Made In Earnest

At the recent (and inaugural) Jazz Meet Record Fair I brought some of the printed A3 posters along to sell and today I received this lovely photo from one satisfied customer. It’s nice seeing them framed and in what looks like an impressive record room. All the posters will be for sale to all via [...]

Here it is – the 50th poster I’ve done for the musical institution that is The Fickle Formula. To celebrate this milestone I thought I would put up my five favourite designs out of the fifty. I’ve put them up in date order (newest to oldest) as I couldn’t decide which was my actual favourite [...]

For The Jazz Meet posters I occasionally collaborate with illustrators and for the December poster I teamed up with Valencian-based duo Nuria Bellver and Raquel Fanjul, better known as Cachetejack. As you can see, their illustration universe is full of colour, energy and humour. They were a joy to work with and produced something which I think [...]

More details in due course…

Now, along with the monthly poster for The Jazz Meet, I also do posters for the nights which have a guest artist or band. Obviously, I try to make sure that the monthly theme and colours work for the special one-off posters too. And for November, I think it all fits together quite nicely…

I’ve posted about my work for The Victorian magazine before but because it is an ongoing job which I have been doing for years I sometimes take it for granted and forget how much I enjoy working on it. The clients are nice and very supportive of my design work and we all invariably think [...]

It’s been a little while since I posted anything new, partly because I have been so busy with work, but as I have a chance here goes… This is the latest poster for The Jazz Meet and it features the brilliance of painter and illustrator Keemo. I just love his style and wish I could [...]

Pinch and a punch… and a new month means a new poster for The Jazz Meet. This one was done with Estonian illustrator Triinu Lille.

The flyers and posters keep coming (and long may that continue!) but there has been a few recent amends to make… The Jazz Meet now has a new venue – Floripa – but the design stays roughly the same. The night itself, however, is seeing the move as just one part of an evolution involving [...]

The latest issue of The Victorian magazine – issue 39 – is at the printers and will be out soon. This issue is in fact the twentieth issue Made In Earnest has designed and, even if I say so myself, it is looking good.