Made In Earnest

After many, many years at the same venue The Fickle Formula is moving this month so we decided this was reason enough to update the look. So, a new look to go with a new venue but, you will notice, ‘same fickle format’.

April 1st would have been Gil Scott-Heron’s birthday and to celebrate his life and mourn his passing The Jazz Meet are doing a special birthday tribute to the great man on March 31st. I’ve collaborated with illustrator John Peter Raven for the poster.

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 [...]

Just had the sign-off on a poster and flyer for The Greg Foat Group album launch. It takes place at Floripa in January and is a combined Wah Wah 45s and Jazzman Records night. The album itself is very good and is out now – and available on vinyl.

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 [...]

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…

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.

I’ve been working for the Actors Touring Company recently, designing the promotional material for a recent show, The Golden Dragon, an interim company brochure and I’ve also done all the promotional material for their interpretation on the Sarah Kane play Crave. Crave is a contemporary classic, a ground-breaking work that challenges notions of what makes a [...]

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 [...]