Fora Space Fitzrovia Drawings

Fora Space Workshop Coffee Fritzrovia

Fora Space Bao Cafe Fritzrovia

Fora Space Punch Room Fritzrovia

Fora Space Green Man Bar Fritzrovia

Fora Space Roka Fritzrovia

Fora Space Kitchen Table Fritzrovia

Fora Space Republic of Fritz Hansen Fritzrovia

Fora Space Pilar Corrias Gallery Fritzrovia

Boutique hotel-style shared offices targeting “grown-ups” who do not want to use hipster co-working spaces are being launched in London. Each office has a “destination” restaurant and lobby bar and a yoga studio as well as a boardroom. FORA office locations include Clerkenwell, Ladbroke Grove, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch, Borough, Brick Lane, and Kentish Town. The plan agreed with backers, the property investment fund Brockton Capital is to open up to 20 sites in London in total.

I was asked to illustrate a map for the Fritzrovia FORA location in London, as well as 8 different locations the coworkers can visit in the Fritzrovia area, which could be a nice bar, coffee place or Restaurant. The map and locations are a helpful visual aid that will be used on the websites to help those working in a particular coworking space to know their area and places of interests.

PPB paper packaging board back to school coloring book

PPB Colouring Book

Reading jungle fine detail scene

Notebook grid style drawing

PPB paper packaging board back to school coloring book. The Paper and Packaging Board promotes the use of paper products and paper-based packaging by showing the value they bring to our daily lives. The Paper & Packaging – commisioned the How Life Unfolds® national marketing campaign that showed how paper and packaging enhance business and personal productivity, creativity, and learning.

The illustrations showcased the different uses of paper and the value to daily lives for different groups of people. The illustration colouring book drawings can be colored in if desired. Each drawing included a statistical quote to highlight the interesting fact about the paper usages.

The illustrated drawings show children using notepads and sketchbooks to take notes of interesting wildlife. Students use paper to take paper notes and books are made out of paper that encourages the use of your imagination.

Postit Note Typography Travels

Hello Postit Note Typography Travels

Venice Postit Note Typography Travels

Dublin Postit Note Typography Travels

Madrid Postit Note Typography Travels

Amsterdam Postit Note Typography Travels

Cologne Postit Note Typography Travels

Dublin Postit Note Typography Travels

Rome Postit Note Typography Travels

Basel Postit Note Typography Travels

Edinburgh Postit Note Typography Travels

Milan Postit Note Typography Travels

Barcelona Postit Note Typography Travels

Berlin Postit Note Typography Travels

Prague Postit Note Typography Travels

Venice Postit Note Typography Travels

Vienna Postit Note Typography Travels

Oslo Postit Note Typography Travels

Zurich Postit Note Typography Travels

Bregenz Postit Note Typography Travels

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.

Poplar HARCA Chrisp Street Map

Poplar HARCA Chrisp Street Map Poplar London Map

Festival of Britain Buildings

Poplar Clock Tower

Poplar Swimming Baths Drawing

Poplar HARCA is an organisation that is working on the regeneration of Poplar located close to Canary Wharf in London. The poplar map commission was to show the new facilities that were being constructed and where they will be, so that local residents can see what is being planned, rather than looking at architecture drawings or computer-generated visuals. It’s for Chrisp Street regeneration, to show what it could look like. The goal of the map was for it to be easy to read and engaging for local residents to see.

The map will be used to inform local residents/stakeholders about the new developments that will be happening in Chrisp Street, for example, the creation of cinema, refurbished market and shops. The regeneration agency plan to create a short information booklet for residents, like frequently asked questions, which the map would be used to illustrate where things will be.

The map illustration focused on the main market area of poplar and the well-known locations such as the festival of Britain Building the Clock Tower and the newly refurbished Poplar Swimming Baths. Icons and reference images were drawn upon to represent the regeneration areas of poplar and illustrated where their locations will be situated as a helpful map aid for the residents and shareholders.

Harpers Bazar India Map illustration Interview

Harpers Bazar India Map illustration Interview

Moleskine Map Drawing Edinburgh, Scotland

Moleskine Map Drawing Sydney, Australia

Moleskine Map Drawing Zurich, Switzerland

Bordeaux Wine Map

Harpers Bazar India interviewed me for an article about the city maps drawings I illustrate. I was introduced to the editor by a recent client whom I worked with who commisioned me to illustrate tea 4 well-known tea growing regions in India.

The interviewer Komal Sharma asked me questions regarding my maps and was interested in how the map was initially started. The first map I drew was for a woman I was dating and the map consisted of locations we visited as part of the date, and I drew them as a keepsake map which I drew in my Moleskine sketchbook.

Over time the maps developed a style, and I was commissioned by creative agencies to illustrate the maps for campaigns, products and editorials. One of my personal favorite projects and is a self-initiated one, where I fly off to a European city on a day trip and I draw the city in my little Moleskine sketch book. I scout a location while I’m in the city and I use the well-known landmark location as a backdrop where I hold up my sketchbook and take a photo for me social media platforms.

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.

GQ Magazine Rhone Valley France Map

GQ Magazine Rhone Valley France Map, this illustrated map depicts the Rhone Valley. The map shows vineyard destinations you can visit through the Rhone Valley as well as nearby chateaux’s to see as well to make the road trip even more interesting though this French region.

GQ Magazine Valence is right in the center of all good things foodwise in France. Provence is just to the south of the Rhone Valley, the Alps and the Ardeche are on the doorstep and it’s right in the Rhone Valley, with the Sceneic N7 main road, once the favored route between the north and the Cote d’Azur for sun-seeking northern Europeans, right at its heart. So, for a few days indulge your self in eating great food and drinking fine wine, it doesn’t get much better than here.

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map St Petersburg and Ekaterinburg Stadiums

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod Stadiums

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod Stadiums

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map Samara and Volograd Stadiums

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map Moscow Othrytic Arena and Moscow Luzhniki Stadium

2018 Russia World Cup Stadium Map

Spread over 1,800 miles from the Ekaterinburg, at the base of the Ural mountains ti the exclave of Kaliningrad on the coast of the Baltic Sea to, 12 stadiums across Russia will host the 64 matches that comprise the 2018 Fifa World Cup.

The largest venue is also one of the newest – with the 81,000-capacity Luzhniki Stadium only reopened in 2018 on the site of the old ground in Moscow.

Bordeaux Map Decanter Magazine

Bordeaux Map Decanter Magazine

Sweet Alabama Map British Airways High Life Magazine

weet Alabama Map BA High Life Magazine

weet Alabama Map BA High Life Magazine

Sweet Alabama Map BA High Life Magazine

The brief to illustrate a single map illustration which will show the destinations that British Airways fly to these include the following (Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans) and the road routes you can take between all the towns in Alabama (Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Gulf Shores).

The map will also have handy illustrated road signs for each town and drive durations which will be useful to know when you’re out on the road driving to each destination on the when using the map. 

Interesting landmarks to see which driving through Alabama include the following, you can also see these locations illustrated as icons on the map

Nashville: “Music City USA”

Huntsvillle: illustration of U. S. Space & Rocket Center.

Nashville: FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound studios

Birmingham: golf club [Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail]

Montgomery: Martin Luther King, Jr and Rosa Parks

Mobile: Mardi Gras

New Orleans: Typical New Orleans Architecture

I enjoy illustrating travel maps for magazines such as British Airways Highlife, the articles are well researched and but together by the writer and the editor and its a good way to plan a trip to a interesting and new destination.