This was created as a late entry for the AOI competition for Secret London. I used the Procession of the Vintners as a template for my design;
With London being so rich in history and culture, almost beyond compare. I thought it would be a travesty not to depict the breadth of characters and heritage that have come together to make it the place that it is. The procession of the Vintners seemed to fit the bill perfectly. Containing both history going back to 1205 but also with the wealth of cultural links and involvement with all aspects of life that have kept this tradition alive for such a very long time. Exactly the kind of culture and tradition that gives London it’s character and makes it the place it is today.
My daughter's room needed a little brightening up so this was done on a whim. It began as a simple layout as I was planning to paint it directly onto canvas.... Obviously it went a little further than that!
Here is a preview for a line of Tee-Shirts I have been working on for about to launch website BoomCrashSmash.com. where you will be able to buy all sorts of poker related paraphernalia.
The designs are mostly based around nick names for common ( or not so common ) poker hands. Eg, Two eights is referred to as 'Snowmen'. Some are just in theme with the name of the site which is a reference to going 'all in'.
They will be printed on high quality Tee-Shirts and should be available soon.
Here's a piece inspired by the theme of the week at Illustration Friday. The theme is 'Mail' so I decided to highlight the problems faced by the postal service during the festive season, especially the difficulties caused by the increasing number of orders from digital retailers now-a-days.
Here's a picture of the work I recently completed for KPMG's new building in Canary Wharf.
The piece was a challenge from start to finish.
I first started work on the project in 2009 for the D&AD student awards and received in-book status. This led to a follow up pitch before the KPMG art committee at which I managed to secure a commission. This meant pushing the design even further and then getting the perspex cut and the fittings ordered.
As you can see the piece works nicely in it's location near the presentation suite in the new building that has recently opened.
Mocking up samples for my project meant recently getting my first experience of laser cutting.The laser cutter at Fred Aldous’ was recommended to me and using it was an exciting and revealing experience.
There was a little advice to get acquainted with the technical side of things, preparing files and some basic laser settings. I learned about things like setting the speed and focus of the laser to achieve different depths of cut for different materials then, before to long I began to see my designs coming to life. It was so satisfying seeing something that had previously only existed on a computer program becoming an actual physical object.
As I left the machine to do its thing I had time to look around the studio and chat with Paul as he explained some of the other projects that had been created using the machine.
This was extremely interesting and gave me lots of new ideas. There was a small wooden block with the Manchester City F.C emblem engraved in it and I heard about how new players to the club are presented with a box engraved this way containing the club’s code of conduct.
Other samples included wedding and christening invitations made from card, pieces of jewellery made from Perspex, signs for desks or shops and an engraved ipod.
Some pieces are engraved at different depths with the scorched wood effectlooking particularly nice.
The whole experience has filled me with new ideas and possibilities for using this technique and above all gave me lots of information to help complete this project.
Here are a few examples of my latest work. This was based on articles concerning enduring questions in science.
This one was inspired by the question "Will robots ever be considered conscious?". The article considered that robots might one day be able to consider their memories and their consequent feelings on such matters as a measure of their consciousness.
And this one was created with the question "How much nature is enough?", in mind. With the thought that we might be able to gauge how many trees we need to keep in our rainforests etc and still be able to say...breathe...
Here is an example of something I've been working on recently. This project has lasted the last month and involved being given a short story from one of the creative writing students from Manchester metropolitan. We had to create a cover A5 illo and a smaller one for inside. My story (see title) involved a guy that travels through time with a device for removing people from history at the behest of an evil overseer..hopefully it will be published soon.
This was created as a late entry for the AOI competition for Secret London. I used the Procession of the Vintners as a template for my design;
