My work for the band Mungolian Jetset and the record label Smalltown Supersound was nominated at this years Visuelt. It was in the Best Cover Illustration category. www.visuelt.org/vinnere/2011/illustrasjon/cover/

It was an interesting evening being at an awards ceremony where I understood about 5% of what the presenters were saying (in Norwegian). Helpfully though Google translate tells me the juries comment on my work – “The jury was immediately glad for this. Welcome madness in a category that often can be well predictable”. So here’s to more madness.

…with my work for Mungolian Jetset and Hotrod magazine. www.visuelt.org/vinnere/2010

Visuelt is Norways leading awards for the creative industries and I was very happy to have been recognized here. The jury described the work as “En form – og stilmessig vellykket tolking med en fabulerende og mørk slagside. Dansbare illustrasjoner som vekker nysgjerrighet”.

I have posted the work on this blog before but if you would like to see it big you can visit my Flickr pages.

In May I took part in the first Mill Co. group exhibition held at The Russian Club in East London. The theme of the exhibition was community (as befitting a co-operative) so I made a series of paintings to celebrate the crap, cute and wrong images people share on interwebz communities like MySpace – titled the Graphic Interchange Format Paintings after the humble .gif image format.

Lots of great people took part in the show including Patternity, Si Scott, Richard Kelly, Kevin Cummins, Karina Lax, Lisa Stannard, Inventory and loads of other people too. It was a reet boozy doo, collecting the most women from Rochdale in one East London venue ever.

Creative Review were there, and The Ballad Of too, plus Dazed and Confused and various other other happening people popped in to drink the free booze look at the work.
You can buy the work from the show in the shop and all proceeds go to the Mill Co. Foundation – which is set up to help children with health and learning disabilities get involved in making stuff and being creative.

Here’s my work – The Graphic Interchange Format Paintings – acrylic on canvas, none of your digital shit.

My work for Mungolian Jetset gets an honourable mention in The London International Creative Competition http://licc.us/

This was a worldwide competition for artists working in sculpture, film, painting… you know “proper art”.

For some strange reason they have given me a certificate, no silverware for honourable mentions I’m afraid. However I am rather pleased to have FINALLY got the legend “Put your hands up for Detroit. Pull your pants down for Mungolia” on an officious looking bit of paper. See said certificate here:

Hot Rod is a beautiful magazine, it focuses on music and art and is made in Oslo. I was asked to do some work for it’s Norwegian talent issue in which they featured Mungolian Jetset.

It won in Website – Content & Design

This is a project I art directed and designed as my parting shot at magneticNorth. It was built by the talented team at mN in partnership with the BBC. I did the art direction, concept sketches, the little character, lots of UX and the landscape, I chose Danny Brown to do the gorgeous generative flowers and he did some magic voodoo.

I have resisted bragging about all the awards it has won but it was such a labour of love I may as well list them all here as payback for all the sleepless nights. So in no particular order: FWA, Pixel Awards, Adobe Y, IVCA Clarion and now a BIMA. Other stuff I do wins awards… maybe I will post that (one day when I can be arsed).

Here’s a pic of the work.

More bragging, although my Saturnine nature never lets me truly relish this kind of thing.

I am going to be listed in The Observer as one of the UK’s rising talents, I am now officially part of The Future 500 network which connects people who are best in field whether that be in design, art, business, technology or whatever. So best in field is where I’m at. I’m literally all over that!

Pass the Courvoisier as Busta might say.

My site has crashed into the Top 40, at number 36 in the Design Charts!

I am pleased to be in such illustrious company as Jonathon Harris (disclaimer – possibly by the time you read this post I will have dropped out of the chart and you may be wondering what this boast is based on).
Other boasts at this moment in time are that I am going to be speaking at the Liverpool Design Symposium in October 2008, plus for all interested parties Matt Pyke of the amazing Universal Everything is speaking there too.