Cooter’s Carol
A Carol by Cooter
A Carol by Cooter
The pop-up bike exhibition has finished!
Drawit – Draw a Face from The Creative Federation on Vimeo.
Drawit004 from The Creative Federation on Vimeo.
Drawit003 from The Creative Federation on Vimeo.
Spilsbury Drawit002 from The Creative Federation on Vimeo.
Spilsbury Drawit001 from The Creative Federation on Vimeo.
New Roadies..I’ve now reached 50 cyclists in this series – one for each year of my life! Go here for all prints. The start of a black and white series…….go here for all prints. Your guardian Cycling Angel. Go here for all prints.
Great night at Society Cafe Bath last night – cheers everyone
The detail The first screen print off the rack ‘Bunchsprint’ was printed at Whiteduck Editions in Bath ready for the launch tonight at Society Cafe Bath
A very animated line for a very controversial project. Commissioned by Steve Jones and Martin Lorraine at AMV BBDO, my drawings and 12 Foot 6‘s animation combine again. The film was presented at the Manchester Conference by The Minister for Transport.
The ‘making of’ film for Curo’s ‘Learning Space’ drawings. A forward thinking company willing to embrace work that’s not done on a computer. Wall drawings, transferred panels and window vinyls all combined to create an exciting workspace.
Sam’s Kitchen have a pop-up in the amazing Octagon in Bath, which called for some more window drawing. Go here to see the ‘making of’ film’.
The Lazerian Gerald exhibition goes live today. Off to New York in May and back to London and Milan later in the year. Go and see it if you can.
Two of the chairs for a live draw in Cannes……
Occasionally I get to do some straight drawing….for an animated film thru Masius.
A few animated bits and bobs from 2011, expertly put together by the indefatigable Simon Deshon.
No 1 – ‘Chosen’ for American Illustration 2012. Part of a series of photo etching prints I’m working on, loosely based on celebrity. No 2 – One of 4 pieces I did through The Creative Federation for JISC. Soon to be animated.
X MediaLab, the internationally acclaimed digital media think-tank came to Bath last month to run one of their globe-trotting Digital workshops. They invited us to live-draw to add some texture and creativity to entertain delegates. We drew on iPads and the drawings were projected onto the walls inside the Ballroom of the world famous Assembly Rooms where Jane Austen would have danced – to a different iTune of course Mr Darcey. Shot by Joe Brown, directed by Simon Deshon at The Creative Federation.
2 new HP films through The Creative Federation animated and directed by me and Simon Deshon. Written by Sean Toal at Doremus.
Varoom magazine feature Bath Half Marathon in their Lab Notes. Go here.
More Brushes fun at The X Media Lab conference in Bath. Big interior projection in The Assembly Rooms….bigger to come. Films to follow.
The Bath Half Marathon live animation with Brushes – Me and Tim Vyner [Official Olympic Artist] trade lines on a big LED. Animation below.
….what did they ever do for us? A couple of drawn sets for an upcoming parody animation of that classic Monty Python sketch.
The edit with the final result and a shot! Good work Tamas. Check out his interesting films and photos.
Illuminate Bath timelapse by Joe Brown. Check out his site here.
Fantastic weekend of projections for Illuminate Bath Me, Tim Vyner, Simon Deshon and Anthony Head plastered The Roman Baths with drawings and films.
A Creative Federation film for the government’s Joint Information Systems Committee film to encourage universities to sign up.
A marvelous little book of collective nouns by twobytwo design.
A few pissed sketches from the Feds lunch at the best Provencale restaurant in the West country. Deshon responsible for the inevitable deterioration in subject matter.
Apparently some bloke bit another’s finger off over the perennial king/shepherd issue! A quick-fire 4 hour/5 illustrations for The Indy.
The latest Der Spiegel piece about crashing parties.
A new charity project to encourage kids to draw in Israel. Gymnasia Herzlia, the 1st Hebrew school in Tel Aviv [1905], sent 150 international artists one of their school exercise books to fill with drawings for an exhibition to tour schools. Below are a few of mine from an afternoon of inky madness.
Look out for the new CIA calendar, going to press now. Order yours here.
A 6 minute educational for the soon to be launched ADHD website. Shot by Chris King at King Camera, produced by Kate Cook for Cherry Advertising
It only happens a couple of times a year – a drawing lunch – me, Grimwood, Cox and Baseman in the union fo ra six-hour lunch. We did do some work though, here’s a joint Welsh dragon drawn with beetroot and lambchop grease! Roll on the next one.
My characters from the Charlie Bighams packs have come alive on a video portal near you.
The Creative Federation wrote, animated and produced four idents for a new ITV lunchtime show ‘Let’s Do Lunch With Gino And Mel’. Illustration/creative direction – Simon Spilsbury, direction/animation – Simon Deshon, writing/producing – Mark Humphries. Post by Quiet Storm, sound by Scramble.
The latest live-art project curated by Unit9. Anrick Bregman and Alex Suchet briefed me to bring a bag of pens and fill those enormous windows – perfect.
The Institut Van Gogh asked 80 artists worldwide to scribble on a tea towel, cafe-style. The prize? One week of residency in his room at the Auberge Ravoux.
Mix of live action and time lapse shows the Meteorite Growth film growing. Camera – Damian Daniel. Edit – Gavin Mack.