Let's Dance

Here's the first new Dance Dance Dance poster illustration and design of 2025 with a bit of a stylistic tweaking. Continuing the 'Sci-chedelic' vibe and illustrated type of the series so far but with a more atmospheric/textural approach to the imagery. Also having me some fun playing with True Grit brushes and texture effects. I've included here the progress from basic black and white comp to colour test and developed rough below. See the poster series on the main site here.

World Cup 2034

Here's a commission for the Al Majalla print and online edition for a feature on Saudi Arabia hosting the 2034 World Cup. The brief was a great excuse to work on a fun double page spread digital collage of football and Saudi themed visuals along with a couple of smaller spots. Thanks to Sara Loane for the enjoyable commission. You can see further work for Al Majalla on the site here.

Biggest Breakthroughs

To start the year off here's a new cover illustration for the New Year 2025 issue of BBC Science Focus. This one was a quick turnaround with a brief based on the concept of the Biggest Breakthroughs of the Century and required an esoteric creative visual with some bold typography. I worked quickly on a series of first visuals, some included here, to find something that felt right for the abstract brief. After the first round the simpler monochrome visual of a sphere with light 'breaking through' was chosen to develop and I worked with art director Joe Eden on various type treatments and headlines - love how the yellow that Joe selected pops against the black and white. I also worked up a horizontal spread version with a more dynamic 3d type approach for the title. All of the visuals were finalised in Photoshop using 3d models, abstract patterns and particles created in Cinema 4d. You can see the work on the main site here and previous work for Focus here.

Merry Dancemas

Happy New Year to you all! I'll kick off 2025 by going back to Christmas '24 with this recent yule-flavoured poster design for the regular Dance Dance Dance night at Margate Arts Club. For a festive feel I wanted the suggestion of a tree with the stacked vinyl/discs and an angelic vibe from the floaty psyche-nauts. Adding a warm glow and a Xmas palette wrapped it up nicely. I've included the sketch to final rough sequence here and a horizontal formatted version. You can see the whole poster series on the site here.