I love me some dystopian

My new project's on dystopia, this  is some  early work from letterpress, playing around with  image and type, using evocative words from Brave New World.

The black and red worked worked well for this advert of the pneumatic lara stone. In brave New World 'everyone belongs to everyone else'

Britney looking all doe-eyed and bland artficial soma contentment

Its fun subverting adverts, specially as the models all looked soma-ed up and emotionless most of the time, plus this season 'curvy' and pneumatic is in.

In the book the character Bernard is unusually upset when the woman he likes, Lenina, sees herself as a piece of 'meat' and is happy with it after all her conditioning. Which obvioulsy has undertones in current society and all media with its sex sells/be skinny and perfect messages.

I like the gold of the soma in this one-gives it reverence and religious tones. Plus it could be a repeated wallpaper or something.

These two are from same piece. Love tactile quality of the type in it. The colours are bold and fresh and remind me of the communist propaganda posters of the 50s with their limited palette.

MY MERCURYS IN RETROGRADE

but darling the carrots are boiling,

hehe an altered dior marion coultaird (love her) advert.

I used the  pose and cropped it out of shot so it was more enigmatic. Its a loose painting with ink, on  some type printed 'my mercurys in retrograde' (bloc party) that i did a while ago, looks quite asian n futuristic. I used this image in a context brief-placing it in editorials, stamps etc. wished i used it as front cover for something like 'do androids dream of electric sheep?'.

the smoking one i used for the context project-its not infact up there! look at my photoshop skills pow!!!i have vaguely mastered (for an amauteur) clone tool, magic wand, scaling, warping and layers.a bit :)

altered marc jacobs advert (obsessed with them), since it has a bit of a pervy, voyeur, lolita vibe.was v happy when my friends thought 'is only 15' was legit-says something about advertising nowadays!

this is a terrible photo :s try add better at some point.Daisy ad painted, reli fun to do randomly one night. Its bout A2 but  longer.

donny is smoking!!!!!?a cigarette that you can legally buy in shops!?iam shocked and appalled

i gave this to my friend emma/gemma cos it looks like her but is in fact from a black n white lily allen fashion shoot.I like the lassiez-faire pose, wanna do it again bigger n better
 

i still feel you, you tastes of cigarettes