Last month I illustrated a feature on Deptford Goth for the final issue of Zero Core magazine. I was really happy with the finished result so decided to make some prints. I thought it would be cool to make another version to go with it, and here they are! They’ve turned out great on matte card.
The prints are available to order now from my Big Cartel store, individually or as a set.
Here’s a Welsh language alphabet print that I recently designed for Ti a Dy Deip! We went for a bright modern look with lots of different animals, people and objects. It was a lot of fun making a different illustration for each letter, even if the personal pronouns were bit of a challenge!
The print is now on sale over on the TADD website.
I designed this cover for the cassette release of Strong Enough by Prides and Lauren Aquilina. The song gets a tape release on Kissability for Cassette Store Day on 27 September - more info on this and the label’s other CSD releases here.
Here’s the poster I made for the Darkened Rooms screening of the The Fly in Techniquest in Cardiff Bay! Darkened Rooms and Chapter are teaming up on Saturday 4 October to show the Cronenberg classic as part of the BFI’s brilliant Sci Fi season.
Huge thanks to Tom Betts for asking me to make a poster for another of my favourite films and for putting on these brilliant events - can’t wait for this!
Tickets are available here and you can buy an A3 print of the poster if you so desire here.
I recently designed a range of display materials for Swansea University for their stand at the National Eisteddfod. These display walls contained six information panels that detailed the past, present and future of the University for prospective students, as well as info on the University’s research projects. This was a great large-scale project to work on, creating vector graphic icons to clearly illustrate the different sections.
Waaaaaay back in 2011 I designed the cover and packaging for Fanatical Love, the debut album from Cardiff heroes KUTOSIS. I’m really pleased to say they invited me back for album number two, Dream it Away.
Working with the band, I took inspiration from the new album’s fuzzed-out summer sounds and films like Dogtown and Z-Boys to put together a surf-tacular range of artwork for the LP and accompanying singles, as well as a screen print and tee to support the record’s release.
This week I got to see the the whole package in physical form for the first time and I couldn’t be happier - Jude from the Printhaus in Cardiff has done such a great job on the screen prints, and it’s so exciting to have finally designed a 12" sleeve.
Dream it Away is released 30 June by Jealous Lovers Club and is available to pre-order on 12" or digital download now from https://kutosis.bandcamp.com/ - the first 50 orders get the limited edition screen print, so get your skates on!
The band are launching the album with a gig at Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, on Thursday 3 July. See you there!
Wow it’s been so long since I posted anything here! Busy busy on lots of big exciting projects that I can announce soon!
I did manage to fit in a bit of poster design though - I always love making posters. Especially when they’re roller derby posters, and super-especially when there’s a movie theme too!
The Fresh and The Furious is an awesome one-day competition for fresh meat held by the GTA Rollergirls in Toronto, and the first derby event that I went to when I lived over there in 2012. So it’s pretty cool that I got to make the poster for this year’s tournament!
Big thanks to Ginger for getting in touch - love that I can still make artwork for GTAR from the other side of the world!
Tiger Bay Brawlers hosted a roller derby double-header yesterday at Talybont Sports Hall - as well as TBB’s own B team taking on Newcastle Roller Girls, there was also a chance to see a men’s bout between South Wales Silures and Tyne and Fear.
Both bouts were incredibly entertaining and hard fought - I enjoyed my the physicality of my first men’s bout, and the TBB v NRG face-off was brilliant, with the crowd really getting into it. Then it was off to the after party (at my old student pub) for pool-cue limbo dancing and push up challenges…
I have a few really nice A3 prints of my Nosferatu / Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula Darkened Rooms posters for sale for £12 each plus p&p - if you went to these amazing screenings and want a little keepsake drop me a line at adam@croatoandesign.co.uk - thanks to Peter Richards for sending me this photo of his print in some great company in his monster room!
I spent this last weekend in London, and while I was there I went along to Defend the Palace, where Glasgow Roller Derby took on LRG Brawl Saints before Tiger Bay Brawlers faced off against LRG Brawling. It was an incredible afternoon of derby - the atmosphere at Crystal Palace was just brilliant, and the action in the second bout was so intense! Great to see so many Cardiff people in the big smoke to show their support.
You can see the full set from the Brawlers bout on Facebook here and Flickr here, and the Glasgow bout here and here.