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

UPDATED - Penguin Design Award: One Hundred Years of Solitude Book Cover

This is the final design for One Hundred Years of Solitude, submitted for the Penguin Design Award. I tinkered around with the background a bit, and added some enlarged elements from the pattern.

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Penguin Design Award: One Hundred Years of Solitude Book Cover

*Please see updated bookcover design here*

This is my current design for the Penguin Design Award for Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. I picked up on the idea of the Golden Fish as a motif in the story. The background is done in watercolour, taking inspiration from portugese painted tiles.

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College Project 4: "Bagvertising"

This was a competition brief we were set over the summer for Leeds College of Art, which I actually ended up winning. We were asked to produce a bag advertising a promotion for an existing brand, taking into consideration the environmental impact of bags. We had to produce one safer option and a more 'out there' design. I chose the comic book shop Forbidden Planet, with a promotion where if the same bag was used for their next purchase the customer would receive a discount. The idea was to minimise the impact of bags used by customers and to also encourage repeat purchases.

Safe design:





















'Out there' design:

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