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The cake is not a lie...

Last night I was watching everyone’s favourite chef-wizard Heston Blumenthal on the telly while he was working his culinary voodoo on regency fairy tales and bits of a pig you wouldn’t eat, even if you were starving to death. Personally I thought his efforts were lacklustre at best (not that you care) and thought he [...]

Don't talk of worlds that never were, the end is always true...

Ok, so I’m *VERY* pleased to be able to announce that I’ve been invited to do the artwork for an upcoming series of graphic novels by Dead of Night Award Nominee, James Bennett. I’m very excited by this because for me, this is my most important job, the break into the book illustration world I’ve [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here, but it’s worth pointing out that GrimDesign Artworks is no longer operating from this address. If you’re looking to hire on a marketing, design, PR genius you should head on over to www.monolithartworks.co.uk. Same genius, different name.

Over the last couple of days I’ve been messing about [...]

Moooooooortaaaaaaaal Kumquaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!

Episode #4 of the Tribal Planet testing series has been (officially) released today and here it is in all it’s silly, silly glory. I am especially proud of this one, I think they’ve come a long way in the last few weeks.

Fruit salad anyone?

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Mucking About on the River

Here’s the third episode of the Tribal Planet tests. This one is presented by me on account of The Doctor being unavailable. Enjoy.

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We’ve Got a Crush on You…

Not quite hot on the heels of the last Tribal Planet video I put together, I’ve been allowed to release this new one that was shot this week (the third episode was shot a week before this one — however that works!). More fun, more mucking about, still no fakery.

Enjoy.

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Testing the Best…

I’ve spent the last week or so working on this video which I’ve produced for, variously, for The Music Room, Tribal Planet, Acoustica and the sheer hell of it. Enjoy.

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Icons… Shiny shiny icons…

Nice and shiny icons created for my friend Anna for a web project. I never thought making icons could be so much fun, but when you’re limited in how much space you have, and how often you have to swear at the pen tool for going what can only be [...]

Website Launch: Shinjig.com

Good news for Huw and the guys from Shinjig — I’ve just finished uploading their website for them and chased down the last bug in the gallery.

Shinjig are the finest ceilidh band to come out of good old Huddersfield, and if you’re after a band with a little something else you would be hard pressed [...]

Finally…

Ok, so it’s taken me far longer than it should’ve. Spineless things without the luxury of opposable thumbs could probably have done it faster, but I’m pleased to announce that I’ve finally added the portfolio I threatened to.

You can find it here…

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