• 2015 starts with a few beers! •

• 2015 starts with a few beers! •

A Happy New Year to you all, bit late I know. The year did kick off with a busy few weeks of work, and again, none of which I can post as yet.

But I also produced quite a few beer clips and labels for one brewery or another, and here are two of the ones that are not embargoed at the moment.

One of my new years' resolutions was to bake more bread, that's already ticked and done and I'm onto my 7th loaf today.

Other, none specific promises to myself, are to finally get my last 2 picture books completely finished and off to some publishers, or agents maybe.

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•LE TOUR COMES TO BARNSLEY •

•LE TOUR COMES TO BARNSLEY •

On the 6th July the mad cap circus that is the Tour de France flashes through the western edge of my home town. I'm a keen mountain biker and have never ventured over to the 'dark side' but this road race will definitely be one worth celebrating.

Excellent website with all the details ...

http://letour.yorkshire.com/

I've been involved in a few marketing and promotional spin-offs for Le Tour and these 2 designs are amongst them.

The top image is a T shirt design that's been entered into a competition and exhibition at the Millenium Galleries, Sheffield.

The bottom one, a pump clip (beer clip) for Wentworth Brewery, who have brewed a special celebration race ale.

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•PHOTO REALISTIC BREWERY POSTERS •

•PHOTO REALISTIC BREWERY POSTERS •

These 2 posters were part of a set illustrated for Wentworth Brewery.

I've stuck the Stout clip on there to show how these 'blank' bar posters can be used in conjunction with new brews which will be released throughout the year.

Hopefully these delightful brews will whet your thirst and tempt you to track one down. And I promise you, if you do, you'll not be disappointed by the wonderful hand crafted full bodied taste.

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•BEER BEER AND MORE BEER

•BEER BEER AND MORE BEER

I really enjoy the design work I produce for the rosta of breweries that are onboard with me at Hot Frog Graphics.

It feeds my need for graphic design, shows I can do more than illustrate - plus I get to sample loads of fantastic ales, stouts, lagers and ciders.

Here are a few examples from this summer and autumn, featuring Golden Eagle Brewery and Eagle versus Dog Brewery (new logo), both in New Zealand, and another design that features an eagle - from Wentworth Brewery nearer to home. Please click the image to enlarge and remember that they are all strictly copyright. ©

•MY BREWERY PORTFOLIO•

•MY BREWERY PORTFOLIO•

As well as my 'standard' portfolio of work for advertising, design and publishing, I also specialise in design and illustration for Breweries.

Just recently I've had a marketing drive to expand my brewery portfolio and I'm pleased to say that it is working.

I now design for around 6 breweries. These are local, national and global - so a really interesting mix.

I'm still looking to add a few more breweries to my list so the drive goes on.

My favourite beer is STOUT. I love the look of it, it's a very 'designy' beer - deep glossy black rich ale with all those complex flavours of roasted barley, chocolate, liquorice and treacle. Wonderful.

I must have produced artwork for over 20 different stouts to date and the number of individual pump clips and labels I've designed numbers over 300 to date!!

Please take a look at
MY BREW PORTFOLIO
and pass on the message. cheers!

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•NEW BREWERY BRANDING•

•NEW BREWERY BRANDING•

Another couple of micro breweries joined the Hot Frog brewing portfolio last month. He's one of them, the exciting sounding Broxbourne Brewery - home of the crafty badger!

I tried out several run of the mill - almost cliched, ideas to get the creative juices rolling. I wasn't getting anywhere meaningful but it's often useful to exorcise the banal from the equation in this way, before you can 'see through' to the more promising ideas.

Then I had this vision of the the Moretti beer label with the old guy blowing the froth off his fresh glass of beer. I coupled this with a cheeky badger and sketched out the character and hey presto, Brox, the crafty badger was born.

Broxbourne and their sister brewery have some very strong ales in their repertoire and here's hoping we'll have a long and fruitful future together. Cheers to that.

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•BEER BEER WE WANT MORE BEER!

World Cup Fever has reached Hot Frog too with these three beer labels for local breweries. Don't forget it will bring us good luck to get stocked up on these ales prior to KO on June 12th.
Wish I was on a royalty per bottle!
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