N by Norwegian

I was recently asked to illustrate another article by Toby Young (I first illustrated a Toby Young article for Stella magazine a few years ago.) The article 'How not to do New York,' examines the reasons Toby failed to 'take' New York. It was a fun piece to illustrate with funny anecdotes that conjured up great images. I chose to illustrate Toby as a small character representing his feelings of insignificance. There are five illustrations altogether so if you're flying to Norway check them out in the flesh in N by Norwegian magazine. Special thanks to Rickard Westin for great art direction.

I'm currently finishing up a deadline on a book I've been working on for the last few months for Rodale, it's getting to the end now and it's exciting to see it all coming together. It will be out in February 2014. I've also worked on a book for Anova books which is out in March and I have some illustrations in the January and February issues of Waitrose Kitchen magazine so watch this space for new work coming soon in the new year!

  

'The Bush is back,' Stylist magazine

I had a blast working on this unusual topic for a feature for Stylist magazine with designer Laura Kenny. The brief was a timeline of pubic hair and they wanted it to look posh and pretty with quirky takes on the facts and not the obvious renders of pubic hair! It was quite challenging exploring and coming up with ideas that were visually attractive especially when you read the article and discover facts such as prostitutes in the 1700s shaved their pubic hair only to replace it with merkins (which is ...obviously... a pubic wig made of mouse fur!) I loved the challenge - hope you like what I came up with.

Vita V Organics

I'm really excited to be able to share one of my favourite projects to date that I worked on last year. I worked with the wonderful ladies Vita and Robyn to create a set of two packaging designs for their delicious (...and I can vouch for that) salad dressings Frenchie and Naked Zest. The products are truly amazing and it was inspiring to work with such passionate people. I really enjoyed having the freedom of being able to design the whole labels with the collaborative input and direction that I was given from Vita and Robyn. It was a really hands on project which made it doubly fun and I learnt a lot from it and I'm excited to see what the future has in-store for Vita V - watch this space!

Peaches

New York, New York

New illustration commissioned by American snack food company 'Drakes' as part of their brand relaunch. This illustration was part of a moving art gallery exhibited around New York City.

New York dreaming...

Devonshire Dash

This is a map and some typography I created for the lovely people at Lillingston Events for a special 50th birthday event they hosted. The brief was to create a treasure map of Devon for the event in which the group travelled across Devon in combi-vans taking part in all sorts of activities such as sand castle building, oyster shucking, sheep herding and more. I also created the logo (top right on map) that was used throughout and printed on a lovely navy blue fabric invitation box in foil.