You may have your own bespoke, handmade, original, non-fungible 25mm button badge by contacting me through email or Instagram. I’ll post it anywhere in the world it needs to be. Each original is only £15. Be in the ‘IN’ crowd with one of your own button badges. Suitable for all seasons and either hemisphere.
Cold Cream 25mm button badge. Red ink and black ink on white paper.
I’m speaking (online) at Nottingham Trent University (Illustration and Graphic Design post and undergraduates) on Wednesday 10th March. It’s an informal talk about book design and planning a long-form visual narrative, and generally about making a book: typography, the print process and the publishing process. I’ll also discuss my practice as a freelancer and author of my own books. There’s plenty time to ask questions too. I hope you can join us.
On the way to a dental appointment. Leicester Square tube station customers in 2019: 34.56 million.
Here’s a new jacket and hardback binding for Lauren Child’s interpretation of Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking. We did the first edition in 2007 and Oxford University Press are publishing a new edition with the original illustrations later this year.
I’ve always admired this drawing of Pippi and if I remember correctly, designed a cover for the original edition using it but it was overlooked for alternative one. I’m glad it got a second chance – nearly fifteen years later.
A new AO sized print of a private commission before it is eased into its cardboard tube, taken to the post office and sent 3500 miles to its destination.
But I can confirm the day, date and time.
Seen in a Spirax notebook c.2018.
Papier mache robin (Erithacus rubecula papyrus), London.
I recently illustrated the third book of the Premier League Writing Stars series of poetry anthologies. The third book, Beautiful Ambition, takes its name from a poem by Karl Nova. The poetry competition for primary schools has the winners’ poems published together with poems from some football players and other well known names in paperback book form. This year, the theme of the competition is ‘Ambition’. You can have a glimpse of the illustrations below.
I hope the authors have a chance to celebrate having their poems published soon.
