Joseph Banks the botanist and naturalist sure travelled a lot. He wrote a lot of letters too. I bet he wished he could draw and paint, but he had artists pictorialise his specimens for him. He’d have to give them some descriptive ‘colour’ to help because the specimens they were using for reference would have been a little dull by the time he returned from his voyages.
These covers are for a selection of his written work:
190 x 130mm TPS, jacketed hardbacks; various extents.
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.
