3x3 Annual 23 Merits

Very happy to receive news of two Merit Award Winners in the 3x3 International Illustration Annual No.23 Show. In the Edtorial category my Time magazine TIME AI 2025 illustration and in the Unpublished category my recent AI-Wakening personal experimentation project. Always nice to get recognition for personal as well as commissioned work. Thanks to this year's jury for the honour.

WIA2025 Shortlist

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

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! 

WIA2025 Longlist

 Very happy to be a longlisted artist in this year's World Illustration Awards. My 'AI weather prediction' illustrations and animation for Wall Street Journal's The Future Of Everything were selected in the Science and Technology category. Really enjoyed this one, a great blend of all my interests and 2d/3d skills, and particularly pleased with how it works within the lovely design of the tall format print cover. Thanks to Caitlin Choi for the commission and wonderful art direction. See the entry on the WIA2025 site here.

American Illustration 44 Win

Super pleased to be selected as a Chosen Winner in the American Illustration 44 Children's Book Series category. Two illustrations from the second book in D. Zollicoffer's Game On, Zhuri series, Attack Of The Robo-Bugs, made it through the judging process and will appear as part of the online archive collection. You can see more illustrations from the book here.

Dance Dance Dance For The Win

Here's the latest Dance Dance Dance poster design for the regular Margate Arts Club event hosted by Katie & Joe. This one continues the atmospheric style refresh from the previous poster with illustrated type framing an amphibious character having a golden hour dip. I also tried out a short and simple animated version for social media posted here. 

Speaking of the previous poster I was very happy to hear it had picked up an Applied Arts award for Advertising Illustration and will appear in the Annual Awards issue and online here.

Lidoverse Merit

Chuffed to pick up a Merit Award in the Uncommissioned category at the Hiii Illustration 23 competition for my ongoing personal project Lidoverse. Always nice to get recognition, especially for creative work close to your heart, so thank you to the jury. Here's my bit of bumph about the project.

Lidoverse - A series of personal illustrations and animations that are based on a local landmark called the Cliftonville Lido in coastal Margate, UK. The work re-imagines the modestly proportioned Lido in epic and miniature scale in an alternative seaside universe. One populated by abstracted takes on Margate’s architecture, signage, concrete promenades, coastal hazard markers and sea wall escape ladders.

Hiii Illustration 23 Finalists

Happy to report that two of my projects have been chosen as Finalists at the Hiii Illustration Awards 2023. First up is The Dark Universe illustrated and animated cover for BBC Science Focus in the Publishing category. You can vote on that by clicking 'Like' on its page on the Hiiibrand site here if you're inclined. Secondly, my personal project Lidoverse is selected in the Uncommissioned category and can be 'Liked' here. 

3x3 Rush

 

Happy to hear that my Great Moon Rush animated cover for BBC Science Focus has picked up another plaudit this year winning an Animation Merit in the 20th 3x3 Professional Show. Off to the moon again to celebrate!

WIA23 Longlister

Super pleased to be longlisted for the AOI's World Illustration Awards in the Science & Technology Professional Category. My Great Moon Rush animated cover illustration for BBC Science Focus was selected amongst some fantastic work this year. To the moon! Absolute lunar-cy, etc. See the work here.

 

IMAA11 Winner

Chuffed to be a Selected Winner in this year's American Illustration International Motion Art Awards 11 for my BBC Science Focus animated cover First Contact! <alien whooping noises>

Illustration West 61

Happy to say I've had two entries selected for this year's Illustration West 61 annual competition and exhibition by the Society Of Illustrators Los Angeles. Both were cover illustrations chosen in the Editorial category, The Great Moon Rush for BBC Science Focus and The People Worth Watching for MG Magazine. Schweet!

SOI Illustrators 64

 

Happy New Year to all! Pleased to be opening 2022 with news that my recent BBC Science Focus animated cover art, Where Next?, has been accepted into this year's Illustrators 64 Annual and Exhibition at New York's Museum of Illustration. That's a 'whoop!'.

Bowery Bronze

Very pleased to discover last week that my recent 3d animated music video, Kilder's 'Down For Whatever Feat. Friday Night Plans' picked up a Bronze award at New York's Bowery Awards in the animation category for Film Craft / Motion Video. Really pushed my puny 3d skills on that one so I'm chuffed with the acknowledgement.

Hiii and 3x3 Awards

Pleased to get some recognition at the Hiii International Illustration Awards 2019 with the winners and finalists being announced recently. I received a Merit Award in the non-commercial category for my animation and illustration project Fragmentation for the male mental health site Man-Age. Also picked up a 3x3 Professional Show 17 Honourable Mention in the Sci-Fi category for my BBC Science Focus cover on the theme Space 2069.

WIA2020 And AI39 News

Really pleased to get some of my work recognised this awards season, the good news came as a lovely lockdown pick-me-up. Firstly, my Hadassah magazine cover for the #Metoo and the Jewish World issue was long listed in the World Illustration Awards. Secondly, my Jason advisory group illustration for Science and Space 2069 cover for BBC Science Focus were chosen winners in American Illustration 39 and will appear amongst the online archive.

American Illustration 38 Winner

Very happy to have been selected this year as an American Illustration 38 Chosen Online Winner with this illustration for Hadassah Magazine based on an extract from the book 'Barren Island' by Carol Zoref.

3x3 Professional Show No 14

Happy to have been awarded a Merit at this year's 3x3 Pro Show in the Gallery section for my Secret 7" entry based on the single The Less I Know The Better by Tame Impala.

WIA 2017 Shortlist

I'm happy as a plate of punch pie to be shortlisted for this year's World Illustration Awards 2017 through the AOI. I'm in the Advertising category for this poster illustration to promote Second Hand Sundays regular DJ slot 'Adventures in a Land of Ever-changing Wax Grooves' at south London's The Ivy House last year. Looking forward to the exhibition at Somerset House in August where the award winners will be announced. Prints are available from the shop here.

AI36

Pleased to discover I'm a selected winner in American Illustration 36 this year with my Pluripotency cover illustration for Nature Journal and will appear in the annual award book. After many years of entering the competition it's the first time I've made it in to the book, getting as far as the online Archive collection a few times, so proper chuffed. You can see the work on the site here.