The Line King And Sleeping Beauty

Here are a couple of personal collage pieces I've been working on recently. An off-kilter cyber mash-up of retro peeps and hard tech with some nice knitwear thrown in for good measure.

Tree Sense

Here's an illustration in the current issue of New Scientist for a fascinating article on 'Tree Sense' and how trees experience the world around them...before becoming tables.

Kirtan Call

Here's a four page spread I worked on for Yoga Journal in San Francisco tracing the influence of kirtan chanting on music over the last 40 years featuring the likes of Wonder, Glass, Harrison and Boy George!

Destination Solar Sytem

BBC Focus magazine commissioned me to create three double page spread sci-fi vistas for an article on destinations that scientists would most like to explore in our solar system. Those included the The Seven Sisters caverns under Martian surface, Chao Meng-Fu crater on Mercury and Loki Patera lava lake on Io. Had great fun with these as well as racking up a few holiday ideas for the future.

Auto Geek

Here's a wide editorial illustration for Automobile magazine for a report from the Automotive History Conference, the hub(cap) of true car geeks apparently.

John Bonham vs Depeche Mode

My work for Ryan Cox's rock'n'roll inspired collection of poetry A Circus Mind comes to a close with this double-whammy post of Led Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham and Depeche Mode. I'm looking forward to seeing all the illustrations published later this year along with some great work from Dushan Milic, Julia Minimata, Zela Lobb, Elissa Parente and Jacqui Oakley. Will keep you posted.

New Prints Available

For all you lucky wall-owning folks out there! New high quality prints are available up at the online store. Ooohhh.

The Digital Edge

A new commission for Nominet Trust and their latest provocation paper on how digital technology can support young people...in two colourways no less.

Paul Simon

Here's another portrait for A Circus Mind, a young Paul Simon. Let's call him Al shall we.

London Scene

London's so hot right now! (weather aside). Here are a few Instagram-ified snaps I've take from around town recently.

Pippin Time

For my wife's birthday recently we took off for another glampy getaway to South Devon to stay in a charming gypsy caravan going by the name of Pippin. It was placed in a lovely orchard where we could kick back with a drink, cook on the open fire, chat to the pheasants and even take a dip in a hot tub (minus time machine capabilities) tucked away in a corner of the field. In the day we toured the local towns and beaches, including a laid-back Totnes, Salcombe and Bigbury-on-Sea with it's sea tractor to murder-central Burgh Island, the setting for a couple of Agatha Christie novels.

ABRSM Piano

This year I've begun work with ABRSM, the UK's leading music education publisher, and creative director Kate Benjamin on a rebrand of all their core publications to be distributed worldwide. I'll be illustrating the covers for all of their instrument books over the next year or so and the first to roll out are this colourful bunch for the piano.

Enzo Ferrari Museum

Here's a portrait of Enzo Ferrari for the newly opened Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena, Italy. The museum sits in a beautifully designed, very yellow, building by Future Systems. The image has been donated for a limited edition signed print run to raise funds for the victims of the recent earthquakes in the region. Thanks to the guys at Bunker.

Tech-ollage

Here's a recent collage illustration for PC World Magazine showcasing all the latest gizmos.

Rolling Stones '69

The latest portrait for A Circus Mind of an obscure little band called The Rolling Stones in LA circa 1969. Anyone?

Drilling for Data

Here's a recent illustration for IBM Magazine about big businesses tapping into vast database resources. Like a cyberpunk Dallas.

Barcelona Redux

Here's a little montage of sights and sounds from a recent trip to the beautiful Barcelona. From our base in El Born we ventured out to the excellent Primavera Sound festival for the second year running to watch some amazing music from the likes of The Cure, Mudhoney, LFO, Matias Aguayo & Rebolledo and Brum metal legends Napalm Death and Godflesh amongst others. Spent the rest of the trip taking in the city, spectacularly so from the top of Tibidabo, recovering by the hotel pool and munching muchos tapas. Tremendous.

Withy King & I

There's plenty of work to be posted on the blog soon including these little numbers for the Bath based solicitors firm Withy King. Working with Bristol agency Robsondowry I created three 'life cycle' illustrations that encapsulated the key legal areas that the firm cover. It was great to use a reduced palette consisting of their new brand colours. 

Siafu

The blog is back in business after a little hiatus to Barcelona and a bit of a backbreaking workload of late. Here's a nice project for new label Bokhari records and their first release 'Shrunken Head' by the mysteriously titled Siafu featuring a great remix by Mark E. It was an inspiringly open brief that allowed me to play with some suitably moody tribalesque sci-fi imagery before signing all 300 copies. Ooh, my hand.

Black Sabbath

It's Friday, it's hot, it's a heavy Black Sabbath portrait for A Circus Mind ay it. Brummie gold.