Made In Earnest

At the recent (and inaugural) Jazz Meet Record Fair I brought some of the printed A3 posters along to sell and today I received this lovely photo from one satisfied customer. It’s nice seeing them framed and in what looks like an impressive record room. All the posters are for sale to all via the [...]

The 2013 edition of SPILL Festival of Performance is in April and has been ‘curated around notions of contact and explores issues of connection, exchange and advocacy. In the mix are uncompromising performances, radical live events, participatory interventions, installation, film and discussions’. The Festival is taking place at a range of venues across London including [...]

Love and death, loyalty and betrayal, truth and fiction: do we ever really know whether we are truly loved? Well, do we? Actors Touring Company might just have an answer with their presentation of Illusions by Ivan Viripaev. The Guardian review said ‘It’s like a bedtime story gone awry’. The show is on now (‘the [...]

Tonight is the launch night for the latest SPILL Festival of Performance. This year, for the first time, it takes place in Ipswich and I’d be lying if I didn’t say it feels good to see the SPILL branding emblazoned across Ipswich Town Hall. SPILL will now alternative between Ipswich and London, or at least [...]

I’ve posted about my work for The Victorian magazine before but because it is an ongoing job which I have been doing for years I sometimes take it for granted and forget how much I enjoy working on it. The clients are nice and very supportive of my design work and we all invariably think [...]

Recently, I have been lucky enough to become the designer of another magazine, The Horticulturist, which is the quarterly magazine of the Institute of Horticulture. The magazine is a widely acclaimed journal which includes technical and professional articles, book reviews, forthcoming events, Institute news and a round-up of horticultural science worldwide. It goes out free to all [...]

Some time ago I was asked to do a one-off job for the V&A Museum and this was the result; a 16pp brochure for a Members trip to Istanbul to celebrate the opening of Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art within the V&A Collection. I must say it was a joy to work for the V&A, [...]

The new album from Paul White is all set to be released, which means the artwork is finished and I must say I am proud of it and can’t wait to see it printed. Once I get my copies I’ll get this and the other recent One-Handed releases properly photographed and up into the portfolio [...]

As the 2011 SPILL Festival has just finished this seems like an appropriate time to post about SPILL: On Agency, a book of writing, thinking and conversation on and around the SPILL Festival of Performance which I designed last year. The book (114 pages of 185mm x 235mm), edited by Robert Pacitti and Sheila Ghelani, [...]

Last summer I was involved in a very interesting design project for the AMOS album ‘Showtime’. It was billed as an ’unique and international music and art project’ where the new album was released on vinyl with blank white covers. These were then sent to more than 400 visual artists from all over the world who created [...]