Teacake's Friends - Part Three

Teacake friend and collaborator Sebastian Matthes was born in Germany and moved to Manchester in 2006 to pursue his passion for photography.  Previously a full time nurse, Sebastian's love for the art quickly turned into his profession when he became the Warehouse Project's resident photographer.  With his work featured in national and international publications including iDJ and DJ Magazine, Sebastian's breathtaking images capture the raw energy of the crowd, making you feel like you were there.  

Alongside music photography, a big part of Sebastian's work is also commercial and product photography - is there no end to this mans talents?  

You can check out his website here. 

- Jennifer

Teacake's Friends - Part Two

Dom and Ink (also known as Dominic Evans) is an illustrator living in Manchester and London. After graduating from Manchester School of Art in 2008, Dom went on to complete an MA in Illustration at The University of Brighton where he started producing work for the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Amelia's Magazine and The Shoreditch Fashion Show (amongst others). 

His first book, Map My Heart is released in November (Summersdale Publishing) and explores relationships - '...it's about how people meet, fall in love, break up, wallow and then pull yourselves together for round two.  It will make you laugh and think, pour out your innermost thoughts and doodle away your angst, scrawl swear words and rip out it's pages'.

You can pre order the book on Amazon for only £8.67.  Bargain. 

Check out his website here.  

- Jennifer

Teacake's Friends - Part One

New to the blog, we've decided to introduce you to some of our talented friends.  This week meet 23 year old Fine Artist, Jess Rowe.

Graduating from Manchester School of Art in 2012, Jess focuses on the use of oil with her most recent pieces creating a series, entitled 'Oil on Board' numbered one through to thirteen.  Inspired by nature, Jess' abstract pieces do not work directly from images of nature but more towards '...leaving a trace and hinting at the organic and spontaneous'. 

Check out a selection of our favourite pieces below.  You can visit her website here.  

- Jennifer

Tom Bingham

Having received a nice email from Tom Bingham this afternoon I thought I'd share some of his great Illustration work with you. Tom is an illustrator based in the North of England. Using a variety of materials, his work is both experimental and abstract creating bold, colourful and textured images.

Tom graduated with a first class honors from our old university The Manchester School of Art, and with a clients like BBC, May68 and M&C Saatchi under his belt I am sure he will draw far!

We look forward to meeting Tom very soon to see and hear more!
You can view more of Tom Bingham's work HERE

The selection of images above are from his series 'Portraits of people i have never met' a poster to promote a worldwide drawing event and a sketch from a series called Beer and Art - an exhibition Tom did at Font Bar Manchester.

Is Tropical

Our Friends band.
Press play and dance.

some new art

"Some new color and pencil work I thought you'd like"
Sent to us by Eric Hanson, illustrator

So you think you're a trendy biker...

As another essential cliche of the graphic designers uniform, the fixed wheel bike is all the rage. My distant cousin was well ahead of the curve. This guy could very easily be sat in Hoxton Square eating a Pret a Manger sandwich, drooling over this months Monocle magazine and wondering how his junior designer's salary is going to stretch to that £500 luggage set. Instead the legend that is Wayne Bennington rode in actual races, won actual prize money and even managed to craft that mullet.

NB: Rob and I do both have fixed wheel bikes but prefer EAT!

If you have time watch these videos - their a treat!

Uniqlo

Friends and long time collaborators of Teacake, Emily and Agyness Deyn were recently commissioned to design a range of t-shirts and vests for clothing band Uniqlo.

The collection features five different designs, from pretty pink tank tops...to grungy shades of black.

Above is the vest Teacake produced or should be say baked for them!

We also made this mark for fashion projects they are currently working on. Agyness & Emily

As seen on Agyness Deyn.

hey you whats the point of anything new?

Nice one Josh, promotion.

From Across the Pond

A few snaps of some of Teacakes friends who reside in New York City. Welcome home Emily!

Friends

Robs taller than Ricky, Robs taller than Ricky.