Los LogosI have some logo designs in the new Los Logos book out now. The logo bible - 'Los Logos Compass' is published by design publishers Gestalten & features hundreds of fantastic logo designs by many well known graphic studios & designers from around the globe - so it's an honour to be included! I have 4 logos in total featured throughout various sections. See here more of my logo work.

Happy Fashion Week!

Whether you're in New York, London, Milan or Paris, it's that time of year again...

EBS Magazine

I recently completed a commission for Regent's College's EBS magazine, London. I worked on the front & back covers plus a feature article all around the theme of graduating from business school, the opportunities for graduates and mentoring schemes in place to help forwarding business careers of alumni.

Images 34

I'm pleased to have been selected for the 'AOI images' for the 3rd year in a row... The book Images 34 - Best of British Contemporary Illustration 2010 is out now & the accompanying exhibition runs from 8th - 14th September at London College of Communications before touring the UK for a year.

Summer Summer Summer Summertime...

...Just sit back and unwind! That's exactly what I'll be doing for the next few weeks. Hope you are enjoying some sunshine too!

Cycling in London

As part of a campaign to promote cycling, the London Transport Museum recently launched a contest for illustrators to depict cycling in the capital. The competition was fierce with many top illustrators taking part. only 50 of some 1000 entrants were picked for the exhibition. Unfortunately I wasn't one of the lucky 50 but I thought I would still share my design with you!

Live Art

Last week I was invited to do a live painting at the Glug + D&AD student awards after party at the Vibe bar London. I must say a tall order - especially as the board was over 8' & I had about 5 hours to paint! Despite not painting since my art school days years ago I managed to complete the task in had - with the aid of my helpers & a few beers - & the end result wasn't too displeasing! Photos courtesy of Chris Brock Photography.

Got, Got, Need, Got!

Check out the East End Arts Club's current pop up exhibition which kicks off with a private view tonight. Offside is an artistic perspective on the World Cup. In keeping with all things world cup & football I've designed a print for the exhibition based on those little panini stickers everyone used to collect & swap when they were kids. The exhibition - which includes loads of great work - runs from 24th - 27th June at Red Gallery, Rivington Street, London. Go on give it a shot!

Something Fishy!Whilst having a huge clear out before moving studio I came across this old Lino print from my art school days. Just thought I would share it with you...

Call My Agent!I'm pleased to say that I'm now being represented by Agency Rush!

It's a pleasure to be joining such a strong stable of talented artists & I hope this partnership will bring lots of new & exciting opportunities... watch this space! And for any future commissions, please - "call my agent!"

You can see my page & more about Agency Rush Here.

Mimobots

A while ago I entered a competition on design community site infectious.com to design a new Mimobot (essentially a mix between a USB flash drive and a collectable designer figure). Unfortunately I didn't win the comp - well there was a lot of very strong competition - but I thought I'd share my designs with you anyway!The 3D mockups were lovingly rendered by graphic designer Daniel Vanches who also created a poster of all the best entrys & how they would have looked if produced... it kind of reminds me of the back of an 80s Starwars figure pack! :-)

Semi-PermenantI'm pleased to have some work featured in the new semi-permenant book, 2009 V2. Curated & published by Sydney based creative studio - 'Design is Kinky'. As well as having a fabulously fresh portfolio & great design blog these guys are also involved in organising the Semi-Permanent design festivals involving conferences and side events focused around all things to do with graphics, Illustration, animation, photography, film, visual effects etc. which include exhibitions, competitions, workshops and parties - yeah! Except they're nearly all in Australia or NewZealand... Boo!

Happy Birthday!

It was my brothers birthday at the end of last year & I designed this fun little flyer for his birthday party invite... it's all about him and his favourite things & it was a Scottish themed party hence the tartan! - Just thought I'd share it with you... oh and it was my little brother's birthday which makes me feel just a bit old!!

Woof!

Daydream...

My illustration, ' handy' features in the current issue of art & design focused magazine, Daydream.

Part of the Daydream network the seventh edition as always is packed full of interesting and inspiring art, design, photography & creative writing.

On the Cover of a Magazine...I recently worked on some illustrations for South African magazine - Migrate. Migrate magazine is the official magazine of the Loerie awards, the advertising,communication & design awards for Africa & the Middle East . I designed the front and inside covers as well as having a few existing works featured inside.

The brief was 'a sign of the times' so as you can imagine there was a lot of subjects required to be covered meaning a lot of imagery to fit in - a tall order to say the least... anyway being one to rise to a challenge I dived in head first & the end results seem to have paid off.

Göoo

Revista Göoo is a little design magazine from Latin America full of great images from around the world. It's published 4 times a year and is limited to 5000 copies each issue. I was recently selected for issue 8 - the pleasure issue (out now) with this image of my Victorian Cyclists. You can buy the magazine here.

Made in TaiwanFunswant is a funky fashion, design & lifestyle magazine from Taiwan. It covers everything from contemporary music and art to fashion and everything in between... I was recently interviewed for the magazine & the four page article features in their October issue (016) out now if you're in that part of the world. Only thing is I can't read Mandarin... oh well it looks nice anyway!Thanks to Angeline Chen who interviewed me for Funswant.

B.I.O. Badges

Graphic art & fashion boutique, Stereohype recently invited me to take part in their latest B.I.O. (by invitation only) series of badges. Series 8, as in the past includes some great designs from illustrators, graphics designers & photographers on 'mini mobile canvases' as they put it themselves! My badges are available individually or as a set of 4 at their online store now!

The Ark

I was invited to take part in the Ark project earlier in the year.

ARK the book, is out now - curated by Argentine design company DGPH & published by IdN. The idea was to invite a selection of illustrators and designers from across the planet to each illustrate an animal from their native country to be 'saved' in the ark & create an illustrated animal 'bible'.

The book is packed full of animals from each continent of the planet visualised in a plethora of styles. For The Ark I chose the Puffin representing Scotland. (The stag was already taken!)

The book is out next month & will be followed by a series of exhibitions around the world - watch this space...Buy the book here.

Noise of ArtI have 2 pieces in the East End Arts Club group show 'Noise of Art'. It should be a pretty interesting show as all artists had to use 12" vinyl records as their canvas.

The show runs from 3rd - 20th September,East End Arts Club, Swanfield Yard, 2b Swanfield Street, London, E2 7DS.

Also see my photoset 'The Making of Records' on Flickr.

Images 33

I'm pleased to have work featured in the recently published book 'Images 33 - Best of British Illustration 2009'. I also have a print in the accompanying exhibition running from 29th July - 12th August at London College of Communication.

Image Spotlight

One of my 'making of trees' photos has featured in the Association of Illustrators website in their 'image spotlight' section and client newsletter for August. Possibly more 3D type work coming soon...

Here comes the sun...

Finally seems like summer is here and what more excuse do you need to buy some new tshirts?

Here's a sneak peak at some I've been working on this week. A taster of the type of Ts that I'll be selling on my website shop in the near future! Enjoy the sunshine...

Happy New (Tax) Year!

If only doing tax returns was slightly more enjoyable... Here's something to cheer you up. The new 'if you could' book is finally finished. This year in the form of a diary running April - April. Each Illustrator was asked "if you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?" and each week of the diary is a different designer's reply to that question. My contribution adorns week 44  'stop the rain'.

It's a lovely collection of illustration and graphics all in the if you could trade mark red, gray & black colour scheme. Visit the If you could website to find out more.

TAXI!

Design website 'Taxi' have chosen my site as their website of the day today... with a link from there homepage to mine for a whole week. "Website of the day is an effort from the design community on TAXI to recognize and share superior websites that display unparalleled use of creativity and innovation". Nice be told your work is 'outstanding' & to be noticed! I'm blushing!

Check out the website of the day page or their website at designtaxi.com

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you get your share of romance this year... forget the asparagus & oysters - bring me the chocolates! x

Blanket Cover

I was recently asked to do the cover for online art & design magazine, Blanket.

They also did an interview with me which is accompanied by a selection of my work. Check it out in issue 14 - available to download from their website now.