day of the dead work

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Phlegm Research.

Phlegm is a 28 year old street artist from Sheffield, UK. He is primarily a cartoonist and illustrator who has an addiction to self publishing and underground work. All of his comic work is with black indian ink and a dip pen. He only uses colour when painting walls (or planes) or screen painting. With a strange relation to graffiti, having a style thats grown entirely from his self published comics rather than letter styles. His comic has now been around for four years and comes out every four months or so.

Here are two pieces of his street art, i really like these pieces as i think they are very distinctive and have a lot of detail and characteristics, i love the way he finds a place to create artwork and he will just create something to fit the space. I've noticed in both these pieces the creatures look sad, i'm not sure if this is just in these two pieces or if he has a theme throughout his entire work. The images are in black and white, i think this makes them look a lot more effective, where as if they were to be coloured in they would look a lot more cartoon styled and like some teenager had just graffitied a wall.

Olly Moss Research.

Olly Moss is a fantastic young British designer/illustrator, his self initiated work includes illustrations, graphics, t-shirt designs, posters etc. He uses a wide range of bright eye-catching colours, with such simple designs. His work is incredible and is used widely around the world.


Here is an illustration by Olly Moss called Consumable. It is actually a design for a t-shirt. I couldn't find any information on this image but I think its a really good image I like the humorous design and the use of colour. It is basically a drawing of a Tesco apple juice carton in black and white, with a brightly coloured piece of paper with a face drawn on, which I think is supposed to represent a post-it note, there is also a speech bubble in the same style as the post-it note. I like that there is no text, just one simple image. I would really like to take inspiration from Olly Moss in my own work.



This poster is a design for a film called 'American History' (1998) I really like the simplicity and layout of this poster especially the eye catching cross in the middle of the swastika. The simple use of the colours black white and red, make the poster that little bit more professional and modern. The only problem i have with this poster is the text, although it isn't important text and as in most advertisements the text that isn't important is made less viewable not to take attention away from the main image.

Laz Marquez Research.

At a young age, Laz Marquez came to realize that he had a passion for something. His passion was the urge to create art, and since those earlier days in his life, he hasn’t gone a day without thinking about the power, execution, and integrity of being able to create it.

Laz began his career as a Graphic Designer, studying at the Art Institute of Philadelphia with a focus in Graphic Design. He later moved to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, to better hone and build upon his abilities. At the School of Visual Arts, Laz majored in Graphic Design and Fine Arts, which gave him a better understanding of the principals of Art, even garnering him the honors of being a featured artist in the university gallery on numerous occasions.


Here is the poster that Laz Marquez created for the film 'The Birds' (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963). It is basically a black silhouette of a girl on a white background. escaping from the head of the silhouette are birds. I really like the messy outline of squiggles and rough splashes and lines. The idea of a silhouette looks excellent and the use of colour fits really well with the theme of the film, as it is a dark film. The title has been placed with a circle outline on the head of the silhouette, usually this wouldn't work and would look quite tacky, but Marquez has really pulled it off.

Here is a book cover from part of a series of Stephen King books. The use of imagery and colours go really well together however the way in what they have been placed isn't so good. Personally i really like the imagery in this cover but i dislike the text, mainly because there is to much going on and it slightly confuses the eye. If the authors name had been placed away from the title it would have looked fantastic.
The image is basically a white silhouette of a fat man on a black background with a smaller black silhouette of a slim man placed inside. The idea is brilliant but i don't think it has been thought about thoroughly as the it looks like the slim man has a really long neck and a bad posture, although it is supposed to be the same man just slimmer and surely loosing weight would improve your posture not make it worse? The colour of the text is actually quite hard to read as some areas blend into the image or the background.