Martin Luther King

Just finished this portrait of Martin Luther King for an Art Department promotional book, due Feb 2009.

Telegraph

New work in today's Saturday Telegraph magazine accompanying an article on online fashion store ASOS.

Icon Magazine Part Two

Another Illustration for Icon magazine, this appears in the December Issue.

Icon Magazine

New work for Icon Magazine, the first of a regular column.

Timeout London Shopping Guide 2009

New work in the 2009 Timeout London Shopping Guide. In the shops now.

1001 Albums......

I worked on this over a year ago, but a new edition of '1001 albums you must hear before you die' just landed on my doorstep with my portrait of Debbie Harry on the cover. The first edition featured my portrait of Kraftwerk.

More Telegraph

More new work in today's Telegraph supplement 'Insurance & Financial Services', this one is the whole broadsheet front cover. A couple of spots inside as well.

In other news......Just finished another sleeve for Defected Records, this time it's ATFC's 'Dirty Habit'. Currently working on something for Icon Magazine and a few other bits and bobs.

Telegraph

I've got three Illustrations in today's Telegraph newspaper in a supplement on working in the Oil & Gas market.

Things that won't be published

Another rough that didn't make it off the drawing board, this is something for the Telegraph, the final piece is heading in an abstract collage direction.

Graham Rawle

Illustrator, writer and all round nice chap Graham Rawle has a lovely new website, choc-a-bloc with nice things to look at including a preview of Graham's amazing new book 'The Wizard of Oz', out October 1st. I've spent the last few weeks programming the site in my spare time and it's been well worth it, go see!

www.grahamrawle.com

New Jack City

I've been drawing New Jack Swing Stars today for a new colouring book, here's an early attempt at Keith Sweat.

Old Stuff

Thought I'd put a few really old bits of work up on here, before the days of computer trickery just paint, stencils and a nice big canvas. These pieces date from '96 - '98 when I was still at college. 'New York street scene' appeared in 'Pen & Mouse' by Angus Hyland back in 2001 alongside 'The assassination of Martin Luther King' which was my exam project whilst at Brighton University. 'Neil Armstrong' was my first piece of stencilled work.

Mr Wonder

Another Illustration i finished last week, Stevie Wonder appears in todays Sunday Telegraph Magazine. I think this is the third, maybe fourth time I've been asked to Illustrate Mr Wonder. Below is the portrait from 1999 that appeared in the now sadly defunct 'Straight No Chaser' magazine, which I very strangely once saw in the window of an estate agents adorning the wall of a swanky loft apartment, someone was making cheeky copies me thinks!

Creative Review

Here's my Illustration for Creative Review 'Made In China' in the September Issue of the magazine.

Head & Shoulders

My Illustration for Head & Shoulders appears exclusively in this weeks issue of Reveal magazine (it's got the super talented Victoria Beckham and Jade from Big Brother on the cover)

What are you up to right now?

Well seeing as you asked, I'm currently working on a few different projects. Another record sleeve for Defected for Studio Apartment, some Illustrations for Samsung with Peepshow, something for a new ITV children's series with music by Take That's Gary Barlow and Illustrations for The Telegraph & TimeOut. I'm also in the middle of updating the Peepshow website with all the goodness from the past year and building Graham Rawle's all singing and dancing new website. Quite a lot all in all. Fun Fun.

Press & Pull

Go and see this if you get the chance, 'Press & Pull' - a collection of prints by James Brown & Kate Gibb at the Ada Street Gallery, off Broadway Market from Wednesday 27th August until Sunday 31st August inclusive. Daily from 12pm - 7pm. A really lovely show with beautiful things to see. Be quick.

ATFC

Another sleeve for Defected Records, this one is for 'Jus a Beat' by ATFC. I think they've changed the colouring for the final sleeve though.

Things that won't be published

I've been working on an ad for Head & Shoulders the last couple of weeks, here's a few pieces of work that didn't quite make the grade. The final advert appears in September I think, it's for Saatchi & Saatchi.

Some new things

It's been a while since I posted anything on here, so here are a few commercial jobs I've worked on in the last few weeks.

- Following on from the recent 'Gilles Peterson In The House' I've just finished the LP sleeve for the imaginatively titled 'Shapeshifters In The House' for Defected Records.

-Another single sleeve for Defected Records, 'Kings of Tomorrow - Can't Stop'

-A Double Page illustration for an article on chinese advertising in the August issue of Creative Review, 'Made In China'.

The Brighton Moment

I have new work in 'The Illustrated Brighton Moment', edited by Susanna Jones & Lawrence Zeegen, published by Unmadeup on May 6th. Twenty-five writers and twenty-eight Illustrators including Ian Wright, George Hardie and Margaret Huber collaborated on the project sharing their vision and memories of the city.

Photos from 'Invisible'

Here are a few photos from 'Invisible', the UV Installation I worked on with Lucy Vigrass for Greyworld. The launch was in Burnley town centre last month. Photos by Andy Ford.

Colour Me In

I've just released a new edition of 'Colour Me In', a 20 page colouring book featuring Blondie, Gary Numan, Hall & Oates, LL Cool J and many more, available exclusively from Peepshop in an edition of 50. £8 plus p&p.

The original editions were from 2003 and are long since sold out.

www.peepshop.org.uk

Invisible

Ok, so I've not had a great deal of new work on my website for a while now, but that's because I've been working on something a little bit different.
After nine months of meetings, trying things out, failing, starting over again, intense work and battling with vectors (which I was never good at), this Friday sees the launch of a project I and Lucy from Peepshow have supplied all the Illustrations for. Part of Channel Four's 'Big Art Project', 'Invisible' by Greyworld, is an enormous outdoor UV stencil and projection installation set across Burnley in the UK. The opening is this Friday in Burnley Town centre from 6pm. You wanna see a whole bunch of 18ft high Invisible Illustrations you can only see under UV light at hidden locations across the town....you know where to go. I think its in place for three years, so you've got plenty of time. A documentary on Channel Four follows later in the year.

More details soon.

Brighton Moment

Just finished this Illustration of West Pier for a limited book that's out in May called 'The Brighton Moment' that Lawrence Zeegen in working on. A lot of great Illustrators are involved that all have a connection to Brighton. I studied at Brighton between 1995-1998, and this Illustration shows the Pier in its decrepit state at the time before it was set fire to a couple of times a few years ago, not much left now.

In the House

I was asked by Peter Chadwick at Popular Design to Illustrate the cover of 'Gilles Peterson In the House', a new compilation on Defected Records, released 28th January. Available on Amazon here, and as a series of downloadable wallpapers here. Posters all over London at the minute.

Kicks

I customised a pair of DC shoes for a show in California. Subtext & DC Shoes present
'Kicks'-A Custom Shoe Show, January 25th - February 17th.

Subtext 680 W Beech Street, San Diego, CA 92101, open daily 1-7pm.

See a preview here