John Paul Thurlow • COVERS • VOL 2

After HHY

2012-03-04T08:52:00.001-08:00

Holbeineyes

The river, the rainbow, and the all-seeing eye WIP

2012-02-25T15:22:00.003-08:00

Beatles50

George WIP

2012-02-20T19:37:00.001-08:00

Leather mask

2012-01-22T14:14:00.001-08:00

Touch (detail)

The Scottish Lady

My boys wear Dash

2012-01-07T14:55:00.001-08:00

Murray, new sleeve, nonoloa dash #14

Billy, Dash, nonoloa #?

The full Baku

2011-11-05T08:34:00.000-07:00

Ami Sioux

Giles Milton

Harriet Quick

Leyla Aliyeva

Mary Fellowes

Thierry Guetta (Mr. Brainwash)

Simon Du Pury

Tim Teeman

Tom Craig

Eniko Mihalik

These drawings were made for Conde Nast London, for the contributors page of Baku Magazine.

Friends of Covers make cool stuff

2011-11-03T07:36:00.000-07:00

Happy Day of the Dead from The New Tough c/o Robin Black & Nick Tamburri

THE NEW TOUGH, UNTITLED from THE NEW TOUGH on Vimeo.

Friends of Covers make cool stuff

2011-10-23T15:51:00.000-07:00

New Michael Forrest track: 'smutty' beats Sliding Down. Love this. More at Grimace Works >>.

16 Henry Street, Front Room 2011

2011-10-22T10:28:00.000-07:00

Friends of Covers Film the Blanks (John Taylor) and Tom Percival are exhibiting together as part of Bristol's Front Room 2011. It's a great way to meet the artists and get your hands on limited edition original artworks.

Written & illustrated by Tom Percival

'Spared no expense' by John Taylor

Both artists will be selling copies of their work from their collective front room at 16 Henry Street, Totterdown, Bristol, UK from the 18th - 20th November this year. Visit front room.org >> for more info.

Flattering aside

2011-10-18T17:24:00.000-07:00

I've just been sent this pic of the 'Inspiration Wall' at Wieden + Kennedy >>. I'm so flattered that one of the best agencies in the world would consider my work inspiring. I have no idea who the hirsute gentleman is or what pink dots mean.

Decoy Magazine #03

2011-10-02T21:03:00.000-07:00

Angelika Houston with eyes on fire

I was invited by Richard Kilroy to contribute to the third issue of Decoy Magazine. It was this or beatified McQueen. Richard chose this one :-) Get Decoy here >>

Elle UK August 2011

2011-10-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

Anatomy of a Breakup (pre LC)

Untreated originals - Elle Collections Autumn Winter 2011

2011-10-02T20:53:00.000-07:00

Nicola Formichetti (Alt version sans tat)

Victoria Beckham

Alexander Wag

Maria Grazia Chiuri

Pier Paolo Piccioli

Cover 106 - Elle Collections for Gym Class Magazine #08

2011-10-02T20:17:00.000-07:00

First of the new work: A commission for Steven Gregor to appear in Gym Class 8, to accompany the Elle UK interviews. It's a double cover of Elle Collections Autumn Winter 2011, it's also one of the biggest pieces I've made so far.

Gym CLass Magazine
Elle UK

Once for Steven, once for Tom

Low-level catharsis

2011-10-02T19:53:00.000-07:00

For those who love(d) John Grant and The Czars: Low's rendition of Last Night I dreamt... by the Smiths is probably the ultimate slow core cover.

Young people make art!

2011-10-02T07:50:00.000-07:00

Jade Holman Travis sent me a pic of her A-Level art project inspired by Covers. This looks like a mashup of 98/72/51. Nice job Jade, best of luck with your future studies!

Lost classic - Reissued

2011-09-21T20:29:00.000-07:00

Critically lauded commercial suicide from 1991: Laughing Stock, the final Talk Talk album will be reissued on October 11th. Finally it will be possible to repurchase the Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock/Mark Holis trilogy.

Essential listening. More on Pitchfork >>

Hi-res Nolander

2011-09-18T15:35:00.001-07:00

Lykke a princess

2011-09-18T15:24:00.001-07:00

Brutal algebra

2011-09-18T12:49:00.000-07:00

David Rowan Photography - new work update: Denys Lasdun architecture at the University of East Anglia UK >> Brutal beauty left to rot.

Holy Crap! That's expensive...

2011-09-18T11:53:00.001-07:00

Lykke Li WIP

2011-09-16T18:38:00.001-07:00

Source >>

New fave shoppe

2011-09-16T16:18:00.000-07:00

Inheritance, 8055 Beverly Blvd. LA 90048 >>

M83 vs. Gleaming the Cube

2011-09-15T21:31:00.000-07:00

M83 - Midnight City from dustin sussman on Vimeo.

What Last.fm says is my fave band are back with a new album: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming >>. Mike McGill, stunt double for Slater, gets kudos here.

LA brings out a little zombie in me

2011-09-14T16:09:00.000-07:00

No scanner so an iphone photo will have to do. This is my WIP of Gavin Nolan's Ride a White Horse >>

His is better but I got a lot out of studying this painting :-)

MAT DOLPHIN interview

2011-09-14T15:53:00.000-07:00

A new interview with name checks to regular collabomates Tom (Elle), Christopher (Pinups), Steven (Gym Class), and JMT (FTB/AVM).

Bullshit sound-bites agogo here >>

UPDATE:
'John Paul Thurlow is an amazing illustrator, one of the best around if you ask us'. My head is now the size of Jupiter.

Thanks Just Breathe for the shout out >>

Not sleepy at all

2011-09-05T10:52:00.001-07:00

Eyes wide

2011-09-01T04:06:00.000-07:00

Tools

2011-08-31T18:59:00.000-07:00

If a poor craftsman blames his tools then perhaps a good craftsman should praise his. This is my new Alvin DRAFT/MATIC 0.9mm mechanical pencil currently loaded with HB hi-polymer firepower.

This probably sounds geeky but moving from a 0.5mm (the most common propelling pencil) to a 0.7 mm, then to this is quite a shock. Luxurious and smooooooth in comparison, it's stunning that a relatively cheap mass produced object can work so well.

Alvin & Company >>

The Linex propelling eraser pen. I draw with this as much as the pencil. It shouldn't really be called an eraser as it's more of a smudge tool. Used properly it's perfect for creating smooth tones.

Originally I had no idea how to use this, I bought it as a regular eraser and was frustrated at how it refused to erase lines cleanly. Then it clicked, the pen format is something of a clue...

Linex at Artifolk >>

Inspiration: Ride a White Horse by Gavin Nolan

2011-08-31T18:15:00.000-07:00

I've had this painting in my inspiration folder since October 11th 2008 and have returned to it many times. Today I got to thinking about why I like this beautiful zombie so much...

It seems obvious to start with the technique: The painting of the skin is incredibly subtle, in particular the lips. The modelling of the nose is wonderful enough to forgive the shortcomings of the forehead (not 100% convinced by the perspective top left). The bulging Bowieyes are a stroke of genius.

Talking of colours the flattened paisley dress works so well against the skin, the ornamental closure looks like a tattoo to my eyes. And then there's her flat, graphic, Bardo-noir hair.

Of all Nolan's work, this for me is the best. She's fucked-up beautiful.

More Gavin Nolan here >>

Undercover

2011-08-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

Condé/Baku teaser

2011-08-28T18:26:00.001-07:00

Drawn through the hurricane...

To celebrate the passing of Irene I'm dancing around my living room to the M83/Big Black Delta remix of Daft Punk. Play louder than the wind >>

100 Girls by Sara Blake

2011-08-26T07:50:00.000-07:00

Jolly good friend helloZSO (the illustration alias of artist Sara Blake) is currently rocking the Antipodes with her show and lecture series '100 Girls'. It's totally awesome mate!

Check out a preview here >>

Decoy Magazine Issue 3 - Teaser

2011-08-20T17:36:00.000-07:00

There will be a gun, smoke, and no earrings. Decoy Magazine >> Issue 3, more info soon.

Style Needs No Color

2011-08-19T08:32:00.000-07:00

For those of you with Facebook check out the new book book by SNNC - Schwarz auf weiss: Style Needs No Color >>

I was invited to contribute and you'll see the portrait of Joseph Gordon Levitt from Hesher is in there...

Purchasing details to follow soon...

UPDATE: View/buy the book on the From Here to Fame website >>

eself

2011-08-17T16:45:00.000-07:00

McQ WIP

2011-08-14T16:56:00.001-07:00

Alexander McQueen - Pope

2011-08-14T16:38:00.000-07:00

Official Covers T-Shirts via Nonoloa

2011-08-10T09:35:00.001-07:00

Here's a sneak peak at the first official Covers T-Shirts, due to be released this September via Nonoloa in Barcelona. A significant % of proceeds will be going to a charity related to Dash Snow, his interests / cause of death. More info soon.

Update: http://www.nonoloa.com/ Urban art ready to wear.

The Covers Book: 8 copies left

2011-08-10T06:20:00.000-07:00

The final handful of Covers Books have arrived in the US. The price is $50+postage which is at least $20 (could be more depending on your location). There are 8 copies left and if you'd like one email me... jpthurlow@me.com.

Photograph by Sara Blake.

UPDATE: There are now 5 copies left

UPDATE: There are now 3 copies left

UPDATE: There is now only 1 copy left!

UPGATE: Gone

Anatomy of a Breakup (Alternate version)

2011-08-08T17:23:00.000-07:00

Commissioned by Elle UK for the September 2011 edition.

Layers and levels

2011-08-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

IWFOMTMMO WIP

2011-08-07T08:08:00.001-07:00

What to do on a rainy Sunday morning?

Canon of Queens #2: Beatified McQueen

2011-08-06T19:47:00.000-07:00

DandAD Awards Surfrider

2011-07-29T04:38:00.000-07:00

Overnight I received an email from D&AD informing me that I'd won for my illustration work on Surfrider.

Cue long pause.

D&ADs like Lions are not easy things to win. It's an incredible honour.

I think I might order a slice.

Elle Collections A/W '11 out now

2011-07-24T19:42:00.000-07:00

I just noticed that the new Elle Collections is out. Art Direction by Tom Meredith, illustrations by me, images by Susanna Lau.

Read the full article at Style Bubble >

Get your hands on a copy here >

Update: Congrats to Tom Meredith on his D&AD success for Elle Collections.

Dead Hero WIP

2011-07-19T19:39:00.001-07:00

Self portait WIP

2011-07-17T20:39:00.001-07:00

Kate Moss vs. Christopher Shultz

2011-07-09T22:34:00.001-07:00

Follow @jpthurlow on Instagram for WIP updates and... stuff.

Cover 102: Pink Truck Cry uncontrollably for the moon if anything depends on him

2011-07-07T18:11:00.001-07:00

Revisiting //Stack America

2011-07-07T12:15:00.000-07:00

Original artwork:

Wire Magazine #294, August 2008, Tricky photographed by Jake Walters

Tricky is about the same age as me. I spent my teenage years in Bristol as he was laying the foundations of his initial success. Tricky was the kind of guy who’d chat up the pretty blond girls in my circle of friends whilst we we tried to get into the Moon Club underage…. It got annoying… for him too as he wasn’t always as successful with ladies as he would have liked.

Anyway… It seemed success came quickly for him via Massive Attack and although I liked his music I couldn’t disassociate his public image from what I knew of him before he was famous. Until recently i felt ambivalent about him… but as his fame ebbed and flowed he became more interesting to me. I like his cult status; a dark poetic hooligan who grew up and got darker. This cover of Wire would seem to capture that maturity… he looks here like a cross between William Burroughs and Snoop Dog, which is pretty amazing. The lighting in the original is expert and really emphasises his bone structure, I’m very much drawn to how his face is ageing, he looks gaunt but not deathly. He looks like the real deal.

In the original he has silver eyeshadow above his right eye. It didn’t take much to make a connection to the famous Penguin paperback cover of A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. It just seemed to work, so I flipped the makeup situation around and got on with drawing it.

Out now: FAN THE FIRE

2011-07-04T06:51:00.000-07:00

For anyone not familiar with the publication, FAN THE FIRE is a great magazine covering music, film, style, the arts... I can't wait to see it on the iPad.

A number of my drawings are featured in the arts section this time.

Thanks must go to Sam Bathe for making this happen.

Check out the latest edition.

Awards update

2011-06-23T05:54:00.000-07:00

The lovely people at Y&R Paris just sent me an update re the awards Surfrider is accruing this season. What a lovely thing to wake up to!

Cannes 2011: Bronze Press Lion
Surfrider Foundation Europe, Fish, Whale, Seal, Y&R Paris, France.

International Andy Awards 2011: Gold, Illustration, Magazine category.
Surfrider Foundation Europe, Fish, Whale, Seal, Y&R Paris, France.

Clio Awards 2011: Bronze Technique Illustration, Print Category
Animals Marine- Seal, Surfrider Foundation.

Congratulations must go to Gregory Jeanjacquot for winning Art Direction and photography gongs for the Surfrider campaign (as well as commissioning the illustration in the first place)!

Pier

2011-06-12T20:18:00.001-07:00

Maria

2011-06-12T20:16:00.000-07:00

Alexander

2011-06-11T19:28:00.000-07:00

Victoria

2011-06-11T19:25:00.001-07:00

Nicola WIP

2011-06-11T19:24:00.000-07:00

Friends of Covers make cool stuff

2011-06-04T12:57:00.001-07:00

Decoy Magazine #2 is out. Just got mine and it features one of Tara Dougan's McQueen illustrations and a cover by oh-so-slick Ricardo Fumanal.

It's only £4, get yours here. Nice work Mr. Kilroy.

Veine - A webzine focusing on art and fashion #1

2011-06-04T12:20:00.000-07:00

I'd like to draw your attention to the launch of a new webzine called Veine Magazine. Issue one focuses on contemporary illustration and can be found here.

Veine is the creation of Guillaume Ferrand (the purveyor of a wonderful moustache). The zine is well written (en Français) and beautifully designed: witness the lavish full page imagery from Richard Kilroy, Melissa Cooke, Vania Zouravliov and even your's truly.

I can't wait to see what Guillaume does next.

Images by Montse Bernal & Caroline Andrieu

Surfrider fragments & abandoned montages

2011-04-15T21:15:00.000-07:00

The Advertising club of New York awards Surfrider

2011-04-15T07:13:00.000-07:00

Last year I made some illustrations with Y&R Paris for their Surfrider campaign. That work has just been awarded an International ANDY Awards 2011 (Silver) for Illustration and an International ANDY Awards 2011 (Silver) for Public Service in the Magazine category.

Thanks ANDY

View the winners here

Muse '05

2011-04-09T08:47:00.000-07:00

Possible redraw

Cowboy Duchess '05

2011-04-09T08:46:00.000-07:00

Worth a redraw

Girl '05

2011-04-09T08:45:00.000-07:00

I still like the body on this one

Patrick Grant for Gym Class Magazine - full image

2011-03-29T02:00:00.001-07:00

Experimenting with levels and dither, trying to bring out the sketchy feeling... This image is drawn from an original photograph by the brilliant Chris Floyd.

Hesher poster

2011-03-28T12:51:00.000-07:00

Here's the latest version of my poster for the new movie Hesher featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman. Commissioned by Covers fan and director, Spencer Susser.

Here's the official trailer...

Something secret

2011-03-24T13:44:00.000-07:00

It's a big one and it's for a new movie featuring an oscar winner. More soon.

In the hands of Quinnford or Scout

2011-03-23T09:16:00.000-07:00

I just stumbled upon this little triviality... an oblique pic of Gym Class/Winona in the hands of Quinnford (or is it Scout?) from the much loved photographic duo Quinnford + Scout. I like how Steven Gregorowfski describes them as the Gay Goldins (as in Nan one assumes). How lovely to share a spread with them.

Portrait of yours truly by Dashel

2011-03-23T01:52:00.000-07:00

Drawn by my good friend Tara Dougans (otherwise known as the illustrator Dashel) to celebrate my relocation to the big apple. XOX thanks Tara

The Sunday Times Style

2011-03-06T09:33:00.000-08:00

It's always nice to pick up some coverage in a quality mainstream publication. Here's me alongside Blue Logan and Lesley Barnes in today's Sunday Times Style Magazine. Thanks to Benjamin Spriggs.

Preview: Patrick Grant drawn for Gym Class Magazine

2011-03-06T06:04:00.001-08:00

Be my Valentine

2011-02-11T05:50:00.000-08:00

Canon of Queens #01: Bethnal Garth Queen of the Green

2011-02-06T12:31:00.001-08:00

Over the next few months I'm going to try and draw portraits of the gay men who've influenced me. My hope is to assemble maybe 10 drawings of my peers that can act as some kind of record.

This is Gareth. He's an incredible creative director and designer. I've known him for six nearly seven years and working along side him no doubt made me better at my job.

Bethnal Garth update - halfway through

2011-02-06T04:30:00.000-08:00

Empty car parks, unlit alleyways and deserted graveyards...

2011-02-02T11:49:00.000-08:00

My friend Dave loves crumbling concrete and flakey paint... he's been know to crawl around in sewers, hang out in abandoned factories and look for weird perspectives in car parks. I've got used to turning around and realising I've been talking to myself for god knows how long as he's wandered off with his camera... but apart from all that he's an incredible photographer.

David Rowan (photographer of the Covers book) is exhibiting in London right now. If you're up west then head to Ealing and check out The Witching Hour at the PM Gallery & Pitzhanger Manor.

Read the Independent's review of the show here.

The Witching Hour: Darkness and the Architectural Uncanny opens 21 January until 12 March 2011 at the PM Gallery & Pitzhanger Manor, Walpole Park, Ealing, London (ealing.gov.uk/pmgalleryandhouse)

Covers for //Stack America

2011-02-02T01:01:00.001-08:00

Tricky on the cover of The Wire Magazine #323 January 2011. Original photograph by Jake Walters.

Friends of Covers make cool stuff

2011-02-02T00:16:00.000-08:00

Christopher Schulz (the man behind Pinups and Mopping is Stealing) has released his latest project Seth, a paean to Seth Rogen.

Christopher has treated Seth as one of his subjects from Pinups, the difference this time being it's all beautifully hand drawn.

Seth is available for preorder now ($10+pp) via the Pinups website

Seth

6.4" x 8"

32 pages

black & white

edition of 1000

//Stack America teaser

2011-01-22T04:30:00.001-08:00

Some more of my busy Christmas & New Year work, this time for //Stack America. //Stack really is a brilliant concept, an annual subscription where each month you receive a different magazine, safe in the knowledge that they're all going to be great.

... so here's a little teaser of an exclusive Cover I created in collaboration with Andrew Losowsky... It's a thank you to his subscribers.

I can't wait to share it with you as it turned out really well... get yourself over to //Stack and subscribe to see it first.

Fashion doodles for Elle Collections

2011-01-20T15:55:00.000-08:00

Just some quick-fire sketchy stuff to go with the long copy pieces in this season's mag.

Commissioned by Tom Meredith.

Liquidated fashionart: Elle Collections vs. Zevs

2011-01-20T15:14:00.001-08:00

Elle Collections S/S '11 is out next week, and as usual Tom Meredith has done an incredible job...

This is my hommage to Elle Collections and street artist Zevs.

Elle Collections S/S '11 - Alt illustrations

2011-01-20T15:06:00.000-08:00

Alternate version of the classic YSL Opium ad with Sophie Dahl. Drawn for Elle Collection S/S '11 to illustrate an article about plus sizes and fashion.

Elle Collections S/S '11 - Cut illustrations

2011-01-20T14:53:00.001-08:00

i. New York ankle malfunction

'One more wardrobe malfunction to the sound of ankles snapping'

ii. The Paris fall

'In Paris a graceful fall is still a fall from grace'

iii. Milan collapse

'In Milan the reviews were most savage'

Bethnal Garth WIP

2011-01-11T15:28:00.001-08:00

Art/Fashion: The Lichtenstein Dinner Jacket

2011-01-07T14:41:00.000-08:00

'Bears, Illustrated' 2011 out now

2011-01-02T04:34:00.000-08:00

This post must begin with praise for Christian Fernández Mirón. Señor Mirón (a talented illustrator and DJ) has taken it upon himself to produce this annual collection of homoerotic art for the ursine aficionado.

The 'Bears, Illustrated' project first appeared in January 2010 and it's a thrill for me to be included this year alongside fave contemporaries such as Christophe Marchetti and Faka... and to discover some new artists… I hadn't encountered the art of Rubén Sáez but I must say his drawing technique is first rate.

The composition of my drawing is inspired by 'Portrait of Man with Blue Sleeve' by the Venetian renaissance painter Titian. Although it's less erotically revealing than some of the artworks in the calendar I'm happy with how it turned out… there is after all a blow job hiding in there.

As an aside, I became semi-obsessed with drawing smoke during the making of this piece and plan to make a series of smoke drawings soon.

The 'Bears' Illustrated' 2011 calendar is now available for download here, I am November:

Bears, Illustrated 2010

Cover 101 - Abracadabra

2010-12-30T03:32:00.000-08:00

Cover 101 is a landmark in the series and I wanted to celebrate by opening the scope of the project to include record covers and recreate the grandaddy of all Covers, an artwork I made at Goldsmiths called The Witnesses. The Witnesses was based on the record cover for Baccara's Yes Sir I can Boogie blended with a poem by W.H. Auden called The Two.

Yes Sir I can Boogie was one of the first records I bought (had bought for me I should say), and the inspiration for The Witnesses was a childhood memory associated to Baccara: I remember thinking that one of the singers might be a man wearing women's clothes.

The christian name of the lady in black is Mayte (which was probably the source of my childhood suspicions) but she wasn't the one I was fascinated by. It was Maria, in white, who caught my eye. For a 70s Euro-disco diva Maria seemed mysterious, she sung mainly backing vocals and always stood behind Mayte.

I projected my thoughts on to her and stole meaning from the Auden poem… Maria became my angel of death, the counterpoint to Mayte's forward sexual allure. I took one line from the song, one line from the poem and mixed them together to create a fucked up hybrid lyric.

I imagined Maria floating through the dance floor… beautiful queens stricken with plague collapse, she carries them away like a homo-valkyrie, or as the sailor from the Auden poem, holding the 'unlucky rose'. I can't help but think she's from a baltic state, and decided to pause mid gender realignment. Honestly, she does not compute. She's not meant to. Looking back it's all very Angels in America.

Anyway, this time I wanted to do a better job of drawing-out the idea. This time direct references to Auden take the form of tattoos and graffiti scribbles. I've used anagram generators and homophones to come up with an alternate band name and track titles… Abracadabra is not quite as dark as The Witnesses but Mayte still wants to suck your dick, and Maria is still going to make you pay.

As for the new title, Abracadabra, I wanted a word that sounded like Baccara, that alluded to their transformation from disco divas into mythological creatures... without loosing the kitsch. Abracadabra is the campest incantation after all.

I suppose it's worth mentioning that this is the biggest cover drawing I've made so far at nearly 8 times bigger that the first cover.

Cover 101 Source material

2010-12-26T03:44:00.001-08:00

W.H. Auden, THE TWO

You are the town and we are the clock.
We are the guardians of the gate in the rock.
The Two.
On your left and on your right
In the day and in the night,
We are watching you.

Wiser not to ask just what has occurred
To them who disobeyed our word;
To those
We were the whirlpool, we were the reef,
We were the formal nightmare, grief
And the unlucky rose.

Climb up the crane , learn the sailor's words
When the ships from the islands laden with birds
Come in.
Tell your stories of fishing and other men's wives:
The expansive moments of constricted lives
In the lighted inn.

But do not imagine we do not know
Nor that what you hide with such care won't show
At a glance.
Nothing is done, nothing is said,
But don't make the mistake of believing us dead:
I shouldn't dance.

We're afraid in that case you'll have a fall.
We've been watching you over the garden wall
For hours.
The sky is darkening like a stain,
Something is going to fall like rain
And it won't be flowers.

When the green field comes off like a lid
Revealing what was much better hid:
Unpleasant.
And look, behind you without a sound
The woods have come up and are standing round
In deadly crescent.

The bolt is sliding in its groove,
Outside the window is the black remov-
ers' van.
And now with sudden swift emergence
Come the woman in dark glasses and humpbacked surgeons
And the scissors man.

This might happen any day
So be careful what you say
Or do.
Be clean, be tidy, oil the lock,
Trim the garden, wind the clock,
Remember the Two.

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie lyrics

Mister
Your eyes are full of hesitation
Sure makes me wonder
If you know what you're looking for.
Baby
I wanna keep my reputation
I'm a sensation
You try me once, you'll beg for more.

Yes Sir, I can boogie
But I need a certain song.
I can boogie, boogie woogie
All night long.
Yes Sir, I can boogie,
If you stay, you can't go wrong.
I can boogie, boogie woogie, all night long

No Sir,
I don't feel very much like talking
No, neither walking
You wanna know if I can dance.
Yes Sir, Already told you in the first verse
And in the chorus
But I will give you one more chance.

Yes Sir, I can boogie
But I need a certain song.
I can boogie, boogie woogie
All night long.
Yes Sir, I can boogie,
If you stay, you can't go wrong.
I can boogie, boogie woogie, all night long

Unofficial Covers t-shirts seen on Brick Lane

2010-12-23T11:45:00.000-08:00

Ripped off again...

More pics here... alongside the brilliant Sandra Dieckmann.

The irony is that this part of the market is right next door to the company that made me redundant... which inadvertently led to me starting Covers...

Stolen goods stolen, imitation, flattery... maybe I should do some official t-shirts then.

Covers on Pinups

2010-12-15T08:42:00.000-08:00

Cover 4 is featured on Pinups. Thanks to Christopher Schulz...

Book signing tomorrow

2010-12-13T13:50:00.000-08:00

Reza and I will be doing an informal book signing of the Covers book tomorrow at The Peasant St. John Street, come meet us and grab a copy.

Bears Illustrated Calendar 2011 smoke preview

2010-12-12T10:53:00.001-08:00

Does it look like the Scream mask to you?

You Have Been Here Sometime

2010-12-03T13:09:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Brooks Hudson Thomas and YHBHS for mentioning Covers alongside Interview (!!! Yeah I know !!!). Read his article about growing up in Guam in the 80s... and how magazines broke through the isolation.

Affordable @ Specific, Los Angeles

2010-11-28T10:01:00.000-08:00

Covers is proud to be part of the Affordable Art Sale at Specific Merchandise in LA this December. Exclusive hand-monographed versions of the Covers Book will be available. Affordable @ Specific is curated by Brooks Hudson Thomas.

SPECIFIC

7374 Beverly Blvd.

Los Angeles

CA 90036

01 323 930 0220

Oh! Canada...

2010-11-28T01:32:00.001-08:00

Covers in the Canadian Globe and Mail. Scan courtesy of Natalia Grosner.

November Secret

2010-11-27T18:08:00.001-08:00

Approaching maximum sfumato

Old sketchbooks to be archived

2010-11-27T18:01:00.001-08:00

Manhattan - Road to Fader - November 29th

2010-11-22T02:49:00.000-08:00

Earlier this year I collaborated with musician Manhattan on a promotional image for his new long play release Road to Fader. Well it's out on the 29th and from what I've heard it's very good...

Listen to Blurry Lines the first track from Manhattan's new album, (spot the sneaky Air sample).

More from Lemar and Dauleys who are releasing Road to Fader.

WIP Elle March 2011

2010-11-21T07:14:00.001-08:00

Gym Class #7 trumps Italian Vogue in my mailbox

2010-11-17T11:18:00.001-08:00

It's true... both arrived today and Gym Class was the one I couldn't resist... from the C30 upfront, via Casey Spooner, Will Self, Mo Coppoletta (who's inked a number of my good friends), Andrew Tuck (Monocle), and George Lois... the content is some of the best out there as is the design.

An incredible achievement... No wonder the Guardian are bigging-it up. Steven, please enter this into D&AD before the deadline closes in January.