Client: Women’s Rugby World Cup
Date: 2025
Project: Created a design for part of an animated idents
Description: I was asked to create an illustration which was animated along with the other participating countries’ artists’ work for the opening sequence for the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 held in the UK.
Client: DeepMind/Google
Date: 2017
Project: Designed all graphics, branding, logo, invitation, event graphics, banners for Christmas party
Description: This was for an exclusive party at Printworks in Docklands. The theme was "Cosmic Circus". Hot Chip played.
In my spare time I create a lot of esoteric illustration using a wide variety of techniques including photography and some 3D software.
I created the typeface which was used for branding the event. This was based on Galdrastafir (ancient Icelandic magic symbols) and Icelandic magical staves (sigils).
The alien typeface was based on shapes found in commedia dell'arte and Thai letterforms.
The psychedelic spaceships were made using textile designs I had used for creating silk scarves.
Client: Soundcastle/St George’s Church, Bloomsbury
Date: 2012
Project: Wilding Festival banners
Description: I wrote a story for the banners which was a fairy tale - an allegory about domestic abuse. This seemed appropriate as the festival was created to celebrate the centenary of suffragette, Emily Wilding Davison’s death at the Grand National horse race.
I had created my own typeface and I used this for the project. This was the first time I used 3D software to create 2D graphics. I wanted to create intricate buildings and structures to put on top of my kaleidoscopic maps I had created to pitch to Liberty London.
These were printed onto silk satin. They hung in the central hall of the church, on either side of the stage.
Client: Personal project
Date: 2021 ongoing
Project: Created a design system called Disco Distilled
Description: Following a leg injury and covid and beings stuck with a lot of time on my hands I developed a design system using some of the 3D graphics I had developed for the Wilding Festival and DeepMind. I created very simplified 3D objects which I wrapped in intricate patterns. The result was a new system for design using 3D bead graphics. These bear a strong resemblance to some neolithic balls found near where I grew up.
Client: Personal project
Date: 2011
Project: Rewilding Pooh
Description: I took a road trip with owner of Pollocks Toy Museum, Eddy Fawdry, who is a photographer, We travelled from London to Sicily and back taking pictures of me and sometimes Eddy in a full-sized Winnie the Pooh suit with the objective of rewilding Pooh.
Client: Anna Meredith (MBE)
Date: 2019
Project: Designed a stage banner
Description: Anna Meredith (MBE) is known for her genre-defying sound. Her music seamlessly blends elements of contemporary classical, electronic, art pop, and experimental rock. She is celebrated for her innovative approach to instrumentation and her vibrant, high-energy live shows.
Anna approached me to create a stage banner. The original design was created using some of the techniques from the Wilding Festival project. Anna settled on the gem stone idea in the end. She is vegan so we printed it on vegan silk made out of recycled plastic bottles.
Client: Various
Date: 2011-2013
Project: Storytelling and craft sessions.
Description: Making a clootie well in Sussex, a storytelling night at Pollocks Toy Museum with Clare Murphy, Hello Kitty Shaman at West London Synagogue. I also held craft events around Islington and at Embercombe in Devon. I helped at the British Museum with Kids Company where the kids stayed overnight. I held a couple of storytelling nights at the Young Actors Theatre, Islington.
Client: Personal project
Date: 2024 ongoing
Project: Created a design system called Queer Tartan
Description: Following various bans of the Pride Flag in the USA and accusations of rainbow washing by various businesses, I created a variety of tartan versions of the 3D bead shapes I had developed, with the idea of creating a new tool for what Arup calls “queerification” to be used where Pride Flags may not be appropriate or permitted.
Client: Association of Illustrators
Date: 2006
Project: Competition entry
Description: I won a place in the touring exhibition and in the hardback book.
Client: Domestika
Date: July 2024
Project: Taught online course
Description: Taught a course on presentation design as well as my own art practice. I was flown to Madrid and worked with the team in a film studio where a small set of my work was created and I was interviewed.
Client: Liberty London
Date: 2009
Project: Pitch
Description: Created half a dozen silk scarf designs for a pitch to Liberty London. I was invited to meet with Ed Burstell, the then Managing Director.
Client: Course work for MA
Date: 2008
Project: MA Central St Martins final project piece
Description: A few pages from a book I wrote and illustrated for my MA about a rabbit on a road trip setting his friends free from the plastic they’ve been wrapped in. Rewilding them in some way using a magical kaleidoscope which I made from driftwood, air clay, paper, feathers and a toy windmill. Weirdly it is almost exactly the same plot-line of the recent Barbie film.
I used photographs of Scotland that I had taken as well as Kew Bridge Ecovillage and other squatted land, community gardens and city farms as collage material. The patterns that were generated from the animals’ “awakenings” formed the basis of future work.