Himptology: The Holy Book of HIMP

To coincide with our exhibition Himptology: The Second Coming at The Arches we have produced a new book, which is available to buy at the bargin price of just £6 from our Etsy. It contains around 40 b+w drawings from our series of thoughts on belief and belonging which form part of the show.

Buy em while they're hot.



Scottish Greetings Cards

My Scottish Post prints are now availible in handy gift card size for sending lots of nice greetings to friends and family or, if you prefer, you can keep them for yourself and use the envelopes for storing small items like paper clips, rubber bands or plastic moustaches.

Folksy / Etsy

Greetings

Here is the full range of greetings cards that I recently made. These were all made from images I already had. Now that I've started thinking about making greetings cards I've got tons of ideas, think they could be a lot of fun to draw.

They will be added to my folksy and etsy shops soon though will probably have to be in sets of 5 to make it worth peoples postage.

New Folksy Shop

I've set up a Folksy shop in which various wares can be purchased, let me know what you think.

http://www.folksy.com/shops/holeinmypocket

I should never have joined the Army.

Here is my latest wee book entitled "I should never Have joined the Army". This was made for the 2010 Glasgow International Artist's bookfair.

"A tribute to all the brave soldiers who meet sticky ends in disaster/ monster movies. Whether its aliens or giant apes these guys are always the first on the scene and first to get wiped out while the movie’s hero escapes to fight another day. Action movie soldiers we salute you."

[Availible for sale from Etsy or Folksy]

HIMP: Sketchbooks Vol 1

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A set of two books comprising extracts of the personal sketchbooks of those behind Hole in my Pocket, allowing the reader a unique insight into the internal workings of their tiny little minds.

One book containts extracts of Alburt's sketchbook, one contains extracts from Scott's sketchbook. Each book is around 36 pages

[Availible for sale from Etsy or Folksy]

Tales from the Edge - Part 1

First in a quartet of stories about the life of a Lighthouse Keeper on a little rock on the edge of a distant sea. It’s a story about loneliness, boredom and an empty stomach. Book is a 12 page A5 comic in pen and ink.

[Availible for sale from Etsy or Folksy]

Badges Galore

Series 8 of Sterohype's BIO (by invitation only) badges have just been released and here is the full list of amazing new talents on offer.

Allan Deas,

Andy J. Miller @ Koma Design,

Allistair Burt aka Alburt,

Anja Gerscher,

Bálint Egyed @ Voov,

Fiona Hamilton @ Soma Gallery,

Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek @ FL@33,

Greig Anderson @ Effektive Design,

Heiko Hoos,Jan von Holleben,

Karin Kloubert @ April Mediengruppe,

Madeleine Duba,

Peter Crnokrak @ The Luxury of Protest,

Supersentido,

Mike and Katie @ TADO,

Tom Würzburg,

Yuko Michishita.

As some of the eagle eyed of you might have noticed I'm pleased to say that I've managed to scrape into the above list. Click here to see my designs.

As my payment I get to choose 15 badges from their amazing back catalogue - quite excited I'm away to shop.

Top Christmas Pressie

http://www.flat33.com/postcard/ENG_02_info.html

POSTCARD
A celebration of recent postcard design, thisunique book showcases over 800 miniature worksof art, specially created for a postcard-sizedcanvas: a must-have for avid collectors as well asanyone with a passion for graphic design.Features over 100 artists, illustrators, photographers,designers and collectives from around the world,with new talents sitting alongside established artists.Separate sections are devoted to one-off designs,limited-edition sets and books, unusual and hightechpostcards and interactive projects.Includes a huge range of handmade artworks,cutting-edge illustrations, commercial promocards, and even edible and musical postcards.

And I'm one of the artists. My copy arrived yesterday and its super cool and would make an excellant gift for your loved ones this Christmas.

I'm off to Japan - see you in a few weeks. (Availible from all good book shops and the wonderful world of Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Postcard-FL-33/dp/1856695697?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215963088&sr=8-1.)

Island

Few extracts from my book the Lighthouse - first in a series of four books about the lonely life of a little lighthouse keeper and the real reason he stays on his island (£4.50 exc p+p). The second part is almost complete and will be on sale soon too.

Good book

Just heard word about the launch of the website about the postcard book that I am going to be in, when it is published in September. I've had a wee look and it seems I am in good company with David Shriggley and Tom Gauld for company.

http://www.postcard-book.info:80/

Where are they now?

A wee image I've been working on and hope to produce as a limited series of prints very soon.

Stop me and buy one

I had an intersting time over the last two days at the Glasgow International Artist Bookfair, the first such event to take place in Glasgow. As mentioned before we didn't have a table and above is the trolley we created to sell our wares. It was really god fun pushing the trolley around the place, it did mean I had to be on my feet for two whole days but it did allow me to move to wherever I fancie and meant I could walk over and chat to the other stall hodlers and check out their stuff. The stuff in question was a huge variety of artist books ranging from short one line cards, to artist-zines, book sculptures and massive leather bound prints.


Above the four himp books on sale

himp lolly-pop business cards


himp in card
Himp Flag


*Mucho gracious to Ann and Gav for their assistance in getting the trolley ready for the show.
Himp flag

Book fair excitement

Well we are in another book fair this coming weekend. Its part of the Glasgow International Festival and takes place in the Royal Concert Hall from 11am - 6pm Friday 25th & Saturday 26th April. For more information, the list of other artist involved, maps and all other do-das visit http://www.giab.org.uk/.

Sadly we found out about the show too late to get one of the tables so instead we were asked to come up with an alternative method of showing the books. Our alternative method is shown above, a nice old trolley found in a skip. Over the next two nights it will be going through a full face lift and will become a beautiful trolley of books selling wonderous or at least very brightly coloured.

Books on sale will include - "Tales from the Edge", "Himp Vol 1", "Space Adventures 1" and "B for Boredom". All are excellant gifts for the loved ones in your life and, if you can't make it down to what promises to be a very entertaining show this weekend, the books are availible from our site, just drop us an email to sort out purchase.

Book fairs and shops

We have been seleteced for two book fairs in April. - one in Glasgow and one in London, which is handy as Scott can do one and I can do the other. The only tricky thing is that the Glasgow one had already been fully booked out before we heard about it and we therefore are going to be selling our books from a makeshift ice-cream style/ book selling tray.

So I guess we'd best get on with designing it.

We will also now be selling at Hithero, (the excellant shop of wonders behind the merchant city Tindebox) and Aye Aye books (the artist bookshop outside the Sculpture Studios.)