Ever evolving portfolio

Hi, my name is Zen. Ths is my website full of stuff! Read how the site was made by following the blog posts.

Panda on a dirt bike

Printed magazine advert for DIRT magazine featuring a panda riding a bike. Lots of photoshop fun to be had, and strict brand guidelines so that it fit part of a series. It is quite attention grabbing and colouful and hopefully brought along some punters.

Printed in Nov 2007

Funky Backdrop

Tesselating brands and logos used on numerous websites as the wallpaper. I did lots of variations and played around with all sorts of effects, but nothing beats classic gun metal on black.

Tense and compelling

I created and designed this stylish business card for great alternative artist & actress Hilda Eusébio.

A certain level of class had to be maintained in this otherwise mysterious and effective business card. From a full portrait photo shot professionally, I digitally remastered various elements and dramatized the contrast.

Inspired by Sheryln Fenn from Twin Peaks, I cropped the whole body into just a close up of her eye, her suggestive eyebrows and a charming whisp of hair.

An art noveau font adds a touch of pinache and labelling informations such as (tel:) , (email:) and (web:) were dropped so as not to patronize the intelligence of her customers and fans!

To learn more about Hilda Eusébio click here.

Cover art for the Urban Beekeeper

Created for the cover of the debut EP, nothing reaches higher than a giraffe on stilts.

To emphasise this theme I set the giraffe on top of Mount Everest and on the inner sleeve is a pyramid of giraffe.. all on stilts!

Giraffe on Stilts is a highly customised photoshop composite – see below for a larger version with all the detail.

The sounds of skateboarding

Every watched a skate film and wondered what the incredible music playing is?

This logo was produced for the original incarnation of the website which allowed you to locate song information based on simple search criteria. What film? What skater? What year…. Finally the tracklistings to Mouse!

Look out for the skate sounds blog, coming in 2007!

Conceived in the mid-90s, skatesounds was a database driven reference guide to the music in skateboarding movies.