Well stoked to be able to show you this - It’s the special gatefold cover to the forthcoming Computer Arts Projects magazine cover Issue #126, due out 16th July
It’s a Character Design special and features no less than 24 illustrators collaborating on one special cover! The total list of creative folk is:
Peskimo, Mark Verhaagen, Tado, Niark 1, Mijn Schatje, Jon Burgerman, 123 Klan, Triclops studio, Jeremyville, Lunartik, Alexis West, Loworks, Sourbones, Skaffs, Aaron Miller, Eboy, Superdeux, Misu2020, Motomochi, Meomi, 64 Colors, Supakitch, Kozyndan and myself!
Im so honoured to share illustration space with these guys, as alot of them are my idols and inspiration so definitely over the moon!
This issue is always the same one that will feature the world premiere unveiling of my designs & colourways for Series 2 of my vinyl toy Droplets
You can pick the mag up from all good magazine retailers (Borders, WH Smiths etc) from Thursday 16th July!
Click the image to see it full-size and see who you can spot!
Very proud to say that I designed and built the brand new Morph website, which went live last night!
It was an honour to work on something for this iconic character that I loved as a child, it gives me a big wide grin now I know the site is out there for the world to see.
Go and relive your childhood @ www.morphfiles.com
The lovely folk at Computer Arts Magazine did a list of ‘Top 20 Designers’ to follow on Twitter and i made the grade at Number 8! Sweet!
Here’s a snap taken from my ‘Made on a Mac’ talk that I gave at the Apple Store in Leicester at the beginning of May!
Big thanks to everyone who came along and big thanks to Jon and all at Apple for giving me the opportunity to ramble about my work!
I wrote a blog post on the Aardman website about my series of talks I’ve done at Apple stores around the UK, I hope you like!
Myself and the rest of the Xynthetic collective have been fortunate enough to have a private exhibition inside my workplace of Aardman Animations, here in Bristol.
It’s been a mix of work from our Glasgow show ‘Northern Exposure’ and also new pieces especially for Aardman.
I wanted to do something new, but i didn’t want to paint another monster as my monsters are pretty rubbish, so I thought i’d try and do something different.
I’ve got a text file on me computer that I just keep a collection of words and phrases that I say and I like, and ‘Beards & Blades’ was a phrase I liked and so wanted to use that in some way. And here’s what it ended up being, A beard and some blades, in gold.
I was really pleased with the outcome, so im glad I tried to do something different. Big thank you to Aardman for making it possible.
Here’s a couple of close-ups too.

