Everest

- A Mountain of Paint

The White Lion, Streatham High Road. A visionary and completely unique live music venue and bar run by Music 4 Children, a charity dedicated to helping vulnerable children worldwide. A fantastic bar with live music most evenings, an enclosed beer garden and a workshop space that can also be used for community meetings and projects.

The owner Oz, Is also responsible for organising and performing in a series of extreme gigs throughout the world raising money for children. One of the outstanding events was the record breaking Worlds Highest gig, performed on Mt Everest.

The beer garden within the pub/bar is a showcase for Street Art and Oz wanted a big painting of Mt Everest on some rather large stable doors...

...And I stepped up to the challenge!

Final piece.

SKIMO

- Jump

Skimo Logo 2012

Late 2011 I was commissioned to design a clean striking logo for an up and coming UK Bass producer 'Skimo'. Little did I know the success that was to follow... 


With his distinctive signature style and an innovative take on the UK Bass movement, it is no wonder Skimo recently won Knowledge Magazines Best Unsigned Artist, but don’t let this fool you, he’s no stranger to the scene and has been pleasing the discerning club scene for over a decade. With future releases on US based record label 10 Dollar Records expected early 2012. Expect heavy basslines, funky rhythms and catchy hooks. 

Various interviews and reviews available here:

Kmag Artist of the Month Interview.

Don't Sleep NYC review.

EP available here: 

http://www.digital-tunes.net/releases/jump_ep

Whatever he's doing, he's doing it well...(I personally put his success down to his logo!) 

Fresh Wild Fly & Bold

- Yes yes y'all!

October 10th 2011 sees the return of the UK's all-star producer Mark B (Mark B & Blade – The Unknown) back on his own K-Boro Records imprint with his new brand new single 'Fresh, Wild, Fly & Bold' - a tribute to old-skool Hip-Hop pioneers 'The Cold Crush Brothers'.
  

http://markb.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-wild-fly-bold-cold-crush-its-a-must

Trying to steer away from the over saturated 'pop-rap' market of recent times, Mark teams up with Dialect to bring it back to absolute basics with gritty-funky samples, hard crunching Emu SP1200 drum machine beats, menacing flutes & most importantly three of Hip-Hop's key elements; knowledge, lyricism, & scratching.

 

Trackside Burners - Dj Philly

To coincide with the release, Mark B & Dialect are also launching their brand new website: FreshWildFlyAndBold.com and after seeing some of my previous work for 'Trackside Burners Radio Show' on www.deepfrequency.com 
Mark B contacted me asking to create a 'old-skool graffiti' style outline piece of artwork to be used within the site and to be printed on promotional T-Shirts..............and this is it! (below)

Fresh, Wild, Fly and Bold - Mark B and Dialect (Cold Crush Brothers tribute)

Mini skirt, Mini Cooper, Mini Mouse...

-"...Mini Canvas"

And this one's now SOLD. - But not to worry...more Original artwork is available upon request with various colour options and sizes.

(Drop me an email if you're interested).

Mike Ruffon. October 2011. Paint on Canvas 175x125mm

Guerilla WarSnare Logo.

-"Design and development"

Daniel Potter aka Guerilla WarSnare, already a well established and respected musician across many genres and guises is now working on his eagerly awaited début album. And guess what, I have been lucky enough to land the job of creating a logo and identity for the talented South Londoner. I met with him over a beer or two to discuss ideas and themes of which he liked. It was decided a modern take on a constructivist logo would be the route in which to design. Still in progress, here are some ideas.

Marker pens.

-"The fumes of my room"

A small selection of recent marker work. 

Character design.

-'The day of ghouls is upon us'
So Halloween is just around the corner, I am currently building a diverse catalogue of characters for use on various media. No doubt there will be some use for some of these chaps during this holiday period.