Summit Challenge

 

Here's a branding illustration for an upcoming cancer charity fundraiser event in New Jersey called Summit Challenge.  The brief was to capture a flavour of the day's activities which include a fitness challenge obstacle course, featuring hoop swinging and net climbing, and lots of general family fun in a festival atmosphere. The event will raise money to help provide care, comfort and compassion for cancer patients which was the theme of the second illustration commissioned in the Summit Health Cares colour palette. You can see similar fundraising event similar work here.

The Pandemic Issue

Here's a new cover and feature illustration for Hadassah's latest issue on the Pandemic looking at Jewish women's experiences in particular. I went with the visual theme of women being isolated in their own Covid-shaped cells and personal experiences composed within the silhouetted figures. I chose an eye-catching palette with a slightly alarming red for the cover to bump up the anxiety. You can see more work for Hadassah magazine here.

Ageing Well

Happy New Year to all! It's gotta be better than the last one, surely. To kick off '21 here's a nice commission that I snuck in before Xmas for a Washington Post feature on 'Ageing Well'. The main cover collage plays with autumnal colour silhouettes and references to the ageing themes of the articles with an added textural visual nod to tree rings. I also created two spot illustrations for the inside in the same vein. You can see more lifestyle illustrations here.

Brain Explainer

A post from deep WFH territory featuring a new cover illustration for BBC Science Focus Collection magazine for an issue that seeks to explain the brain. The brief was to create a luminous image of our grey matter housed in a human silhouette with a palette to pop the eye from a magazine rack. The back cover illustration featured the standalone brain image.

Stop the Bleeding

First post from the lockdown bunker happens to be a fairly recent health illustration (not Covid 19 related!) for NC State Alumni magazine on new methods being developed to help wounds heal after traumatic injuries. I created some blood cells in 3d for this one to collage in with the other 2d illustration elements.

Future Meds

Here's a recent editorial for 5280 Health magazine over in Denver, USA. It's for a look at some potentially game-changing health treatments including insulin pills, Alexa-style health advice and cancer-fighting snake venom. I went with a colourful collage approach using one of my favourite go-to palettes. You can see this on the site with previous and related work here.

MAN-AGE

Here's some personal work for a great online project called MAN-AGE that aims to publish creative stories and artwork that deal with male mental health struggles in an attempt to 'challenge unnecessary societal pressures, create a community of voices and combat isolation'. I found this a challenge at the outset as I’m quite a private person so decided to tackle the general themes of masculinity and mental health head on rather than get overly personal. Once I took that approach I couldn't be stopped and ended up creating four illustrations and a couple of animations using the man-age colour palette. The first 3D animation and accompanying artwork is called 'Fragmentation' and is an abstract take on a depressive episode. The third and fourth artwork, 'Bust' and 'Mars Attacks' deal with notions of broken masculinity and associated anxieties. The site is full of really interesting writing, photography and illustration and well worth a look at man-age.com. You can also see the work on the site with related work here.

Healthy Systems

Catch up time on the latest cover illustrations for BBC Focus Collection Volumes 11 and 12 with guides to a Healthy Body & Brain and the Solar System, respectively. These were both mostly created with 3d software then finessed with some Photoshoppery. I've included some of the initial cover ideas for both that were almost finished pieces themselves. Lots more illustration and animation work to see for BBC Focus up at the main site here and on this blog of course.

Fit For Fun

I've recently worked on a couple of healthy editorial commissions for Germany's Fit For Fun magazine. The first was based on Chronotypes, the sleep routines of individuals with the animalistic labels of bear, wolf, lion, and dolphin, and how they effect daily training. The second commission was based on how hormones effect your workout and diet. Enjoyable exercises in collage and colour, as it were. See them on the site with related work here.

The Science Of Health And Happiness

An exciting commission came through earlier this year to illustrate 12 upcoming covers for the BBC Focus Magazine Collection. Each volume (or bookazine, if you will) has a particular theme and these first two issues concentrated on the science of Health and Happiness respectively. I saw it as a good opportunity to flex my, still puny, 3d skills and create some relatively bold and simple illustrations that convey the themes clearly. More to come on this series as the year progresses. You can see them on the site with further BBC Focus work here.

Pathological

Here's an illustration I did quite a while ago now that's only recently been published. It's a cover for the UCLA Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Annual Report 2016. The brief was to focus on telepathology in particular, the practice of using telecommunication technology and data transfer for swifter diagnosis and research. See the illustration on the site here with related works.