My LMNOP Publish Me Competition Entry

My book made it through the nominations for LMNOP's Publish Me competition! The winner of the competition gets their book published, and you can now vote for my book to win over on their site now.


The book tells the story of a professional feud between two 19th century American palaeontologists, illustrating extracts of letters written by Prof. Edward Drinker Cope. This is the result of a 15 week research lead project, with illustrations produced using indian ink.

Below is some of the artwork taken from the book:

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Penguin Design Awards 2012 Entry: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The brief this year was to create a cover design for Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (which is probably more famous for the Jack Nicholson film adaptation). I tried to make the title of the book the main focus of my design as people are probably more familiar with the novel than with Ken Kesey the author.
The text is meant to resemble a stamp, and the images in the background are based on Rorschach tests, but I tried to make them more obviously resemble faces than just blobs.

The Penguin Design Awards competition is open until the 19th of April and you can enter it here. Tweet

V&A Student Illustration Awards 2012 Entry

I've submitted some of my work to the V&A Student Illustration Awards, which you can see on the V&A site here.

The images (which I'll post below because a blog post just isn't a blog post without images) are from my current project, but the ones I selected are more related to my research than the actual storyline of the Master and Margarita novel, because everything is in storyboards and up in the air at the moment.

The colours in this one weren't this garish when I pressed save in Photoshop, I swear. Tweet