joined the rest of the world

So i now have a twitter account, the list of blogs i'm managing is ever growing it seems!
http://twitter.com/#!/phoebekirk
Have a look, well when I've thought of something interesting to write!

just for funs

this was just a quick exercise to try out my new wacom bamboo graphics tablet. i used the programme corel painter II

penguin book award

this is my entry for the penguin book cover awards. i chose james and the giant peach as it was an old favourite of mine, and was more interesting than the other choices. originally a papercut i put it through photoshop. my first use of my new graphic tablet!

Phone apps

This was a project for uni I really didn't want to do but as I got into it, I've become really happy with the final product.

Sketchbook work

I did this picture of jack nicholson when i was 17 but i found it t'other day and realised it was one of the only things i liked when i was younger, so it went up with the others!

The other pictures are rubbish quality but you get the idea, i shall probably scan these in properly at some point!

Female aviators

This was a uni project on pioneering women aviators, such as amelia earhart and amy johnson (pictured above) This was for a brief set by the guardian weekend, and we would have to tke into consideration the target audience and readers, plus style and technique. Poster is being put up next week.

Design is beautiful

This was a uni project inspired by the book by David McCandless, 'information is beautiful.' I had fun doing the poster for this, I used to binary code in the background to show the type of information that can confuse and leave people wanting unless they are equipped to handle pages of numbers and code. The cherry blossom design was a simple tool to illustrate something beautiful and easy for the brain to accept. The double page spread that goes with this is coming soon, just having some trouble uploading stuff at the moment!