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Los Angeles Times / New Work

A new piece with a quick turnaround, completed last week for the Los Angeles Times, and printed in the Saturday Section 2/2/13.  The illustration was to accompany an article, Love Gives Answers to Life's Trick Questions, part of the weekly column series L.A. Affairs.

Art director: Wes Bausmith, Read the article here

Brighton Illustration: Then, Now, After

Brighton Illustration: Then, Now, After…

A survey of recent work from graduates & staff at the University of Brighton.

18 January - 14 February,  2013

University of Brighton Gallery

58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm

My work will be shown along with 130 others at this show, opening today at Brighton university.  There is a great and eclectic mix of illustrators involved (all alumni of the fantastic Brighton university Illustration course) including Quentin Blake, George Hardie, Raymond Briggs, John Vernon Lord and more; I think definitely worth a trip to the seaside for.

Lazerian Gerald

Some time ago, I was asked by the folks at Lazerian, a Manchester-based creative practice, to design a print for a project involving their mascot: a dog named Gerald.  Along with 50 other artists and illustrators, I created a pattern to customise a limited edition Gerald, which will be sold as a kit and then is built to make a paper sculpture.

The idea for the pattern I designed came from reading about the Canis Major 'Greater Dog' star constellation.  The project interestingly came along while I was thinking a lot about patterns.  I wanted this one to remain quite fragmented and dispersed, to emulate the randomness of a star constellation.

The customised Gerald sculptures will soon be part of an exhibition, more on this soon

NAVY X OTHER

NOTHING BUT NAVY tomorrow joins with OTHER to open an exclusive Pop Up Navy shop in central London, promising to be full of all sorts of wonderful things.

I was happy once again to be asked to design some special products for NBN; this time I have made a special limited edition 'London' screen printed Tea towel as well as Christmas Wrap, 'Stag' Gift Tags and a set of '12 Days' Christmas Cards. All the items are screen printed

Shop Opens Today, well worth a visit:

Grey in Progress

Recently

GREY AW12

I was asked by GREY Magazine for their AW12 Issue to create a set of fictional country record covers to illustrate an essay by Erin Sheehy, as part of an article, NEW MUSIC & REISSUES.

This issue of Grey is once again is beautiful, including a wonderful photographic story by Nan Goldin grey-magazine.com

NEW HATS

Some new hat card designs, screen printed this week. These will be on sale shortly at LUNA & CURIOUS, Calvert Avenue, E2

NBN 4

The wonderful Nothing But Navy has once again opened its doors, this time as part of The London Design Festival and Fitzrovia Now, an exciting series of events in London over the next 10 days celebrating British design.  NBN appears at the Material Lab on Great Titchfield Street from 17th Sept - 21st Sept, and as usual features a wonderful selection of products, textiles, prints all in navy blue hues.  I have printed some special Navy blue 'Owl' tea towels for this one.

Luna & Curious

I am very happy that my 'Hat' Greetings cards are now on sale at the wonderful East London shop LUNA & CURIOUS in Shoreditch. The screen printed cards come in three designs; Rose Hat, Owl Hat, House Hat, and are printed on Heritage card.

Visit LUNA & CURIOUS 

24-26 Calvert Avenue, 

London E2 7JP

www.lunaandcurious.com 

It is FULL of wonderful products, textiles, ceramics, furniture, all sorts.

Workings

My sketchbook travels most places with me. It is quite a messy, unstructured thing. Several pages have fallen out of my current one in fact.

Whilst my solutions are usually realised in collage,  I always work out initial thoughts in drawing and mark making. 

Here are some recent pages; various ideas for projects and general thoughts