Typographic Calendar Months Postit Notes

January Typographic Calendar Month

Typographic Calendar Months Post-it Notes photographic Journal. I worked on a personal project for 2017 that involved illustrated the months onto the square of a Post-it note and take a photo of the Post-it note at a location, sometimes it was planned and at other times it was when I liked where I was standing visually. The photos were then uploaded to my Instagram account where I also post my Moleskine city map drawings

I remember January quite fresh and cold around Brick Lane you can find many good backdrops which make good places for a photo shoot, I saw a garage door that had fly posters posted on it a good place to start my visual monthly post-it notes.

February Typographic Calendar Month

Walking through Shoreditch in February you can find yourself around the mini roundabout that has the old Victorian bandstand, the Victorian social housing Boundary Estate, which has stood since 1890

March Typographic Calendar Month

March Shoreditch, I remember looking for an interesting location and walking through Shoreditch, I found myself near the Guy Ritchie Movie location Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels filming location: Eddie and Bacon escape from the law: Pedley Street, Shoreditch, London E1

April Typographic Calendar Month

April Greenwich Park, One of my favorite places in London, looking down over London you can see the tall new Skyscrapers mixing in with the old architecture, its a place to see how London is changing and yet still retains much of its old charm, I like to come up here on Sundays and cycle, the perfect place to capture the mood for April post-it note.

May Typographic Calendar Month

May New Cross Gate, I was running out of time this month to find an interesting location, on my walk home I saw in the distance vibrant purple flowers and new it would make an interesting contrasting background for the post-it note drawing.

June Typographic Calendar Month

June Venice, I was excited to be in Venice, a beautiful cultural city, every corner is just as beautiful as the last, standing on the Ponte Dell’Accademia looking down the Grand Canal, one of the many famous vistas of Venice the perfect location for my monthly Post-it note Instagram post.

July Typographic Calendar Month

July Limehouse, close to my current studio, Summertime is the best time in London, this is a quick note to capture the sunny weather and blue skies over London during that sunny July day.

August Typographic Calendar Month

August Lake Como, Back in Italy for a short stay in Bellagio, Italy where I was traveling around Lake Como. Lake Como makes a stunning backdrop for my August Post-It note.

September Typographic Calendar Month

September Kerela, During a 2 week trip to India where I traveled to Mumbai and then traveled down to Kerela, I spent 2 nights on a houseboat that slowly wound its way through the many backwater canals that also made an interesting backdrop and memory for the September Post-It note.

October Typographic Calendar Month

October St James Park, Moving into the autumn season of the year, the leaves are turning brown and tumbling, St James Park is a good place experience the season shift in the weather, with many tall trees and much more leaves on the floor to kick through while you walk through the park, the perfect place to capture the autumn season for the Post-It note project.

November Typographic Calendar Month\

November Borough Market, Winter is drawing in at this time of year, and Christmas is around the corner, Borough market is a hive of activity, with market stalls selling season produce and products just right for the cold winter days, Here I am in Borough market with my November Post-It note.

December Typographic Calendar Month

December Regent Street Xmas Lights, on Regent Street, London, an exciting time of year, the Christmas lights are up around London and there is a good festive spirit around.

Cedar Communication Agency Stoke Newington High Street Map

Eurostar Magazine Stoke Newington High Street Map illustration

Cedar Communication Agency Stoke Newington High Street Map illustration

Botanique flower shop, Stoke Newington

Nook Stoke Newington High Street Shop

L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele

The Good Egg Shop front Drawing

Hub Fashion Shop Shopfront Drawing

A little village inside the capital, Stoke Newington has been rated Londoner’s favorite shopping street. But there’s plenty besides the hip clothing and lifestyle boutiques to love, including a crop of new restaurants and North London’s biggest slice of greenery, Clissold Park.

In terms of Radius addresses in Stoke Newington I’m thinking the following:

– Strut Archives: 182 Stoke Newington Church Street, London, Greater London N16 0JL (vintage clothes)

–L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele: 125 Stoke Newington Church St, Stoke Newington, London N16 0UH (straight from Naples this tiny baby blue venue is meant to be best pizzeria in town, with queues around the block!)

–Hub: 88 Stoke Newington Church St, Stoke Newington, London N16 0AP (this is a cool menswear shop, specializing in cult labels but will mention the womenswear shop down the road in copy too),

– Search and Destroy: 129 Stoke Newington Church St, Stoke Newington, London N16 0UH (lifestyle store, with everything from clothes and jewelry to nick-nacks.)

–Botanique Workshop and Flower shop: 166 Stoke Newington Church St (pretty self-explanatory)

–Good Egg: 93 Stoke Newington Church St, Stoke Newington, London N16 0AS (hip Isreali-influenced eatery with great brunch!)

–Nook: 153 Stoke Newington Church Street (very Instagram-friendly array of homeware etc…)

–The House at Clissold Park: (Mansion house serving up coffee and cakes in the middle of the park )

Moleskine Sketchbook inky Map Drawing of Oslo

Travel Post it Note Typographic Drawing of Oslo

Moleskine Sketchbook inky Map Drawing of Oslo

Moleskin Maps: Oslo
Moleskine Sketchbook inky Map Drawing of Oslo, On my trip to Oslo, I set out to to discover a city with a rich history. Its a city with a old history, and a city on the move, that has many new interesting architecture buildings and a abundance of art in galleries as well as all around you.

– Munch Museum: Edvard Munch has a unique position among Nordic painters and is considered a pioneer in expressionism. A vast collection of Edward Munch’s work.

– Vigeland Sculpture Park: Sculpture park in the Frogner Park with more than 200 sculptures by Gustav Vigeland, An interesting collection of Large sculptures in bronze, granite and cast iron.

– The Viking Ship Museum: Museum on the Bygdøy peninsula with the world’s best-preserved Viking ships and finds from Viking tombs around the Oslo Fjord.

– The Norwegian National Opera House: Oslo’s Opera House is located right at the harbour, it has a angled, white exterior that appears to rise from the water. you can climb the roof and enjoy panoramic views of Oslo

– The Royal Palace: The royal residence at the top of Karl Johans gate, home to HM King Harald V and HM Queen Sonja.

Moleskine City Map drawings

Copenhagen Moleskine City Map drawing

Dublin Moleskine City Map drawing

Basel Moleskine City Map drawing

Berlin Moleskine City Map drawing

London Moleskine City Map drawing

London Moleskine City Map drawing

London southbank Moleskine City Map drawing

Edinburgh Moleskine City Map drawing

Nottingham Moleskine City Map drawing

Milan Moleskine City Map drawing

Barcelona Moleskine City Map drawing

Budapest Moleskine City Map drawing

London Greenwich Moleskine City Map drawing

Prague Moleskine City Map drawings

Paris Moleskine City Map drawings

Venice Moleskine City Map drawings

Rome Moleskine City Map drawings

Madrid Moleskine City Map drawing

Amsterdam Moleskine City Map drawing

Cologne Moleskine City Map drawing

Vienna Moleskine City Map drawings

Oslo Moleskine City Map drawings

Moleskine City Map drawings, exploring a city in one day really encourages you to make the most of your new surroundings, and fully immerse yourself in a different culture. Every Moleskin Map I draw conveys the enlightening expeditions I experienced while taking in the sights of cities across Europe.

I started on the Moleskin Maps project in October 2015, when I visited Copenhagen as my first day trip. When I embarked on the journey, I had no idea that the project would take me on 12 day trips to Europe’s most beautiful and exciting cities.
Before each trip, there is a thorough planning process. The trip should cost less than £100, covering the return journey, any connections, activities and food. I also draw a rough sketch of the city, which includes all of the locations I plan to visit. Having a plan and doing preliminary sketches gives me more time to explore so I can fully experience the culture and charm of every city.
So far, I’ve drawn 22 Moleskin Maps, and continue to build on my collection with a view to developing the project further with every new trip I take. I would love for my maps to serve as city guides, giving travellers a good idea of how they can quickly and efficiently explore some of the world’s most wondrous cities in a day – and, on a dime.
Moleskin Maps: An Overview

London Cityscape Mural Drawing Costa Coffee Westfield London

London Cityscape Mural Drawing Costa Coffee Westfield London

Fresh Taste Drawing Costa Coffee Westfield London

Costa Coffee Westfield London

London Eye drawing

Surbiton Chip Shop Shop front Drawing

Victoria and Albert Museum Gallery drawing

London Bus Drawing

The Ritz Facade Drawing

We Create Clarity a design agency based in Bedfordshire, were in touch to commission a city scape type drawing for their client Costa Coffee. Costa coffee had plans to refurbish one of their key coffee shop locations. The Costa coffee shop in the large shopping mall Westfield, White City London, would go under refurbishment, and were looking to commission a illustration which would feature on 2 of their large walls.

I was commissioned to illustrate 2 large wall illustrations at the Costa Coffee Shop. The first illustration a London cityscape illustration that combines drawings of iconic London architecture for example the London Eye and the Ritz, as well as drawings of Residential and shop fronted London buildings you would see on a normal London High Street. The most important key feature of the illustration was to show the first Costa Coffee shop location founded just of Southwark Bridge.

The second illustration commission focused on the Costa Coffee shop front, with illustrated people going about their daily routines and buying coffee. Within the composition of the illustration, the brief indicated to incorporate food elements to represent fresh food and coffee.

Each element of the illustration was drawn and then scanned to a very high resolution; this allowed me to work 1:1 scale. Working to this scale had its challenges one of which was the computer working very hard and slowing down.

I explained the client; working to scale would be the best option as it retains the quality of the hand drawn lines. I don’t like to vectorise my work, since this changes the look and feel of the work and the hand drawn quality of the lines are lost and the illustration looks a lot more digital.

One of the benefits of drawing the individual aspects of the illustration and scanning them separately and composing them into photoshop, gives you the flexibility to make changes to the illustration easier.

Seeing the illustration and the scale in real life was an amazing feeling. The illustrations looked great up on the walls of Costa Coffee, and suited the interior design.

DST Services whiteboard drawing icon

DST Services

DST Services Financial Services

DST Services Healthcare

DST Services Health Care White Board Icon Drawings

DST Services Financial Services White Board Icon Drawings

DST Services White Board Icon Drawings

DST Services whiteboard drawing icon. DST Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of strategic advisory. transformative technologies, and operations outsourcing to the financial and healthcare industries. Relying on deep industry knowledge, critical infrastructure, and service excellence. DST helps companies master the escalating complexity of customer, business and regulatory requirements.

DST Services commissioned illustration. A range of varied hand drawn icons illustrated in a brain storming white board style. The Icons were used for 3 specific categories for the DST website which is going under new design development.

The icons I illustrated had to be fluid and loose drawings with little detail. I developed a hand written typeface to accompany the illustrations as well. The hand written type was crafted to be loose which represented Quick and free hand writing which you would find on a office white board.

The 3 Main categories included, Asset Management, Financial Services and Healthcare. The Icons are illustrated around a photographed persons head, to convey the look that the person in the photograph is deep in thought. The icons list was extensive. Each icon is composed and placed within Photoshop making the illustration modular. This give the client flexibility to be able to adjust the icons and place them in their own way if they feel the need to.

For example the illustrated icons for Asset Management included. a computer, charts & graphs, pie charts, Venn diagram, bar graphs, line charts, area charts, Icon representing a team, arrow that represents market fluctuation, swirl of documents, a globe or something to indicate global, as well as words such as compliance, analytics, security, process, management, efficiencies.

Detailed Hand Drawn and Digital Fast Food Drawings

Detailed Hand Drawn and Digital Vegetable Drawings

Detailed Hand Drawn and Digital Fruit Drawings

Here are a selection of food drawings I have been working on, The drawings are of your everyday food items which include, Fruit and vegetable drawings as well as fast food drawings. This is a on going series of drawings of everyday objects that I have taken a keen interest in illustrating. I have tried to capture the identifying features of the items mostly by the pen lines. I vary the pen lines which may consist of continuous line or broken lines which can fill large and small areas with the drawings.

My early drawings which consisted of mostly outline drawings, have gone under some development, I figured the drawings needed some more depth to them, with that in mind, I have played about with adding subtle details to the drawings, in terms of lines, different line styles and weights. I have begun to introduce limited colour to the illustrated drawings.

My work consists of black and white lines with very limited colour. The everyday drawing series, It was important to investigate how colour could be used with the black and while line drawings. The colour developed into an almost solid colour, with a hint of colour shading> it was important to overall retain the drawn illustrated pen look and feel, without the illustrations looking to digital, which is a conscious decision for me,

Moleskine map drawing of Milan

Moleskine map drawing of Milan

The stunning cathedral Dumo Di Milano

Galaria Villoerio Emanuele

Galaria Villoerio Emanuele

Famous Michelangelo Fresco of the Last Supper at the Santa Maria Delle Grazie

Walking around Sforza Castle

Art and culture at the Pinacoteca Di Brera

Art and culture at the Pinacoteca Di Brera

Art and culture at the Pinacoteca Di Brera

Milan map drawing inspired by my day trip, with 7 hours I covered The stunning cathedral Dumo Di Milano, Galaria Villoerio Emanuele, as well as seeing the Famous Michelangelo Fresco of the Last Supper at the Santa Maria Delle Grazie, more art and culture at the Pinacoteca Di Brera, and a lot of walking around Sforza Castle, goes with saying to enjoy coffee and gelatines £20 return flight with Ryanair and £36 Short term parking at Stanstead Airport easier to park and fly then take the train due to early morning and late night flights, €14 Rtn bus fare from Milan airport to Milan central, other expenses on top of that.

Crabtree and Evelyn Cups and Saucers Booklet drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn Cup & Saucers Drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn Cup & Saucers Drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn Cup & Saucers Drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn Cup & Saucers Drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn Cup & Saucers Drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn Cup & Saucers Drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn Tower Bridge Drawing

Crabtree and Evelyn The Gherkin and Big Ben Drawings

Crabtree and Evelyn, contacted my London illustration agency, Central Illustration, looking to commission me to create 6 individual teacup drawings and famous London Land marks, The Gherkin, Tower Bridge and Big Ben for a special booklet all about tea drinking. The tea illustrations were illustrated from photos of China teacups supplied by Crabtree and Evelyn. The illustrations had to be drawn with enough detail; so that once the drawings were reduced down in size they still retained the drawing detail.

The China teacups were had beautiful detail to them, intricate floral patterns with detailed birds. The Rotring Pens I use to draw with were perfect for the job, to capture the little details on the teacups. The Client was very happy with the finished illustrations, I also received several copies of the little tea booklet which was fascinating, being a fan of tea drinking myself, to read about the many different types of teas and sweet accompaniments you can enjoy with your cup of tea.

Typographic Annotation Heart

Typographic Drawn Heart Illustration

Its Valentines day soon, this is my alternative valentines day illustration. Look after your typographic annotation illustration, inspired by keeping your heart healthy with a few simple simple steps in the change of your lifestyle. I signed up for the British Heart Foundation London to Brighton cycle ride this year. I enjoy cycling, and I have always thought about taking part, and much of that is being organised and signing up early. I guess this is a Valentines day alternative illustration and a keep your heart fit and healthy double illo.

I made a quick search about advice on how to keep your heart healthy some of which is common knowledge, these include, Get active, Dont Smoke, Watch your weight, Less Stress, Eat Oily Fish Sleep More, Eat Healthy Ditch the Salt and Get your 5 a Day. I drew stylised hand drawn typography for each of the headings around the main drawing of the heart. Once all the headings and the spot illustrations for them were drawn in, I wrote the accompanying annotations for the spot illustrations and headings, some of which are serious thoughts on keeping your heart healthy, and I combined them with a humour.

The concept of the illustration was to create a dense typographic annotated illustration with a varied mix of hand drawn illustrated drawings as well as combining the drawings with a mix of different typographic styles, injects with a a serious but humours message.