Grafik

I have a couple of pages in the new issue of Grafik. They have a hand drawn type special with work from Jody Barton, Dan Cassaro, Mario Hugo, Carolyn Sewell, Seb Lester, Deanne Cheuk, Gemma O'Brien, Friends of Type, Si Scott and myself. Plus lots of other stuff too. Get it!

Built to last

An illustration for Imbibe about how to make a success of running a restaurant

Les Echos

Some lettering for French newspaper Les Echos. Its technical stuff about asset management companies (I'm told)

Downhill

I've made this for a type show at AMVBBDO. Its made to hang on the stairs.
Its made of wood and painted in super shiny enamels.

Typographic Sketch Books

I have some work in this new book by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. Published by Thames and Hudson its a big book packed with stuff.

Heres some blurb:

Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on screen, and selected by the world’s most knowledgeable and well-connected graphic design commentator, Steven Heller, this survey gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word-images and logos through examination of their private sketchbooks.

Arranged by designer, this collection reveals how the world’s top typographers and designers strive to find new and exciting ways of communicating through letters and words.

Contributors include both the world-renowned – Milton Glaser, Erik Spiekermann, Peter Bilak and Jean Baptiste Levée – and the up and coming, while Steven Heller and Lita Talarico’s text provides invaluable commentary on the designers’ creative process, their design philosophies, inspirations, techniques and influences.

Orange TUC

Poster for The TUC about their aims, objectives and what they get up to across the world

Paintings from the Cave

A jacket illustration for a Gary Paulsen book. Published by Random House USA.

Images

My cover for The Lonely Polygamist has won a silver award in the Association of Illustrators show Images 35. Weirdly the book is now in a smaller format and has another cover also by me. Maybe I'll enter that next time.

Beer

A cover and interior illustration for Camra's Beer Magazine.

Fancy paints

I've been working on a painting for a type show at AMVBBDO next month. I've been using these enamel paints from one shot which give a really nice shiny finish. Heres a work in progress picture. Its done now but I won't post it until showtime.

Bat Fact

Learn something new everyday is a website by design studio Young. Initially a web based project where amazing facts are coupled with doodled illustrations it has gone on to become a book published by Penguin Books. To celebrate the 2nd birthday of the project Young have asked illustrators and designers to contribute a fact of their choice and Andy Rementer, Marion Deuchars, Merijn Hos and lots of others have all taken part. Heres mine. You can see the site here

Film characters

I did these film character names for a project that didn't take off. Not bad though considering of the three I've only seen Star Wars

Polarworld

I have done 2 illustrations for Polarworld who specialise in publishing related to maritime, wilderness and yes you guessed it polar environments. These will be used in upcoming books but are also available from there website here as silkscreen prints. One of these is an earlier, simpler version of the Great God print.

Giveaway! Giveaway!

Some more new T-shirts for 2KbyGingham. I have 5 of these to giveaway this week. To win one just leave some kind of contact in the comments section for this post (email, blog, twittername etc) and then I'll pick some winners out at random on friday.

This is all finished now, if you've won you'll have heard from me!

Two new t-shirts for 2K by Gingham.