Andy Smith Illustrator Blog

3/2/14

Four fonts show

I have a show of new work at Soma Gallery in Bristol, titled 'Four fonts walked into a bar...' its a set of screenprints and other objects based on jokes and gags. Heres a couple of pictures (the long one is a bookmark) - more soon.

Fried Twinkie

Cover for The Fried Twinkie Manifesto and other tales of Disaster and Damnation by Ryan Moehring.

2/21/14

Julia Bleasdale

I've done a few jobs for long distance runner Julia Bleasdale and heres some new cards that we've just worked on in preparation for competing in Rio 2016 after a good result in the London Olympics. Go Julia!

2/18/14

Monster t's

Some new T-Shirts for Alpkit based on the mugs I designed for them last year. You can get them here

1/25/14

The Jump

Cover for The Guardian's Guide about new celeb/winter sport/reality TV show The Jump.

1/5/14

Enjoy January

Why not? Some more lettering for Waitrose Magazine.

1/4/14

Lettering overhead

Some lettering for an article in The Guardian about increasing your brain power

12/19/13

Prehistoric language?

Illustration for New Scientist, not very festive but its in the Christmas issue.
Its to accompany an article about how swear words could have been some of the first words used by man.
This is a toned down one- the original was much worse!

12/17/13

Sherlock

These 3 reissues of Arthur Conan Doyle collections were commissioned by The Radio Times/Penguin. They are some of the stories that will form the basis of the new Sherlock series starting soon on the BBC. You can get them free with the christmas issue of The Radio Times.

12/16/13

Christmas Knits

Heres my contribution to Christmas Knits, a show at the Breese Little Gallery in Clerkenwell. Designers Cai and Kyn asked lots of illustrators and artists to come up with seasonal knit designs which form the show and also feature in their Hohoho publication.

12/9/13

Paper, ink and workshop

I have some work in this book about printing by John Foster. As well as nice work its got lots of great photos of peoples messy/inky workshops and print studios.