I’ve worked with Stamford Downtown on a bunch of projects. I created this illustration to help them market their annual parade.
A fun (an useful) idea that I pitched to Hasbro.
Go visit the-bogies.com to read all the comics and buy some collectibles!
Here’s a little recap video of our trip to the Licensing Expo in Las Vegas. Representing Nounworks and Bigshot Toyworks.
Excited to be exhibiting at a gallery space hosted by the talented Bueno NFT team. April 12-14th @ 156 Orchard St, NYC. If you’re in the East Village area, stop by and say hi!
You miss 100% of the chances you don’t take. Here’s hoping the Potato likes my latest concept. I identified a need, found a great solution and presented it with a fun sizzle reel. I love coming up with Toy and Game ideas on the side.
If you have a crypto wallet and are familiar with NFTs - this post may make sense to you! (For anyone else seeing this - it’s early days still but this world of Web 3 is not going away). There’s so many creative ways to use this tech and link real product with digital products, community and benefits. I worked with Bigshot Toyworks on this range of NFTs and our utility is giving Nounie holders great discounts on related merch and sharing fun free things with them like animated AR filters. The Nounworks arm of Bigshot has one of the most prolific Nouns products distributed around the world. (95% of the time if you see someone wearing giant square glasses - they are from Nounworks). We have just launched the #passthenoggles campaign where people all over the world can connect with each other in a fun way.
You can mint a Nounie HERE
Follow Nounies on Twitter
Follow Nounworks on Instagram
Buy Noggles HERE
Collaborating with Nounworks, Bigshot Toyworks and Bueno NFT to drop a range of creative, fun NFT profile pics inspired by Nouns. Follow @nounworks on IG to get the latest updates.
I have such fond memories of the design and branding work I did for Von Dolhens - a frozen yoghurt store based in Williamsburg, NY. I was tasked with branding the project to get ready for the launch of the store on the main drag of cool st. As the project developed, as did the vision for the brand. I created some classic characters for them, inspired by the Big Boy burgers mascot and the T-birds and Pink ladies from Grease.. There was even plans to wrap an old Model T ford, rat rod, but sadly that never came to fruition. It will stay on my bucket list for now!
You can see a full breakdown of the design process in the Linkedin article HERE
I was interviewed by Caleb Kraft for the Maker Spotlight for the Make: zine. Read the full article HERE
I had a great time chatting with Billy and discussing the thought process behind our new DIY boardgame. It goes to show what can be done remotely, explores the possibilities of DIY board games and how we can be more creative with sustainable materials.
Big thanks to Mojo Nation for inspiring this project with their pitch event. If you haven't tried it yet - "It's worth a punt!"
Looking forward to our next project Jude :)
(see link at the bottom of the interview to download, build and play for free).
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Goats and Llamas is a one-of-a-kind Board Game, where you get to build a giant pyramid-shaped game board, with 4 levels to climb up - to reach the prize - the Golden Underpants (Every Goats and Llama's dream reward)! The Board is made by recycling your cardboard delivery boxes, with the graphics printed on your home printer, (and the game pieces are 3D Printable). If you don't have a 3D printer, no worries - we've also got you some paper/card game pieces you can easily make also!
Visit the instructables website HERE to download the game for free!
After a couple of months, my son was finally done with the previous TMNT cardboard play set..at least that’s what I thought. Of course as soon as I recycled it, he wanted to play with it again. Enter Playset #2.
This time I decided to add some color and gave each of the characters a little brick and mortar location in the mall. You can’t always get free pizza - they gotta make money somehow right?
5+ months later… and it still gets played with occasionally. Cardboard for the win!
I made a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle hideout play set for my 3yr old. A cheap way to keep him entertained on a winter weekend and inspire him to engage in imaginative play. With all of the cardboard landing on our doorsteps from online purchasing it only takes a little imagination, some tape and scissors to create play experiences which can then be recycled.
I kinda like this hideout..I may have to paint it up :)
#cardboard #imagination #play #experiences #recycle #playset #tmnt #toys #ninjaturtles #actionfigures
I was recently hired as Creative Director and designer for an outdoor public art exhibit in Stamford, CT. I was tasked with creating the theme of the exhibit, designing the sculpts, the logo, branding, marketing materials and overseeing the project to ensure all of the design elements were cohesive. I created several different concepts and struck a chord with a Space Invasion theme inspired by 1950’s sci-fi. I also painted 2 of my own spaceships which were on display for 3 months, along with 39 other fantastic designs created by local artists. An auction will be held on Oct 2nd 2019 to own your very own 8’ tall spacecraft. (Batteries not included). See more art and info in my linkedin article - HERE
World cup time rolled around again and I started The Bogies Instagram page to add a little commentary as the competition unfolded. Here's a snapshot of some of the images I made. If you are interested in seeing more Bogies you can follow us @wearethebogies
Every year or so, Stamford Downtown host a public art contest - this years theme was 'Shapes' and my design was one of 39 chosen from 150 entries. It will be on display on the streets of Stamford over the summer before being auctioned off to the highest bidder in September.
As a freelancer, I'm used to working on multiple projects as they all pile in at the same time. However, this time I was trying to move house and take on this project on top of keeping my regular clients happy. As this is my 5th public art piece for Stamford, I knew how long it would take me to paint this design on a 4'sq cube so I printed the design on vinyl. Crisis averted, house moved, projects done. I never thought it was going to be possible to turn this around in 1 week.
As a creative I find that I often start something for fun and my brain inherently tries to turn it into a marketable idea. That's not always a bad thing - but I find it can slow down the creative process or stop it all together. I find It helps to be creative in ways that don't have anything to do with your job. Here's a little snow sculpture I made the other day. It's important to play!
