Cat In The Mutha-Flippin Hat Y'alll

I drew this bad boy for an upcoming gig, Dr Zuess meets RUN DMC...



Here he is in situ... The poster is for a Xmas gig, I started with the Grinch idea and moved on to the full Dr Zuessary...

Fab 5 Freddie

Below is a sketchola I did a while ago of a ye olde school rapper called Fab 5 Freddie aka Freddie Love aka Frederick Braithwathe...ha ha. Maybe rappers have such a history in the creation of alias' because they all have wack names!? For example Busta Rhymes = Trevor Smith, Eminem = Marshall Bruce Mathers, Snoop Dogg = Cordazer Calvin Broadus, Ghostface = Dennis Coles, Royce the 5'9 = Ryan Montgomery, Big L = Lamont Coleman, Chuck D = Carlton Ridenhour, Beanie Sigel = Dwight Grant and Nate Dogg = Nathaniel Dwayne Hale! Ha ha classic!

PEZ DELUX EDITION (RE-POST)

I recently designed the artwork for Pez's debut album 'A Mind Of My Own' which absolutely smashed it! It was amazing to see Perry come in with this album he had been working on not too sure how it was all going to go then next thing you
know he is everywhere! He has sold thousands of copies, got #7 on JJJ hottest 100, #11 in the ARIA charts, sold out Hi-Fi Bar, got on the Bliss and Eso tour and a whole bunch more.
I was recently approached by his crew to remix the design for a delux edition and
this is what I came up with - it's essentially the original design but with Pink/Blue instead of Orange/B&W.

Pez originally came to me with a concept of him sitting in class as a youngster dreaming out the window - cos he has always felt that way in life. I took that idea and ran with it - illustrating his actual thoughts using visuals from his rap lyrics such as references to chess, time, religion and many more.











Below is the old design before the Remix...

Illustration

Thought I'd throw up some sketches.

This first one is a funny piece I did a while ago ~ I don't remember how this idea came to me but it seems to make people laugh. I made a Christmas card out of it last year to freak a few family members out!



I created this collage out of cut outs from an old National Geographic, I just cut out the shapes and created this crazy monster eating birds. It took me no time at all and it's actually my favourite piece that I've ever done.



This is another funny one, just thought of the idea of a squid in a stack hat. Might make a tee-shirt of it...

RECENT CORPORATE WORK (Baker Boys)

This is part of a brochure design and branding I created for a Melbourne based covers band called Baker Boys. I collaborated with my sister Leila Koren who did the photography for the package, we tried to make it look stylish and pro while stile maintaining a lil coolness :-)

Check out Leila's photos at: www.redbubble.com/people/leilanihawaii

OLD WORK #1

The Inflatables

This is some work I did for my old party band The Inflatables, we did a whole bunch of house party jams mashing up old school records with a live band, 2 DJs and 2 MCs. Was fun but we were all so busy with all our other shite that we didn't really pursue it. We did release a full length debut called 'Blueprint Adaption' but we put it out on cassette only. So very few people have heard it... I'm sure more than half the people who actually bought it still haven't heard it cos they don't have a tape player!

The design was a hell of a lot of fun to create. I tried to give the tape a real old school flavour, that old dirty faded look ~ The rest I just made super poppy and bubblegum flavoured.

This is a bit of a nastalgic post dedicated to my old Inflatable crew and all the people who bought the tape and can't play it! ha ha

OLD WORK #2

I thought I'd chuck up some old stuff cos I have never had a chance to post these pieces...

The First is a photo of a bunch of my sketches in ink, pencil, high-lighter and markers. There's some Vibe Trackers, a fat angel and a squid in a stack hat...



This one is some character designs in a book of ideas for my side project called Windy Chronicles. It's a hip-hop story telling project full of characters and tales from a bizarre world that me and my fellow Windians have created. I'll definitely be posting more as it comes... in the meantime checkout ~ www.myspace.com/windychronicles



This one is a piece I developed as a prototype for a Museum brochure to promote a Japanese Kimono exhibition. Took me flipping forever to figure out all the folds!