While we worked on the 2009 calendar, we were living in a neighbourhood of London called Stoke Newington. It's been said to be like a quintessential English village, and the place where Edgar Allen Poe spent his early school days. Accordingly, the calendar has a small town feel.
Influenced in part by the classic Peanuts comic strip, the calendar has an undertone of melancholy and irony. (The March story, IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY, is about an overcast day.) Little references that pop up throughout include shoegaze bands, artist Bas Jan Ader, lucky totems from Chinatown and authors such as J.D. Salinger and Louis Ferdinand Celine.
Produced mostly in watercolour, with touches of collage and ink, and reproduced on heavy matte recycled paper. Click on the months above to view each page.