Cassius Marcellus Clay, Muhammad Ali, The greatest of all time, celebrates his 70th Birthday
With a tongue that was as quick as his feet, the heavyweight boxing legend has gifted us with a barrage of humourous quotes to name a few;
“I’m so mean I make medicine sick”
“There’s not a man alive who can whup me. I’m too fast. I’m too smart. I’m too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That’s the only way I’ll ever get licked.”
“If you dream of beating me, you’d better wake up and apologise.”
Happy birthday Ali.
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I recently entered the Design Museum Illustration Contest for the ‘Sparkle the Dark Up’ Design Overtime event.
I didn’t win unfortunately but, as conciliation, there were 29,000 entries!
The Design Museum gave the House of Illustration the outside of their building for one night only, during their annual winter special ‘Sparkle the Dark Up’ Design Overtime event on December 2nd. 40 illustrators got their work projected on the museum walls.
The House of Illustration is a vision being turned into a reality. They aim to be the world’s first centre dedicated to the art of illustration in all its forms and to create a permanent home for an enduring art.
The Design Museum, situated near Tower Bridge is one of the world’s leading museums devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture, fashion, graphics, architecture and industrial design.
Design Museum Website
House of Illustration Website
Here’s an editorial Illustration I created for the independent food lifestyle magazine Eat Me.
The article In Betweeners, written by Chris Murphy discusses pallet cleansers. He used an analogy that their function in a meal is like having a personal butler,
“it should look smart, brush away your crumbs and (this is universal of all courses) never answer back.”
I thought that this could work quite well visually and so the idea progressed from there.
The magazine is distributed internationally through retailers such as WH Smith or you can by a digital version by clicking here.
I also created some work for their website that you can read about here.
Ghosts of Gone Birds is an exhibition with 200 pieces of multimedia and conventional art from over 100 Artists in an attempt to breath live back into extinct birds long gone.
Ralph Steadman filled a room within Rochelle School in East London with countless species climbing the walls well into the rafters. Fortunately binoculars were provided to furnish the viewer with a closer look and to add to the ornithological theme of the occasion.
Emily Forgot, Kai & Sunny, Russell Maurice, Rob Ryan, Sir Peter Blake, Anita Bruce to name but a few contributed to this fabulous and poignant display of art.
After feasting on the visual side of the show, we trekked round the corner to Richmix for an evening poetry and music including Heavenly Record’s folk couple Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou, and Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year nominee Jackie Oates.
Quadrophenia star Phil Daniel’s added his cockney wit in prose and song.
Jimi Goodwin and The Bird Effect Ensemble, a 15-piece orchestra, premiered Jimi’s piece Ghosts of Gone Birds. The live performance from the Doves frontman provided a soundtrack to organiser & documentary maker Ceri Levy’s film The Bird Effect, and was a perfect finale to a beautiful evening.
The show raised money and awareness for BirdLife International’s Preventing Extinctions programme.
Images courtesy of Ghosts of Gone Birds.
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Hear Jimmi’s interview from BBC 6 Music
