Olly Gibbs

projectAURA EP

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:29:41 +0000

Client: projectAURA

projectAURA EP Cover

I got asked to design the EP for upcoming rock band ‘projectAURA’. It was a very tight deadline and the main focus was to use one of my ‘Imaginary Worlds’ illustrations along with their chosen symbol of the Patriarchal cross (used throughout their branding).

As well as the main EP design I created their logo.

Check out their facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/projectaura

Laura Marling Secret 7

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:24:52 +0000

Client: Secret 7/Laura Marling

Secret 7 Vinyl Cover for Laura Marling

This year I’ve taken part in Secret 7 (http://www.secret-7.com/). The sale of the vinyls was a huge success with the majority selling out in an hour and half – crazy! It also now means I can show the final artwork.

I decided to do my cover for Laura Marling’s ‘The Beast’ which is beautiful poem of sorts. I know the usual type and style associated with Marling and wanted to do the opposite – try and break what people would expect. And so I tried a bit of a lo-poly illustration style which is bright and colourful. It’s meant to resemble some sort of tribal mask.

You can see my original sketch below along with the final.

Final artwork:

Original sketch:

Alternate colouring:

Muse World Tour backstage passes

admin — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:22:48 +0000

So with a new album that came out in Sept 2012 to gig with, I was asked by the band Muse to design their backstage passes for their World Tour which showcased ‘The 2nd Law’. I worked with their management, touring managers as well as direct input from Dom Howard (the bands drummer) regarding the designs that they would have to see for their tours which normally last over a year.

These passes are used by the Band, VIPs, all staff working on the tour, guests – pretty much everyone involved with the gigs. These also include photo pit passes for the press and media. There was also a separate batch I custom designed for their iTunes Festival gig at the Roundhouse.

For obvious security reasons I can’t show you what they look like but I did see them briefly feature in a video from one of their American support acts ‘Dead Sara’. Check out their backstage video below:

Competition Winner Doodle Shoes

admin — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 10:00:24 +0000

Last year the Museum of London hosted a competition as part of their ‘Our Londinium 2012′ exhibition which coincided with the London Olympics. As I did the illustrations for the exhibition they asked if I could supply a pair of custom doodled pair of VANS for a competition they ran for the year which was nationwide.

The style of the doodles was a step back from what I normally do due to custom requests for what was to be doodled!

Secret 7 Design – Laura Marling

admin — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 22:01:00 +0000

This year I’ve taken part in Secret 7 (http://www.secret-7.com/). The sale of the vinyls happened today and the majority sold out in an hour and half – crazy! It also now means I can show the final artwork. I hope it found a good home to go to, get in touch if you bought it!

You can see my original sketch below along with the final.

Final artwork:

Original sketch:

Alternate colouring:

projectAURA EP Artwork

admin — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:13:17 +0000

As well as the main EP design I created their logo.

Check out their facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/projectaura

Secret 7 Launch

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:30:05 +0000

Secret 7’’ combines music and art for a good cause. They take seven tracks from seven of the best-known bands around and press each of those tracks 100 times to vinyl then get creatives from around the world to interpret artwork in their own style for of one of the 7 tracks; resulting in a one-of-a-kind sleeve for every single one. These are then exhibited for a week, then on Record Store Day (April 20) you can get your hands on one, or more, for £40 apiece.

I was lucky enough to get chosen from the Talenthouse selection process and have my design printed (for a Laura Marling track). The launch night for the talenhouse artists was on Friday 12th. It was a fantastic night, viewing the rest of the work out there which ranged from a couple bonking on a bed to a playable ‘vinyl cover’ guitar. Interesting mix to say the least! I was proper chuffed to be in the exhibition alongside some of the artists who I admire greatly such as Peter Fowler and Von. The sale is on April 20th, all proceeds going towards Art Against Knives charity.

Due to the ‘Secret’ aspect of the show and the fact it is still running I can’t post which my cover is, but I can include photos that have it in it…

You can view a panoramic that I quickly put together if you cant make it down!

Working at The Mill

admin — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:49:41 +0000

So in February 2013 I worked at the famous ‘The Mill’ in London for a couple of weeks on a few projects. The Mill is an award winning studio having won an Oscar as well as working on a vast array of famous films and tv shows doing visual effects and filming. They probably have the most impressive portfolio of a studio, so it was great that I was given the chance to dip myself into this new world. I learnt a lot from my brief time and it was an ace experience to see how the inner workings of such a studio runs.

Below is part of a research illustration I came up with for one of the projects.

Doodle 25 for Comic Relief

admin — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:23:23 +0000

To raise money for Comic Relief, my studio, Monty, are putting on a 25 Hour Doodle run across 14-15th March (Red Nose Day) at Boxpark Shoreditch Unit 56. The 3 of us (all called Olly as it happens) will be drawing for the two days inviting illustrators and designers as well as the general public to come down and join in to help the great cause. We urge you to pass this on as we are trying to maximise the amount of money we can raise for this.

This is a great opportunity to collaborate with others and to get involved. If you want to come along and support us then please do! We’ll have an inflatable penguin if that tempts you…

The final masterpiece thats created will be sold at auction with all proceeds going to Comic Relief.

Details can be found here at www.doodle25.com

Monty Studio: http://www.wearemonty.com

Hot Glass Music Video

admin — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:51:27 +0000

I recently got asked to create a music video for a friend and his latest music venture ‘Hot Glass’ and his new single ‘I Wouldn’t Forget’. The style of music is somewhat reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine which contains a wall of sound vibe.

After listening to the song we discussed possible ideas and influences such as The White Stripes ‘Seven Nation Army’ video and recent work rom Tame Impala – a sort of Lo-fi, psychedelic feel.

We filmed it all in one day using an old VHS video camcorder and put it together from there.

Check out his music here: http://hotglass.bandcamp.com/

Stills:

And some photo shoot shots:

Current Workings

admin — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:04:22 +0000

Here’s just a small taster of what I’m working on and have worked on recently:

And a quick mention that my work for Museum of London is now being used as a highlight to promote my old University course at London College of Communication! http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/courses/courses-by-level/ba-illustration-and-visual-media/

A music video for Hot Glass (Filmed with VHS) (WIP):

A vinyl cover for Secret 7 (WIP):

Imaginary Worlds Update:

I’m also currently working on an interactive way of display my large Imaginary Worlds piece which will allow you to explore the artwork up close and personal online!

Covered Records website:

I was asked to quickly design and build a website for a new venture from Pulled Apart by Horses called ‘Covered Records’. Which is basically the idea that two bands record each others tracks in their own style. Great idea, and the first involved PABH with Blood Red Shoes. The basic website was designed and built in a few hours and includes a mobile version.

Check it out: http://coveredrecords.co.uk/

Welcome to the Shop!

admin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:15:39 +0000

I have just updated the site to include a new shop section. I’ve been saying for a while but never getting round to it that I would offer prints and such so this will house whatever I come up with.

At the moment I’m using Society6 to print and ship the products. It’s a US company however they do deliver to the UK. All products are made with high quality materials such as American Apparel T-Shirts!

The designs for sale at the moment is a brand new illustration part of my ongoing ‘Imaginary World’ project. On offer there are iPhone covers, Art Prints, Cushion Covers, T-Shirts, Hoodies etc.

I will be introducing new prints fairly regularly hopefully and I have a small screenprint run of this design coming soon, so stay tuned for that. In the mean time check out the Shop.

I am Creative website in Creative Review!

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:39:16 +0000

A website I designed and illustrated when working at MC as been featured in the Creative Review Blog talking about one of the briefs that is on the site and a general overview of what the project is about. It’s one my favourite projects I’ve worked on due to the nature of the website and the fun, creative spirit that it portrays. I mean come on, there’s a scuba-diving-shark-sheep!

Check out more on the project on my site here:
http://www.ollygibbs.com/i-am-creative

And read the article on the Creative Review blog:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/january/i-am-creative-eon-brief

Doodled Munny

admin — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:29:30 +0000

I’ve just completed my first custom munny. These are vinyl toys which anyone can customise. I went ahead and did my usual doodle style.

Check it out on Vine below:

vine.co/v/b5xEB3bbUtE— Olly Gibbs (@ollyog) January 25, 2013

Muse Christmas Present 2012

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:26:49 +0000

Every year the band Muse give their fans a christmas gift via their official website and fan mailing list. Over the years its been mainly audio tracks or live videos/360 videos. For 2012 they wanted to innovate and I was asked by their management to design and create the present. The brief was for fans to ‘build their own pop-up muse stage’ – recreate the tour stage Muse used on their recent european tour for The 2nd Law. (Link showing a selection of fan stages is at the bottom of this post). Tour stage pictured below:

It was my responsibility to first come up with how to build it out of paper – lots of trial and error involved and then design the actual visuals for each. Muse management also were keen to offer multiple ‘skins’ of stage visuals – due to time we could only get two version complete. The final instructions were delivered as PDFS with nets that were to be cut out and glued into shape.

Muse are also well known for having been cryptic with their fans, offering ‘hidden’ surprises. This was no exception, and ‘hidden’ within the stage designs was a link to two live audio tracks.

Also every year I’ve designed the image to represent the ‘gift’ which is used on the official website and sent to the fans via the muse newsletter. This years it was adapted to represent the use of TV screens in the new tour staging.

3D visuals of the 2nd Law pop-up stage using the real final artwork.

Popup muse stage without graphics:

To download/view the finals PDFs you must be a member of http://muse.mu and it will soon be available in the members section.

The reaction from the fans was pretty good and a fair few attempted to build the stage. You can view some of the reactions and built stages on this dedicated page I’ve put together:

Radar London Christmas Illustrations

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:31:27 +0000

In November/December 2012 I was asked to create some illustrations for design agency ‘Radar London’ for their christmas mailout. I was given a textbased storyboard from which I created the comic strip-like story. The original design was in black and white on brown paper however with some changes from the client we added more colour and visual references.

You can view the full mailout here:

Click to view full mailout

Snippets and detail:

Moomins

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:49:27 +0000

Happy New Year everyone! 2013 looks to be a busy year and I’m excited to get more into freelancing. I have a couple of projects to update with from the christmas period which were interesting to complete, so keep your eyes peeled!

For now I’m, for some reason, illustrating moomins – not entirely sure why, mainly as a character exercise!

Regular moomin:

Moomin-me:

Shakespeare Moomin:

Matt Bellamy (Muse):

New/Old Camera!

admin — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:25:33 +0000

Recently a friend asked if I could help make a music video for his band. He gave me the brief and the kind of style he wanted which was a bit psychedelic, bit retro. I wanted to make the video as authentic as possible so I purchased an old 70′s 8mm video camera. (Ilford/elmo zoom 8-cz camcorder). The battery compartments were all rusted and didnt work but with a bit of TLC I brought it back to life – I look forward to seeing what we can come up with.

Experimentation time

admin — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:10:16 +0000

Working on some recent projects has prompted me to learn more motion graphics/after effects mainly looking into controlling visuals with audio as well playing with particles. A couple of tests below show what I’ve been messing about with.

Following on from these experiments I worked with a video of my head and transformed it into particles and seeing what I could come up with. (Very similar to the effect used in Radiohead’s – ‘House of Cards’ video) As a result of this I created some artwork for a friend’s band ‘Hot Glass’. The beauty of working this way means not only can you produce static imagery, it can later be manipulated into a motion format!

‘Diversity in Advertising’ in Creative Review

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:09:12 +0000

Last night at the IPA, a film I created the titles and graphics for (on behalf of MC) in collaboration with The Ideas Foundation was released into the wild. The goal of the film was to shine a light on the state of diversity currently present in UK advertising, while starting a discussion into the ways in which we might be able to improve it.

Attendants ranged from Robin Wight (President of Engine), Jonathan Akwue (Engine Partner), John Hegarty (Founder BBH), Trevor Beattie (Founder BMB), Magnus Djaba (CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi) and many more. The showing of the film was followed by a discussion on the subject of diversity in advertising and ranged from discussing the problems with unpaid internships and problems with class priority in jobs.

Watch the film below:

Diversity in Advertising – the film from Diversity in Advertising on Vimeo.