…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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.