Arthur Smit -the hermit design

NEW! The hermit design blog

2009-10-22T15:15:00.002Z

I Have moved my blog for good!
you can now find me here

www.thehermitdesign.co.uk/blog/

go there bookmark it ...and forget about this free blog
Turns out i can't even delete this blog!
...lovely thanks guys

Ident for ITV2 Comedy show

2006-10-23T10:23:00.000Z

short animation/ident for TV

Here is just a short little animation I have been working on for a new comedy show on ITV2. So hopefully i'll have some of mycharacters on TV (yay!).... Apart from that been working on design for a skateboard which should also be coming out fairly soon... can't wait to finally have some products out there!...I'm working on some black and white canvases in the little free time i have left...more about those soon.

DR. Vokter character (vinyl toy?)

2006-09-22T17:08:00.000Z

Just a little character i've been producing for ~defcondrew which will maybe lead to vinyl toy (yay!)...also he may be printing my t-shirt featured earlier in my blog... more on this soon...

Badges, Badges, Badges, Badges, Badges

2006-09-22T16:47:00.000Z

the hermit design badges out now!!!
Please show your support for this poor designer by getting one...and help me buy a couple of sandwiches..

thank u ! (^__^)

Buy a - the hermit design - print

2006-09-15T16:02:00.000Z

BELIOFREAKSHOW

This print is now for sale, buy it here
(i would recomend the canvas, it looks the nicest)
I will also be selling badges soon so "watch this space" (^__^)

Well it's been a pretty tough time recently the copmpany which i was working for has gone into administration (bankrupt) and they owe me a lot of money...grrr...
so..... please feed the starving designer

Published in Belio Magazine

2006-08-04T16:48:00.000Z

I contributed to Belio magazine for their trash issue no21 and submitted 3 designs
Belio is a Spanish magazine for graphic design... i'm very pleased to be included and i'm definately going to submit more to them in the future...so watch this space for more..

buy it here

Custom qee designs

2006-07-07T13:11:00.000Z

(qeisha) 2 inch acrylic on vinyl

One of many custom vinyl toy designs i've made recently (more here) .....been working on my own model..just made it out of clay...need to sand and paint it..... well work is a bit dry at the mo...hence why i have time to do this sort of thing....
Anybody want me to work for them? (contact me)

It's my birthday!

2006-07-03T10:59:00.000Z

it's my b-day... these are my vinyl prezies from my girlfriend....they are too cool ..(thanks baby (^__^)

... got some money from my parents as well...woah birthdays rock!so i'm a pretty happy bunny right now...

Apart from that ...doing still a lot of work ..just did a micro site for rapper " Chamillionaire " i'll put up the link when it's online...

designs published in Japan !

2006-06-20T16:09:00.000Z

The artwork i have created for Freudstein has been published in Presenter magazine which presses 60,000 copies which you can buy in convenience stores in Tokyo and the rest of Japan.
(always nice to be published) (^__^)
check out Freudstein's website ....all artwork provided by yours truly (the hermit design)

Back to work !

2006-06-20T12:03:00.000Z

Well i'm back on the e-learning since yesterday...no comments there..(-__-)
except that i'm glad to have money coming in again
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Just started a new music project with Harry Flay....we are working on a series of tracks combining experimental electronica/IDM and hip hop with vocals...more on that when we have something to listen to for the moment it's just bits and pieces...

The rules i must follow for the moment include:
no adding new sounds (must work with the three samples i was given)
must not alter from 133bpm
must leave space for vocals
apart from that....it's pretty open ended

Sticker contest

2006-06-17T00:02:00.000Z

just submitted some designs to a sticker street art competition... fingers crossed ...above is one of the submitted designs...
Well that's it for tonight... think i'm going to watch a movie now or something......from one screen to another

Alone

2006-06-16T13:07:00.000Z

Well...Salma (my girlfriend) has gone to Spain today to vist her family and finally get away from work... we were looking all over the other day for Nadia's (Salma's sister) 21st B-day present and i found her this too cool limited edition 400% Japanese Bearbrick ...and we also found a nice hand stitched designer bag hope she likes it...

Apart from that i've been working on some urban street stickers...i'll post more about it when i've got something i like to show...for today bye bye

hello baby if you're reading...miss u already!

i should be in bed

2006-06-15T01:56:00.000Z

Half past 3 o'clock in the morning here....as the title suggests i don't really sleep much these days...just updated some new tracks to myspace.........my ipod won't charge off my usb.......i wanted to listen to some greek mythology audio books to fall asleep.....mind you it doesn't really help...i just end up followig the stories and staying awake..........have to get one those charger things ....you'd think they could have thrown that in (what do you mean it's not included in the price!!)

Tshirt design

2006-06-14T14:10:00.000Z

Vector drawing done last night....possibly for a t-shirt or something.......(planning to make a series of t-shirts when i've got a bit of cash to spare...of course anybody is welcome to help me finance them if they are intrested) contact me
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Just opened an account with myspace ...as another outlet for my music
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Sent some images to BELIOmgz for their next publication...more news if and when i get published
also sent a few characters to pictoplasma hoping to get involved with them...

that's all for now... (^__^)