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I've finally finished my website with the help of amazing graphic designer and good friend, Chris Clarke. Check it out: www.hattienewman.co.uk

Catch My Breath

Last month I co-art directed (with the lovely Helen MacIntyre) a music promo for band Run Toto Run directed by Nick Bentley. The video involves giant tenticles, tribal dancers and a bizarre picnic so to be sure to watch this space as it's out very soon!

The Guardian MEGAS Awards

I've been making a series of little paper sets for the Media Guardian Innovation Awards campaign. The final images can be seen in the Guardian throughout this month!

Cadbury / Make a Wish

I recently completed 5 short animations (with the help of my good friend mr geoffrey taylor and LOTS of chocolate snacks) for the new Make a Wish website created by digital agency, Weapon 7. It marks the start of a new partnership between Make A wish Foundation and Cadbury and all money raised through the website will go towards sick children :) I created the little characters and set and animated them in collaboration with Weapon 7 who took care of all the post production (sound, editing and after-effects bits). The website will be promoted on Cadbury chocolate bar wrappers which is exciting and you can see them here : www.cadburymakeawish.org

Arcadia

I was reallyyy pleased that my work got chosen to be a part of Gestalten's new book 'Arcadia', released this September  (I think it's because I love mountains, houses and trees). The book showcases an amazing and expansive collection of alpine and country architecture and design with some really beautiful photography. Makes me want to go exploring.

Troy

A few weeks ago I completed a series of 20 images for Macmillan Publishers that will appear in a children's learning book. Here is one picture showing the city of Troy and 2 wandering goats!

Sony Showtime!

Last month the wonderful Container Plus invited me to work with them and paper queens Jacky and Sally on the SONY's 'Showtime' brochure, commissioned by Iris. I had an amazing time making mountains of paper things...from lipsticks to cityscapes to popcorn buckets.... thanks Container Plus! You can view more images we made for the brochure here.

Funeral Jelly

I've been a busy beeee so keep forgetting to update my blog! (also still trying to make website) This is a little colourful set I made the other week for the launch of 'Bompass and Parr' s new jelly! The pair created black cherry and champagne jellies set with 24- carat gold to honour the legendary superstar, Micheal Jackson. You can read more about the jellies  here on Times online or here and check out Bompass and Parr's website to see more of their incredible eatable work! 

Just thought I'd say..

I havn't updated my blog in a while as I'm finally finally finally making my website which should be up in the next couple of weeks!

We Have Band - You came Out

I was lucky enough to recently art direct on David Wilson's (Blink Ink) latest music promo for the London based band 'We Have Band'. The stop motion video is made up of thousands of photographs of the band member's faces and LOADS of animated face paint! - very time consuming work but I think the results are amazing.... You can view it here on David's site or on youtube.

Grafik Birds

As sponsors of this year's Free Range show Grafik Magazine commissioned Alex Ostrowski and myself to make something for the show. We decided to craft a flock of recycled birds using old issues of the magazine and recycled paper donated by Arjo Wiggins, The five bird houses acted as post boxes at the private view - people were invited to write messages on feathers and post them through the windows. Thanks so so much to my lovely assistant Jess Dance for all her incredible help. She makes the most beautiful creations out of material, card and all sorts, you must check them out (here)

Moray McLaren - We Got Time

You must watch this masterpiece (CLICK HERE) by Director 

David Wilson (of Blinkink), in which I helped art direct a couple of months ago - spot the wolf masks and mirrored objects I made! The animation is all done in camera, reflected on mirrored panels from an animated sequence on each record disc. To find out more about how it was made watch the 'making of' here.

'The Assembly' website

Last week I helped the lovely  Container Plus build these models for the website of new boutique agency 'The Assembly'. When finished every element will be brought to life by the power of animation!

The Fedrigoni Mountains!

The Fedrigoni Mountains have finally been unveiled! Pop along to the exhibition at the Fedrigoni Showroom in Farringdon to see them surrounded by an exhibition of wonderful work by Container Plus, Rob Hunter, Helen MacIntyre, Rude, Supermundane, Sophie Kern, Adam Hayes, Nous Vous, Nicholas Saunders, Chrissie Abbott, Marcus Oakley and Luke Best. Each illustrator was asked to 'visually explore' a designated mountain peak and document their findings on a B1 sheet of Fedrigoni paper. Thanks SO MUCH to all 12 explorers who braved the mountain slopes! Thanks to Patricia and Guy Archard for the photos.

Fedrigoni Blog by Nicholas

Thanks to the very talented Nicholas Saunders for keeping up a great blog on  the YCN website!  He's got some great snaps (including this one) from the night of the private view showing off some of the artwork in the exhibition- you must check out his website and see his lovely work!

Wolf Masks

I made these masks for the very talented  David Wilson of Blink Ink to feature in his latest music video. I also made other props on the day of the shoot and so I'm very excited to see the finished video. From what I saw it's going to be amazing so I will post it up here soon!

Exploration Begins

On Monday we met up with the twelve intrepid illustrators to show them their mountain and give them their B1 piece of Fedrigoni paper so they can set off on their imaginary journey and visualise their exploration! Illustrator Nicholas Saunders is keeping a blog of his progress on the YCN site.

The Guardian

Last week I collaborated with Alex Ostrowski, Johanna Lundberg Kristina Grundberg and Elin Svennson for the Guardian's creative section. We were asked to produce some colourful 3D letters to accompany an article called 'creative stocktake'  which is about the value of creative industries during the credit crunch - interesting stuff!

New Studio!

The Fedrigoni Mountains

This month I am art directing a project with Alex Ostrowski for the paper company Fedrigoni. Inspired by the company's Italian roots, we are making an installation of model mountains made of Fedrigoni papers and inviting 12 illustrators to visually 'explore' them throughout March! 

Nothing Fancy Volume 9

Some funny images I did a while ago have just been put up on the brand new 'nothing fancy' website, created by Jay Waldron. The site showcases some great work by a number of illustrators/artists/ photographers who have all submitted work on the theme of 'Changes'.

Tangible Book

Happy Newman Year, I found out today that the new Gestalten book 'Tangible' has been released. It is the follow up of the book 'Tactile' and  showcases the very best in 'High Touch Visuals' . It was very nice of them feature me in it, an exciting bit of news for the start of the year.

Creative 30 Exhibition

Hello. Just thought I would put up a post about last night's exhibition! Lots of fun and thanks to Jen and Danielle of Vice for helping me get my little area looking nice...

UWE workshop

Before Christmas I was invited to give a two day workshop in 3D illustration for the first year illustrators at UWE...a very talented bunch! I asked them to create a 3D environment based on some randomly selected words. They rose to the challenge and some really imaginative stuff was produced :)

ESSER Music Video!

This week I helped art director, Helen MacIntyre on the set of the Esser Music Video. I met some dancing robots and spruced up the space pod. I can't wait until the video comes out!

Nomonotono Exhibition

Studio Banana invited Alex and me to submit an image for their exhibition in Madrid. We came up with this collage of drawings and doodles based on the many times we drift off into imaginary worlds. There it is on the top right of the picture. All the works were exhibited in colour order!

Alex and me by the Christmas Tree

We popped into AMVBBDO yesterday see the tree that we had decorated over the weekend. Many more people have written and drawn Christmas messages on the leaves which is exciting, and the sparkling lights make it look magical! Click here for more pictures.

Lets Go Dancing!

Finally uploaded my animation, Let's Go Dancing! to the web and you can watch it here.

Lots of stuff

Another image from the Rude Shoot...

Brown Thomas Christmas Windows

Finally got some photos of the window displays I worked on with MakeStuff for Brown Thomas in Dublin! You can see more pictures here ...

AMVBBDO Christmas Tree

I've had a fun weekend with Alex Ostrowski making a colourful Christmas Tree for advertising agency AMVBBDO, who exhibited my clown screenprints earlier in the year! It'll be up all month in case you fancy popping in to see it.

RUDE shoot

For the last two or so weeks I have been working with Rupert of RUDE, making brilliant 3D cardboard  illustrations and today was the day of the shoot! So here I am trying to prop up the lamp:

Cardboard Wings!

Today I finished making the cardboard wings for Nick Bentley who is using them in the film he is working on in Spain ...

The other day I helped out on a photo shoot with the lovely Helen MacIntyre who makes the most amazing props and sets...this shoot was for the musician Tim Exile and Helen had made some fantastical head pieces...

Winter Giraffe

One of the little images I did for Jay at www.nothingfancyvolumes.com 

32 Gingerbread Men

I have working for Beanie Brownjohn at Makestuff and we have been making all sorts of things for Christmas window displays. Here are some gingerbread men we are making for Brown Thomas in Dublin!