Whether I’m working on design, illustration or visual art, I love delving into the subject matter. So I’ve done a lot of research for my Tower Gallery artist residency, a project about the place itself. In week 4, I’ve been reading the building, literally as I’ve taken a closer look … Read More
Goodness knows what my neighbour thought I was doing, in the garden, wearing a mask, carrying three small bottles of powder, a jar of liquid and an egg… But I had an experiment to do, making brick and stone watercolours and egg tempera to try out in the Tower Gallery … Read More
Big drawings. How to prepare? The tiny sketchbooks I carry, which I bind from offcuts and scrap are – well – tiny. So, my Tower Gallery residency project being about the building, bringing my love of appropriate materials from my design life I’ve made one big sketchbook from lining paper, … Read More
I’ve done the cover illustration for Family Matters, the third volume in a poetry collaboration between the writers’ collective Dark Angels and Paekakariki Press, a letterpress printing workshop in London. In conversation with John Simmons of Dark Angels and writers’ organisation 26 for the 26 newsletter, we talk about why … Read More
A writer friend used to swear by his dog. I take my sketchbook for a walk. I often call my walks screen breaks (often, they are) – but they’re all manner of other things too… I come up with ideas on walks that I don’t have at a desk. There’s … Read More
I’ve been researching for my talk on the printer’s fist – the pointing hand symbol – for Nerd Nite London, a night of short talks on niche subjects. I was the first graphic designer to speak at Nerd Nite London and this will be my seventh talk (Find out about the … Read More
Well, 2025 – you’ve been quite the year creatively… Here are four projects where I’ve been able to get involved from the very beginning: My work on Vianne’s Confession for independent perfumer Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays started before the perfume existed, smelling its ingredients at Sarah’s studio. Designing a … Read More
In November 2025, I met writer and artist Joni Brown for her new ‘Artists in conversation’ series of newsletter articles for writers’ organisation 26. Perched at a British Library café with sketchbook (me), notebook (Joni) and tea, we chatted about the meanderings of creative careers, our practice and the pull … Read More
Studio Snack, a food podcast about design in collaboration with Narcis Sauleda, started with conversations in lockdown between two friends and former studio-mates, perched with coffees and snacks on one of the Here East campus benches. We kept saying that we wished we’d recorded our conversations. So we did, in … Read More
This is not our final piece for London Bridge, part of 26 Bridges, a project by writers’ organisation 26… My creative collaboration with writer Jonathan Holt has been so rich in ideas that for a while, we had two lines of enquiry running in parallel. This one came from the … Read More