Barney's Scrapbook

Dec 27

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) -

  1. Desert Sessions (34)
  2. Tomahawk (24)
  3. Portishead (22)
  4. Kylesa (20)
  5. Mastodon (19)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 22

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) -

  1. Tenacious D (30)
  2. Eddie Cochran (13)
  3. Torche (13)
  4. Black Sabbath (12)
  5. Charlotte Gainsbourg (11)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 21

OWT Creative Issue 10: ‘Displacement’ cover

barneyibbotsonillustration:

This is my design for the cover of Issue 10 of OWT Creative, with the title ‘Displacement’. It features interpretations by eighteen different Northwest creatives as well as the members of the OWT team and it comes in three different flavours. My cover design is also screenprinted. It’s available to buy here.

Nov 08

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) -

  1. Gil Scott-Heron (2)
  2. A Tribe Called Quest (1)
  3. Masters of Reality (1)
  4. Minor Threat (1)
  5. Mike Patton (1)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Nov 01

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) -

  1. Commodores (9)
  2. Dom & Roland (2)
  3. Prefuse 73 (2)
  4. Candido (1)
  5. Gonzalez (1)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 30

http://magicfran.tumblr.com/post/12131375911 -

magicfran:

animateher:

Kevin Tong’s poster for The Iron Giant, screening at Mondo Mystery Movies at the New Beverley Cinema, Los Angeles.

(If anyone can help me find out where they’re selling the edition, I will probably kiss them.)

Oct 26

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) -

  1. Brujeria (33)
  2. Tomahawk (11)
  3. Kylesa (10)
  4. Colour Haze (10)
  5. Mastodon (10)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 18

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) -

  1. The Sugarcubes (14)
  2. Gang Starr (12)
  3. David Crosby (9)
  4. Ufomammut (7)
  5. Hermano (7)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Oct 14

barneyibbotsonillustration: This is my submission to Manchester and Salford Illustrated. Manchester and Salford Illustrated is a showcase of the very best commercial artists and illustrators in the area and has been created to raise funds and awareness for Manchester based charity, Wood Street Mission. The brief was based on the question, “What does Manchester mean to you?” The rationale to my piece is as follows: “The history of my home town, Manchester, has always fascinated me, and it becomes even more fascinating when one is made aware of the city’s role in the development of the nation and the world as a whole. Manchester’s story is deeply intertwined with industry and scientific innovation, most noticeably from the time of the industrial revolution, and this is evident in the buildings, bridges, archways, railways and canals that permeate the city. The cotton mills , powered by steam for the first time, played a huge role in the city’s rebirth as the first industrial metropolis, and the canals and railways, which were new innovations at the time, aided this process. In the following years, Manchester’s scientific community was elemental in key discoveries which changed the course of history. John Dalton’s atomic theory was the forerunner of modern medicine, Ernest Rutherford discovered how to split the atom at Manchester University, and the most significant development in recent history, the first programmable computer, was also developed here in Manchester. As an illustrator I am interested in shapes, patterns and textures. For this piece I decided to focus on the shapes, symbols and repeating patterns that portray the innovations, architecture and science that I described above. I have combined threads of cotton, warehouse windows, cogs and wheels, railway tracks and early chemical symbols to create what could be likened to a modern version of a Manchester coat of arms, in the centre of which is a new version of the Lancashire red rose.”

barneyibbotsonillustration:

This is my submission to Manchester and Salford Illustrated. Manchester and Salford Illustrated is a showcase of the very best commercial artists and illustrators in the area and has been created to raise funds and awareness for Manchester based charity, Wood Street Mission. The brief was based on the question, “What does Manchester mean to you?”

The rationale to my piece is as follows:

“The history of my home town, Manchester, has always fascinated me, and it becomes even more fascinating when one is made aware of the city’s role in the development of the nation and the world as a whole.

Manchester’s story is deeply intertwined with industry and scientific innovation, most noticeably from the time of the industrial revolution, and this is evident in the buildings, bridges, archways, railways and canals that permeate the city. The cotton mills , powered by steam for the first time, played a huge role in the city’s rebirth as the first industrial metropolis, and the canals and railways, which were new innovations at the time, aided this process.

In the following years, Manchester’s scientific community was elemental in key discoveries which changed the course of history. John Dalton’s atomic theory was the forerunner of modern medicine, Ernest Rutherford discovered how to split the atom at Manchester University, and the most significant development in recent history, the first programmable computer, was also developed here in Manchester.

As an illustrator I am interested in shapes, patterns and textures. For this piece I decided to focus on the shapes, symbols and repeating patterns that portray the innovations, architecture and science that I described above.

I have combined threads of cotton, warehouse windows, cogs and wheels, railway tracks and early chemical symbols to create what could be likened to a modern version of a Manchester coat of arms, in the centre of which is a new version of the Lancashire red rose.”