The Post-it Note travel was an idea inspired by my traveling and maps, I would illustrate and take a photo ‘Hello and the cities name’ to emphasise where I was traveling in the world for my social media feeds. On a trip to Copenhagen, I thought of the idea and I found a post-it note with my sketchbooks that I often travel with, I illustrated the words Hello Copenhagen onto the Post-it notes using a brush pen I had with me. While I was on the airplane looking out the window of the plane I thought this would be the ideal place to capture my first Post-it note travel post. From there each destination I traveled to I would illustrate a Post-it note and take a photo of it while holding it up to the camera facing a well-known landmark of the city. Some destinations taken with post-it notes include Venice, Copenhagen, Madrid, Amsterdam, Cologne, Dublin, Rome, Bassel, Edinburgh, Milan, Barcelona, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Oslo, Zurich and Bregenz.
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.
The Sunday Telegraph Stem Awards Front Cover illustration
The Sunday Telegraph Stem Awards Front Cover illustration 2017
The Sunday Telegraph Stem Awards Front Cover illustration. The Telegraph STEM Awards offer STEM undergraduates the chance to prove their talent to some of the biggest names in industry and put themselves in the running to win £25,000.
The brief was to illustrate the following items into the illustration with quotes placed around the items
The illustration depicts a few STEM items, for example:
Drone
Brain
Syringe
DNA
Microscope
High-tec car/autonomous vehicle
Ship/aircra carrier
Flame
wind turbine
motor or vehicle
Bird of prey
Microscope
Car
The Illustration was printed on the front cover of the Stem Awards supplement magazine printed on the June edition of the Sunday Telegraph.
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.
Lonely Planet Magazine USA Typographic Hand Lettering Spring Bread
The US edition of Lonely Planet Magazine, were looking to commission a full page illustration on breads that celebrate spring in different parts of the world. The assignment would consist of 5 different bread illustrations and hand lettered short descriptions
Hot Cross Bun, United Kingdom
Sweet, raisin-studded buns, marked with a cross on top.
King Cake, U.S.
Tricolored iced dough ring with a plastic baby surprise!
Colomba Pasquale, Italy
Dove-shaped, panettone-style sweet bread.
Tsoureki, Greece
Sweet braided dough dotted with red Easter eggs.
Koloocheh, Iran
Spice- and nut- lled cookie pastry.
Puran Poli, India
Hot stacks of cardamom-infused and ghee-covered at breads.
Clarks Shoes typography hand drawn illustration. I have had the pleasure of working with Clarks shoes to create illustrations for Clarks shoes internal marketing booklet. The document would need me to illustrate 12 illustrations. The illustrations would help explain the body copy. The text explains in details the aims of Clarks to their clients and stakeholders.
Clarks shoes were looking for a illustrator with a hand drawn style. My style of work suited their specific requirements. I was briefed by the senior designer, The designer briefed me to illustrate over the photography of some of Clarks iconic well know shoes.
The illustrations consisted of mostly typographic elements highlighted within the main body copy. Their were also shape structures, such as a star and a heart surrounding the photographed shoe. I illustrated within the shapes to make up the star and heart. Illustrating the typography and elements gave the illustration a bespoke and crafted look and feel.
I traveled to Clarks HQ . The Main HQ is based in Somerset England. The Clarks campus is a large complex. The campus still has the original Clarks building where it all began. Their are also further buildings added to it as the business grew. Clarks has a impressive design department, which houses the shoes design team. It also houses the graphic design and marketing departments.
I was given a tour to see how clarks worked behind scenes tour of the campus. The design departs tour gave me a a opportunity to see how the business operates and creates their iconic shoes. This opportunity was a benefit, as I was able to see first hand the process involved in making the Clarks shoes. I was given permission to photograph certain aspects of the design process to illustrate them for the marketing illustrations.
Typography Drawings illustration, a selection of Typographic drawings illustrated in my Moleskine Sketch book for a on going personal development project. I have been developing typographic letter forms which I sketch in my Moleskine sketch book. I develop script, hand written, serif and san serif type to work as a composition. The type develops form my surroundings, I jot down, something I have heard from traveling on the tube or traveling on Planes when im also drawing maps as part of my map day trip project. I develop words to add more depth to the physical objects which I use to illustrated type around, for example the cake drawings, I illustrated the names of the cakes in a playful type exercise
Chivas Regal the Venture Typographic World Map Presentation
Chivas Regal the Venture Typographic World Map Presentation
Excerpts from Redefining Success in a Changing World, a global report commissioned by Chivas examining new views on social entrepreneurship and the evolving perceptions of success. The report was written from a summary of survey data of more 1800 young professionals and social entrepreneurs in Mexico, Brazil, China, UK, US, and South Africa, as well as opinion-leader interviews.
I was commissioned to illustrate a large typographic map of the world, which was used as a backdrop presentation for the whisky brand Chivas Regal and The Venture competition. The competition gained over 1000 entries from around the world, of which 20 of the entries were selected and flown to San Francisco to pitch their ideas to leading businessmen and women. 5 finalists made the final cut to make their final pitch for the chance of winning $1,000,000 for their sustainable business.
The illustration was created predominately typographic, all of the wording for the map was selected from a global report commissioned by Chivas Regal. The typographic text was crafted to fit the map of the world. The scale of the map drawing was 1500cm 800cm wide. The map was drawn in sections and composed all within Photoshop. The final map would be printed close to 20m wide, for the Final presentation in San Francisco.
The Chivas Regal world map was a tough map to illustrate, The deadline was very short to work towards, and another added hurdle was a holiday I had booked to Tuscany, Italy, which meant having to illustrate while on holiday, I found myself working in trains, in airports as well as planes. It was a fine balancing act of holiday and work. It was a challenge, I learned a lot from the experience, and it gave me a new sense of value for illustration and freelance, and the ability to be nomadic in a sense and being able to work from different locations, which is something I would enjoy doing more of in the future.
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.
