Get the first glimpse of my '2010 T-shirt Range'

Hey everyone,

I have now finished my new t-shirt range for the Margin Exhibition held in London next month and I am giving you all the first glimpse!!!

Both my sister and I are so excited about being included in the Margin Exhibition as they only accept 60 designers and out of those 60 only 9 new comers!
It is a exhibition for media and buyers and it's our biggest opportunity so far to get noticed and hopefully if goes well, we can will have my designs in stores around the UK or even the world!

I am so glad that I will be back in London for this great opportunity and getting to see my gorgeous lady again.

Wish us luck and I welcome any feedback.

Cheers

New Year, New Look, New Image!!!

Hi all,

Let me start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year!!! Hopefully this year will make all our hopes and dreams come true... one of my hopes is that this year I will have my designer t-shirts in clothing stores around the world!

Right now I am working on my t-shirt range that I am designing for the Margin Exhibition held in London next month. It is a great opportunity for my sister and myself to meet other designs but mainly for store buyers and media to take notice of Kalman Lee as a brand with fresh and interesting ideas.

Above is one of the t-shirt designs that will be on display at the Margin Exhibition, this design is titled 'Zebra X'. With this design and most of my new range I wanted to bring out my free style illustration skills more.

On another note... I am looking forward to being back in London next month and hopefully make some great contacts.

Cheers all.

Image of the week: New Sketches!!!

Hi all,

Wow!!!... I can't believe it's December already! This year has just gone so fast.

Anyway.... This week's posted image is of some of my recent sketches. These sketches are just some ideas that I am playing around with and some might make my next t-shirt range.

I can't believe that next week it will be a year since my sister and I launched Kalman Lee the 'Brand'.... but what a great year it has been! With 2 t-shirt ranges launched, 2 exhibitions of my artwork (one being my first ever), having the awesome Melvin Odoom and the ever lovely Laura Whitmore wearing my t-shirt designs on their MTV show (MTV Digs), having the amazing experience of giving the likes of Madonna my first t-shirt from my second design range, as well as Lily Allen, The Ting Tings and others enjoying my designs.... my what a first year!!!

A lot of these incredible things that happened this year would not of happened without the amazing support and help from my big sis (and business partner) and not to miss our support from my very gorgeous girlfriend, the rest of our family and of course my friends.

Another bit of news is that I have some new items up for sale on my Etsy account that would make great Xmas gifts or stocking fillers... so check them out at: http://www.kalmanlee.etsy.com/
Also my t-shirt designs on my website are especially great Xmas gifts.. you might want to be in fast as our stocks are running out (they're limited editions): http://www.kalmanlee.co.uk/

Well that's it for now but thanks again for all the support and I hope you are looking forward to more of my designs next year!!! :)

Image of the Week, titled Ballet Tree.

This image is titled 'Ballet Tree'. The concept behind this new artwork of mine is drawn from the love of large trees that my lovely girlfriend and I share and the amazing twists and angles of branches which sometimes seem like they form shapes.
My girlfriend and I loved to go walking in parks (back when I was in London) and often we would look at a tree and see faces or whole bodies in strange poses.
Not long ago I attended my first ever ballet at the Royal Ballet Hall in London. While I was enjoying the performance I noticed that some of the poses that the amazing dancers were doing reminded me of some of the trees in the parks that I would go to.

The above image titled 'Ballet Tree' is also one of my new artworks to be on display and up for sale at an exhibition in London on the 12th of September 2009. The exhibition is called 'Becondale House First Art Party' and has a number of other artists work up for viewing.

The 'Becondale House First Art Party' exhibition will be my second exhibition in London and I am currently looking to put my artwork on display in some exhibitions in New Zealand and Australia.

Image of the week and news update!!

I call this image 'Casanova Rooster'. This idea came to me while I was travelling around New Zealand with my lovely girlfriend while staying at a bed and breakfast up in Keri Keri. The lovely owners of the bed and breakfast had six chickens and a very proud rooster in their back garden.
I was watching how the rooster would strut its stuff in front of the six chickens and would go up to each of them which reminded me of the legend of Casanova. Casanova was known for getting any woman he desired but very vain.

Now for my news update...

Since I have been back in the land of the long white cloud (New Zealand), I have travelled all around the North and South islands showing my girlfriend as much as I can in the 3 weeks she was here, for which by the way is not enough time if you want to get in all the amazing and beautiful sights of my home country.

During our travels we saw and did so much great stuff that gave me some exciting ideas for images that I have been working on. So far I have completed 3 new images in 3 days which is a great start and 2 of them will be sent to London (along with some of my other artwork) for another exhibition that is happening in September.

Other then that I am working on the idea to launch a children's clothing range, developing new concepts for my next t-shirt range and looking for employment.

That's all for now but I'll have more updates soon.

Kalman Lee Exhibition & Launch Party Photos

Our lovely friends at Alexander-Moore very kindly took some photos of the Kalman Lee Debut Exhibition and launch party that we held last month at The Star of Bethnal Green. You can check them out here: http://www.alexander-moore.co.uk/events/kalmanlee

All pictures can be saved down by right clicking on them.

Thanks so much to everyone for making the launch such a success for us. Was so much fun! x

Exhibition and New T-shirt Range Launch

Everyone is invited and please bring as many people as you like!