This image received a 2024 Award of Excellence from Communication Arts

Work for MUBI Collections - strands curated by MUBI's in-house programming team, gathering a selection of film under one theme, festival, director, performer, etc.

Using the motif of a reel of film throughout, I was commissioned to make conceptual visuals for collections titled The Venice Film Festival, Brief Encounters, The Berlinale, Cannes, Debuts, The Oscars and Rediscovered.

This project was a collaboration with Studio Sutherland.  A set of stamps for Royal Mail, each being based on a pivotal point of a different Agatha Christie novel.  In the spirit of crime fiction and detective work, as well as using conceptual twists in the imagery, the six stamps contain hidden secrets in the form of microtext, UV ink and thermochromic ink.

I'm thrilled to say that the stamps have also gone on to win a yellow pencil at the D&AD awards, a best in book prize for the Creative Review Annual and a merit in the 3x3 annual.

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Security Theatre' - on how computer security often only functions as a facade of protection, and the detective work needed to track down internet scammers.

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For an article on how the gay culture sometimes avoids discussion of how the pursuit of hedonism might contribute to issues of mental health and how the therapy profession is still ill-informed about trauma in the gay community.

Series of illustrations for software that helps teams work remotely

IIllustrations for three covers and the box. Beautifully made collectible editions, screen printed and bound in buckram.

In 1940, Alan Moorehead was sent to cover the North Africa campaign by the Daily Express, and he followed its dramatic course all the way to 1943. The three books he subsequently wrote about the Desert War – later collected as his ‘African Trilogy’ – were swiftly acclaimed as a classic account of the tussle between Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Rommel’s Afrika Corps, amidst the endless harsh wastes of the Western Desert.

Moorehead was responsible for the celebrated insight that tank battles in the desert are like battles at sea, the lumbering tanks like ships lost in a vast ocean of sand. The New Statesman could not have put it better when it described his achievement with this riveting book: 
 

Chosen winner for American Illustration AI-140

Metro’s relationship advice column - Girlfriend suspicious of boyfriends claim that he didn't contact her because he left his phone charger on the train.

Cover image for Practical Law magazine on the theme of how competition law is confronting companies who hoard data.⁣

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For a relationship advice column, on the theme of the difficult space between one relationship and another.

Shortlisted for Communication Arts

For an article on how Samuel L Jackson was 'de-aged' by about 25 years in the film "Captain Marvel".

(Awarded by 3x3 and Communication Arts)

For an article on how actors inhabit and identify with the roles they play

On the right time to move into a new relationship after bereavement

For a report about the huge amounts of data AI is able to collate

Cover image

For a relationship advice column - When things are barren in the bedroom⁣.

This brief called for a sci-fi, 'jetsons' approach. (series of 4 illustrations)

For an agony aunt column - making the pilgrimage to the grave of a loved one in Ireland.

For the British Print Industries Federation

(Shortlisted for Communication Arts)

Asian Investor magazine, on the theme of competition between Hong Kong and Singapore, and how new laws are effecting this.

For a piece titled ‘How to build disruptive strategic flywheels’ - Gaming, artificial intelligence, and deep learning are paving the way for dynamic and resilient 21st-century business models.’ I still don’t fully comprehend that, but I think it’s something like everything is changing so fast we have to roll with the flux.⁣

For Op-Ed piece on secret cameras in hosipitals.

For a relationship advice column

For the British Print Industries Federation

Time to move on from an old relationship.

(For the Metro's 'It's Complicated' relationship advice column.)

Jealous sister witnesses an illicit kiss

For an article by a writer who moves to the desert and is inspired by it’s alien beauty, strange plant life, unexpected brooding weather and uncanny feeling of being on another planet.

How do we successfully navigate an AI-infused world?

Metro’s relationship advice column - For a letter from a woman who relationship is over, but her partner won’t move out of her small home.

Self initiated cover design for the novel.

'When a towering giant made of iron appears out of nowhere, young Hogarth sees him not as a monster, but a friend. The townspeople are terrified of the giant and devise a plan to bring him down. But Hogarth believes in his friend, and rescues him when no one else will. Together, they teach the people of the village and beyond to conquer their fears, for beneath the giant's rough armour there beats a mighty heart. '

Self initiated cover design for the novel.

'The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.
 

For an article about the revitalisation of a woodland spiritual retreat.

Radio Times 'DNA, Me And The Family Tree'. Tracing ancestry in the USA is revealing far more than many had bargained for.

For a feature on how CEO’s protect their unwarranted bonuses

For a feature on how writers take inspiration from spending time on or near water.

For Royal College of Nursing Publishing - Chosen concept for an article on the difficulties nurses face when broaching health promotion to the parents of overweight children, at appointments for other health issues. Hence the ghostly ‘elephant in the room’ tipping the scales.

For an article titled ‘Spinning a win - Campaign advisers criss-cross the world to help in real and fake elections.’

The brief called for a noir-ish treatment on the theme of ‘Underground’. My first thought was of the tunnels running under the city from some of the grand houses, and that became the basis of this image.

For a letter from a grieving woman, who's partner is buried in a special place the couple knew.

Questioning whether to have reconstructive surgery after breast cancer.