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Painting Wellies Sponsored By Posca This is a stop motion video taken a few years ago. Becki drew illustrations on peoples wellies at a festival.

  This is one of the latest in a long line of board Infections from Infected By Design.  Commissioned by Rusty of Blackpool for his daughter’s bedroom wall, the brief was simple: use baby pink and blue colours and make it pop! “It was a much bigger surface than the skateboards I’m used to painting,… →

To celebrate Star Wars day, Infected By Design created this illustration, featuring his own little character as a jedi knight. 

An exhibition and live music showcase to celebrate the story so far… On the 9th February 2013 OneFiveEight will be holding our first exhibition and live music event in the Kraak Gallery in Manchester’s Norther Quarter. By day we’ll be exhibiting original artwork in the gallery FREE of charge (plus FREE drinks for those who… →

26th – 28th July, Lowther Deer Park Herbal Sessions will be opening each day’s proceedings in the Glow Dance Tent at this years Kendal Calling festival. We’ll be helping you wipe away those bleary eyed vibes with selections aimed to help you reset the batteries and get back on it.  

Sunday 5th May 2013, The Kings Arms, Salford A selection of DJs from the OneFiveEight collective joined our good friends from Mind On Fire at Sounds From The Other City at The Kings Arms in Salford. Fellow OneFiveEight musician Raikes Parade joined Gnod over at the Salford Arms for the Tesla Tapes showcase. Thanks to Rob Bulman from Manchester Music Live for the… →

Monday 20th – Saturday 25th May, Islington Mill, Salford From Monday 20th May OneFiveEight will start their week long residency at Islington Mill in Salford. Expo:02 will take place in the ground floor exhibition space, featuring a varied range of work from the collective. After the success of Expo:01 earlier in the year, the collective… →

For the last OneFiveEight Exhibition I wanted to experiment with some screen printing. I love the textures that are achievable with screen printing, different papers can create a wide rage of results. Fine liner drawing First I drew my design using fine liner pens. Inspiration for my design came from a David Attenborough programme on… →

The materiality of photography is explored in this collaborative project by Helen Peart and Mary Stark, exhibited at the last OneFiveEight Expo at Kraak gallery. Created through combining an experimental approach with traditional darkroom processes, the image becomes almost secondary to the physical manipulation of photographic paper and negatives.            … →

Ey Up! I was just checking out FlyLo’s Facebook and noticed he’d dropped a Captain Murphy Acapella up on there, I’m presuming he intended for us to make good use of it, so i had a pop.

As an exhibition piece for the OneFiveEight Expo:01 event, Mike Newton created these laser etched pyramids as part of a larger installation. Each Pyramid has been laser etched with Mike’s unique style of line drawn illustrations. I’ll try to post some images of the full installation some time soon. These wooden pyramids will be added… →

A handful of shots from a Queer’d Science gig at Manchester’s Roadhouse in January. Like a true amateur I hadn’t checked the batteries in my external flash so I was forced to use the in built flash which cast a dirty great shadow of my 24-70mm sigma in the corner of most of my shots…. →

Another selection from a recent roll of Ilford Hp5+ shot over the Christmas period, developed in the kitchen. I’m still going strong with the B+W film and plan to shoot another couple of rolls this evening at the a local gig. So you can expect more from me in the near future.

Off The Fence! is an exhibition in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. It looks at being in the middle of decisions and whether we are better making them or just floating through life instead. Is being in the middle a good thing – life isn’t always the best of both. There will be artwork from: Loose Bait… →

Prestons most tasteful selectors share their record collections with us again for a 10th anniversary blow out. Always a top shindig with a get down atmosphere and tunes for the heads that know their tunes… Bookface link here    

Latest Ep from Raikes Parade – A trip through psychedelic beats and bass. The ep is a series of Live recordings taken over Christmas 2012. Released independently through Tesla Tapes. “This is proper good Head & Heart music, one for the Tokers ‘n all.” Released 19 January 2013 Raikes Parade Live & Direct

On the 9th February 2013 the OneFiveEight collective held our first exhibition at Kraak in Manchester. The event consisted of an exhibition and music event showcasing the latest work from our artists, musicians and friends. A wide range of styles that represent a broad spectrum of talents were on show at the event. Artwork included Photography,… →

Mr Kobo is a North Wales based Artist & Illustrator who is quickly gaining recognition for his unique & imaginative artwork. His distinct & contemporary illustrations are created using pen & ink to acheive smooth and flowing linework as well as graphite to produce delicate and subtle tones. Whilst his bolder and brighter painted works are created in varying… →

Getting ready for the big day so just thought i would show some ideas that didn’t quite make it to the exhibition. Here’s another load of pages from my sketchbook, no particular order. I played around with a few things but all initial ideas for T shirt design. —-XXXXX—- ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ————————————————————————… →

Mecha Turtle is the latest canvas from Infected By Design, created using a base layer of two shades of  green Montana spray paint and teched-up with black and green Posca paint pens.   ” I’ve been working on this one for a while as a little side project to go back to when taking breaks… →

So it’s been a while in the making but i’ve now got 7 rolls of film to enlarge/scan, as soon as I get my grubby mitts on my very own scanner there’s gonna be a whole lot more coming this way. But here’s a few to get the ball rolling for now. jOe.

  Recently I’ve been busy preparing work for the OneFiveEight Expo:01  event next month, so new posts have been a little scarce. So to make up for that I have been inspired by an earlier post by James Hayes. Often our sketch books are left abandoned, full of half-finished ideas, doodles and simply things that haven’t… →

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75157594″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] This is the first new track from Manchester based band 48acres in several months. Expect to see much more from them on OneFiveEight. Taking influences from Trip-hop, dub and broken beat their luscious sound will be featuring whenever we hear new material from band members: George Jerome – Production, Drum… →

This is the first in a series of digital pigeons by OneFiveEight’s Infected By Design working with fellow Blackpool based artist Lowdown. Both artists are currently based at  NWBaseline  a community art space in Blackpool. Both these artists will be exhibiting work at the OneFiveEight Expo:01 event. Check out the interview with Infected By Design on the altblackpool website.

Yarnbomb Consortium is a collaborative Urban Yarn-work Initiative and a place to share lust for Art, Design, Craft, Music and Stitchery. If you’re a Facebook fan you should check out their page. It’s a constant stream of creative inspiration for stitchers, twitchers and anybody else who has a passion for loveliness really. We are honoured to have Yarnbomber Kerry… →

There was only so many times that i could be made to smile like a proud father at the standards being laid down by some of Prestons homegrown musicians and producers. So i selected a couple of my favorites to share with ya’ll because i know you’ll know what i mean.   Check out The Tone Of… →

This week I tried my first screen printing session from scratch, and when I say from scratch I mean it. We built the frames, stretched the screen and exposed a two layer design that I had hand drawn using fine liners. After a few dodgy pulls of the squeegee we managed to print some good… →

Fellow Mancunian mischief makers Upper Space are looking for artists to join their collective… Upper Space is an award winning public realm arts organisation that works with some of the world’s best street artists… In February 2013 we will be starting a new series of experimental outreach projects across the Greater Manchester area as we… →

I’m sure anyone who was at the Herbal Sessions 5th Birthday party at Islington Mill on 24th November will agree this party went off big time. Here’s my mix from the evening (excuse some of the dodgy mixing, I was too busy jumping around like everyone else!)   Mr Breen’s Herbal Sessions 5th Birthday Mix… →

By Jim Bestall I found kids playing in this shoe-house whilst walking through the park “There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do; She gave them some broth without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.” Original… →

Iremember is a reggae night in Toronto, Ive been doing the flyers for them for a while now. They have just moved to a new venue and are upping the ante by throwing a Hip-Hop party upstairs called Drifted. “2 Rooms – 2 Sounds – 1 Love – Iremember meets Drifted – For the Heads… →

Four Tet – Outspoken (Rounds) mixed with Beautiful World (Renegades) by Rage Against The Machine – This is a recording made in djay for mac.