The Dead Good Kids will be part of the ‘This Is Bazaar’ stand, along with a selection of other local designers/makers. There will be Dead Good Kids fine art prints, greetings cards and t-shirts available.

The event takes place at University of Derby’s Kedleston Road campus from 6-8pm on Wednesday 23rd March 2011. For more information on the event please visit: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=196119557088959

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

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!

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.

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!

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

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!

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.

We will be adding more images over the next few weeks, and some Greyhound specials closer to the launch on 21st May 2010.