PAUL
PHILLIPS
I L L U S T R AT I O N
I was commissioned by BBC 6 Music to create an illustration for their facebook page to promote a program being aired on John Grant and the Icelandic music scene. The brief was simply to capture the ‘feeling’ of Iceland. I chose the blue palette to convey the cool vibe of Iceland and arranged the portraits above the Aurora Borialis in a hierarchy that would replicate the order of the show. I used an old school movie poster composition, inspired by poster artist Drew Struzan.
Vinyl outside cover design for the band Body Hound. The band had an open brief of anything so long as it was ‘sci-fi’. The idea being that I would have creative control over the artwork and they would then name the record and songs based on the illustration I provided. I chose a technological structure juxtaposed with a mountain range (nature) to give a feeling of epic scale and opposing values, a metaphor for the hectic and large sound the band produce.
I was in charge of the creative direction and creation of all the promotional material for the release of the album ‘Phantasmaboring’ by the band Exes as well as the album cover design, inlay and a t-shirt design. It was a small independent release so the budget was small. We got round this by buying very basic black label covers that were totally blank. I designed and had stamps made with the band name and album title and we manually printed five hundred vinyl in silver ink. I then designed and inlay card which were printed seperately and inserted giving the record a very uniform look and bringing it in under budget.
The BFI in london were holding a competition during their feminist film festival season to redesign a poster based on a movie directed by a woman. I chose Winters Bone by Debra Granik as it is a personal favourite and I have enjoyed all her output to date. I was one of five winners and we all had our posters displayed in the BFI during the rest of the festival season.
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To the right is a digital print I created whilst at Uni and is now on display at the North Laines Brew House in Brighton. I wanted to experiment with scale, apocalyptic imagery and romance, to see if I could create a striking image that had a dark edge but that people would be able to relate to rather than it being overly macabre.
BBC 6 Music commissioned me once again to create a promotional image to promote their show commemorating Nirvana’s legendary Reading 92 performance. They wanted a montage of images from the show.
Pop punk band Darko commissioned me to design the CD cover for their EP ‘Sea of Trees�. They were very specific in their brief wanting a samurai warrior holding a terrarium with initially a ship in but then later changed their minds to include a bonsai tree.
I was commissioned by MMA fighter Chi Lewis Parry to design a T shirt of him throwing a knee in the style of the Street Fighter video games. This was a challenge as it was a style I had not really tried before and as it had to be screen printed I was limited to the number of colours to use.
I was asked by the band Meet me in St Louis and Arctangent Festival to produce a screen printed poster celebrating their final show and headline performance at Arctangent 2016. The screen print was limited to 100 signed posters which were sold at the festival. I was also asked to design all their apparel merch for that tour so I designed two tops, one based on their song ‘Corey Feldman’ and one based on a band in joke about magic Unicorns. (see following page)
The band Meet me in St louis asked me to design a special discography re-release of all their material, celebrating their reunion after eight years. Double gatefold inside and out along with a twenty page booklet charting photographically the bands short lived career. The cover is a re-imagining of the original cover of the bands debut album. The original cover was of the same scene on Brighton beach years prior, so I chose to do a futuristic depiction illustrating the time passed between releases and the bands hiatus.
Fifties style dress maker Gemma Vincent comissioned me to design a pattern to go on a new range of skirts she was making to sell at Brighton Tattoo convention. I wanted to do something nautical as Brighton is a seaside town and I was inspired by the nature diagrams of Ernst Haeckel.
The band Rolo Tomassi comissioned me to design a shirt to sell on tour based on their lyric ‘I held the arrows, I pulled the strings’.
Rockabilly crossover band Salvation Jayne asked me to design the cover to their EP ‘Moves that make the record skip’. I went with a jukebox to emphasise the 50’s inflected rock they play but used a neon pallet to create a striking image that would stand out on busy merch tables in dark envirnments.
A screen printed poster I designed as part of a joint exhibition with four other artists to promote local talent in Guildford. This poster was auctioned off and the money went to charity.
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Music promo for the band Broken DC. Song ‘Forever Blue’ I created this video and brought it in on a small budget by the use of practical homemade effects and by doing everything myself, shooting, lighting, grading, directing. Budget £500. The full video can be viewed at https://vimeo.com/181621003
Music promo for the band Black Futures. Song ‘Play Knife’. Again I had a small budget to work with so made the android from car parts, LED’s and a mannequin. All shot, edited, colour graded and directed by myself to save money. Budget £500. The video can be found here https://vimeo.com/116080430
Music promo for the band Masakichi. Song ‘Spring’. I experimented a lot with timelapse photography for this video. The band wanted the video to reflect the seasons, so I added super 8mm footage to give it a warm feeling and we shot the slow
motion shots with an I-phone which was a challenge to light. The video can be viewed here https://vimeo.com/135524829
Music promo for the band Radio Alcatraz. Song ‘The industry has failed, activate the black magic’ Simple live performance video so I tried to make the atmosphere and camera work dirty but at the same time energetic and dynamic. The full video can be found here https://vimeo.com/107271564
A making of short, charting the making of the video to Clarence Clarity’s song ‘Alive in the septic tank’, directed by Craig Murray. The video was shown at the Victoria and Albert museum in london as part of a spotlight on local artists season. The video can be viewed herehttps://vimeo.com/69268580
Thank you for taking the time to view my portfolio. If you would like to know more about me I have made a short video CV about who I am and my work. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. The video can be viewed here https://vimeo.com/190745636