This is one of the first shirt designs that ive done for a while, its based on a godess idea but of space…. i think.
Any way if you want one head over to www.myspace.com/plagueofashitaka
and order one they are cool guys and will hook you up.
bought lots of new pens recently loveing my rotring art pen its sweeet and my new platignum studio also sweet.
take it easy
JOe
I worked on Evita’s album art work and im pretty good friends with John who plays in the band, he asked me to do come up with a poster for the launch… and well, this is it!
Comments welcome
Joe
Just a lil sumin’ sumin’ im working on…. you would never understand how much this has changed… maybe ill post the run ups sometime soon?
Been trying to get shit sorted this week but alas i have failed !
Coolest part of the week? Brian Ewing listed me on his blog. Sick.
see ya soon
Well,
its been some time since i have properly posted, things are moving quite fast i cant even fathom that we are almost in June. Seriously where the hell did the year go? I’m going to visit Boston in August have a proper look around!
In terms of work, i have a few things that ive got going …..
currently sorting a shirt for plague of ashitaka, another one on the way for through solace and under Z.I.D we are hopefully creating a set of T-shirts for Zebrahead.
im sure there are other bits and bobs but thats like current “work”
Now for something slightly interesting i suppose the work i posted before was an illustration by Iain MacArthur i have been working with him to create the Art work for EVITA, its all finished now and alot of it can be seen on evita’s myspace www.myspace.com/evitaband. I coloured it all and did the layout/graphics .
Its out July 13th and is bloody brilliant!
what else is going on?
I’m selling my BMX, i broke my ST and need to replace the clutch, well pay for the what i have replaced. Its on ebay so message me and ill give you a link. Really busy at work but met yet more cool people the creator of THE IRON MAN, did the wood cut style illustrations and also IRON WOMAN. Did some table matts for Kieth Allen umm yeah thats about it i suppose.
Go see star trek before its to late
Live long and prosper 
Joe
Ok,
So im bored of not posting anything, just thought i would update on whats going on!
I cant say who this is for but it is off to the record lable today…… just got to sit tight.
ill put some other stuff up soon, but its all hush hush.
Peas!
Whats up!
some time ago, i drew out a design for Liddington (Andrew is the webmaster and designer of this site and also Liddingtons drummer) which was going to be used for a new website, and on saturday it was!
the link is as follows,
The main reason things have been on the quiet side is because im super super busy putting together Evitas Debut album artwork, it has been a slow process.
I am working with a great friend and fellow illustrator Iain Macarthur, the work looks great and im really excited about how its coming along now.
It will be available in all good record shops on BASICK RECORDS
(ARUSHA ACCORD, NO MADE SENSE, SHY OF THE DEPTH)
Any way more of my work soon hopefully and more updates to follow!
Joe
Another day another poster, the idea for this was knocked together over a couple of days u inked it tuesday night after stuffing down the pancakes, then chris took it home to colour!
Hope you enjoy it, can you tell what influenced me?
Not alot going on really, liddington site is now in its final stages and might have some other things coming up shortley but cant say to much.
Hello everybody!
Hasnt been to long since my last update but ill try to bring you up to speed. Without dwelling on it, yes we have had a shit load of snow here in the UK and as you can imagine it makes everything stop and turn upside down. It does how ever make for interesting drives!
Work wise what have we got on…… well a string of things right this second putting together a bad ass design for bandit because Jonny and Tom were very hospitibal yesterday and now i feel i should say thanks for the chinese by way of drawing!
Go check out the production values of Mr Renshaw its totally sideways.
Chris, the other half of Z.I.D is still living with me but alas he is moving out in a few weeks to his own place but its all good we will be progressing
Z.I.D posters are rolling in still
Just completed a poster for Visible noise / Vagrant records, the band was Outcry Collective who we have worked with on a number of posters (thanks kev)
We will have a new website shortly and it will incoperate spiltmilk to, so if anyone has been following that then you will be pleasently surprised!
Personal work is on hold while we persue the design work.
hope everyone else is well.
more soon
(GO BUY Scott Pilgrim5!!!!)
So, another year another place .
I’ve been back at home now for around 5 months and I’m really enjoying it, obviously bits are different but its mostly good.
Chris has moved up to take a job running the art shop/ gallery in town and so we decided to pick up Zed is Dead properly (www.myspace.com/zedisdeaddesign).
Due to this, I’m not really doing an awful lot of my own work but rather doing it under the house name of Z.I.D and combining ideas and work with Chris.
Probably the most difficult part about being back here is that my girlfriend of three years is still in swindon but we are working at it!
I feel i have gained a massive amount of knowledge from working in the print job. I have certainly improved my typography and my understanding of Hue and Saturation.
Anyway that the boring stuff out the way, for anyone who does regularly check out my work here’s what I’ve been doing.
I colour a comic for Chris called SpiltMilk. spiltmilkcomic.livejournal.com, it seems to be quite popular so keep your eyes peeled on that. We also have a couple of big jobs in the pipeline for the next few months so keep checking back with our Z.I.D project which will soon be a live website housing Spiltmilk and Z.I.D just got to work it all out, i will post anything when i know a bit more.
Thanks for reading i promise to do lots of work!
Joe
I designed this for yankeeboy as part of an ongoing batch of posters for the furnace. The idea stems from being in an office everyday and how rubbish that is. I thought that was a nice twist to everyday hell. When i came to draw it my hand was clearly not attached to my brain and it turned into something else but im fairly happy with it.
Feed back welcome
Cheers
Joe
