Mongrels DVD/Bluray Artwork

I sometimes think I'm quite clever, but then I remember my younger brother, golden handcuffed to the BBC, who pay him to come up with amazingly funny ideas, and then write them, and that's what he did with Mongrels. 

Hopefully you've seen it on BBC3, Tuesday nights. It's got massive critical acclaim and really good viewing figures, so when he asked me if I'd mind designing the cover of the DVD it wasn't really a very hard decision. 

I'm really proud of this because it's the first time we've worked together professionally and it's something we plan to do a lot more of in the future, plus it's a high profile release and it might be the biggest thing I've worked on.

You can buy the Mongrels DVD by clicking this link. 

Artwork on iTunes

It always makes me happy to see my artwork on the iTunes Store. Can you spot 2 different Citizen pieces on this screen shot? A prize for anyone that can.

Citizen Wiki page

I've just set up a Wikipedia page for Citizen Studios and complied a list of all my major label work, I'm pretty proud of it as it stands. Need to get something lined up for the rest of 2010 now.

Artist	Release	Label	Date
Medium 21	Acting Like a Mirror	Universal Records	2003
Medium 21	Daybreak Vs Pride	Universal Records	2003
Medium 21	Black and White Summer	Universal Records	2003
Medium 21	Killings From the Dial	Universal Records	2003
Maps	Start Something	Mute	2005
Maps	Lost My Soul	Mute	2005
Maps	Don't Fear the Sun	Mute	2005
Maps	International EP	Mute	2006
Kooky Records	Kooky is 10	Kooky Records	2006
Maps	It Will Find You	Mute	2007
Maps	We Can Create	Mute	2007
Maps	You Don't Know Her Name	Mute	2007
Maps	To The Sky	Mute	2007
Durutti Column	Sunlight To Blue... Blue To Blackness	Kooky Records	2008
Slipstream	Mantra	North Star Records	2008
White Belt Yellow Tag	Tell Your Friends (It All Worked Out)	Distiller Records	2009
White Belt Yellow Tag	Remains	Distiller Records	2009
White Belt Yellow Tag	Tell Your Friends (It All Worked Out)	Distiller Records	2009
White Belt Yellow Tag	Methods	Distiller Records	2010
White Belt Yellow Tag	Always and Echoes	Distiller Records	2010
The Moons	Torn Between Two	Acid Jazz	2010
The Moons	Nightmare Day	Acid Jazz	2010
The Moons	Life on Earth	Acid Jazz	2010
The Moons	Let It Go	Acid Jazz	2010

Always and Echoes single

The new single from White Belt Yellow Tag is released on Distiller Records this month on a download only format, it's the first time I've designed a single and it's not had a physical release. It's quite disappointing really, I like this one best out of the two previous singles and I'm not sure if anyone's going to see it. Still is made me happy for about 12 minutes.

The band are getting a lot of press at the moment, and we're just finishing up the album artwork. It's a massive idea that hopefully will bring all of the single designs together without just repeating them. Once it's all signed off I'll post the art and concepts.

White Belt Yellow Tag: Remains Single Cover

The White Belt Yellow Tag train is picking up speed, with plays on Radio 1 and being picked put as a "band to watch" in the NME the future looks bright. Their album is out later this year and this single 'Remains' is out in August.

For the artwork I've continued along the path set by the previous single 'Tell Your Friends' the idea was to find diagrams of the dissolution of atoms and trace the paths as they wear themselves down to nothing, I've looked at so many of them now I couldn't tell you exactly what this one is called, but I nearly wore myself down to nothing redrawing it in Illustrator. It looks great zoomed right in though, take a look.

The next challenge is the album cover, I need to take this style and move it forward to a higher level. Watch this space.

And yes, I am really enjoying white borders on my single and album artwork at the minute, it's fun to challenge the printers to position it properly.