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MORE DOUBLE THREAT IS MOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRREEEEEE

Their website is up and it looks epic.
Go visit them

Double Threat Skates Logo design

I can finally talk about this. So a few months ago the lovely Kitty Decapitate and Goregasm Ladyburger who both skate for LRG brawling asked me about designing a logo for the first bricks and mortar derby store in London. They had a really good brief but time was massively tight as crash and I were off to japan. They were epic clients and what we came up with was this.

Clean, impactful, single colour, incorporating the London skyline and moving the conversation forward from the usual distressed type and punk lettering.
I'm so proud of it and love seeing them bringing it to life.

so check them out here

see you in a bit

buhbyes

2nd time's a charm

thats better

colour changing damn you blogger

look at this look how much that colour has changed. browser on the left, screen shot of illustrator file on the right.

shakes fist

Untitled post

fmeh

some more deranged doodling

I found a picture of a pomeranian wearing socks and it was very cute. and it lead to these

because i m a sucker for a request

for uncle hyps

not the best couple of weeks

you get the idea

more in progress

a logo idea

A logo in development for the men's Welsh roller derby team.

Designed because I wanted to create something that isn't dragons in skates or the Prince of wales feathers (don't get me started on them). So this is what I did (beware this post will contain a large amount of rationalisations).

The idea was to take the prince of wales feathers and subvert them and make something that immediately appears welsh but references much deeper in our culture. The three white swan ostrich feathers are replaced by raven feathers for Bran the Blessed, a true welsh king and not a post for the first son of a german monarch. In Welsh folklore and in the Mabinogion, Bran was a giant and king of Wales.  His full name means Blessed Raven. The inscription reads "Bid Ben Bid Bont", or in english "let the leader be the bridge"said by Bran during the war against the Irish. Not only motivational and actually in welsh, but some hardcore derby punnery to boot. and finally the crown is replaced by the crown of ivy. The mocking honour bestowed upon the decapitated head of llewelyn ap griffith, another king of the welsh, replaces the fippery and brings in the green so that we have the red the white and the green.

Still more to do on this but I think the thinking is sound.

more progress but in a different way

something in progress

NSO all the roles

happy new years

looks like derby

so yet another silly side shenanigans after realising that a derby ref looked like a famous piano player. and Lo, looks like derby came to be

come have a butcher's

shtuff

mucking about