As a celebration of Manchester’s rich creative talent, our friends over at one69a are running a design competition. Simply create an illustration of a worker bee that represents you or your creative collective using three colours; Metallic Gold, Black and Pantone 7450U. Here’s an example of a submission created by OneFiveEight’s Luke Breen: About the Manchester… →
A few weeks a go The organisers at Sounds From The Other City asked OneFiveEight to design and paint the hoarding of a Building Being Demolished by New Bailey in Salford. The Brief was to create an eye catching, bold and colourful design that would make people more aware of what was going on at… →
Last summer’s bountiful allotment production, and accompanying preserving sessions, inspired us to design this repeating pattern. We hand drew each element that is needed to make our favourite Pumpkin Chutney and transferred the pattern to a silk screen. Using Permaset Aqua Eco friendly fabric ink, we printed the design on to 40 unbleached cotton tea towels… →
I’ve never formally studied art but I’ve drawn and written poetry since I was very young and as I’ve got older drawing and writing have remained my favourite hobbies. I’ve recently made the long-meditated decision to step up my creative pursuits to a professional standard, rather than just a hobby, and one of the ways… →
Fred Aldous is a lively hub of creativity that has been supplying the people of Manchester and the rest of the world with art supplies since 1886. As part of its Make Anything campaign, the popular shop has been inviting artists, designers and all manner of creative people from the North West to make a… →
Before I knew what track I was going to receive for my insert into OneFiveEight’s expo:3, I was lucky enough to have a listen to all of the audio entries. I got lost in a world of my own, listening to each of the entries with a deep meditative concentration. After listening to them all… →
The Piece – Mixed Media (Watercolour, Acrylic, Posca) This is my interpretation of the track Marble Shards by Inky Aftermath (aka my pal Scotty Rawson), created as part of OneFiveEight‘s latest event Expo:03. There was around about 2 months between pulling a scrap of paper from a fellow OneFiveEighter’s hat and finding out the track… →
For the OneFiveEight collective’s recent third exhibition, Expo:03 , each artist was given a track to create a visual response to. I was given a short Hip-Hop piece by local Mancunian MCs; Noel Edge & Seymour. “Bucket List” features on the Bumnotes EP, a conceptual piece that focuses on a character’s uncontrollable binge on drugs and… →
For OneFiveEight’s third art exhibition we asked people to supply pieces of their music to provide inspiration to a range of visual artists from across various disciplines. The supplied tracks range from ambient experimental pieces to dance floor bangers by signed and un-signed artists alike. We randomly distributed the tracks to 24 different visual artists with a… →
So our most recent exhibition required some fresh artwork for the light boxes we usually have on display. This was the perfect opportunity to fire up the my studios recently delivered large format printer and print onto the pretty impressive transparency film. It gives a really good opaque black that really brings colours to life… →
Becki Miller AKA MOZE, recently painted this mural on Tibb Street, Manchester. The piece was part of the ’16 days of street art action’ event. ‘16 Days of Street Art Action’ is an inspirational project which aims to encourage dialogue and debate about the importance of feminism in achieving women’s human rights. It takes place… →
Check out OneFiveEights Becki Miller at The Femme Fierce All Female Leake Street Takeover. On International Women’s day 08.03.2014 over 100 female graffiti writers, street artists and painters will be painting in the Leake Street Tunnel, Waterloo, London SE1 (legal graffiti wall) attempting to create a world record in Graffiti, raising much… →
Design and art direction for the album Galactic Structure by OneFiveEight’s own manchester based electronic music producer and DJ Outpost. A photographic approach was taken with the idea to make some artwork that relates to the lo-fi handmade nature of Outposts music. Listen to Outpost’s music below – full album release coming soon. Focusing on… →
I decided I’d like to create a piece that featured body organs well and some made up ones too. I also knew that I wanted to give them brightly unrealistic colours. Ive wanted to do this piece of ages and finally got the chance over a few evenings.
I bought a new set of pens and set out to design a series of illustrations for 2013/2014 to test my new found love for screen printing. Here’s what i came up with. There is a mixture of ideas but Ive pulled the styles together by using simple shapes as the base for the design…. →
Here hare here This year, for Christmas, I wanted to create a hand made gift for members of my family. A few months previous to me having this idea, my Grandmother had asked if I would draw her a hare. The result was a set of hand made screen printed cushions featuring this illustration I… →
Painting Wellies Sponsored By Posca This is a stop motion video taken a few years ago. Becki drew illustrations on peoples wellies at a festival.
This is one of the latest in a long line of board Infections from Infected By Design. Commissioned by Rusty of Blackpool for his daughter’s bedroom wall, the brief was simple: use baby pink and blue colours and make it pop! “It was a much bigger surface than the skateboards I’m used to painting,… →
To celebrate Star Wars day, Infected By Design created this illustration, featuring his own little character as a jedi knight.
For the last OneFiveEight Exhibition I wanted to experiment with some screen printing. I love the textures that are achievable with screen printing, different papers can create a wide rage of results. Fine liner drawing First I drew my design using fine liner pens. Inspiration for my design came from a David Attenborough programme on… →
As an exhibition piece for the OneFiveEight Expo:01 event, Mike Newton created these laser etched pyramids as part of a larger installation. Each Pyramid has been laser etched with Mike’s unique style of line drawn illustrations. I’ll try to post some images of the full installation some time soon. These wooden pyramids will be added… →
On the 9th February 2013 the OneFiveEight collective held our first exhibition at Kraak in Manchester. The event consisted of an exhibition and music event showcasing the latest work from our artists, musicians and friends. A wide range of styles that represent a broad spectrum of talents were on show at the event. Artwork included Photography,… →
Mr Kobo is a North Wales based Artist & Illustrator who is quickly gaining recognition for his unique & imaginative artwork. His distinct & contemporary illustrations are created using pen & ink to acheive smooth and flowing linework as well as graphite to produce delicate and subtle tones. Whilst his bolder and brighter painted works are created in varying… →
Getting ready for the big day so just thought i would show some ideas that didn’t quite make it to the exhibition. Here’s another load of pages from my sketchbook, no particular order. I played around with a few things but all initial ideas for T shirt design. —-XXXXX—- ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ————————————————————————… →
Mecha Turtle is the latest canvas from Infected By Design, created using a base layer of two shades of green Montana spray paint and teched-up with black and green Posca paint pens. ” I’ve been working on this one for a while as a little side project to go back to when taking breaks… →
Recently I’ve been busy preparing work for the OneFiveEight Expo:01 event next month, so new posts have been a little scarce. So to make up for that I have been inspired by an earlier post by James Hayes. Often our sketch books are left abandoned, full of half-finished ideas, doodles and simply things that haven’t… →
This is the first in a series of digital pigeons by OneFiveEight’s Infected By Design working with fellow Blackpool based artist Lowdown. Both artists are currently based at NWBaseline a community art space in Blackpool. Both these artists will be exhibiting work at the OneFiveEight Expo:01 event. Check out the interview with Infected By Design on the altblackpool website.
By Jim Bestall I found kids playing in this shoe-house whilst walking through the park “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.” Original… →
Recent super detailed super striking illustration work from our Dave for Bristol based duo Snareophobe’s album that got released recently. The guys are currently on tour around Canada and the US. www.snareophobe.com
A few weeks ago a fellow onefiveeighter said to me i should stop being so precious with my sketchbook and get some work on the onefiveeight site, any way i went away and found a scanner, just a few bits and bobs form my sketchbook, Keep your eyes peeled for some of these designs being… →
Our good friend Tasha Whittle from The Colouring Box, did some painting down at the Mob Film Company in Manchester last week. They filmed her working and made a nice little video with our very own Raikes Parade on the soundtrack. Click on the image above to check the video out or find out… →
