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After a really long, hard days work shooting Cassie and Candice‘s hot bodies I went home and started work on a couple of pieces of artwork as a compliment to the girls. I think that this was the moment in my life when photographing random objects, scenery and trees, cars and buildings just didn’t have the same appeal as they used to!

I used to design a lot of model cards when I worked in the print industry but wanted to do something a little different than the average blocky layout with a photo and text of the models stats and this is what I came up with.

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I snapped this photo of a clownfish while I was at Chester Zoo. Good job I liked it so much that I decided to go away and have a play with it in Photoshop because it was later featured in Computer Arts Magazine issue 150 (June 2008).

A vector based illustration of a stereotypical New York gang scene complete with a drop-top Caddy and beeatches! “Yeah bwoy!!”

This concept of slugs competing in a high speed track race was something that just came to mind after I was messing about with the camera in the garden taking pictures of slugs.

One night whilst doodling, this illustration was created, I have no idea what I was thinking at the time but later it was colour corrected with additional typographic elements and ink effects and named ‘Til’ Death Do Us Part’.

I had sci-fi tendencies in mind for this beauty of a job, with high impact visuals effects, three dimensional bullet action and subliminal vector graphics to bring the scene into another dimension and to visually enhance an existing unedited photographic image of Zara Phythian (actress, action performer, fight choreographer and 13 times world martial arts champion) for Combat Magazine.

This piece was part of a typographical project that I started using photographic imagery of CCTV and digital camera elements combined typography to produce an promotional advertisement for Nikon.

Any good designer can find inspiration in their surroundings and enjoys reinterpreting things into something new and unseen. After I saw this road sign I just had to take a picture and draw this character in the scene.

This self promotional poster was designed using manipulated photography, vector graphics and typography for the 2006 HND Multimedia end of year show at The University Centre Oldham and represents of all the things that Splurj loves and enjoys, paying close attention to detail and information.

Featuring the front end of a Saleen Mustang (one of Splurj’s pipe dreams), these matte laminated, full colour, double sided business cards were produced in vivid and eye catching colours.

Design concepts and colour schemes were developed together with the client and the final product was produced in matte laminated, full colour, double sided business cards in the new company colours, complimented by an image of hair changing colours like a ‘chameleon’. What gave this design a more personal touch for the business was that the model used was a valued client of the company who was more than happy to model for the photograph.

This identity and business stationery was designed to suit the clients specific requirements. It had to be up-to-date, professional and fresh, and get the message across about what the company does without any explanation. A series of logo designs and branding solutions were developed through good communications between Splurj and Urbanise Developments.

This poster was designed to promote the new ‘Design for Digital Media & Computer Game Art’ courses at The University Centre Oldham. It incorporates appropriate colouring for the brand utilisises the 3D robot that was created for the Zero Tolerance game trailer but with added subliminal graphics and typographic elements to give the poster an energetic feel to get young people joining the new course.

A series of promotional brochure cover designs were produced for Stratstone Ferrari using photography that was shot in the main showroom and edited back at Splurj headquarters.

Speed was generated in the first image by giving the Ferrari 360 a motion blur that was colourised and saturated in areas to give the impression that ‘this car is so fast it leaves the colour behind!’

Armed with a bunch of still images of Kelzo, his work and landmarks of Hulme (the town where he lives and breathes graffiti art) I set about creating an interesting graphic image that represented Kelzo and his artistic background. I then added depth to the scene by adding the flow of the spray paint coming from the can which appeared to be glowing hot as it was being fired out of the spray can.

The animation which is on www.kelzo.com was produced by also using layered still images and incorporated the flow of the spray paint traveling around the scene. If you look closely you can even see footage of Kelzo on one of the walls along with more of his work.