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I love Gnarls Barkley – I’ll admit that straight up. Part of the reason, though, is because their visual work (film clips, album art, promotional photos etc) is just as good.

The new film clip for ‘Run’ off their new album ‘The Odd Couple’ proves they’re not slowing down, just getting better.

If you haven’t seen the clip for Crazy, you’re missing out… and maybe you were in a coma or something.

Every time they play live, Cee-Lo, Dangermouse & the whole band have a different ‘theme’ of costumes – eg. Star Wars, Navy etc. Check out Chewbacca playing the drums!

On top of all of that, the promotional photos provided to the media, promoters etc, feature Cee-Lo & Dangermouse as famous Duos from the Movies. Any particular reason? Just cos it’s awesome… I’m so impressed that someone is actually pushing the creativity in the music industry which seems to be suffering from the same old shit over and over again. Check out more photos at http://www.starpulse.com/, the new clip ‘Run’ and below, the Star-Wars-tastic Crazy performance.

A hypothetical program for the Annual Sydney Design Festival. I have been trying to expand my skills lately, and a brochure seemed like a nice change, and I wanted to create something simple, but also drawing on some current trends. The artwork used throughout the brochure is also some of my stencil work, which can be viewed on my flickr page.

3 Magazine ads designed for an advertising class at University, to promote the Tivoli Model One FM Tuner, to a nostalgic, older audience, who can appreciate the products value, and also afford the price tag.

This cocktail menu was designed for Chill, a local cocktail bar, updating the old menu and keeping in with the bar’s blue, dark and classy style.

A hypothetical identity created for the Australian airline, Qantas. I decided to focus on the already established ‘Qantas red’, and introduce the graduated dots, inspired Indigenous Australian imagery. I also chose to heavily decorate the undercarriage of the airplane, which is generally the most visible section.

Although it is a departure from Qantas’ ‘kangaroo’ identity, I feel that pushing Qantas as a more modern & fresh brand would help compete against other carriers such as Virgin Blue.

Amongst all the new music that’s coming out at the moment (particularly Gnarls Barkley’s ‘The Odd Couple’ – super fricking excited), one album that almost passed me by was a compilation called “Beat Studies: Lesson One”, from 2007.

Track it down – it’s worth a lot of hunting. The album harks back to the casual style of Hip Hop similar to groups like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and early Black Eyed Peas. Featuring tracks from People Under the Stairs, Speech Defect, Starving Artists Crew, and many other artists that I hadn’t heard of before.

Not that I’m saying that you shouldn’t chase down ‘The Odd Couple’, just get this while you’re at it!

This book cover was designed as part of my work at University. I chose to incorporate an existing photo (source unknown) of Miles Davis, and introduce some texture to my folio.

The use of scanned ink blots / splashes was intended to draw on the often forgotten stories of Jazz masters such as trumpet player, Chet Baker, who abandoned a life of women, fame and riches in favour of Heroin, which eventually led to his teeth being broken by an angry drug dealer. Without teeth, he never really played again. Even Miles Davis suffered through a Heroin addiction.

Of course, being a trumpet player, myself, I enjoyed this brief.

FINALLY!

Yeah, finally things are coming together in the Portfolio!

This was a series of conceptual billboards for Duracell, promoting the day-to-day uses of AA Batteries, and the frustration that is caused without AA. Intended to be a 24-sheet billboards in metropolitan areas around australia, these works echoed Duracell’s current image, but issued a colourful, and humourous message that pushed the AA battery’s day-to-day value into consumer’s minds.

This was a cover I produced for the Newcastle University student publication, Opus, while I was studying. Intended to be bright and boldly different from the prior covers which followed a softer, text based aesthetic.

Yeah, I know, I know, you’ve already seen this filmclip and you think it’s wicked. BUT, just in case someone hasn’t stumbled across it yet, check it out – it really is that good. Then you can be all like ‘oh my god, I can’t believe you haven’t seen it!’ to other people…