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13th May 2010 - Surreality Watch Design blog 'Surreality Watch' just posted a feature on my T-shirt work for ArtsProjekt - click here to check out it out.
You can also check out the T-shirts featured, and the rest of my products, such as skateboard decks, over at my ArtsProjekt store by clicking here. |
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27th Apr 2010 - Limited edition prints from Ukanvas I'm very pleased to annouce that 2 pieces of my artwork are now available as limited edtion canvas prints from Ukanvas. Ukanvas' 4th season of artwork now includes my piece 'Tape Recorder 3 is Death (Ludovician)' as a 70cm x 50cm print, and a new piece entitled 'The Last Verse' which is a mighty 150cm x 50cm - you can check this piece out by clicking on the image to the left.
Click here to check out Ukanvas Season 4
Both pieces are limited to 50 prints, so if you want one, ordering ASAP is advised.
Ukanvas prints are also sold through a number of galleries - more on that when I get details. |
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14th Apr 2010 - New work 'Municipal Services' I just finished work on this latest digital piece entitled 'Municipal Services' - click on the image to the left to view the whole thing.
Exciting times right now, with lots of projects falling into place including work in a collaborative exhibition showing in 6 galleries across Germany in July/August, an exhibition in Nottingham towards the end of the summer and another exhibition in London in October which, all going to plan, promises to be something really special.
I also have two pieces featured in the upcoming art/illustration book 'Fragments', and there's a couple of very cool projects in the pipeline that I can't reveal yet.
Keep checking back for more details. |
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26th Mar 2010 - New t-shirt featured on ArtsProjekt My latest t-shirt design based on a piece of work entitled 'She Said This'll Come Back To Haunt You' is featured in this weeks 'Dirty Dozen' on ArtsProjekt... Unless of course you're reading this after the fact - click here to go check it out, click on the image to the left to see the design in full, or click here to go buy the t-shirt.
The original piece that this stemed from is a pretty sizable mixed media piece that I'm finishing up at the moment - more on that soon. |
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10th Mar 2010 - Dreadzone 'Eye On The Horizon' album I recently finished up doing all the art and design work for 'Eye On the Horizon', the new album for dub-dance-rock legends Dreadzone.
Click on the image to the left to view the front cover artwork. I'll be adding pieces from the rest of the packaging to the design section of the site in the very near future. |
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26th Feb 2010 - Dead In The Woods 12" cover Out now on NYC's Black Box Recordings is the split 12" by Dead In The Woods and Dietpill, with cover artwork created by me and screen printed by the awesome Mr Mike Wohlberg, better known as The Fat Kid Illustration.
Click on the image to view the full package.
Oh, and I played guitar on this as well... |
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23th Dec 2009 - 'The Villain' limited edition T-shirt Available now from my Artsprojekt store is this limited edition
The shirt is time limited, and only available until January 31st 2010 - so get 'em while you can.
Click on the image to view the full design, or click here to go buy it! |
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8th Dec 2009 - New work - 'Kali' I've just completed this new piece 'Force of Time/Force of Change (Kali)'.
Click on the image to the left to view the full version. |
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25th Sep 2009 - Cars on Fire album artwork I've just finished work on the packaging for the debut album 'Dig Your On Grave' by Bristol based band Cars on Fire.
I'm pretty pleased with the finished work; click on the image to the left to few the front cover, or click here to see the back. |
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14th Sep 2009 - My work for sale on Artsprojekt I'm seriously proud to announce that I was recently invited to set up an online store as part of Artsprojekt.com. Artsprojekt provides a means for selected artists to create and sell products featuring their art and design work online, and features work by the likes of Shepard Fairey, Dalek, Mars-1, Jeremyville and Emek. I am, needless to say, totally hyped to be offered this opportunity, and big thanks are due to Rob Greenleaf and Andy Howell at Artsprojekt.
At the moment, I have 2 T-shirt designs and 3 skateboard decks available for sale, and I'll be adding more stuff over the next couple of months. You can check out my store here. |
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31st Aug 2009 - 'Till Death' finally in print I awoke this morning to the news that 'Till Death', the comic I work on with American writer Brad Huffman-Parent a couple of years back has finally made it into print, thanks to Tin Star Studios. |
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24th Aug 2009 - CD packaging for Karhide Recently finished this CD packaging for Field Records artist Karhide. The design was hand screen printed on Stumptown Printers 'Arigato Pak' recycled card packaging. |
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20th Aug 2009 - Praise for 'Ludovician' Steven Hall, author of 'The Raw Shark Texts' likes my piece 'Tape Recorder 3 Is Death (Ludovician)' which was inspired by his book, and went as far as to say nice stuff about it on his website - what a thoroughly sound guy.
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18th July 2009 - Gary Numan poster No updates for a while, as I've been taking time out to focus on study and practice work to push my more traditional art skills forward.
That said, I have just finished this poster for Gary Numan, which I'm really pleased with. click on the image to the left to have a look at the full version. Coincidentally, the BBC news website ran a feature about the tour this morning, which you can read here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8149452.stm
Also, after much resisting, I am now on Twitter which I'm finding strangely addicive... If you're so inclined you can follow me @matt_diecast |
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28th May 2009 - 'Ascendant' watercolour/screen prints I've just finished work on a very limited run of watercoloured silkscreen prints.
When I was screen printing the linework for the 'Ascendant' canvas, I also ran off three prints of it onto 300gsm rough grain watercolour paper. These prints have now been hand watercoloured, each in an individual colourway - 'Sunrise, 'High Noon' and 'Midnight'.
These prints are for sale; if you're intersted, email matt@diecastdesign.com
You can see the prints in the 'Canvas & Prints' section. |
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19th May 2009 - Feature on ShellSuitZombie A pleasant start to the day... My work got featured on the very cool art and design magazine site Shell Suit Zombie which was a good accompaniment to my morning cup of tea. |
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05th May 2009 - New work 'Ludovician' Just finished off a piece of personal work. Entitled 'Tape Recorder 3 is Death (Ludovician)', it was inspired by the 'conceptual shark' from Steven Hall's novel 'the Raw Shark Texts'. While the shark is represented as being formed from text in the book, I always visualized it as more than that, being made out of fractured ideas pulled together and driven forward by some deadly intent. The piece also draws influences from William S.Burroughs book 'Electronic Revolution' with deals with ideas of language and concepts as viral entities. |
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16th April 2009 - 'Chapter' album artwork Newly completed is my illustration for the album 'Chapter' by Welsh electronica artist, and former Losing Sun drummer, Jayce Lewis.
This image will wrap around the outer packaging of the CD; although the final format has not been decided yet.
As ever click the image or head to the illustration section to get the bigger picture. |
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31st March 2009 - Killing Joke - Heaven gig poster Killing Joke aer playing a failr intimate live show at London's Heaven nightclub as a warm-up for their appearance at the ATP 'The Fans Strike Back' festival. For the second time I got the honour of creating a poster for them. Click the image, or go to the 'illustration' section of the site to view the poster. Or, alternatively, check out the bigger version on my blog. |
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11th March 2009 - 'City Relic' T-shirt print This piece is my submission for ArtsProjekts first 'Labs' competition. I wasn't the winning entry, but got listed in their favourites, which is cool. The design is kinda my reflection on the mythology of cities...
“A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict, a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.” Charles Abrams
Check out the ArtsProjekt site here - www.artsprojekt.com |
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9th Feb 2009 - artwork for Sparks advertising campaign Just finished art and design work for legendary LA glam/prog weirdos Sparks (and I still have 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us' stuck in my head). The artwork will be used across all media for the 2 exclusive shows at the London HMV Forum. You can get a good look at it in the 'illustration' section of this site, or on my blog. |
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16th Dec 2008 - Dead In The Woods/Diet Pills 12" cover I've just finished work on a wraparound cover for the split 12" vinyl EP by Dead In the Woods and Diet. The record is being released on New York label Black Box Recordings, run by Mike Hill of Tombs. Cover artwork was drawn by me and will be screen printed by Mike Wohlberg of TheFatKid illustration. The full version of this image is now in the 'illustration section. |
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25th Sept 2008 - Rise To Addiction album artwork Latest thing I've been working on is album packaging for UK metal band Rise To Addiction; not finished the whole thing yet, butvarious bits can now be seen in the 'Illustration' section. More to follow soon... |
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10th Sept 2008 - Metal Hammer back cover My artwork for the Losing Sun album slipcase just featured as an advert that takes up the entire back cover of the latest Metal Hammer magazine. Really nice print job done on it as well. Me on the back, Metallica on the front, what more do ya want? |
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29th Aug 2008 Tombs poster - screen printed Just finished a gig poster for the Tombs/Planks/Black Horse/Diet Pills gig at the Old Angel in Notts. I did some screen printed version of this as well, printed in my newly constructed/thrown together screen printing workshop... Hopefully some more hand printed output from there in the near future; many thanks are due to Michael Cowell for his advice on how to construct a screen printing set up using virtually no money at all! |
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8th Aug 2008 Losing Sun 'Memory Run' single cover In the 'Illustration' section of the site you can now see the artwork I just finished for Losing Sun's single 'Memory Run'. The single will be cover mounted with October's edition of 'Metal Hammer' magazine, and available from iTunes. |
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17th June 2008 - Losing Sun limited edition slipcase I've also been finishing off work on the forthcoming Losing Sun album 'Perspective'. A limited edition version of the album is now being released in a superjewel case with an outer slipcase - the artwork from that is now up in the 'Illustration' section. |
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14th May 2008- 'Death Squid' T-shirts now available in the store! The 'Death Squid' image that I posted on the Myspace blog a little while ago is now available on a t-shirt from the 'Store' section of the site for a mere £15. These shirts are hand screen printed and only a very limited run of 13 shirts is available, so get them while you can! |
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12th May 2008 - 3 new posters No update for a while, mainly because I've been too busy working... But I've just added 3 new pieces to the 'Illustration' section; posters for Red Sparowes, Converge and Gravetemple. There's a load more going on at the moment, including a tour poster for Keith Caputo, which you can see over on the Myspace blog, and a ton of other stuff that will appear here over the next few weeks. |
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18th March 2008 - Screen printed 7" covers I currently reek of screen printing ink having just finished silkscreening a run of limited edition sleeves for the latest Field Records split 7", which features tracks from Kill Chaos and Actionier. There's a photo in the 'Graphic Design' section and more over on the Myspace blog. |
Older News
14th March 2008
A quick update, as loads of work is going off right now - poster for Japanese noise-core wonders Melt Banana. More soon.
7th March 2008
I wanted to keep quiet about this until everything was confirmed, but now it's all done and about to be out there in the world in print, so I can quickly throw it up exclusively on here... Sorry if I'm waffling, I'm a little over-tired. Anyway - I just finished work on a poster for Killing Joke! It's a fucking honour to be able to provide artwork for a band of this calibre, and fortunately I've managed to come up with something I'm really happy with.It's for the two night's they're playing at The Forum in London - the original line-up reformed for the first time since 1984, playing the first 2 albums plus the 1994 classic 'Pandemonium' in their entirety. Despite being shattered, I'm pretty happy right now! Go check out the poster in the 'Illustration' section.
18th February 2008
So, last Thursday, slightly drunk at a gig I got/volenteered to do a poster for the Cancer Bats, Johnny Truant and Hexes show at the Angel in Nottingham. So Friday morning was spent hungover, working flat out trying to get the poster done before I had to get on a train to Edinburgh halfway through the afternoon... Turned out alright though! See the 'Illustration' section for the full sized version
15th October 2007
Just dawned on me that I haven't posted anything here for sometime... Lots going on, finished the Lost album cover (I'll add this to the site soon), working on illustrating a comic call 'Till Death', a panel of which you can see over to your left... You can find more on all of this by heading over to the blog on the Diecast Design myspace page - www.myspace.com/diecastdesign. It is worth checking out; I post a lot of 'work in progress' kinda stuff on there, so there's a lot more going on, and you get an insight into my haphazard excuse for a 'creative process'. Head on over, add me as a friend... Seriously, do it - it's like joining a cult group, but I'm not gonna make you drink any poison kool-aid or anything like that, we'll just do cool stuff... Maybe chat about music and limited edition sneakers, whatevs...
14th July 2007
More new work added - I got asked to do a poster for The Cribs London show at The Forum in October, kinda last minute, so I had to get it done over the course of one night... Turn out OK though, I think... You can check it out in the 'Graphic Design' section, along with the some other stuff. Currently working on a short comic, amongst other things. You can check out a couple of frames from that over on the DCD myspace blog. Oh, and I case you hadn't noticed I'm in the process of redesigning this site. Lots more stuff in the pipeline (providing I can stay away from the XBox), so y'all come back soon now!
13th June 2007
You know the deal - new stuff up in 'Illustration' and 'Graphic Design' sections... A few record covers and bits... To damn busy to talk really. More soon. Oh and Diecast design now has a Myspace - www.myspace.com/diecastdesign funnily enough; come and be friends.
23rd April 2007
The usual deal, new stuff blah blah blah. On the illustration page there's now a logo I drew for the band Plague, plus a copule of personal work items - a further developed version of the 'Ronin' piece from the Losing Sun album artwork, and a bigger version of the piece you can see to your left presently entitled 'Portrait Of The Artist As A Fiend', with a couple of detail views as well. What else is going on? Well, the Rollersnakes T-shirt came out rather nice, I'll try to get a photo of the finished article up sometime soon (which by my current standards means in about 2 months)... Although you could always check it out or even buy one by clicking here. Got work coming up on a series of 7" single covers for Field Records, but as ever I'm on the look out for more - anyone interested, just drop me a line... Much as corporate work pays the bills, this stuff is way more fun. Oh, and also knocked a quick website together for Birmingham based artist Carp, who is officially badass. Check it out here - www.carp111.co.uk
20th February 2007
Whoa, it's been a while! Been busy, so there's plenty of new work in the 'Illustration' section. I've recently finished album artwork for the band Strain, and a single cover for Civillian, a T-shirt design for skateboard company Rollersnakes and a bunch of personal work... And there's more to come.
13th November 2006
The Down Within CD packaging is all finished and I'm really happy with the results - more of that in the 'Illustration' section. Also knocked up a digitally painted version of the werewolf from the Halloween party flyer, you can check that out in the same place. More work coming up with Nottingham band Splint,
snowboard website Madsoldiers, and loads of random other stuff.
25th October 2006
More new work added - front cover for Down Within's album 'The Heist Begins Here', which has turned out pretty good, plus the Baroness and Torche poster - both of these are in the 'Illustration' section. Got a few more album cover jobs lined up, including one for Japanese band 'Lost'... Should be interesting. Knocked together a flyer for my friends Carl and Amy's Halloween party... I was pretty pleased with it, so it got to grace the front page, as you can see. More soon.
6th September 2006
Update, update, update... Artwork for Lipid and Bohica albums finished(see 'Illustration' & 'Graphic design' sections), currently working on slipcase artwork for the Losing Sun LP (click on the image to the left for more). Baroness/Torche poster is also finished, I'll upload that soon... Hopefully a Kylesa poster to follow that.
18th July 2006
OK then, the Army Of Flying Robots artwork is finished... Ended up doing
a T-shirt design as well. Also, after many days painting, the sign for Carlito's Kitchen at the Rescue Rooms is
finished - you can check out a photo in the illustration section, or alternatively head down to the Rescue Rooms and see it for real... Be
sure to sample some of Carl's damn fine pizza while you're there.
I'm currently working on CD art for Danish band 'Lipid' (Take a look at the image to the left of this page). After that,
I should be finally putting the finishing touches to Bohica album cover.
30th June 2006
Currently working on the layout and photography for Army Of Flying Robots forthcoming anthology CD on SuperFi Records... Definitely something I'm happy to be a part of.
29th June 2006
OK, here's the new version of the website, so
take a look around... Should be some new work on here soon (well,
as soon as I get the time to upload it), so keep checking back.
At the moment I'm putting the finishing touches on the packaging for Losing Sun's forthcoming LP 'Perspective', and also working on album packaging for the band Bohica, a poster for the Baroness and Torche show in Nottingham, and new signage for the kitchen at the Rescue Rooms... Busy, busy, busy.