All posts tagged Dead Good Kids

Banks Mill Christmas Open Studio’s 25-27th Nov 2011

I will have my Banks Mill studio open to the public during the forthcoming Banks Mill Christmas Open Studios’s. I will be exhibiting a range of my art & illustration work, including my new oil paintings, The Visitors series, and of course the Dead Good Kids. There will be lots of special offers, available for the weekend only. So why not come along and get some unique gifts for Christmas.

Banks Mill Christmas Open Studio's flyer

The Banks Mill Open Studio’s are open Friday 25th Nov 5-8pm, Sat 26th Nov 10am-4pm and Sun 27th Nov 10am-4pm. Banks Mill Studio’s are on Bridge Street in Derby, and on street parking is available outside the building for a nominal charge.

The open studio’s are free to attend, and over 40 artists, designers and makers will have their work on show.

Exhibiting at the Melbourne Festival Arts Trail this weekend!

I am exhibiting a selection of my art & illustration work this weekend at the Melbourne Festival Arts & Architecture Trail. There will be lots of bargains to be had, as I am taking the opportunity to have a studio clearance. So expect massive discounts on framed Dead Good Kids art prints, t-shirts & greetings cards, framed and unframed mono prints, and lots lots more!

I am exhibiting at ‘The One Off’ on Derby Road in Melbourne, along with 6 or 7 other artists. So come along and bag yourself a bargain Martin Hyde artwork!

The Melbourne Festival Arts & Architecture runs on Sat 17th & Sun 18th Sept 2011. For more information see: http://www.melbournefestival.co.uk/index.html

Check out our new Dead Good Kids t-shirts

dead-good-banner

We have been working on ideas for Dead Good Kids t-shirts for a while now, but can finally reveal our first two t-shirt designs! They feature two of the Dead Good pets, Mervin the elephant and Percival the cat. Both designs are hand screen-printed on high quality Fruit of the Loom t-shirts, and come in chocolate brown or charcoal grey. The t-shirts are available in small, medium, large and extra large sizes. Both designs are available to buy for just £17 (inc p&p) from our on-line shop at: http://www.deadgoodkids.com/13-t-shirts

There are more designs in progress, so watch this space for previews of more Dead Good Kids t-shirt designs. Click on the images to view large screen

New lino print versions of the Kids

Percival Lino Print

I am a regular the Green Door Print Making Studio in Derby, and have been doing etching there for a while now. This week I decided to try out some lino printing for a change, and thought one of the Dead Good Kids characters would be fun to do. So here it is, Percival the Cat as a lino print!

Halloween Special Offer – 40 percent off limited edition prints!

Lucian in the Dark

To celebrate Halloween, we have got a very special offer for Dead Good Kids customers. Until 31st October 2010 you can buy our 4 limited edition prints with a massive 40% discount, saving you £50 per print!

Our very special limited edition artworks include two Dead Good Kids favourites, Shadow Penguin and Lucian in the Dark, as well as two Dead Good Wrestlers pieces, Sanchez the Wrestler and Pile Driver Wrestlers . All prints come individually signed and numbered, and the edition for each artwork will only go to 50 prints in total. So buy one quick, before they are all gone!

We have several other promotions running in the shop at the moment. Buy all 5 original Dead Good Kids artworks, featuring the 5 main characters  – Edward, Verity, Vincent, Samara and Calamity for just £170 – a saving of £67.50. And finally there is a three for the price of two deal on the Dead Good Pets – Dexter, Percival & Mervin.

Some ‘dead good kids’ draw the Dead Good Kids!

Class 6NT at Shelton Junior School, Derby have been super creative and created these wonderful artworks based on The Dead Good Kids graphic art series. Each piece is based on an existing Dead Good Kids print. We love how they are using lots of great techniques such as perspective and shadow to achieve the artwork.

Neil Thurlow, Class 6NT ‘s teacher, introduced the class to Martin’s Dead Good Kids in their art sessions, after becoming a fan of the character art series himself. Neil had bought some Dead Good Kids artwork for his house, and thought the children would enjoy looking at the work and trying to create their own versions of it. And here are the results!

Lots of new art prints, and a special offer!!

We’ve added lots of new art prints to the Dead Good Kids shop this week. One of the most popular pieces, Usually Dead Good, now has a girly version – the Usually Dead Good Girls. This piece is proving very popular, and we have already sold several prints.

Usually Dead Good Girls

Usually Dead Good Girls

We have also added the original versions of two of the main characters, Edward and Calamity. Along with Vincent, Samara and Verity, Edward and Calamity made up the original five Dead Good Kids characters.

Finally, we have also added an art print of The Marino family. The Marino’s are the Dark family’s next door neighbours in Darkaville. The Marino boys both play in the Dead Good Kids band – The Vamps.

So to celebrate these new arrivals, we have a special offer! For a limited time only you can purchase 3 of the Darkly Dreaming series for the price of 2. So what are you waiting for? http://www.deadgoodkids.com/27-buy-3-get-1-free-a3-signed-prints.html

We've been shortlisted for a CIN Award

We were very pleased to hear today that we have been short listed for a CIN Award in the Graphic Design / Illustration category for the Greyhound project.

The Greyhound

The Greyhound

The Greyhound project was the first project we’ve worked on which really fused our graphic design work and artwork, in particular the Dead Good Kids character series. For the project Martin came up with a new Dead Good Kids character, Graham the Greyhound, and lots of new artworks.

Graham features on the swinging sign outside the pub (as pictured), and on numerous pieces of the graphic design work, including the menu’s, leaflets, adverts, staff t-shirts, rack illustration and much more. Inside the pub Graham takes pride of place in several artworks on the wall, alongside other Dead Good Kids favourites Edward and Verity.

CIN is a fantastic resource for Derby creatives, and we are big supporters of its work. To be short listed for a CIN award is a great honour for us.

We are really looking forward to the awards ceremony, which is on Tuesday 21st September 2010 at 6pm at Quad in Derby. And just as icing on the cake, one of our favourite creatives – Wayne Hemingway – is presenting the awards, so hopefully we will get to mingle with him too!

New Dead Good Kids Greeting Cards Lot 1

Hello Dead Good bloggers, we have just added some Greeting Cards to the Dead Good Kids shop. Ideal for those of you who want to make a real impact with the cards you send. Our greetings cards are 150mm square, nice thick card with a matt laminate to give a nice finish. Each card also features a dead good kids character on the back. In all there will be 7 general cards added to the site. Here are the first three. You can purchase the greeting cards by clicking here >

Birds birds and a bird greeting card

Bob and One Bad monster greeting card

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Greeting Cards

Introducing Graham the Dead Good Greyhound

Hello from Graham the Greyhound! Graham was created as part of a collaboration with the Derby Brewing Company, for their new pub The Greyhound, on Friargate in Derby.

The pub will feature the Dead Good Kids art throughout, and Design and i has done all of the design and branding for the new pub. This illustration of Graham was commissioned for the swinging pub sign at The Greyhound. The illustration builds on the Dead Good Kids style, using a a variation of the Victorian color scheme from the Dead Good Kids. There is another more detailed version of the artwork featured within the pub, with the Greyhound in a night time scene.

The Greyhound opens to the public at 8.30pm on Thursday 20th May 2010.