Seasons Greetings!

Just wishing everyone a happy holidays over the festive season!

The Ark

I've recently been invited to contribute to the Ark project - an interesting book idea being curated by Argentine graphic design duo DGPH. The idea is that each designer picks an animal from their native country to be 'saved' in the Ark. The book's due to be published by IdN & should be out around April 2009. Check the website for full rundown of contributors and their chosen species. I've picked the puffin but you'll have to wait till the book comes out to see it... here's a sneaky peak:

Charidy

I've got some work in a holiday benifit exhibition/auction at Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra ( LA ).The event runs for 2 days 13th & 14th December and the money raised goes to the red cross. Peace & Good will!

Bobbin World

The guys over at Bobbin Bicycles have branched out & we've worked together to create a range of merchandise featuring their characters. As well as being able to buy from a fabulous array of amazing Dutch bicycles & riding accessories you can now get your hands on mugs, badges, calendars, christmas cards and snowfalls all featuring the bobbin world.

They're hoping to develop some more bike related merchandise featuring my designs in the new year too... watch this space!  - All the goodies mentioned above are available in their London 'boutique' at 19 Arlington Way, Angel, EC1R 1UY.

Breaking Up...

...Is an editorial piece I did recently  to sit with a short story featured in issue 13 of online art & design magazine - blanket.This month's theme is 'past and present' and as usual is filled with lots of lovely inspirational stuff! Check it out here.

Write-upsI've been featured recently on several pretty cool design blogs. It's always good to have a little recognition from time to time :-)... some nice stuff on these blogs too... 

Changethethought™

The Best Part

Lifelounge

FFFFound!

Design Centre

Sex in Art 

Design for Mankind

Ivanhoe Books Art & Design

YCN Book

The New YCN book 08/09 is out now with lots of veritable eye candy no doubt & featuring some of my tree ladies! You may remember I posted pics of them a couple of weeks back...well now they've joined many other peoples tree creations in a huge paper forest which features in the book. The book was designed by talented design studio Hudson Bec and is available to buy from the YCN site. If you look very close with your eagle eyes you can just about see my trees... the ones with girls' faces & birds on top!...Where's wally?

YCN also have a great set of pics on Flickr documenting 'the making of the world of YCN'

Images 33

I've had some work selected again for the next Images book compiled by the association of illustrators. Images 33 will be out summer '09 and is sure to be packed with visual delights as usual!

Badges

The Travel badges - including my traveling rainbow design are now available from the Blanket online shop...

Blanket Magazine

I have an illustration featured in issue 12 of Australian online art and design magazine - Blanket. The theme for this issue was travel and you can see my illustration below.

Visit their website to download a pdf of the full magazine. There will also be a set of badges available to buy soon with illustrations from this issue. My design will be included in the pack.

These should be available from their online shop

Bobbin Bicycles Shop

Those lovely people over at Bobbin Bicycles have just opened their first shop in London near Angel tube. As well as selling their retro-style Dutch bikes and an array of cool accessories some of my illustrations are adorning their walls large scale! Watch out for the addition of a new character to help promote their new bike - the Electra.

The shop can be found at 19 Arlington Way, London, EC1 1UR and is open Tusday - Friday 11-7 and Saturday 11-6.

If you can't make it to London to visit the shop you can still visit their website at www.bobbinbicycles.co.uk

Allan Deas for Airside

My 'WAR' print is now available to buy online from the Airside shop. The 100 x 70cm Giclee prints are on DaVinci fine art paper and a limited edition of 25. A great idea for a christmas present...well it is only 76 days away! Buy one now!

World of YCN

The guys down at YCN asked me to create some trees to sit in a forest that will become part of the world of YCN and feature in their forthcoming book 0809.

I got quite carried away and also documented the making of the trees in true YCN stylee! To see all the pics visit my flickr set - The Making of Trees!

It's Pop It's Art

Very happy that I recently won the IPIA design competition! - As part of the 'Hidden Depths' season run by San Miguel, Airside's 'it's Pop It's art' curated a night of music and design at the Amersham Arms in New Cross. As part of the event they ran a competition to design a visual cover version of the song 'WAR' by Edwin Starr. 

I was shortlisted to the final six so my design ( above ) was exhibited along with the other finalists and the IPIA back catalogue.To read more about the night visit the Airside shop blog here. To top off a great night I won the competition so along with a nice prize my design will become part of the official It's Pop It's Art range available on the Airside website. Limited edition prints should be for sale soon from the airside shop.

Blogging Mad!

My work has been turning up an several art and design blogsites recently which is always encouraging. Some notable examples are - White Space, FFFFound, Candycrash & Coward33&sneeze15 have even interviewed me!! The world's gone blogging mad!

Images 32 Book

I've had 3 illustrations selected for Images 32-The best of British contempory illustration 2008 published by the AOI - out now -  Along with the book is a month long exhibition at London College of Communication in Elephant & Castle. The show runs till 27th August.

Buy the book from the AOI website... or from Amazon.

I have limited edition Giclee prints available of the 'Love For Sale' design. The prints are museum quality and 50x70cm. Contact me for more information about these if you are interested.

Refacimento Exhibition

I was asked to submit a poster design to be part of an exhibition shown at the 3rd 'supertrash' film festival at the Bagdad Theatre, Portland. Being a film festival the brief was refacimento posters of 'trash' movies. See my design below...

The exhibition runs from 15th - 17th Aug and is sponsered by Fantagraphics books and a book featuring the posters is due to come out next year in conjuncton with a second exhibition at the Andy Warhol museum.

Cravendale Milk

Future Milk is a competition by Cravendale in association with The Young Creative Network (YCN). The brief was to come up with new packaging to appeal to a younger generation.

This is what I came up with. Fun yet still comprehendible.

Amelia's Magazine

Watch out for issue 09 of the fantastic Amelia's Magazine - out now -  featuring a double page spread by yours truly. The theme was 'a positive future' looking towards an idealistic greener view of a future with no pollution, minimal carbon emissions etc...

This issue was launched with a party at the Pure Grooves record shop in Clerkenwell. My illustration along with several others were on exhibit for the night and a few days after in the shop (I had pride of place in the window - unfortunately my camera died so I don't have a record of it!).

Limited edition prints of of this design are available to buy from the Amelia's Magazine site here.

Where you can also read my supporting text for the image...

Website

To view my full portfolio visit my website. I do update it from time to time - when I get a chance to! You can link to it here -

www.allandeas.com

If you want to contact me my details are on my website and of course feel free to leave feedback and comments here... Enjoy!

Archive...

Iv'e stopped updating my blog on myspace now as it's all here... this blog goes back long enough to see what I've been up to in the past few months anyway.

Big Book of Illustration

I have a couple of illustrations featured in a new book!
'the big book of illustration ideas 2' - Long winded title I know but it's quite a nice book...


Buy it here...

Orange

I've designed some images through YCN for orange's optimistic images project. Each image to demonstrate a word or phrase related to the company. It's planned the images will become part of an online library that will be utilised by orange and the many agencies with whom they work.

Talking of orange I found this amazing link to part of their website... It's very well designed as well as great fun... had me hooked for ages! Make sure you chat to the character called Buzz - you can actually have a conversation with him - it's crazy! I think it's designed by Poke London. Visit unlimited orange!

Stereohype

I entered some designs into the Stereohype badge design competition last month. Unfortunately I didn't win top prize but I did come runner up... and in a competition that sees over 500 entries from all over the world, that's not bad going!

See the other runner up and winning designs at the Stereohype page here (scroll down to see images)

Also watch out for some badges on sale in my webshop soon!

Don't Panic poster competition

I've entered a design in the don't panic poster competition.

Please vote for me now - Vote Now!

Voting ends 16th June. 

Thanks!

Association of Illustrators

I've had some work recently selected for the next AOI images book out in August. They have also used one of my illustrations to advertise an event - "Viral Fruits -Is the internet ripe for the picking?" in their newsletter and on their website.

Check it out here.

Power by Numbers

I've got some more prints in the 'Power by Numbers' group show at Gallery Nucleus LA.

The show runs from April 12th to 28th and is a benefit show for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Angeles so it's for a good cause. Quite a nice show as all the artworks are the same size - postcard size.

Visit Gallery Nucleus to view the show & buy prints .

Bobbin Exhibition

The guys at Bobbin have a temporary instillation of their bikes and my characters ( blown up huge ) at 79 Upper street, Islington.

www.bobbinbicycles.co.uk

Brahma

Here's some illustrations I've entered into the Brahma competition as part of their 

Trocabrahma promotion, The brief was to come up with an image that evokes "latin spirit" let's see how I get on... 

Characters for Bobbin Bicycles

I've done some work with Bobbin bicycles, a company specialising in very cool dutch bikes.

I created a bunch of characters to help promote the company. Each one representing a different bicycle model.

The illustrations will feature on their website and promotional material as well as temporary exhibits at venues throughout London.

Visit Bobbin Bicycles

Eye Candy from Strangers

I had 2 illustrations fatured in the book 'Eye candy

 from strangers 2' published by Brandstudio Press.

Out now.