A not very Christmassy step-by-step for an editorial piece on South American carnivals for the Hilton Hotel Magazine.

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SweetTalk 34 – featuring Ros Shiers / Jonathan McHugh / Steve Simpson.

Thursday, April 30th 2009 at
the Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson Street,
Dublin 2. Ireland Doors @ 7pm.

SweetTalk is the name of CandyCollective’s self-initiated series of creative-to creative live events. Away of bringing together local creative talent with international luminaries in a relaxed, social environment. While originally based in Ireland (Dublin, Belfast, Limerick) the series has become popular internationally (London, Newcastle, Copenhagen, Berlin, NYC) and now exporting some of our leading lights to enthuse others as well as focusing attention on homegrown talent. To date they have held 33 editions of SweetTalk in Ireland (Dublin, Belfast, Limerick, Sligo), the UK (London, Newcastle), Germany (Berlin), Denmark (Copenhagen), USA (NYC) and in the next year we aim to expand SweetTalk into as many countries as possible.

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Tags: Dublin, Jonathan McHugh, Ros Shiers, Steve Simpson, the Sugar Club

A couple of pieces for exhibitions in Ireland. Ramones, The Ramones for CandyKaraoke, based on re-working your favourite album covers. Painted on old album cover (handel’s messiah) using gesso & acrylics. The exhibition is in Monster Truck on Francis street, Dublin 8 and runs 19th June – 01st July 2008
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Tags: Belfast, Dublin, Florence, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Steve Simpson

Paddy’s Day is around the corner and in keeping with all things tacky and green SCAMP got to thinking how we could bring the humble Leprechaun back into the 21st century.

Here’s the Scamps we got back from our fellow illustrators. Happy Paddy’s Day!

Visit – www.scamp.ie

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Steve Simpson has 2 new postage stamps released by the Irish post office, An Post. There is a step-by-step of the design process on SCAMP.ie

Steve has also launched his new portfolio web site, www.stevesimpson.com

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Tags: portfolio web site, Steve Simpson, www.stevesimpson.com

New work from Steve Simpson created using Rory’s story cubes.
Rory’s story Cubes are a set of 9 dice. They have images instead of spots, the aim is to throw the cubes and make up a story based on the result.
If, like me, you sometimes prefer to work to a brief when developing your own work these are a a great idea. Would be great for comic strips as well as children’s books. To buy or find out more about Rory’s Cubes visit www.thecreativityhub.com

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Tags: Steve Simpson, www.thecreativityhub.com

The PurePie branding illustrations have been awarded a Gold in AOI’s Image32. SCAMP have step-by-step of the project.

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Tags: Steve Simpson