Dino Conversation has a home

For over a year my original A0, 60 hours plus of drawing. behemoth of an illustration, "A Dinosaur's Conversation" has sat in it's clip frame, hidden behind couches and doors... until Daisy raised the practical question as to why I don't simply put it up on the wall...I'm not sure why I hadn't thought of this, but there you go! So it now adorns our wall! Check it out!

Versus Playing Cards

Hey! So last week the Versus volume 2 illustration playing cards, ran by Dave Ashby, were released and exhibited! Here is my set of 2 and also a link to the website so you can buy a pack of cards and see all the lovely drawings! http://versusillustration.co.uk/

Beck's Beer Bottle Label!

It's been a month....

It's been a month since my last update and I'm not even quite sure how to start on updating what I've been up to......! Let's try!

First things first, I'm part of the "Versus" Volume 2 playing card project, an exhibition and playing card pack which is orchestrated by Dave Ashby and includes 13 unique artists making a set each for a pack of cards! I can't show any pics due to the unveiling of the work on thurs 8th of sept in Bristol....which is today!!! Go check out more details here! Should be awesome, I alas can't make it, but if you can, then go, go go!!!

http://versusillustration.co.uk/

I've also been working on commissions- two of which have been alongside Daisy Whitehouse in our "Dazeray" collective! One of them is finished which is going to be an AWESOME tent for company FIELD CANDY, more details as they're allowed to be released! The other is an on going project with the university of warwick on a website design!

An individual commission which is just coming to an end is my work for company cardoo, producing two sets of kids cards for them, here's a sneak peek of one!



I did a weekly feature for Just Us' Blog through out August! You can see a bunch of the pics here http://www.flickr.com/photos/justuscollective/ or alternatively backdate through the blog itself http://www.justusdesigncollective.com/blog/ Check out a couple of drawings-





Ok so the big announcement if anyone doesn't know, that following my successful win with Becks back in march to have my design sprayed and painted as a mural on great eastern street in london, Becks actually wanted to also put the design on their bottles as part of the music art label promotion! So limited to the uk, approx 8million bottles are being distributed out this month! ...so umm yea thats pretty goddamn COOL!!! go get one- im running an informal competition for people to post up photographs with them and around some time in october I'm going to pick my favourite one and give them a free signed special copy of melon shrub 2!!!! (apologies for the rubbish photo booth picture...ill take good ones later...im just being lazy for the sake of finishing this post!!!)




And let's talk about melon shrub!!! Issue 2 is still selling like hot cakes over at no guts no glory and we've nearly sold all out, with no reprints- they were limited edition didn't you know! But me and fellow creator are looking to the future of the shrub, and are planning to hit 2012 in a BIG way, creating a bi-monthly version of melon shrub, titled "Macro Shrub" which will be a whole new cheaper, condensed and delicious flavouring of illustrations/writings and no doubt some more strange videos of me and melons!!! so i suggest getting excited about it- I know I am!!!




There will also be a new Dazeray feature, every week (im not picking an exact day because knowing me it'll change) in which we shall be posting up doodles, mini comics and the like from both me and daisy's mind! The first should be up either tonight or tomorrow from daisy! get your eyes peeled over at http://dazeray.tumblr.com/


Hmm...we seemed to have covered alot here- I'm sure there's more but for now, but this will do...I'll leave you with this, my new favourite song today which is by the flaming lips and lightning bolt!



Thanks for tuning in and staying up to date in murray land... you mentalist you

AMMO magazine!

Long overdue blog posts here! My work was recently exhibited alongside a whole HOST of other awesome illustrators at the zelling in birmingham's custard factory, courtesy of inkygoodness! The exhibition was awesome, and alongside the totem pole home coming, AMMO magazine 7 was launched! It looks amazing and like the exhibition has a ridiculous number of outstanding illustrators and illustrations involved!! My piece that was printed inside is below, but follow the link to the AMMO website so you can get yourself a copy as it's easily worth the money!! http://www.ammomagazine.co.uk/

Sketching

Just been doodling and sketching- been playing street fighter again so things kinda along a beat-em up format! Thought it would be fun to just post up some of my scribbles- one of them is a collab from me and daisy, the other I just drew today for fun! These might return more finished and coloured, but for now enjoy!

Inkygoodness Home Coming! Birmingham!!!

Next week Inkygoodness are exhibiting the homecoming of the character-totems, back from their success over at Pictoplasma in Berlin! Along with a whole horde of awesome illustrations and illustrators, this event looks like it's gonna be immense! I've got my totem, a couple of frames and my submission with the next issue of AMMO all being displayed that night, so it's gonna be a good time! I can't wait! It's at the zellig, custard factory in Birmingham! So if you're around, check it all out! Details are all on the flyer below!