ilovedust presents: The Dead Wrestlers Society.

Why you may ask: Professional Wrestling has given us some of the most colourful and charismatic characters in sports history. Defying all attempts at labelling or categorisation these huge writhing muscular masses of outrageous behaviour clad in ever-changing wardrobes of flamboyant costumes and crazy color-ways.

What better muse for ilovedust?

The opening night was a rip roaring success, held in the Aspex Gallery, Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth the show runs until 30th October so head down if your in the Southsea anytime soon! A sneak peak from the show is shown below, to see all the prints visit www.thedeadwrestlersociety.com

Last week saw us move a few minutes down the road to our brand new London studio! We were able to control the complete look and feel of the studio from the outset – concrete floors, a lot of reclaimed wood and industrial fittings, a big thanks to Stuart at 44thhill.com for sharing our vision, and making it all happen. Good Wood.

Our new London address is:
Unit 3 Green Mews, 13 – 19 Bevenden Street, London, N1 6AS   +44(0)20 7253 6977

The last few months we have been busy working with the Nike Global Brand Design team on some really heavy duty projects, more will be revealed soon but we’re already seeing the fruits of our labor appearing in Niketown Las Vegas.

Macho Man Randy Savage, has got to be the most unique and idiosyncratic character in the history of professional wresting. There’s really no one else like him and he defies all attempts at labelling or categorisation. He was a writhing muscular mass of bizarre ticks and personal mannerisms, clad in an ever-changing, endless wardrobe of hyper-flamboyant colours. A true one off, a heavy metal neon cowboy. What better muse for the new ilovedust portfolio book?

You may of seen over on our own blog that a few of us headed over to Monaco at the end of last week to do a live F1 inspired graphic for Red Bull. It was baking hot but it was an amazing event and thanks to all the Red Bull Team for showing us around via. speedboats!  Very very wild (Monaco) lifestyle…

To view a brilliant longer capture by Thomas Butler click here www.vimeo.com/24545983

A collaboration between ourselves and Progress Packaging saw us create a limited edition cycling musette.
‘Feed My Ride’ is a collection of limited edition musettes designed by leading UK designers. All musettes are screen printed dark grey on 12 oz custom dyed canvas. Buy one here: progresspackaging.co.uk/feedmyride

After the success of working with Nike on the campaign for Nike+ GPS iPhone App we are once again pretty stoked unveil our handy work for the brand new Nike+ Sportwatch. Nike once again setting the pace with the best equipment out there. Head over to Nike Running to view the full spec.

We are very proud to have worked closely with Saatchi LA and Toyota over the last couple of months to produce 10 ridiculously detailed illustrations which celebrate 10 years of Toyota’s hybrid car, the Prius. You can view all 10 illustrations here.

The ilovedust ”Black Book” contains new works from the last year, both commercial and personal. Housed in a sleak black stock slip case with gold foil illustrations adorning the outside.  The book is 44 pages in capacity and features new work for Nike, Toyota, Kiehls and the Ride Journal.

Our custom New Era 59Fifty will be on display along with all the other impressive efforts in New York from Thursday 18th Novemeber…