WIA2025 Shortlist

Very pleased to get the news update that my longlisted WIA2025 entry made it to the shortlist! 

Dance Valkyrie

 

Here's the latest Dance Dance Dance poster design for their upcoming evening at Margate Arts Club. Another animated offering, this time designed around a sky chariot-riding DJ valkyrie of some sort.  Always fun to indulge my psy-fi predilictions on these! See the full poster series on the site here. 

Politico

Here's a nice little commission for Politico for an article on Trump's allies pushing a bill through the U.S. House to steamroll state AI regulations and controls. I worked through a few initial ideas with art director Jade Cuevas and this chosen piece seemed to convey the themes with the most visual impact in print and online. See it on the site here also.

3x3 Merit Haul

Over the moon to hear that three of my entries gained a Merit in this year's 3x3 Illustration Show No.22 and will be published in the Annual and appear in the online gallery. My illustration for Al Majalla Stellar Competition with art director Sara Loane scored in the Editorial category. Merit two for my AI Weather Prediction piece with Caitlin Choi for Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything in the Newspaper Cover category. Finally, a merit for my illustrations in D. Zollicoffer's Game On Zhuri Book 2 published by Reycraft Books in the Children's Illustration (Published) category. Phew! 

Stop Crying Your Heart Out Visualiser

Back in May Chris Curtis at I'm Your Boss Films got in touch about working on a 'visualiser' for Oasis to celebrate the launch of the remastered Time Flies singles collection and generally get Youtube audiences pumped for the Live Tour this year. I was happy to jump onboard this exciting opportunity and join an amazing team of creators already busy at work mass-producing incredible Oasis visualisers, which I soon discovered were essentially animated music videos sans the fiddly lyric bits.

I was tasked with creating the Stop Crying Your Heart Out visualiser with a quick turnaround time and got straight to work. Chris and art director Mario Wagner had established a lovely retro look and feel with a library of assets to play with so I pillaged the image and video banks and added a few of my own elements to the mix. The process was an adhoc and intuitive construction of the animation in After Effects around a loose narrative as it formed in my mind to the looping music based on memory, dreams, and capturing nostalgia. It was a tad stressful turning it around in a few days but creatively energising and rewarding and I'm pleased with how it came out. There's a wonderful collection of visualisers on the Oasis Youtube channel to check out and more being produced. Excitingly, this process has lead on to greater things and has been something of a warm-up for getting to work on the Live Tour concert visuals, more on which to come.