Cage and Aviary Birds Newspaper - Header designs

The perennial household favourite, Cage and Aviary Birds Newspaper, asked me to design a couple of headers for a new feature they're running called "Desert Island Birds". As you can probably guess it's premis is based along the lines of which five birds would you take to a desert island with you! BRILLIANT, I LOVE Cage and Aviary Birds Newspaper, it's amazing!

Dragons Blood Pirates - Books 1 and 2 are here!

Terribly exciting news, books 1 and 2 are here - and look how wonderful they look. Awwww.


These are the covers.



Here's the pull out map showing where everything is.



And here's an inside page spectacular.

An ancient Egyptian gentleman making bread.

This jovial chap is making bread in ancient Egypt. Pretty much all the items in the background are taken from reference photos from the British Museum so as to maintain authenticity. I'm not sure that they had orange chickens in ancient Egypt, so I'll have to do some research to verify that.


And as a special treat, here's the original line work to look at too.

Frank! Design Agency vs On:Board Brighton Bus magazine

Frank! got in touch and asked me to draw the cover for the forthcoming edition of Brighton Buses "in-flight" magazine called On:Board. Naturally this is only the illustration at the moment, and the cover will have the logo and various bits of text on it - hence the big sky at the top and not much action at the bottom.

This issue features an article about how Brighton's quite the musical hotbed which explains all the muso's getting on board in front of the Pavilion.

Kitchen Gardener Magazine - Muck Raking

Another Kitchen Garden Magazine illustration! They must love me.

This is again a "Last Word" feature, this time focussing on a gentleman who - despite being green and growing his own veg - isn't as green and environmentally aware as he'd like to be. Here he is chugging through the allotments in his chuggy van, spilling veg all over the place.

Best of British Magazine - September 2008

Best of British Magazine got in touch with me to see if I could do something to go with an article about joining up with the local Amateur Dramatics Society. Not being one to shy away from the proverbial artistic stage, and also being rather partial to the smell of greasepaint, I came up with this.

Kitchen Gardener Magazine - Lazy Gardener

This is for next months Kitchen Gardener Magazine to go alongside the "Last Word" column. As a keen watcher of the leeks being keenly grown in my garden I can identify with the gardener in the illustrations pose.

Building Design Magazine - 2012 Olympics

It's with great pleasure that an illustration of mine is going to be accompanying SIR Steve Redgrave's writing in the next issue of Building Design Magazine! I can't wait to see it on the shelves, it'll be ace.

The feature is about designing suitable accessibility to the bog/swamp/marshlands of Hackney so that the athletes can actually participate in the games, rather than spend several hours getting stuck in traffic jams - or presumably the bogs, swamps, and marshes of Hackney itself.