Vunk Fest Pop-up Shop last day! thanks everyone

The Pop-up shop's last day has come and gone and a huge thanks goes to everyone that turned up over the past two weeks.

As a little extra today we launched a new set of miniature prints - read here -
The Co:lab team brief was red & blue. Each member of the team produced an A6 piece to be printed together with the others work in an A4 sheet and the fourth space was a Co:Lab promotional card containing the 3 typographies produced for the previous brief - read here -

On the right you can see a test image for my mini-print and on the left is me signing each copy - only a hundred of them
Silke was about in the morming and took some photos that you can see HERE
Thanks to Karen and the Vunk people for the opportunity and thanks to all of you who walked home with a Co:lab print! These 2 weeks had been a great incentive to continue working on something we really enjoy doing. Cheers!

De seis maneras diferentes - Chapter 8

Between the Co:Lab activity and a hectic couple of weeks I have managed to finish another illustration for encerrados afuera, an Argentinian website I collaborate with. As mentioned in a previous post, I concentrate on one element of the narrative for each chapter to come up with the final picture. Sometimes this takes many reads and sometimes is a first read snap. With this one it took many reads, and as with some other ones, it was a single sentence that finally sparkled the concept.
The main character talks about his first album and the first CD he ever bought, these being Rush's Moving Pictures and the Stone Roses first album. The writer describes the Stone Roses's album as a sunny valley separating two mountain ranges, one being The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and the other one My Bloody Valentine's Loveless. After some initial doodling where I concentrated on things like vinyl, Rush and the Roses, I had a re-read and the idea that if there was such valley then a postcard could be send from there!
I tried to keep the aesthetics somewhere between the late 80's and early 90's, just like the albums mentioned and the actual storyline of the novel.
As the CEO for encerrados afuera is on a tour of Europe, this will do as a sneak preview until the chapter officially appears in its on-line form. You can see the first sketch and the final result next to this lines and below.

Vunk Fest Pop-up Shop

And so the prints we have been working on since January are finally hanging on a wall and ready for you to take them home!
Pics here
Thanks to those who turned up on Saturday, and special mention to Georgia and Erlend who came all the way from Edinburgh to grab the first prints!
Remember we are there until the 15 of May and you can follow the event on Facebook here
You can also have a look at process notes for the 3 new projects from the Co:Lab team here and look out for the official video of the Monster mash project