Tag: Artwork

  • The Journey From Grape To Raisin

    Album cover illustration and package design for the new album from Sid Griffin.

    Following on from the recent digital single cover we illustrated Sid asked me if I could help with the cover to his new solo album. I was of course supper happy to do so. What started as just the cover illustration became the full package design and print ready artwork for both the LP and the CD.

    While I have produced artwork for a few book and album covers creating the full four colour artwork files for the whole package was at the edge of my comfort zone and I’m very grateful for the help of Jon Krop from the label who checked over my print artwork, spotted a couple of things, and ensured the whole thing came out as it should.

    Some of the early illustration and designs we worked thorough.
    Some of the early illustration and designs we worked thorough.

    I worked up a handful of ideas and met up with Sid to take some reference photos. We went back and forth on what we liked and what suited the material. Sid had liked the aged look of the digital single I created so we leaned into that through the whole cover artwork to give things a bit of an aged look… which kind of reflected some of the themes of the album.

    Sid Griffin Cover illustation by Chris Hathway
    Sid Griffin album cover design by Chris Hathway

    I was really pleased with how it all turned out, as was Sid I’m happy to say. While I’ve done some CD covers in the past working on the whole package design and having the space of a gatefold sleeve to work with on the record was great. You can read a bit more about this project over on my work website.

    The full album and cd pagage.

    Take a listen to a sample from the album below and if you’d like to hire me to do something like this, please do get in touch.

  • The Sound cover artwork

    Recent cover design and illustration for a brand new single from Sid Griffin.

    Erm, Happy New Year? Okay, it has been very quiet on here of late, I know. And this website is also long overdue a revamp.

    But to keep things ticking over here is a recent cover design and illustration for the brand new solo single from Sid Griffin (of The Long Ryders fame) which I was super happy to be asked to create.

    Sid Griffin 'The Sound' Single cover design and illustration.
    Sid Griffin – The Sound cover art

    Really pleased with how it turned out.

    If you want to hear the track you can find it in all the usual places including Spotify or check out the video for the single below which I also had a hand in helping create (via my work over at Hathway Creative).

    Hopefully I will have more time to post and more news of this nature soon…

  • New Website

    Three year old ‘new’ website launch…

    Hathway Creative Logo

    While I have owned the domain for about five years now, and been working solely under that banner for over three, it took me until last month to finally launch a new, wholly work based, website for Hathway Creative.

    I saw a local website design company employ a third party to build their site a while ago and admit I kind of scoffed at it at the time. Given the time its taken me to get to this stage, perhaps that might not have been a completely bad idea after all.

    The combination of wanting to get things completely and absolutely right along with regular interruptions from more urgent (paid) work and also the fact I wanted to cover both the Illustration side of the work I do, and the Website Design side while also outlining some of the other creative services and solutions projects have called upon in a way that, hopefully, makes sense and is easy to navigate just took a little time to work out.

    Website Design Services

    Graphic Design Services

    Comic Strip Illustration

    Poster and Website Banner Design

    Comic Book/Graphic Novel Artwork

    It is a relatively simple and straightforward website still, with several featured projects on the home page and pages detailing the illustration and web work I do – Do please take a look at the all new Hathway Creative website and if you’d like to hire me for something, please do get in touch.

  • Painting

    I’ve been working on some oil paintings of late, here is one that turned out okay…
    I think.

    Chris-Hathway-Untitled-Oil-Painting-2015-Large

  • Mengage – Illustrations and Website

    It was great to be asked to work with a previous client and now friend on on the set up of a brand new project.

    Mengage is a UK-based not-for-profit company working with males on health and social issues, providing resources, training, consultancy and practical research-based solutions from both national and international practice, backed by years of experience of practical work with men and boys.

    Mengage website illustration

    I contributed both the website, logo and some illustrations to the project. The illustrations were produced both to be used on the website itself and in a number of print publications.

    I’ve wanted to have the opportunity of placing some illustrations within a website layout for some time, stock images are fine but they can sometimes feel, and be, a little generic and forgettable. I think where the illustrations appear within the new website they do help to give the project and a little more depth and a more unique visual identity. The logo was also produced as a metal badge, cut to shape to help with promotion and identity, it came out really well.

    Anyway, click here to visit Mengage, If you are putting a project together, do consider illustration along side stock photography, I may well be biased but I think its an underused option.

    Mengage Website Screenshot