I'm with the band - Los Ladillas, fuegian krautrock.

Since March I've been working with the band Los ladillas - 'crab lice' in spanish but also slang for slacker - a krautrock band from my hometown Ushuaia, in deep Patagonia.
The musicians were kind enough to let me visually explore their music and allowed me to listen to their material from  early jams to live recordings while I developed their logo and promotional artwork for their concerts.
The process took place purely online, with records and images travelling between Argentina and Scotland via the cloud. We paced the work around our our lives and that somehow gave us the illusion of being in a more analogic time when with tapes or drawings will have to travel across continents inside envelopes. That absence of the immediacy that the internet brings to everything in our lives nowadays it's reflected in the final results with both music and artwork.
The final result is the two ep's the band have now released online - bold move me thinks - and today I'm sharing the covers I've designed for them.
I should probably mention that I love this guys and I'm almost certain after listening to their music you may love them too.
Aguante ladillas!

Chacarero botón; Los ladillas - 2016

Los putos de la montaña; Los ladillas - 2016

Talk at Shetland College

This week I was invited to give a talk to the art students at Shetland College.
I had an opportunity to discuss the way I work with portable devices and the apps I use for drawing as well as my freelance work. Best of all I was able to hear how students are using new technology and share useful tips.
I was able to demonstrate and discuss the apps I'm most using nowadays: Snapseed, Dropbox, Sketchbook, Procreate, JotNot Scanner and Paper
Big thanks to Paul Bloomer for inviting me and to the students for making it a great experience.

Beto talks - Photo by Paul Bloomer

Make your Mark - Befriending poster

Long time no blog. So my latest project, now out and about Shetland, the new poster promoting the benefits of volunteering for Shetland Befriending Scheme. As I've done before see a few snaps of the design process - great fun - and the final result.

First ideas

Proposal ONE

Proposal TWO

Nine finalist

And the winner is

... then my index finger became famous worlwide.

If you go along Bonhoga today

Today is the first day of a fantastic new exhibition at Bonhoga Gallery, the 60's photographs of local legend Dennis Coutts. I was along last night for the opening and couldn't help buying one of the hand printed masterpieces, a sign of age me thinks. I also need to blog that downstairs at the cafe you'll be able to enjoy and satisfy your retails needs with the last stop of the travelling exhib "Brushes - Bloomer & Beto". You can read about it in previous entries of this blog. The art was all created on an iPod touch just like some of David Hockney's pieces on his latest show A bigger picture.

Parkour in the streets of Lerwick

The second program of The Black Hole hit the airwaves today and for this edition Amy and myself met the guys from Northern Focus Parkour for a wee introduction to one of the coolest ... sports? activities? martial arts? you decide. Shetland's street culture is alive and kicking/jumping.