Spillers Calendar

Spillers Records Calendar

For sale: Spillers Records calendar. Cat not included.

AAAARRRGGHHH it’s that time of year again when everyone wakes up in the middle of the night screaming WHAT GIFT CAN I GIVE FOR THE CARDIFF BORN OR BASED MUSIC LOVER THAT’S BEAUTIFUL, SUPPORTS INDEPENDENT RETAILERS WHO PAY THEIR TAX, IS GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY AND WILL LAST A WHOLE YEAR?

Scream no more, children, for Spillers Records (the world’s oldest record store, TM) produces a calendar – one for every year, indeed. And this year the lovely Ash and Grace kindly asked me to design it for them. So I did. The front cover features a gorgeous retro design found on an old carrier bag, and the innards boast a veritable wealth of customers’ own photos taken from around the world. Get ’em while they’re hot, innit – pop down to Spillers in the Morgan Arcade and demand your copies now! They’re £5 in store, or if you buy online there are bundle deals with packing and postage here.

(photo features Henry Cat who staunchly refused to get out of camera shot)

First Season EP cover

My man is a very talented singer and guitarist and he performs with a Hereford-based band called First Season. They asked me to illustrate/design the cover for their EP and I thought I’d share it with y’all. You can listen to a couple of tracks off the EP on soundcloud here. They’re working on their first album and from what I’ve heard it’s even better.

Meanwhile, here’s the cover what I did. Tom and Dave gave me a brief about a man drunkenly putting up his fists to a wind-blown tree, so that’s what they got. The image was indian inked with a brush, scanned into Photoshop, given the cardboard background and a sort of wood-cut texture. The typeface is Adobe Caslon Antiqua.

Cover of First Season’s “Break my boughs burn my leaves”