Simply a collection of character designs I have been working on.

Flâneur is a French term meaning ‘stroller’ or ‘loafer’ used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life. The flâneur carried a set of rich associations: the man of leisure, the idler, the urban explorer, the connoisseur of the street. Some modern flaneurs are Sophie Calle, Will Self, Laura Oldfield Ford and Iain Sinclair.

Health services are increasingly being delivered on line, this is a series of illustrations in response to an article on A.I . in the health service.

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The monkey character is shown in a classic Napoleon pose and uniform as a kind of bust on a plinth. ‘Ceci n'est pas un singe’ (this is not a monkey) is scrawled underneath making reference to the famous Magritte painting The Treachery of Images and the idea that the victim of the lynching my well have been a young boy, a ‘powder monkey’, not a primate. Hence the visual references to the ship, cannon and keg of gun powder. French Spy is written underneath this as the people who tried the monkey thought he has spying on them for the French government. 

I couldn't help but make some connections between the story and our countries current relations with Europe and the animosity some of us still have towards Europeans and our fear of the other. The figures in the guided box representing the voting patterns on the Brexit referendum and the minus star symbols showing that there will be one less country in the EU soon.

The three wise monkeys symbolising "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"

are there to invite us not the look the other way when an injustice is done and maybe to learn from our mistakes. The football showing that the legend of the Hartlepool Monkey lives on in sports such as rugby and soccer.

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The joys of cycling for couples.

Who doesn’t love a good pylon right ? Available soon as a print in my shop.

An image in response to the book UFO Drawings From the National Archives by David Clarke. The UFOs featured are inspired by the accounts and drawings from sightings around the UK. Many in Macclesfield only a few miles from my home. Much of the material was released by the government after 1994.

Further explorations of characters.

Editorial about Nootropics; smart drugs or cognitive enhancers—which are supplements, or other substances that improve cognitive function, particularly executive functions, memory, creativity, or motivation, in healthy individuals.

Response to an article about the innovations which may impact on the future of the NHS, such as cloud data storage, on-line appointments, on-line consultations, robotic surgery and smart tracking and monitoring devices.

Editorial image for US magazine Focus on the Family, about how teenagers can get led astray by falsehoods and lies especially on line.

As 40% of the food on our plates comes from the global market, do we really know where our food originates from and are we importing nutritional deficits along with the food. Editorial DPS.

If more time was spent deciding if we should have Earl Grey or Lapsang Souchong rather than ICBMs or F15s we might be in a better place. 

Print available at my shop page above.

Magazine cover for Royal Over Sea League about the future of the commonwealth. Attempted to encapsulate it's rich history and future in a 'melting pot' concept. 

Response to an article about electric cars. Enjoyed exploring various scanned textures in this one. Even managed to get a subtle reference to design hero Isidro Ferrer in there if you can spot it - answers on a postcard.

Book cover illustration for Narrative by Numbers. As jobs become increasingly similar, there are two skills that everyone needs if they’re going to thrive. These are the ability to interrogate and make sense of data, and the ability to use insights extracted from data to persuade others to act. Analytics + storytelling = influence.

There are some simple and effective rules of data-driven storytelling that help everyone tell more compelling, evidence-based stories, whoever they need to convince.

Response to an article on jobs that are deemed ' Robot Proof '

Image inspired by the film Oldboy the 2003 South Korean noir thriller directed by Pak Chan-wook.

A visual autobiography.

Work inspired by the beauty of urban wastelands and the interaction of nature and edge-lands. 

Had some fun with shape, colour and texture on this A6 notebook cover. 

A response to the 'Pushing The Envelope' exhibition at House of Illustration, London, to commemorate the 175th anniversary of the Penny Black stamp. My 'Mail Art' was screen printed by John Powell-Jones on A3 card envelopes and posted to the exhibition venue. 

The image recalls the attempt by Tony Benn (then Post Master General) and illustrator David Gentleman to remove the Queen’s head from the design of postage stamps, as they felt that its inclusion often caused problems for designers in terms of space for their work. This also appealed to Benn’s socialist leanings and he encouraged Gentleman to submit his designs without the monarch. 

Both Benn and Gentleman fought hard for this radical change to stamp design suggesting that the Queen’s head be replaced with the words “Great Britain” or “U.K. Postage” However by the end of 1965 the Queen, having initially entertained the idea, decided in no uncertain terms that she wanted her head to remain on stamps.

A visual response to Paul Farley and Micheal Symmons Roberts book "Edgelands - Journeys into Englands True Wilderness" 

A visual exploration of the many structures and form s of Carbon. Personal work. This image is also available as a greeting card in my shop. 

A series of Christmas images which aim to avoid the obvious cliches and still fill you with festive glee. These images are available as cards from my shop. 

A series of Christmas images which aim to avoid the obvious cliches and still fill you with festive glee. These images are available as cards from my shop. 

Why don;t men listen ?  They do apparently, but they reorder information when processing it, capturing some of the information and misinterpreting or reframing other pieces of the message. Bless them, their only simple creatures !  For Focus on Family magazine. 

Image in response to a story of one family, how they fell in love and the everyday trials and tribulations of homework pets and work life balance. 

Info graphic/ illustration in response to an article on the process of diamond production.

A series of Christmas images which aim to avoid the obvious cliches and still fill you with festive glee. These images are available as cards from my shop. 

An image for Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association Magazine exploring the issue of insurance if your lucky enough to your own aeroplane. 

A series of Christmas images which aim to avoid the obvious cliches and still fill you with festive glee. These images are available as cards from my shop

Image in response to an editorial about supplement use in old age. Can supplements help to reduce onset of dementia and age related disease whilst enhancing our senior years?

Editorial piece responding to an article about how blended families manage their finances. For Focus on Family magazine. 

Editorial image in response to an article on the development of a pen that would work in zero gravity, and how the Russians just used a pencil !

Personal work with a Halloween twist.

An image responding to the building of Brasilia in 1956, by president Juscelino Kubitschek, Oscar Niemeyer's modernist capital was planned from scratch as an ideal city and built on an empty plateau. But ultimately the modernist dream failed to serve the people who lived there. 

Response to the AOI Sounds of the city competition. an interpretation of urban sound. 

Image for Euroman magazine; Denmark's premier men's lifestyle and fashion magazine. Image responded to a  piece on Street Fashion in New York City. 

CIBBOWS: Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers is a organisation dedicated, since 2005, to being the very best New York City resource for open-water swimmers. CIBBOWS presents a series of fun and challenging ocean races that have included one-mile, marathon distance and cold-water events. 

I was commissioned to produce two, there colour screen printed designs for a couple of their open water races, each featuring creatures from the deep. 

Commissioned by The Design Solution London I was asked to produce and image which reprsented Canadas' Toronto Pearson Airport.

This image was one of 12 included in the companies promotional calendar featuring airports around the world which they have helped to design. The image had to work as a target/trigger for a 3D animation via an iPhone app. which the client has developed.

CIBBOWS: Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers is a organisation dedicated, since 2005, to being the very best New York City resource for open-water swimmers. CIBBOWS presents a series of fun and challenging ocean races that have included one-mile, marathon distance and cold-water events. 

I was commissioned to produce two, there colour screen printed designs for a couple of their open water races, each featuring creatures from the deep. 

 “Churchill's Egg” was a sort of pressurised sarcophagus designed to safely house Winston Churchill on high-altitude flights.

Churchill's doctors were concerned about the 69-year-old prime minister’s heart. Unpressurised cabins (the norm at that time) simply wouldn’t cut it, and a bulky oxygen mask was to be avoided. So the Institute of Aviation Medicine designed him a pressurised chamber with an elaborate intercom system. Here, Churchill could relax, work, sleep and of course smoke during flight.

Poster design for TfL (Transport for London) to encourage sight seeing in London via public transport. Used on tube stations and Adshel bus stops, also the winning entry for the TfL/AOI poster competition.  

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The Blue TEC technology developed by Mercedes Benz is based on cutting-edge diesel engines with a modular concept for the effective reduction of fuel consumption and emissions in diesel vehicles. This image was used on point of sale stands at Mercedes dealerships across Germany. 

Two images which had to work as separate entities and as a whole, across a variety of design collateral for the Xerox sponsored Rochester Jazz Festival in N.Y.C.  The music of Dave Brubeck was a focal point for the festival and therefore the pianist had to feature prominently in the image. It was also important to the client to capture a 1950s bebop feel within the imagery. 

Cover and double page spreads for a children's' paper construction book featuring some of the largest and most spectacular man made structures on the planet; domes, bridges, cranes, skyscrapers, and cranes. 

Visual response to the Victorian Ghost Story 'The Empty House' by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) in which a visitor to an abbandonded coastal house is attacked by a violent spectre.

A visual response to an article about how human resources managers attempt to blend the skill sets of their staff to provide a balanced workforce for their company. 

An illustration for AOPA magazine to accompany a narrative recounting a parents feelings waving their only child off at the airport on a long haul journey. 

An image responding to the story of US Airways Flight 1549  flying from New York's LaGuardia Airport experienced an emergency water landing in the Hudson River. Piloted by Captain Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, who glided the plane to ditch in the river after multiple bird strikes led to the failure of both engines. All 155 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus A320 successfully evacuated from the partially submerged airframe as it sank into the river. 

A full page image for French magazine Culture Services investigating ways in which we can invest equally in our colleagues and our family. 

Image in response to an article about VOIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol technology for Human Resources Magazine.

Visual response to the migrant crisis that is sweeping across Europe. 

An info-grpahic image relating to the effects on the airline industry of an increase in the price of crude oil. For the American AOPA magazine. 

An infographic for American client Live Happy Magazine. The challenge was to represent 8 statistics relating to family eating behaviours in the American home.  

Fiscal experts point out that no individual nation, no matter how apparently buoyant its economy, can be impervious to the world financial climate. By the same token, major corporations have to be aware that they ignore changing international economic forces at their peril. Gazing into its crystal ball, Shell saw that the future offered a challenge to its management‐development techniques and decided it needed to take action.

An image for AOPA Magazine exploring how a pilots intuitive decision making and experience can often be more effective than rigid processes and systems. 

We often fight fire with fire in a relationship and get drawn into petty arguments, sometimes it's better so show your vunerablities it can bring you closer rather than pushing your further apart. An illustration for Thriving Family Magazine based in the USA. 

Pori Jazz is a large international jazz festival, held annually during the month of July in the coastal city of Pori, Finland. It is one of the oldest and best known jazz festivals in Europe, having been arranged every year since 1966. I was commissioned to produce a poster and tee shirt designs for the festival. 

Inspired by David Allen's seminal book Getting Things Done, this image celebrates the joy of To Do Lists. Your mind is for having ideas not holding them, so write it down on a list before your forget.  

Lost in a light aircraft with only charts to navigate from, don't panic think logically...... What would Spock do ? Illustration for AOPA Pilot Magazine.