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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.
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.
After launching her shop earlier this year, I can finally reveal the artwork I completed for some Mary Portas scarves.
Well they are finally here!
In a post back in August, I mentioned a collaboration with none other than the Queen of Shops herself, Mary Portas. Work actually began back in May when I visited House of Fraser HQ to meet Mary’s team who included partner, and editor at large of Grazia, Melanie Rickey and Nadia Jones, creative director at Oasis.
As usual in the fashion industry, deadlines were tight and I actually had to finish the project squirrelling away on a flight to the US (and the first day of my holiday).
Channel 4 recently aired a 3 part documentary on Mary’s trials and tribulations throughout the project. If you are dab hand with a pause button (and have an eagle eye), you might be able to spot my designs… somewhere.
Watch Mary Portas Queen of Frocks
Buy one of the scarves
Marine Insurance company Sieppel & Light commissioned me recently to create some cartoon illustrations.
This was a fun project if a little different from my normal work. Sieppel & Light wanted to connect with their market with an email campaign.
Their subject matter (personal injury) is something people would rather not think about, so they decided to approach it in a light hearted way.
The brief was to produce something that looked similar to the holiday postcards you find at the seaside. The client was also keen to take reference from Carl Giles, the well renowned British cartoonist who was better known for his work in the newspaper the Daily Express.
I loved Giles as a kid, my Dad collected his annuals and were a great inspiration. I recall at the time, copying his detailed cartoons. Giles was actually assigned by the Express to document the Coldstream Guards during World War II.
Traditionally in the paper the images had to be black and white and shading was conveyed with half-tone, something I was keen to recreated on the 3 images.
