My wife is one of the top players in the world in the women’s sport of Roller Derby, a full contact sport played on rollerskates which is little known outside the USA but which is rapidly gaining fans across the world. My wife’s league, the London Rollergirls, regularly play games to over a thousand fans and travels to America to play US leagues, and i lend a hand by producing posters for them. Over the last two or three years I’ve produced various bits of publicity material for them and it’s always a fun challenge. On the one hand they have a great image to draw from, fun derby alter egos and a willingness to let me loose without too much editorial interference, on the other hand we have no budget and only what resources we can pull together ourselves. I relish the challenge of making high end publicity images on a shoestring budget that capture the fun and athleticism of this exciting sport.
