I wish I'd done that - artist 5

- Artist: Mike Robinson
- Project: Cod-Roe-Phenia, The Prawn Identity T-shirt designs
- Client: Weird Fish
- Genre: cartoon, editorial, prints



- Would you love to work with this client?
Yes, its a pretty big T-shirt design company, and the editorial pieces used on the shirts are brilliant, especially the fish related puns such as Cod-Roe-Phenia, Prawn Of The Dead and Lock Stock and Two Smoked Mackerel.

- Are you inspired by the ideas and concepts in the work?
Not really no, I love the T-shirt designs but not to the point where I  find them inspiring, I find the characters expressions great but I haven't used the designs as a source of referencing towards my own characters. 

- Have you got a special interest in this genre?
I have an interest in some day having one of my designs printed onto a t-shirt, and hopefully submitting a design to a well established clothing make, companies like weird fish. I would love to work with Weird Fish, but I feel my work wouldn't fit into the style and genre that the company has become renowned for. 

- Do you want your work to be received by a similar audience?
Well there is no targeted audience as such, but looking around the audience seem to be young adults - middle aged adults, so no I don't want my work to be received by the same audience as I feel my work wouldn't really suit this age group.

- Are you seduced by the style/aesthetics of the work?
Like with the other artists I've chosen the characters are the main concentration in these pieces. The cartoon style of the fish and the very humorous message going on in the pictures are great and are what make the weird fish t-shirts so iconic, out-standing, and different to any other competition out there.

- Is the work well and truly within or outside your comfort zone?
Creating the characters are well within my comfort zone, but t-shirt printing is outside of my comfort zone as its something I've never really gone into or ever really had any idea of venturing into. I would be very interested in venturing into this area in the future, but at this current time and date its something I wouldn't consider that area to be a very comfortable area.

- Is the work surprising or unusual in any way?
The T-shirt designs are unusual in the sense that you can make any film title become a badly intended fish pun, and its surprising how well you can characterize any member of the fish family to resemble a film icon.