Sir Merlin » Posters

Killer Team print ads

Sir Merlin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:45:26 +0000

For this brief I was asked to design two print ads to introduce two of the Killer Ltd skate team members. The ads would be run in Session Skateboarding magazine and printed as posters. As the Killer brand is based around a lifestyle I decided to portray exactly that. We shot each rider in and around the Killer warehouse, just taking it easy and doing what they would on a normal day. The photos both portrayed each riders personality really well, and as a result gave a good indication as to what the brand is about. Both team riders also wore Killer T-shirts that were designed by myself.

Revolution Stage Poster

Sir Merlin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:33:39 +0000

Every year the Woodstock Festival invites Revolution to host their own stage at the event. For woodstock 9 they asked me to design the poster for their stage and I really enjoyed doing it.With Revolution being and activist based company I wanted to have the poster reflect a very DIY feel to it. Their logo which is a raised fist is an iconic image, and I combined it with the music theme by placing a microphone in the hand. Following on with the DIY / Revolutionary them I used red, black,a nd brown inks, as well as adding an aged texture to the overall image. To go with the poster I also did a double sided “loyalty card” which had the lineup on one side, and tokens on the other. these were stamped each time a person visited the stage, and prizes were given to supporters who collected all the stamps.

Fox Winter Spine Session

Sir Merlin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:45:41 +0000

This is a poster I did for Fox riders co some time back. Fox has always been a big supporter of BMX and has always put on kick ass events every year. For this event they wanted to change things up a bit and focussed on a mini ramp / spine competition. They asked me to design the poster for them and this is what I came up with. I was pretty happy with how it turned out, and was also stoked because I used a pic of my buddy (and FOX team rider) Tyrone Bradley blasting a toboggan on it. Old school is cool!

Kicks + start (kickstart)

Sir Merlin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:04:16 +0000

I designed this poster for an art show that Lakai Footwear was hosting. The show was called Kickstart (kicks + art), and involved a number of artists painting onto blank Lakai shoes and loafers. Because the shoes in this show were a blank canvas for the artists I tried to create a poster that put emphasis on the shoes, but also reflected that fact that they were to be used as part of the art. In doing so I illustrated the shoes so that they looked like a colour by number, and then used a rough canvas texture in the background. All of the information about the show was placed in shoe boxes so as to keep the focus on footwear.