Inspired by Frank Hampson’s Dan Dare comics and the Thomas the Tank Engine book series, this futurist hover train comes hot off the BRUTE! presses this week.

Printed on 200gm. photo stock in a blazing revolutionary scarlet, this gorgeous poster will set your wall on fire.

From a special limited edition of 250, each poster is signed and numbered by the artist.

Available now from the BRUTE! blog shop.

Please come along and support the work.

Thanks to John Sabota for linking me up with this.

I was commissioned to come up with a suitably dynamic image for this year’s High Jump freestyle diving competition here in the Czech Republic. Much of the artwork I’d seen for similar events had been from photographic sources that focused mostly on side shots so I wanted instead to use an improbable POV to heighten the drama of the dive. Using under-lighting, I was able to bring out an urgency to the face and hands and utilised the natural cliff shapes in the background to force speed and perspective. For the text, I created a style that merged both techno and retro themes, mimicking those racy pulp cover titles of the 50’s. The weight of the title grounds what would be a top heavy composition without it.

The new print of this poster is now available. minus text, from the print section of the BRUTE! blog shop.

The BRUTE! show continues its relentless push across the city of Prague as it moves into its newest home in the heart of the historical Mala Strana district.

Covering three rooms of the gallery, the exhibition includes several large canvas digital prints, custom BRUTE! skate decks and T-shirts and will continue for until July 4th 2010.

Come on down to the Napa Bar and Gallery, Prokopská 8, Prague, Czech Republic, 118 00 Praha. It’s open from 19:00 – 03:00 every day or phone  +420 774 530 689) for private consultations.

Courtesy of  Twisted Sticker in Toronto, BRUTE! are proud to unleash our latest monster onto the marketplace.

At a pugilistic 52 inches across, this empowering emblem will stun the neighbours into oblivion when they see it emblazoned across your SUV or dirtbike.

Made from weather-resistant vinyl and delivered in custom BRUTE! packing tubes, the FIST sticker is going to smack the living daylights out of your, er… day.

Please check the products shop for details on how to order.

Keep posted for details of the bar’s opening.

Canvas posters will be available from the club/bar shop or from the online BRUTE! Products page.

A short promo I made for the BRUTE! Republik exhibition.

For a recent commission, I found myself with a background problem to solve: how to render a psychedelic background in a couple of hours.

After various experiments with fractal vector failed to get the desired results, I gave up and began to search the web for some old-skool hippy patterns and/or trippy posters etc. until I came upon one packed with  all manner of day-glo, spiral eye-candy. As anyone will tell you, I cannot stand this sort of thing so after an hour, I decided to turn the background into vectors with Live Trace  and, as an afterthought, de-grouped the lot and applied a gradient. I then expanded the gradients again into steps.

Although it’s still not what the client wants, I found the random architectural shapes quite astonishing.