I’ve become an expert in macro economics and Japanese business etiquette. I was asked recently to produce a series of small scale drawings about business practice. This one is about how hard it is for European firms to unlock the Japanese market. The huge lock is holding a Yen but I must admit, it does look like a catapult. They didn’t use this one

People are constantly telling me – ‘Mike, you are probably the most fashionable person in Rochdale’ I don’t live there, but it’s true. My fashion prediction for 2014 is bright orange.

I printed about 100 tote bags as a Liverpool Art School promo, to give away at UCAS recruitment fairs and open days. They are this years big thing. Very sought after.

This is for you, with Love x

Marvin Hagler v Sugar Ray Leonard. One of the all time classic Middleweight Contests from 1987. The second print is of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in the 1937 Musical, Swing Time. All four were light on their feet. It was rumoured that Ginger Rogers was a bit of a kick off merchant, all I know is that she was a great dancer.

Limited Edition Screen Prints: Super Delux Metallic silver ink. Edition of 10 prints.

Fred and Ginger

Marvin & Sugar Ray

Metallic silver ink / version one + Metallic silver text & purple boxers / version two

All prints are A2 on 300gsm Norfolk paper + a version at 500mm x 350mm on 250 gsm Somerset.  For more information contact@moshaughnessy.co.uk

Here it is, fresh from the freshest place. My bag graphic for Static Caravan Records. They are way up there, with Hermes and stuff, very collectable and exclusive and the like. This is my super fresh nephew Cally Moggs. He was forced to model for this photo. I also enlisted students and my family to help out. The one with the bag on her head is very high maintenance. Peace

These are my latest copies of Perfume. They’ll be in the post very soon. Part research, part publicity. Classy, like a big bottle of Aramis or a Brut 33 soap on a rope.

It’s summertime. I’ve been eating ice cream and listening to my neighbours playing Scouse House in the middle of the afternoon. Back at work, I’ve spent a few weeks screenprinting at Liverpool School of Art & Design. The works are a combination of Screenprinting and large format Digital printing.

An update on my latest research project  -The title ‘supadudeywords’ is a quote from Kase2, in Style Wars / 1983. I’m definitely not  qualified to say whether there has been a decline in the quality of handwriting in school.

Calligraphy and Graffiti both have script styles that overlap. A big percentage of Tagging is based on flamboyant and cursive signatures. This approach to calligraphy appears to be very decorative, with legibility having less importance.

I’m interested in how perceived values of handwriting and intelligence can be challenged if Students are encouraged to recognize and embrace some of the cursive and script like qualities they see in the backstreets of Liverpool. They’re everywhere, they just have to notice them.

I’ve created an A3 page – a grid system  which uses a basic standard and italic text guideline and asked three groups of students from three different schools – I’ve tried to identify kids from different parts of Liverpool – Merchant Taylors Girls School Crosby /Aslop High School Liverpool / Formby High School. The aim is to ask them to write on this – use these A3 pages to produce a calligraphic response to a piece of accompanying text.

Part two is coming soon – I’m working with super Liverpool Street Artist Tomo  watch the skies peoples. Peace.

More, no parking stuff. This time it’s more of a conversation. I’m not really sure If the writer is going to work ? They would prefer it, if you didn’t park outside these gates. But something tells me, they are in the wrong job. Super dudey word stuff.

Here’s my own contribution to a Graphics Degree Show fundraiser. A Ping Pong Event. We all got to customise our own table tennis bats. This was a brilliant evening, which was great fun and raised lots of money towards our final years publication fund. It was slightly spoiled by the fact that I didn’t win. I’m not saying that I’m competitive or bitter. But my bat was defo the best. It always helps to have a pair of winky blinky eyes. I’ve had them for years – just waiting just the right project. That’s Spence in the background. He won, but probably cheated.

The First Edition is finished. Perfume & Drawing

It’s not a Katie Price blockbuster or Cheryl Cole classic and is most definitely not a literary great, like a Jeremy Clarkson or a Jeffrey Archer. The Drawing is of Gina ‘Binny Moggs’ Morrissey, she’s one of my beautiful nieces. I’ve already started my next publication – Super Dudey Words.

If you want more information on Drawing & Perfume – contact@moshaughnessy.co.uk