
Recently completed the design and illustration work on a set of promotional pieces for Role With It Productions’ upcoming performance of the Nutcracker. The promotional pieces included the usual… tickets, program, flyers, posters, vinyl banners, website banners and popup stands. Banners, posters and stands are currently visible around Hebden Bridge while tickets, flyers and colouring competition sheets have been distributed throughout the Calder Valley.
Here is Dig Yorkshire’s blurb:
Role With It Productions will take you on a magical journey this Christmas to the Land Of Sweets! In conjunction with the Town Hall, Hebden Bridge and the Helen Wilman School Of Dance, this musical play will transport you to a winter wonderland. Adapted from the original story by E.T.A Hoffman, this 200 year old tale begins on Christmas Eve and will be presented by a professional cast & creative team. The cast includes Timothy Richey, West End star of The Gruffalo.

Role With It’s adaptation of the Nutcracker will be showing in Hebden Bridge at the Waterfront Hall in the newly built extension to the Town Hall from the 8th – 22nd December. Tickets are available from the Town Hall Box Office or by ringing 01422 417300. £8 for adults and £6 for children.


Recently completed the design work on a series of key promotional pieces for HEROtsc’s internal recruitment drive.
HEROtsc operate a number of call centres around the UK and wanted to step up recruitment by asking current employees to ‘recommend a friend’ to apply for a job with HEROtsc – a Future Hero if you will.
Requirements were to design a pair of humorous superhero characters who would be the face of this campaign and appear on all the related printed material – internal emails, leaflets, posters, popup banners etc.
Initially there was a competition to name the characters – the chosen names being Dexter and Penelope. Then there was the rollout of leaflets and posters to promote the ‘Recommend a Future Hero’.
My final task was to provide HEROtsc with a selection of library images of the two characters for their own internal use.

Leaflet & Poster

Life-size popup stands for the reception areas of the call centres

Selection of library images provided to the client for their own internal use.

This piece really needs no explanation.
It’s Lego. It’s me. And a ridiculous frame.

If I had any Lego, I’d have done this using real pieces and photographed it.

Each month I ‘art direct’ an internet marketeer’s newsletter/magazine called Marketing Dot Com. When I say ‘art direct’, this is actually a fancy way of saying I design the content of the magazine.
How it goes is the magazine editor provides me with all the articles and I design/typeset them for the magazine – this includes sourcing any relevant imagery to accompany the articles.
More often than not, I like to produce these images myself, whether it be simple pen & ink drawings, crisp vector artwork or full-blown Photoshop and 3D renderings.
This month, the main article (which is carried on to the front cover) is about becoming a Super Affiliate. The editor and I decided to go down the route of using superhero-esque imagery for the article and cover, something really bold and vibrant. Seen as though I’m a proper comic book nerd, this is was a brief I really wanted to have a good go at. I certainly have lot of graphic knowledge to call on in this field.
While I was producing the cover ideas in Photoshop, it inspired me to produce a piece of artwork for myself. A self-promotional, experimental piece if you will. Personally, I think this would work really well as a large screen print.

Just completed the illustration and design work on the book cover for Whiny Little Bitch – The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama. As the intro on the back cover says, “Whiny Little Bitch is your guide to the most embarrassing presidency since the Carter Administration”.
The author of this book requested a cover design based around the now famous, Shepard Fairey ‘Hope’ & ‘Progress’ posters – but in this instance showing the President in a negative light. Therefore, we went down the route of showing Mr Obama crying like a baby.

Please note, I’m a British graphic designer with absolutely no political interest whatsoever, and certainly no interest in American politics. If the content of this book and subject matter of the illustration offends you, I’m sorry – I’m just trying to earn a living.
Update: This book is now available to order on Amazon.com

A poster and scratch card I recently completed design work on for C&S Motor Group