Background & Overview
I’ve been doing various types of visual art since the mid-1990s, starting off with doing posters and record covers for bands in my “hometowns” of Courtenay followed by Vancouver, Canada. I always peg where I officially started doing this type of work as a “career” was with my work in the short-lived Seven Segment co-operative. Started in 1999 and going for only a year, it was a loose group of punks and independent music promoters that did all-ages shows in Vancouver. I did the graphic design work for the posters and promotion. When this ended I started my own little home studio as The Wax Museum which ran from around the turn of the millenium right until I moved to the UK in 2007.
After working for a number of print companies and design houses in central London for a number of years, I re-surfaced again in the early 2010s under the name JJD Works, which I still work as the art director, web developer, graphic designer and sole owner to this day. Although my work nowadays is less music-oriented as it used to be, I still do a lot of work for my own projects Soft Riot and Possession Records, as well select record cover design and poster/flyer design for promoters, record labels and bands.
Over the last five years I’ve been doing more and more video production — some of which you can find in this website, as well as with my partnership with Glasgow-based video artist Georgina Penstkart, both of us working under the name Flustervision. You can find a portfolio of that video work here.
For an alternate portfolio focusing more on graphic design and web development for companies, organisations, small businesses and charities, visit www.jjdworks.com.
