Day Job is an illustration studio based in Peckham, South London, comprised of 10 recent graduates from Camberwell College of Arts. Alongside our own work we collaborate on bigger group projects, working with a range of media including print, digital, ceramics, and 3D installation.

Day Job Book One

We were all in the same class at Camberwell and always ended up working alongside each other in the studios and on group projects and shows whilst we were at university. It seemed natural to carry this on after we graduated last summer, and so the day we took down our degree show we moved into our studio in Peckham. Having a space to discuss our work and share our ideas was motivating and this then prompted us to do work together.

Day Job Studio

Day Job Studio

Although we’re still about 6 months young we’ve made two publications together, and we had our first exhibition, ‘Day Job Toy Shop‘ at Pick Me Up at Somerset House in April. This involved toys, prints, workshops and Kids TV!

Day Job at Pick Me Up, London

Day Job at Pick Me Up, London

Day Job at Pick Me Up, London

Separately we all work as freelance illustrators (as well as our actual day jobs), and as a group combine our skills for bigger projects like installation, set design and curation.

Day Job is Joshua Checkley, Daniel Clarke, Aaron Cook, Grace Helmer, Katie Johnston, Charlene Man, Charlotte Mei, Ella McLean, Peter Rhodes and Victoria Willmott.

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Ferment is an illustrated literary zine put together by Paul Askew, James Weiner and myself, Sarah Plant. For each issue we ask sixteen writers and illustrators to contribute.

Every issue we choose a theme, the theme is widely interpreted by our invited contributors.

Initially writers respond to the theme, then illustrators respond to those writers’ poems or short stories. We pair the illustrators and writers, then publish the work as a 12 page black and white newspaper printed by The Newspaper Club.

Ferment began because we wanted to do something creative together that we had control over. Outside of the 9-5, it was fun to make something for other people to enjoy and an experimental project for us. Never a profit making project, the cost of producing zine is covered by selling it locally in Oxford & on our website.

Our themes have ranged from Naked, A Single Letter, to Cities and Upside Down with covers illustrated by Al Murphy, Mister Mourao & Matt Blease.

Illustrators and writers sometimes surprise us by taking the theme in interesting and bizarre directions like ‘Potatoes’ in issue 3- Food. Once the pairings are all in, its my job to set the layout of the zine and the tone for that issue. This is my favorite bit of Ferment, as the contributors’ work is so good and bloody funny.

Recently, as well as producing the zine, we have been playing with the idea of Ferment Mini. Poems & stories printed using miniature printers like Bergs Little Printer.

James custom made a mini printer to print some of our poems & short stories. The result, pocket sized pieces of poetry with illustrations to keep or give to friends.

Ferment mini is playful and interesting, but there are some downsides. Its narrow column length (receipt sized) means some stories end up over a metre long! We don’t intend to offer Ferment mini as a service at the moment, nevertheless its an interesting addition to the Ferment story.

If you are interested in contributing to Ferment, email us & you can buy issues of the zine here.

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