AOI Awards Shortlist 2014

Very pleased to say that my animation Claude Debussy's Life In Miniature has been shortlisted for this year's AOI Illustration Awards in the Design category. The Awards show will be held at Somerset House, London later in the year.

Transatlantic Train

Here's my latest illustration for Focus Magazine's Into The Future column. This month Stephen Baxter looks at the prospect of future trains travelling across the Atlantic in a super-speed magnetic vacuum tube. Presumably leaf-free to avoid delays. See more sci-fi work for Focus here.

This Time It's Personal (Computer)

Here's a new illustration for Nominet Trust's latest provocation paper The Personal (Computer) Is Political. It looks at the importance of understanding how digital/social media technologies are put together and the driving forces behind them. You can see previous illustrations for Nominet Trust on the site here.

Banyoles Behemoth

Here's the final Post-Invasion Card of the series depicting a serene and watery demise for this space junker in the Lake of Banyoles. You can see the full set on my site here. It's been a blast!

Stiff Competition

Here's an editorial piece for AOPA's Flight Training Magazine looking at how the emerging growth of Middle Eastern airlines is putting US carriers in the shade. See previous work for AOPA here.

Applied Arts Awards And Interview

I'm triple happy to be able to say three of my entries were chosen this year for the Applied Arts Illustration Awards. My Claude Debussy: A Life In Miniature animation was a winner in the Motion category, The Skull in the Poster category and Next Steps In The Final Frontier in Editorial. Quadruple chuffed to also have an extensive interview, entitled Colour Ways for the Split Run section, in the current Awards Issue that can also be read online here.

Cornish Pip

My wife and I spent the Easter weekend down in Cornwall again, this time staying in Pip the Shepherd's Hut and Pip's Cabin on a lovely farm in Rezare near Launceston. We strolled around the local woodlands before hitting the seaside towns of Polperro and Looe in the blazing sunshine before the drizzle arrived on the last day for visits to Tintagel and Port Isaac. Evenings were mostly spent drinking bourbon and eating red meat around the open fire. Cracking.

The Dead Woman's Ruin

Here's the third in the Post-Invasion Cards set featuring a colossal wreck splayed across the mysteriously titled mountain range of La Mujer Muerta (The Dead Woman). Nice view from the balcony. See the set in more detail on my site here.