My work for the band Mungolian Jetset and the record label Smalltown Supersound was nominated at this years Visuelt. It was in the Best Cover Illustration category. www.visuelt.org/vinnere/2011/illustrasjon/cover/

It was an interesting evening being at an awards ceremony where I understood about 5% of what the presenters were saying (in Norwegian). Helpfully though Google translate tells me the juries comment on my work – “The jury was immediately glad for this. Welcome madness in a category that often can be well predictable”. So here’s to more madness.

HELL YEAH! Woop Woop! Etcetera.

Details:
I have been awarded a project grant by the good people at Grafill to make an interactive music video and am looking for a programmer/coder/scripter to work with. We will make a dedicated site as the video itself, although what we develop depends on two things:

1 – The Idea.
2 – The programmers forte (Action Script, JavaScript, HTML 5, Processing, Canvas… other things the world has never heard of).

This is a bit of a chicken and egg situation as the idea cannot be conceived without knowing what it’s going to be built in and I can’t know what it’s going to be built in until I find my code partner. Anyhow, no-one ever said this was going to be easy and if I don’t find my wizard I can always make it in Dreamweaver myself

It is probably important that you share a similarish taste in music as myself as the work will be for some of the Norwegian “Fjord Disco” musicians I already do cover art for. So if you think that Disco Demolition Night was a high point in American culture then this is probably not the gig for you.

My role will be to do the design and the idea alongside whoever I work with. Hopefully I’ve got the chops for this, with Webby, FWA, BIMA, D&AD, One Show award winning interactive work in my portfolio. Got the same high hopes for this, but none of that will happen without a great person to collaborate with.

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Please title messages “Yes, I CAN go for that!”

Straight outta Norway! Here’s the design I did for Ost & Kjex (cheese and crackers) and the mighty Mung’s cover of the little purple fellas filthy ditty Dirty Mind.

Released in a limited run of 10″ vinyl which was so limited I don’t even have a copy myself. If you don’t own a copy either you can download it from the information superhighway, put it on your mp3 player of choice and then jerk around your living room while gawping at this on your computer screen. A truly authentic musical experience.

Mungolian Jetset released an album earlier this year, with all the stuff they gave away on free download in the past reworked and generally more epicly Munged up. It was released on Smalltown Supersound. I did the cover and here it is, showing the Mung rampaging through the deadlands eating some blahs along the way. He chomps down on kebabs made of heads, as you do.

It came with a 20 page booklet too:

Hot Rod is a beautiful magazine, it focuses on music and art and is made in Oslo. I was asked to do some work for it’s Norwegian talent issue in which they featured Mungolian Jetset.

Here’s my latest cover work for the release of Eurora by Fjordfunk with Blackbelt Anderson and Brennan Green mixes. Out soon in one of those old fashioned record shops.

I did this using Crayolas, Color Explosion Black Rainbow – available at all good newsagents and shops that sell mainstream stationary for kids.

Here’s the new artwork I’ve made for the Mungolian Jetset versus Mari Boine release. This is shortly to be released by Luna Flicks on N.E.W.S

Special shout out to my genuine Viking mask bearer, thanks, no-one could be more ‘ain’t necessarily evil’ than you!

He wears : Mac – Electric Eel eyeshadow, paper mask, neon headband – models own.

I’ve just finished the design for the first release on Luna Flicks. It’s not printed yet, so still plenty of time to be utterly dejected by rubbish print quality but here’s the design: front and back of the 12″

Luna Flicks is run out of Oslo and is best described as Norwegian Disco (or just plain old psychedelic), and if that’s a good enough description for Piccadilly Records then it’s good enough for me. The stoat photography I use on the front is by Karina Lax.