lined with ghosts is the home of my illustration and design work. here is an overview of my portfolio. feel free to contact me if you wish to see more.
i am a freelance illustrator based in a small village in nottinghamshire.
contact me on the address below for work requests & queries.
simon@linedwithghosts.com
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The band are embarking on their first tour proper...absolutely incredible live. check out the dates at witness this in person. myspace.com/threetrappedtigers
Holy Roar Records are releasing this again, after the first two pressings sold out. New art & packaging, ten page digipak fold out. Available to pre-order with the t-shirt shown here, yellow shirt with grey print & black shirt with grey print. This label keep putting out better and better releases and run by two awesome people.
Visit their store and when stock up on all the great releases theyve put out.
Data Select Party go from strength to strength, this is an update of their 'Hanging Out With Humans' Mini - Album, which comes out at the end of february. It includes the majority of the releases they have put out, including a couple of bonus tracks which are incredible. Jesus always did have killer taste in tracksuits.
The image on the end if for an all over tote bag, which the band will be selling on their feb/march tour.
Dates can be found at:
Ellie Goulding is incredible, her music is sure be massive this year, so talented. This is a piece for the web, based on the idea of 'Heartwork'. Check out her myspace, you will not be disappointed.
An up and coming 5 piece from the spalding area, wanted to try and capture the sleepiness and mood of title with the hundred of paper planes falling from the sky covered in light fragments of sleep.
check them out at:
The Ep is also up for pre order along with a host of dates which see the band up and down the country over the next couple of months.
Brontide are a three piece instrumental outfit from the centre of the country. They've recently signed with Holy Roar Records and have plans to release an ep in the spring and then album in the autumn, the songs are getting better and better.
Recently embarked on a three week tour, gracing many of englands favourite and not so loved towns. Well worth catching,
Check out the dates on the links below!
Badges are available from them now and the bags are to follow shortly.
Printed by Jack @ INKY PEOPLE
Art based on the mood I got from her songs, as a starting point to where I want to go on this project. The idea that the netting had caught all the different colours from the air and the bird sitting in a break in the net.
check her out:
An elaboration of the idea from the Mini Album 'Hanging Out With Humans'. On the album the humans were restricted to the buildings, in this idea they're crawling all over the buildings. First prints were black with gold outlines & people on a charcoal shirt.
Printed by Jack @ INKY PEOPLE.
This EP is released at the end of February to coincide with the bands UK tour w/ Colour. Working on the ideas of empty shells of houses and how the humans are restrained to floating above the houses. It worked in a dream, it worked as effectively on the package, released through the good folks at FEARANDRECORDS.
Four Panel Moon Cut Digipak,
Grab one from the band on tour or order at:
Artwork to promotoe a friends photography exhibition at UCA Rochester. Between the five photographers dealt with different views into empty spaces and how the idea of humans within a space completely changes its environment.
more information can be found at:
The band was embarking on their first headline tour following the release of their debut album 'Hysterics'. So here is a range of designs based on elements of the art from them album.
From left to right:
Sweater
Tshirt
Bag
T shirt
T shirt
The logo was a departure from the stock logo the band usually use on their merch and I think it works well with the style of the designs.
The band wanted to re do the visuals on the myspace to tie in with the release of their debut album. It was a cross bewteen the art used for the LP and elements used with the booklet on the CD version.
Great guys from Cornwall. Art produced for their EP 'Channels'. Mixed media piece with photography, pencil and illustrator. Produced to accompany the tour in the winter of '08 and avaiable from the band on their myspace and at shows.
Produced as a take on the album art for use as a pre order exclusive when ordering the album. Screen Print and T shirt, exclusively available through Hassle. Made to order.
Printed by:
Released as a limited 7" Vinyl through Holy Roar.
Two tracks exclusive tracks from Tortuga & One exclusive track from DSHS. Produced in a card wallet, with information card and burgendy coloured vinyl.
Detalied illustration or Australian seed pods, coloured via photoshop.
Available from:
Rolo Tomassi released their debut album 'Hysterics' through Hassle records on September 22nd 2008.
CD Version comes with a 12 page illustrated booklet, where each song has a different page of illustration which flow together to form a mural. The pages for 'Abraxas' & 'Oh, Hello Ghost' are shown in the right panel.
LP artwork js the follow on to the CD version, the mountain has exploded into hundreds of fragments, which are floating around the vortex of cloud which previously sad around the mountain.
Records are available from the Hassle webstore and from the band on tour.
hasslerecords.bigcartel.com
hasslerecords.com
myspace.com/rolotomassi
The Petty Thief is a solo artist from the Nottinghamshire area. He uses a mixture of Acoustic & Electric Guitar Loops, Drums and Vocals. Tim is mainly active within his other project Brontide but on off time can be seen playing under this moniker. This badge was used as the front for a 3" CD which is distributed through his myspace and live shows.
T Shirt to conicide with the bands May & Summer shows, original composition featuring a swarm of birds pulling the insides out of a clockwork cat.
Also a different take on the RT 'EP' logo, featuring the birds.
Still available from the band on tour,
Red & Black print on a white shirt.
5 colour screen print to coincide with the release of the download only single 'The Hunters Daughter'. Tour version had dates and band name along the bottom and was available from the bands final shows in June '08.
Ink & Illustrator, Google earth also used on the Vocalists village for accurate fields.
Printed by Jack @ INKY PEOPLE
myspace.com/inkypeople
myspace.com/iwasacubscout
Todd now plays in OMES
myspace.com/omes
William now plays in BRONTIDE
myspace.com/brontidetheband
Paper produced to wrap the IWACS Tour posters, but also used as wrapping paper for different prints.
A series of six empty bird cages, as I feel that empty bird cages do hold a lot of ghosts, hence the relevance to lined with ghosts.
Dark Grey print on a champagne coloured paper.
Printed by Jack @ INKY PEOPLE
Raven composed of different varieties of blooms. Will become a full colour screen print soon. Black version appears on a I Was A Cub Scout T Shirt.
Inked and then taken through illustrator.
Released in February '08. CD, 4 Panel Digipak, with illustrated booklet.
LP, Gatefold Vinyl with huge 12 panel poster, Silver pantone on photographs.
Each Square/page in booklet featured a photograph and separate illustration based on the moood and the lyrics for the songs. A sample of these is shown in the right panel. Photography, Ink & Illustrator.
CD Version available from:
iwacs.bigcartel.com
T Shirt given to Street Teamers promoting IWACS outside shows and venues.
The shirt depicts and echidna with a castle on his back. obviously.
Print scheme, yellow shirt with black print.
First shirt I did for Rolo Tomassi. Clockwork Owl, has since featured on the front of their album and multiple other bits.
Initially printed on pale blue shirts and has since been printed on dark red with white print.
Two shirts for IWACS mid 2007 tour. The birds on a wire image was also used as the bands header for myspace for a long time. The house on stilts also served as a promotional image for 'Our Smallest Adventures'.
Mid 2007. Tour T Shirt to promote the band Dartz. The idea was a racing giraffe who had the name 'Dartz', because he well....um darts. Initially printed on red and yellow shirts, then as a green print on white tote bags.
These are great guys and need to be checked out live.
Dates and other fun:
myspace.com/darts
CD/ 7" Single. Different colour schemes across the two formats. A multitude of ribbons twisted between each other.
The continuation of this project was for the IWACS 'Hello' EP.
A collection of all the previous singles IWACS released, coupled with some download only releases and remixes.
The EP was used to introduce the band to a european audience. Text on the front reads 'hello' in a variety of european laguages. Sold on the minus the bear tour, long since sold out.
Artwork was a follow on of the themes from 'Our Smallest Adventures', with luggage tags and that the scissors were casting off the old ones.
Initially designed for the single launch of 'Our Smallest Adventures'. 5 different colours with a black top print on cream bags.
Printed by Jack @ INKY PEOPLE
Mixed media project, cut up photography and illustration.
7" was pressed on transparent blue vinyl.
Second release IWACS put out on Abeano records.
Created to celebrate IWACS first headline tour in march 2007. Designs were printed on three different colour shirts for each designs and colours were varied.
Wolf Cub played homage to the text used in the first banners, before they were a 2 piece.
Printed multiple times, but now sold out.
The first single IWACS put out on the Abeano imprint of XL. Hugely popular, but a very simple request of the band. Little details made this a fun project to work with like small lyrical references in certain photos made it more interesting than the standard photo montage.
Also shown are the vinyl middles, this text was created for this project and was used throughout the bands life.
