tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214353662009-12-14T13:18:11.467ZSam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-69639524107916596242009-12-14T13:13:00.003Z2009-12-14T13:18:11.473Z

I'm very pleased to announce that my new illustration portfolio site, Sam Gilbey Illustrates, is now finally live!For a while there it really did seem like it would never be finished, so I'm glad to be able to share it with you now. As you might imagine, this means that gradually I'm phasing this site out, and that a design portfolio is also on the way. I'll no longer be updating this site, so

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I'm pleased to announce that my Christmas Card design for 2009 is available to buy as a greeting card through Imagekind. I can't set it up in their system automatically, but I pledge to give 10% of any sales of this card to charity. The image was inspired by a photo I took on a snowy day this year, although sadly it was last February, and not from a white Christmas!If you'd like one/some, please

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First of all, apologies for the lack of updates here. It's all because the new site/s are still getting done. But, the fact is, it won't be much longer now. I'm just trying to make them as awesome as I can and there are lots of details to get right.Anyway, I really am on the final stretch now, so keep an eye out for the official launch soon...Thanks for your patience, and of course in the

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Since last December I've been working as Senior Art Director at Preloaded, an experience which I've greatly enjoyed. I've had chance to work on a number of interesting projects, and got to work with a studio full of talented people. Not only that, they very generously permitted me some flexible hours in my contract, which has enabled me to continue pursuing personal projects.That said, I recently

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-38949725444088207642009-08-13T11:47:00.007+01:002009-08-13T12:30:57.995+01:00

For several years I've been chatting with Inksurge, and back in 2005 they did a piece for Pixelsurgeon's Semi Permanent talk at the Barbican. It was nice to be able to return the favour, when they invited me to contribute a large 3 foot by 6 foot piece to Manila Design Week.The theme for the posters was to propose a solution for solving an environmental problem in cities. I got to thinking, if

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Over the last few years I sometimes get asked if I sell copies of my work, to which that answer has always been "ummm...maybe I do - let me know what you like and perhaps I can get something sorted for you", i.e. vague at best. With that in mind, I'm very pleased that I can now offer prints of my work for sale, via Imagekind. I've decided to try things out with them because they specialise in

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Earlier this week I heard some incredibly sad news. A young and talented designer I knew, Alex Ciccui/Arpaillange, passed away last weekend. It has emerged that he had an underlying heart condition, which I think he may even have been unaware of himself. For the last few days I've been struggling how to write about it here, partly because by putting it off, it was a way to stop it being true.But

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Whilst you can only ever truly work to please yourself, it's always especially rewarding when people seem to appreciate what you do. As such, it was very humbling and flattering to see that the Photoshop tutorial website, Psdtuts+, added me to their list of the top twenty digital artists in Europe. Of course it's all subjective, and don't worry, I won't let it go to my head, but I'd be lying if I

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-71525512406512014942009-07-01T16:49:00.006+01:002009-07-02T10:54:38.047+01:00

Growing up in the 80s, it was impossible not to be inspired and influenced by Michael Jackson. In this piece I wanted to pay tribute to that peerless energy he displayed when at his best, both as a singer/musician and as a dancer. Something that Björk said about him once has always stuck with me: "He's a true believer in magic."Together with Quincy Jones and others, he really did create some of

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-26254873520424198472009-06-21T19:39:00.005+01:002009-06-21T19:46:49.082+01:00

I'm gradually working through the photos I took at Offf in Portugal, and seeing which ones to reinterpret as sketches. This is only the second I've created so far, but wanted to share it with you all the same...

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-1371642157499305592009-06-21T19:19:00.003+01:002009-06-21T19:33:25.488+01:00

Recently I heard from the team working on a US pilot of No Heroics, who were interesting in reusing my artwork for the main set. Naturally I was happy to oblige, and gave them access to the hi-res files so that they could do just that. Nothing much else to report, although Freddie Prinze Jr. is to star. (Some) more information can be found at noheroics.com and Wikipedia. Creator Drew Pearce has

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Travis McCoy (of Gym Class Heroes fame) is an ambassador for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, the world’s largest, youth focused, HIV and AIDS prevention campaign. The Foundation asked me if I'd like to design his blog (and design the logo) for the adventure he's going on with some of the team, traveling to Asia and Africa to meet some of the amazing young people who run HIV prevention projects in

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-91900755184741367542009-06-21T11:42:00.010+01:002009-06-21T12:30:38.874+01:00

I got a really nice little surprise this week when Computer Arts added me to their list of top 20 designers who tweet. It was very good of them, as there are so many others out there whom they could have included instead. Just being mentioned on the same page as these folks is very humbling, even though I'm lucky enough to be acquainted with a few of them. As you'd expect, this has led quite a

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One of Preloaded's big projects this year has been a turn-based strategy game to accompany Channel 4's new dramatisation of the famous events of 1066. The gameplay is pretty deep, and even supports online multiplayer. You can play it here.The project was already well underway when I joined Preloaded at the end of last year, so I've had very little involvement in the whole project other than a bit

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Yep that's right, the famous clock has certainly been round the block a bit. Happy Birthday Ben! At Preloaded we were commissioned by Parliament to create an educational but fun game to celebrate its 'sesquicentennial'. We pitched the idea that you would play the character of Little Ben, and have to swing on a rope before the clock face, in order to clean it in time for the anniversary

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-12644967375622191132009-05-15T15:53:00.026+01:002009-06-07T18:46:45.967+01:00

I had never been to Offf before, and aside from visiting a few of the London BD4D events (now defunct), and speaking at Semi-Permanent London with Pixelsurgeon way back in 2005, I'd never actually travelled abroad to any design events previously. It turned out to be an inspirational weekend, and even with some of the downsides considered, I definitely plan to visit more festivals in the future.

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-66978534749423230312009-05-06T11:06:00.004+01:002009-06-07T18:26:54.872+01:00

Last summer I worked with Play on the designs for the Foster's Scuba site, which you can read about in my original blog post.The reason for mentioning it again though is that the site made it into the Creative Review Annual. I'm certainly not going to try and claim that this was all down to the design, because clearly it was the innovative use of technology that was deserving of the prize (you

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My parents always made sure I had pen and paper handy when I was growing up, but like many people my age, Tony Hart was also an important influence. Any child watching could have been forgiven for thinking that he possessed magical powers – such was the speed and skill with which he produced a wide range of styles.Maybe this is the path I would have always taken, but even so, I can't help but

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-35450376996420958242009-03-19T00:18:00.003Z2009-03-19T00:25:53.053Z

Don't Panic are running a Street Fighter IV poster contest, and being a fan of the series, I thought I'd give it a shot! Or should that be a hadouken?!For this piece I wanted to contrast a static facial portrait of Chun Li, showing her focus and resolve, with a glimmer of the power, speed and grace of her techniques in small glimpses around her.Winning entries will get turned into a set of

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There's a new issue of Computer Arts Projects out and about, on the subject of videogames, which as you may well know, is a subject quite close to my heart. And thumbs.So it was proper nice 'n' that when they asked if I'd like to contribute to the 'designer challenge' section, where three folks in each issue are given the same brief, and a few hours to produce a piece for it. There's no time

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-77566023619052190302009-02-10T07:34:00.007Z2009-02-10T10:15:03.967Z

It's not every day that you get your artwork featured on a DVD, so I'm unashamed to say that I was pretty excited to get my hands on the No Heroics DVD this week. They've used some of my sticker designs on the 'Special Features' menu, and the 'Art Gallery' is set aside for the work I did on the show. Pics here:If you're interested, this tour of 'The Fortress' set by creator Drew Pearce reveals a

Sam Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05579658654004756645noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21435366.post-27364659148467217182009-02-06T16:52:00.002Z2009-02-06T16:57:17.940Z

Hi again folks - wow it's February already! I know there haven't been any portfolio updates for a while, but there's certainly plenty going on behind the scenes, and I'll definitely be in touch just as soon as there's new material to show. In the meantime, you may be interested to know that the nice guys at Design Taxi have posted their interview with me.

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Just a quickie to say that I'm now collating Last.fm, Flickr, FFFFOUND!, and Twitter content on the really rather lovely Soup. If you're not familiar with it, it's a great way to consolidate your digital life. So feel free to join me on there if you're interested in the stuff I like and/or the things I do.

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Back in September 2008 we spent a week in Newquay, Cornwall. It seems like an age ago now, but I've recently finished uploading some of my favourite shots to Flickr:

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Happy New Year everyone - hope you had a good break. Yeah I know it's already the 11th - let's just say I'm having a slow start to the year! The first piece of news to share with you is a small contribution to the 119th issue of Computer Arts Projects, which is all about seeing what design trends might catch on this year. As a rule I think pursuing trends is to be avoided by any self-respecting

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