America and Europe they have been playing what are known as ‘Evening with…’ style shows, [...]
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While we were away following the Manics in America, I was (naturally) on taping duty. We went to three shows in total (including an instore appearance that James did at Newbury Comics in Boston. I spent the week or so after I was back editing the recordings, sifting through photos and making artwork. I kind [...]
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Here’s another piece of recent(ish) artwork. This was (and possible still will be) part of a set of posters advertising PrAna. I really love PrAna clothes, as well as their design and branding. Marvelous stuff! I wanted to design something which could still fit in with the same sort of feel of what they have [...]
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Recently on Twitter, a friend of mine called Tracey (aka MissOceania) retweeted a message creative website/bloggy type thing called Creative Boom. They were putting a call out to designers to produce a banner for their site. There was no real brief other than that. They sent me their logo which needed to be included, and [...]
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A week or so ago, I was approached by a contact I’d made through Twitter called Col. Col runs a rather nice Mountain Biking based website called Mud and Gears, and he asked me if I’d design a web banner for his website. He said he really liked my work (a good start) and said [...]
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This weekend just gone, Snoo and I attended a little soiree in Wolverhampton. Two of our friends, who we know through Manics fandom/Forever Delayed, were celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary with them renewing their wedding vows. And, of course, a little party and drinkies afterwards. As is only right and proper. It was a really [...]
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Hello. It’s been a while, eh? A lots been going on as well. I’m now back in Blighty after my two month trip to the states – It was a very cool experience, and I had a fantastic time. It was kind of odd though, time wise. The trip seemed go fly past in no [...]
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Truck, originally uploaded by Ben Grubb. I’ve added some more photos to Flickr. This is one of my favourites from the Hueco Rock Ranch in Texas. Great place! Looking forward to heading back there in a couple of weeks.
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I recently created a banner for my friend Matt Merritt‘s music review/blog site, Call Upon The Author. Matt wasn’t too specific about what he wanted which was nice as it gave me free rein – All I knew was the name of the site, the rough dimensions and that it was a blog about music. [...]
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I’ve just gotten back to London from Leicester where I spent the weekend. Last week my (little) sisters turned 21, and I, along with a load of others trekked up to Leicester (where my sister Hannah is at DMU) for some belated celebrations. I thought such an occasion warranted special cards. I wanted to make [...]