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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. |
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.