16/12/2011
Turnpike Bevel—sister font to Turnpike Display, available now from The Type Foundry.
Provided as a vector font (eps format) in 3 layers to give control over the shades and colours of the outlines, highlights and body of each glyph independently. For those without vector editing software, a basic Open Type font is also provided.
24/10/2011
Turnpike Display—My first typeface is now for sale over at The Type Foundry.
1 weight, 217 glyphs + optional OpenType swashes help make Turnpike a versatile font for titles and logotypes alike.
04/09/2011
CUTOUT, Vol. 02 Issue 03—Our friends at CUTOUT Magazine, Malaysia, have published a travel piece written by myself and Iain Hector, based on our design–orientated trip to Asia earlier this year.
Over two spreads, the article featured our photos and graphics alongside the text.
05/08/2011
Artcrank 2011—I'll be showing a new, cycle–themed print at this year's Arcrank London show.
In their own words:
"ARTCRANK is a show of bicycle–inspired poster artwork that introduces people to talented local artists and sends them home with affordable, original works of art. Every ARTCRANK show features posters created by local artists from the host city. Admission is always free, and posters are priced to let everybody get at least one."
"ARTCRANK began in Minneapolis in 2007, and has expanded to Denver, St. Louis, Portland, San Francisco, Des Moines and Bend. In September 2010, we held our first international show in London."
UPDATE—view my final artwork + a couple of photos from the show here.
As a hint to my artwork, here's what I've been looking at around town...
04/06/2011
Design in SE Asia. Myself and Iain Hector took a 5 week tour around Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore to check out their design scene, eat a lot of delicious food and generally lark about. Before embarking, we arranged to meet with a cross section of fellow designers and creatives at each point of our visit, hoping these meetings would offer an insight into the local design industries.
By the end of our trip, we had amassed 11kg of research materials (much of it kindly donated—see the image below), 12hrs 47 of voice recordings, 1,500 photos and had travelled 29,968km! With all this information, we intend to create a book, offering exposure to our new asian friends and informing designers at home what’s going on across the globe—watch this space.
Half way through our travels we stopped for a break on the beaches of Krabi... but we couldn't help ourselves from creating flyers (authentically photocopied and sand–encrusted) for a spoof design festival. We tried to make it happen, but seems Railay Beach just wasn't ready.
Pictured below is the TCDC centre, Bangkok—a modern design hub and resource facility that any city in the world would envy. This centre points strongly to a great future for the industry in Thailand.
Where's ours, London?
One of our first meetings was with CUTOUT Magazine in Kuala Lumpur. On the day of our return to London we picked up their latest issue and found we'd been published before even leaving Asia. Win!
20/02/2011
Chicago Art Department have invited me to create a screen print for their Power In Numbers show in March. I'm going to the States! More on this soon. Preview of my artwork below.
UPDATE—The show was a great success, Chicago was great fun and I had the opportunity to lecture design students from the Columbia College Chicago. Job done.
See photos from the show here.
27/01/2011
Debut solo show at Tapped and Packed, London Soho. 11 of my prints will be on display for 2 months, running from February to April 2011.
UPDATE—photos here.
