British Council: ADF Papers

We were kindly asked to contribute to a new project by The British Council, ADF Papers, which explore new directions in British architecture, design and fashion. Peepshow feature in The D1 Paper: Design Collectives written by Liz Farrelly alongside PLATS, Them Lot and LE GUN. More here.

Follow this link to read and print the paper.

The 100 Project

I've donated a silkscreen print to The 100 Project, an initiative supporting young artistic talent in East London. Each week, a piece of original art will be auctioned with a starting price of £100. The goal is to raise enough money to get 100 children through the doors of The Prince’s Drawing School.

Spencer & Lucy from Peepshow are also involved alongside James Joyce, Milton Glaser, Paul Davis, Tom Gauld, Damien Hirst and many many more. The website launches (and bidding commences) on 27th July.

Jamie XX - Far Nearer

Can't stop listening to this. Lovely.

Ray Harryhausen

Stop Making Sense

Still the best concert film. 'Stop Making Sense',Talking Heads, Directed by Jonathan Demme (1984)

Monsters

From the books 'Creature Costumes' & 'Make Up Monsters' by Marcia Lynn Cox. (1977)

Meet Mr Chicken

Creative Review - Meet Mr Chicken

Chas Adams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams

How Records are Made

Graham Chapman 'A Liar's Autobiography'

Details of 'A Liar's Autobiography' are slowly being revealed, and im proud to say Peepshow are one of sixteen animation studios working on sections of the feature length stereoscopic 3D animated film alongside our friends at Trunk, Treat, Not to Scale, Beakus and many more.

'A Liar's Autobiography' is based on the memoir of Monty Python's Graham Chapman and features the voices of surviving Python members Terry Jones, Michael Palin, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam. It will be released in Spring 2012.

More at Project Chapman 3D, and articles at The New York Times, BBC and BBC America.

RIP Gene Colan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Colan

Ben Drury's Mo Wax Sleeves

http://www.bendrury.com/work/mowax-recordings/

Forthcoming

In the early stages of compiling the first Peepshow book at the moment with the help of the wonderful Studio Emmi. Fingers crossed it will be published Spring 2012. Exciting! You can now follow Peepshow on Twitter @peepshowCOLL

Escada Tests

I seem to have been working on a lot of projects this year that you either can't talk about because they make you sign a bit of paper, things that aren't out yet or simply may never come out because they are tests. This is one of the latter. I've been working on a new series of tests for Escada Perfume with Grey in Paris after an initial round of tests in 2009. Everything went off in a completely different direction after I did these simple figurative tests combing photography with ink in water so I think it's ok to post on here.

Observer Music Monthly

This was a regular illustration I used to do for The Observer Music Monthly from 2005-2007. I completed over 20 portraits of musicians for the 'Reviews' section. Here (from the top) is Arctic Monkeys, The Hours and Scissor Sisters. Others included Prince, The Chemical Brothers, Grinderman, George Michael, Thom Yorke and Girls Aloud. You can see more here.