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I have been digging through my hard-drive recently lifting photos for my contibutions to the Everfresh Studio book which we have been working on, Its coming along very nice, its been a cool process which has been great to look back at lots of old work from everyone here in the studio.

I decided that i would upload a few old snaps that are not going to make it in the book but i still like, either for nostalgic reasons of just cos i like the shots. You can read more about the process of the Everfresh Book on the site HERE . Enjoy!

Im excited to see this book finished. Stoked to be a part of it.

I meant to post something in the first few days of the year being all ” here’s to a new year, fresh start etc etc bla bla bla” but then i was just too busy living. So here is two things from recently.

An antique style sign that i did as a christmas gift to my parents, and no they don’t own a fish and chip shop, just for looks.

An a quick little skull on the wall in the studio, its all looking pretty bombed at the moment, might be time for a full makeover soon.

Lots of projects underway, quite a few things that im keeping under wraps for now, but im starting a new job in a few days so hopefully ill have some different stuff to post up on here.

Happy New Year.

All the Miles Away Zine pre-orders were sent out at the start of the week. Hopefully will beat the xmas backup and some of you will get them as an early gift. If you don’t they are not far away. Thanks. Callum.

Was asked to do a flyer and some tees for a Halloween reunion show for Mindsnare, one of my all time favorite bands. I was stoked to do the work, but bummed that i would be away when the show took place. Then it turned out it would not work on that date, so it was pushed back till Dec 18. Thats tonight! so i thought i would post up the flyer which im stoked with, as well as the tees that i did for them, the photo of Matt tee never went ahead though. Just the skull skates rip off and the gasmasks tee. I also did a shirt for the band At An End, a young band who are stoked to be playing the show with Mindsnare. And im stoked to see the show, infact, im off to hang at the arthouse right now. Peace!

So i did a lot of travelling this year.

All over the USA for three months, Perth for a few weeks, Toured in Europe for a month, went all up and down the east coast of Australia for 2 weeks, Back to the USA for 6 weeks. Basically had an amazing time all over. Whenever I travel i take my Ipod, its awesome how music can remind you so much of a certain place of time or event.

With this in mind i decided to create a mixtape and put it up for download. 30 songs that have been playing in my headphones while i walk the streets of New York, Drove the mountains of Switzerland, Ate from the bakery in Byron Bay, rode my bike through San Francisco and a million other things.

I just put this together to give people a chance to grab a random mix bag of tunes, hopefully find something they like, something they lost, or something they never want to hear again. This is like a taste tester i guess, so if you like them, you should support the bands on here that you can support (those that are still around and playing). They have all inspired me in one way or another.

You can download it at the below link, feel free to pass it on to whoever you wish. Seasons Greetings

http://www.mediafire.com/file/igmwzt5tf2w/MIXTAPE 2009 – www.callumpreston.com.zip

I recently did the tour poster and branding for the “Schools Out For Summer” tour. This is the poster but it was also done as a street press ad in landscape format and other variations for Blunt mag and a6 flyers.

Also a new tee design for DN as well. The Ghost Inside from LA are playing this tour as well, will be worth checking out.

So a little while back i was lucky enough to be able to design the invite and promo shirt for the opening of the VANS store in Melbourne. The first Vans store for Australia!

The invite was a screen printed mini vans shoe box, inside that was a screen printed invite on vintage paper stock, also included was a Vans friendship band.

I also got to design a tee shirt that was a give away to all the invited guests on the night. Plus i made up a version of the Off The Wall logo with Melbourne in place of “Off The Wall”

I kept it close and did all of the printing as well which meant i had control over all the quality of the final product, was a really fun job for me. The opening was a great success, and i was stoked to work on stuff for a brand that I have loved since i was a kid, and still do.

Huge thanks to Diamond Dozen  (http://www.diamondozen.com) for getting me involved in the launch!

Some recaps of the nights events can be found below.

http://www.empireave.com/?p=4818

http://www.fashionising.com/pictures/b–Ruby-Rose-at-the-Vans-Melbourne-store-opening-2245.html

http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/articles/Vans-Melbourne-Store-Launch-Party-Pics/

The Pyramid Scheme Press webstore has now been launched. Check it out below

www.pyramidschemepress.bigcartel.com

At the moment there is a Pre-Order for a second pressing of the Miles Away Europe Tour Zine. The original pressing was only 70 copies which were sold on the Sike Your Mind tour in October. I have had many emails and people asking for copies and if there were any left etc.

Now this Pre order is up until December 10 thats three weeks to place your order. Ill be sending Australia wide, so people who could not make it to the tour can now get a copy direct to their door. International orders will be accepted but may cost a little extra in postage.

There is also a package available that comes with a Pyramid Scheme Press tee shirt. Illustrated by myself.

Check it out, and feel free to drop me a line with any thoughts or problems, Bookmark the page as there will be more items coming to the store soon.

On friday the 13th of November I attended the wedding of Matt Miller and Danielle Distefano in Central Park New York City.

I decided to try my hand at some woodwork/sculpture to build a gift for them.

Matt has a huge Skateboard collection at their home in Atlanta, and is an amazing photographer, Danielle is a well respected Tattooer all over and recently opened The “Only You” Tattoo shop in Atlanta. I tried to combine all of these things into the gift. Here is the result. Made entirely out of recycled skateboards.

A Tattoo machine, the logo of her tattoo shop, and the Logo of Matt’s photography company. The wedding was amazing and they were stoked on the gift. Making this has got me inspired to play around more with this type of thing. Who knows what may come of it?

Check out the bride and grooms stuff at www.onlyyoutattoo.com & www.matthewmillerphotography.com

Well, its been a long time since i have updated…. hopefully give this whole thing a overhaul soon

So, alongside other projects and travel and work and stuff, ive decided to start a label.
Not a record label, there is enough of those who all work really hard, but my label is infact a “Press”

Pyramid Scheme Press

Something i have started up to release books, zines, and eventually some artwork prints and random items through. Not talking huge numbers here, its just something that i have been wanting to do for quite a while. Having many friends who have creative talent but not as much of an outlet for it is what inspired me to take it on.

The first release on this label is available from this week on the Sike Your Mind tour around Australia.

“Miles Away – 30 days in Europe Tour Zine” Documenting the tour Miles Away did June through July this year in the EU summer.

Only 70 copies are made. 35 with red covers 35 with tan. It is 100 pages a5 format. made totally using cut and paste.

If there is any left after tour i will be offering them up for postal order, but for now its the Miles Away merch desk at the sike your mind shows in each state.

They are selling for $10 each.

I put together this short video playing around with my new computers video editing software, excuse my limited skill with editing, its made up of some footage from around europe.

Click here to watch the video

Cheers

Callum