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.

If You Could...

Due to unforeseen circumstances the if you could diary has been delayed due to technical issues with printing therefore it won't be out till April now and will run till april'10 as the tax year does ( horrible tax!) ... so another few months to wait I'm afraid!

Old School Print

While I was clearing out my old studio recently I found some old block prints I made at art school... thought I would just share with you one of my favourites - inspired by a trip to Italy at the time.

Prototypes

Got some prototypes of the mugs I'm hoping to sell on my shop. They're looking pretty good...almost there & just a few more things to sort out and then I'll launch the online store with all the goodies... In the meantime here's a sneaky peak of some mugs - 

Happy New Year!

So is everyone full of New Years resolutions then? I know I've broken half of mine already! Hoping for lots of exciting stuff to happen this year illustration wise... 

I got a design selected a little while ago for the new 'if you could' book - which this time is in the form of a diary. For those unfamiliar with the format everyone is ask the question 'if you could do anything tomorrow what would it be?' and asked to respond with a visual answer. The diary should be out very soon... I know the guys were having some technical problems with printing but it will be available on their website soon.

Seasons Greetings!

Just wishing everyone a happy holidays over the festive season!

The Ark

I've recently been invited to contribute to the Ark project - an interesting book idea being curated by Argentine graphic design duo DGPH. The idea is that each designer picks an animal from their native country to be 'saved' in the Ark. The book's due to be published by IdN & should be out around April 2009. Check the website for full rundown of contributors and their chosen species. I've picked the puffin but you'll have to wait till the book comes out to see it... here's a sneaky peak:

Charidy

I've got some work in a holiday benifit exhibition/auction at Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra ( LA ).The event runs for 2 days 13th & 14th December and the money raised goes to the red cross. Peace & Good will!

Bobbin World

The guys over at Bobbin Bicycles have branched out & we've worked together to create a range of merchandise featuring their characters. As well as being able to buy from a fabulous array of amazing Dutch bicycles & riding accessories you can now get your hands on mugs, badges, calendars, christmas cards and snowfalls all featuring the bobbin world.

They're hoping to develop some more bike related merchandise featuring my designs in the new year too... watch this space!  - All the goodies mentioned above are available in their London 'boutique' at 19 Arlington Way, Angel, EC1R 1UY.

Breaking Up...

...Is an editorial piece I did recently  to sit with a short story featured in issue 13 of online art & design magazine - blanket.This month's theme is 'past and present' and as usual is filled with lots of lovely inspirational stuff! Check it out here.

Write-upsI've been featured recently on several pretty cool design blogs. It's always good to have a little recognition from time to time :-)... some nice stuff on these blogs too... 

Changethethought™

The Best Part

Lifelounge

FFFFound!

Design Centre

Sex in Art 

Design for Mankind

Ivanhoe Books Art & Design

YCN Book

The New YCN book 08/09 is out now with lots of veritable eye candy no doubt & featuring some of my tree ladies! You may remember I posted pics of them a couple of weeks back...well now they've joined many other peoples tree creations in a huge paper forest which features in the book. The book was designed by talented design studio Hudson Bec and is available to buy from the YCN site. If you look very close with your eagle eyes you can just about see my trees... the ones with girls' faces & birds on top!...Where's wally?

YCN also have a great set of pics on Flickr documenting 'the making of the world of YCN'

Images 33

I've had some work selected again for the next Images book compiled by the association of illustrators. Images 33 will be out summer '09 and is sure to be packed with visual delights as usual!

Badges

The Travel badges - including my traveling rainbow design are now available from the Blanket online shop...

Blanket Magazine

I have an illustration featured in issue 12 of Australian online art and design magazine - Blanket. The theme for this issue was travel and you can see my illustration below.

Visit their website to download a pdf of the full magazine. There will also be a set of badges available to buy soon with illustrations from this issue. My design will be included in the pack.

These should be available from their online shop

Bobbin Bicycles Shop

Those lovely people over at Bobbin Bicycles have just opened their first shop in London near Angel tube. As well as selling their retro-style Dutch bikes and an array of cool accessories some of my illustrations are adorning their walls large scale! Watch out for the addition of a new character to help promote their new bike - the Electra.

The shop can be found at 19 Arlington Way, London, EC1 1UR and is open Tusday - Friday 11-7 and Saturday 11-6.

If you can't make it to London to visit the shop you can still visit their website at www.bobbinbicycles.co.uk

Allan Deas for Airside

My 'WAR' print is now available to buy online from the Airside shop. The 100 x 70cm Giclee prints are on DaVinci fine art paper and a limited edition of 25. A great idea for a christmas present...well it is only 76 days away! Buy one now!