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

Lastest update and Image of the Week!!!

Hi Everyone,

I know it's been quite a long time since my last posting and I apologize for the slackness.

In the last few weeks I did a 10 day Europe trip (mainly by road) going to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Budapest and Athens. From there I flew back to London to get ready for my second t-shirt launch and my first art exhibition.
Both Sharleen and I were not quite sure how the night would go but it was amazing and not only did we sell heaps of t-shirts but most of my artwork that was on sale!
We were so happy that we had a massive turnout and would like to thank all those who came along and showed their support and of course I can't forget the amazing team that helped us on the night as we couldn't of done it without you.

A couple of days after that I flew to Sydney to spend some time with my brother and see about some jobs while I was there before flying back to New Zealand.

I have been back in New Zealand for almost 2 weeks now and have had so many orders come in for t-shirts and commissioned artwork. Sharleen and I are very excited as most of our new range is almost soldout after only launching last month and that people like Madonna, Lily Allen and the Ting Tings are enjoying our t-shirts.

After today I am doing a road trip around the whole of New Zealand and hope to get some ideas for our next range but we pretty much know what concepts we are going with after the amazing response to this new range.

This weeks image of the week is an ad that I designed that will soon be in a student guide handbook in the UK.

That is all the news for now but you can still purchase yourself a Kalman Lee t-shirt from his new or old range at www.kalmanlee.co.uk but better be quick!!!

Cheers

Kalman Lee

This Week's Image: Indian-man T-shirt from the new Kalman Lee t-shirt range.

He's a picture of me wearing the first Kalman Lee front and back t-shirt design - Indian Man.

Exhibition and New T-shirt Range Launch

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

Image of the week: Stagman first of the new t-shirt range!

This week I have decided to post up the first design from the new Kalman Lee t-shirt range! This design is titled Stagman.
Recently I have been working flat out so that's the reason for no image of the week last week but this week's blog comes with good news!
The last few weeks I have been lucky enough to setup for Madonna! If you didn't know I work part-time for a stage setup company(doing stuff like lights,pa,stage,dressingrooms etc) and so that is how I was able to give the very first t-shirt(Stagman)from my new range to Madonna.

I have been working part-time as a stage hand for over a year now and have been lucky to work for such artists as: Neil Diamond, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Counting Crows and more recently Britney Spears, Beyonce, Katie Perry and the amazing Madonna!
Another artist I would of loved to been able to work for was the king of pop Michael Jackson, rest in peace Michael.

In a few weeks all the new designs will be going up on my website www.kalmanlee.co.uk and I can't wait for everyone to enjoy the new range.

Image of the Week: Robo-Girl

You can probably tell I spend a lot of my time sketching robots and this week's image Robo-Girl is one of my favourites.
I came up with Robo-Girl not long after I arrived in London and wanted to create a character to use to get back in to my animations.

I have completed four new original t-shirts designs that are going to be on sale soon on our website kalmanlee.co.uk and best to be quick as there will be limited number of these new designs available.

Image of the Week: Radio-man Sketches!

This week's image is of some concept sketches I did of a radio-man. I love the old school radios and wanted to do a japanese robot style design, designed with bold sharp lines and the traditional colours (black, white, red, and navy).

This Week's Image is called Spagalimis Voucher

Year's ago in Christchurch (NZ) I was asked by the owner of Spagalimis to design a number of promotional materials to promote his special deals and boost business. For those of you who haven't heard of Sapagalimis or their amazing pizzas it's a very well known chain of pizza restaurants in New Zealand and many think it is the best.

The image above is of a $10 dollar voucher I designed for Spagalimis that was sent out to well known companies and firms in the area and all around New Zealand. I designed the voucher to have similar features to the New Zealand $10 note.

On another note, it's note long until our next t-shirt range comes out but that doesn't mean you still can't grab one or more of the firt Kalman Lee t-shirt range, so check it out!

This Weeks Weekly Image: 2002 Calendar Page!

Back in Christchurch(New Zealand)2002 I was working for a printing firm and every year they would produce a calendar to give out to all their clients.
Each year had a different theme or image you had to use in every month. As you can see I was asked to design the month of December and the image that I had to use was a wall with a circle cut out of it.
To my imagination I saw it as a time portal.
I decided for this image I would use my 3d modelling design skills and so I created the futurist hand you see above.