Posted on February 5th, 2012

Society 6

Posted on February 1st, 2012

Posted on January 27th, 2012

Seaside Rendezvous

Posted on January 25th, 2012

I spent part of the day looking around Brighton seafront for interesting things to photograph. Volunteering at the museum has helped me to appreciate photography more, and I thought I’d take some photographs for photography’s sake for a change.

Posted on January 20th, 2012

Posted on January 18th, 2012

2000 BC – Stonehenge

Posted on January 10th, 2012

I am planning a project looking at the main events from the past 4000 years – key points in history and generally interesting things. Ideally I am looking to produce an illustration for every single year, although this would be a monumental undertaking! As well as that it’s actually quite hard finding solid dates and events for each year (a lot of stuff I have found has been quite boring – kings dying or taking the throne and wars pretty much). If anyone knows of any interesting events in mind from 2000 – 1000 BC let me know about it! This is my first attempt at an illo for 2000BC which is the date when Stonehenge was completed (allegedly). It feels a little rough around the edges and not quite on the money, so I may come back to it and develop it a bit more after I tackle a few more events.

Skull Drawings….again.

Posted on November 20th, 2011

I Can’t get enough of anatomical drawing, or skulls. So here are some more sketches I did recently. I know it’s all a bit lame – drawing skulls and that – but I can’t help myself! I did one sketch and then messed around with it in various ways.

I had a go at drawing the muscle structure over the skull – I definitely want to do more muscle drawings…

How about overlaying them all? Weird.

Posted on November 17th, 2011

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Posted on November 8th, 2011

Some screen shots of a piece I’m working on. Typeface is egypt 22, which I think is beautiful. Everyone should (and probably will be now) using it!

Posted on November 7th, 2011

Gliese Typeface

Posted on November 7th, 2011

I’m working on a new typeface – inspired by the planet Gliese 581 c

This is a quick comp just to give an idea of where I am at the moment – I want to improve my Photoshop planet creation skills. Obviously that is an important skill to have.

Posted on November 7th, 2011

Posted on November 6th, 2011

Posted on November 1st, 2011

Image

Posted on October 31st, 2011

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Posted on October 24th, 2011

Horizon – Seeing Stars

Posted on August 19th, 2011

I watched this episode of horizon the other day, and one of the scientists had made this awesome little model of a black hole and its accretion disk. Go science! Reminds me of my final major project…ah, the fun.

Guilloché Pattern Generator

Posted on August 15th, 2011

experimenting with this interesting pattern generator

I made a quick animation, might also look at incorporating it into some of the digital collages I’ve been making.

Moons of Saturn

Posted on August 6th, 2011

new digital collages

Posted on July 30th, 2011

A few ideas for a recent competition I entered. I want to do some more digital collage and use some of my own textures. These images are inspired by the phases of the moon, and some of the textures are taken from old astrology books.

Grafik mag

Posted on July 20th, 2011

The lovely people at Grafik have written a few kind words about me on their website. Find it here

a few new sketches

Posted on July 19th, 2011

these are some sketches for our new collective zine. I’m thinking of making an illustration based on the idea of dawn/dusk on the moon…I actually want to draw some things for a change too!

Prints for sale in the Rag Factory

Posted on July 1st, 2011

I didn’t take my camera to the private view so I only have pictures taken with my terrible camera phone. If you are in the Brick Lane area between now and Sunday you should get yourself down to the Rag Factory and buy yourself a print or two!

work going up on the pdye website

Posted on June 21st, 2011

check out everyone’s work, its looking pretty cool – pdye.eu

Posted on June 13th, 2011

yesterday’s cyanotypes

Posted on June 10th, 2011

Photomicroscopy

Posted on June 4th, 2011

I’m actually really chuffed with these images, which is rare for me. It might just be the fact that I am completely knackered after an exhausting few days of constant running, sawing, cutting and bleeding. They look very ‘galactic’ to me – like a collection of stars/planets, which is fitting.

Resin casts

Posted on June 4th, 2011

I made some resin casts of the brain and heart, I’ve been thinking of mounting them on a board and back lighting them with LEDs. Here are a couple of tests.

My idea of a degree show invite

Posted on June 3rd, 2011

atmosphere diagram

Posted on May 31st, 2011

A diagram showing the relationship between the gravitational pull of the earth and its affect on time. The higher up in the atomosphere you go – and into outer space – the faster time travels.

Disposing of your black hole

Posted on May 29th, 2011

Plaster Casts

Posted on May 26th, 2011

plasticine brain cut in two – so I could make a latex mould for both sides.

building up layers of latex.

mould for phrenology bust type thing.

Next I am making a heart – here is the plasticine model.

beginning the latex moulds…

spacetime fabricated

Posted on May 26th, 2011

I’m looking at overlaying some animations depicting spacetime onto some live footage – I like the texture of the first image – it has the footage showing through, might make things a bit more interesting…

halftone late night madness

Posted on May 25th, 2011

I’m looking to make some halftone designs to use for cyanotypes, just been throwing shapes together. I want to have some more loose work in the show potentially, and not just dry old schematics.

episode 2: light

Posted on May 23rd, 2011

I’m working on some diagrams for the second episode. Quite interesting looking at light – phototransduction is pretty awesome.

star diagrams

Posted on May 21st, 2011

‘Time Tape’

Posted on May 17th, 2011

initial blueprint/information graphic idea, explaining how the time tape works.

Posted on May 11th, 2011

Black Hole Diagrams

Posted on May 11th, 2011

Developing ideas for cyanotypes/schematics around the whole black hole subject area.

Also, I have learned that objects apparently move faster than the speed of light within the inner horizon of a black hole. I’m thinking that if you could harness this extreme gravitational force time travel might be fairly feasible! If you were travelling faster than light…it just blows my mind. You would be seeing ‘old’ photons of light in front of you? Would you become invisible? If you are approaching someone at faster than lightspeed, surely you cannot be seen….

Collaboration with Ambrose Vevers

Posted on May 9th, 2011

Brose told me he had developed a ground breaking woodcarving technique, and would like some images to carve. The main stipulation was that I ‘think what a robot would do’. I sent him this impossible triangle, and he has carved it like the woodworking maestro he is. More to come soon I hope!

Microscopic Illustration

Posted on May 1st, 2011

I wanted to photograph some of the stuff I was looking at through the microscope (the supplied USB ocular has a pretty low resolution), so I fashioned a makeshift adaptor tube for my DSLR out of a toilet roll tube, a pringles lid and some electrical tape! Here are some of the tiny illustrations:

I want to make some microscopic illustrations, so I am testing some ideas, images and text. I printed everything as small as I could on the inkjet printer – the images are no more than 3-4mm across. I want to try printing on the laser printer to see how that compares.

These images are of blood cells and a cross section of a plant stem. I quite like the whacky radials I’m getting from the bogroll tube here! Looks like the intro to a Bond film.

The Big Update

Posted on April 23rd, 2011

I haven’t found the time to blog for a while, so here is an update of some progress I’ve made recently.

Latest loaf of bread was the best yet, it’s getting better. Got another dough on the go today as well…

I bought an oscilloscope and some kind of voltage meter/thing from the dump a little while back. I’m probably going to use them for the ‘time machine mk.2′ or perhaps the prediction machine. We’ll see. Maybe both.

I have been making some cyanotype prints over the last few days. I am thinking of using one of the sketchbooks I made as a cyanotype sketchbook – exposing each page as I go.

Pain Au Chocolat

Posted on April 23rd, 2011

Made these a while ago now, didn’t get around to blogging it til today. Turned out the chocolate I used was a bit bitter – lesson learned!

Retro mock up

Posted on April 12th, 2011

A quick mock up to give a feel for the style I want to use for the video/animation element of my project.

optical GIF

Posted on April 10th, 2011

planning on appying this giffing technique to some of the earlier graphics I made…

cross sections

Posted on April 10th, 2011

commodore

Posted on April 6th, 2011

I bought an old Commodore VIC 20 at a bootsale the other day. I was quite surprised to see it still works! I’ve been trying to figure out how to program images/sound on it but it’s frying my brain slightly. Hopefully I can come up with some images to use with my project.

Sketch doodling

Posted on April 6th, 2011

I was messing around with the sketch app for google chrome this morning and discovered you could rotate around your doodles in 3D, so I made this quick animation.

tracing paper animation

Posted on April 5th, 2011

I am really happy with this little animation, and I don’t quite know why. Maybe it is the sheer crappyness of it. I have been meaning to animate this image for a while and finally got round to it today. I am thinking of making some more stop frame animations using tracing paper overlays and lino cuts.

Bakery Progression

Posted on April 5th, 2011

Here are my latest experiments along the bread/pastry front. It’s probably the best bread I’ve made so far, I’m starting to get the hang of it. Next up – pain au chocolat…..

Animated lino cuts

Posted on March 31st, 2011

Hopefully they won’t destroy your eyes…

sketchbook pics

Posted on March 30th, 2011

Posted on March 29th, 2011

the blackboard

Posted on March 29th, 2011

new lino cut

Posted on March 22nd, 2011

took some advice from hollybobs and returned to a bit of lino printing. Quite like the fact that the printed area looks a bit like a starfield, might print a plain block just for the texture and use it for something…I suddenly also have an urge to do loads of stuff on squared paper. More to come soon.

Orion Correlation

Posted on March 22nd, 2011

mandalala!

Posted on March 20th, 2011

I’m beginning to construct stuff, I’m trying to work along the lines of mandalas, Aztec calendars, chinese symbols etc. At the moment it all looks like flowers.

black holes and optical illusions

Posted on March 18th, 2011

Posted on March 14th, 2011

How a Black Hole Works

Posted on March 13th, 2011

here is my illustration of a black hole. This unlucky person has happened to have passed the event horizon (point of no return, as shown by the heavy black line on the right) and would have to be travelling at faster than the speed of light just to remain stationary at this time. They are uttering the word ‘help’, but because they are in the vacuum of space this desperate cry would not be audible.

new odd things

Posted on March 10th, 2011

I just drew a sloth

Posted on March 8th, 2011

and here he is.

mossy form of seat furniture

Posted on February 23rd, 2011

I photographed the stool I will be using for my Penguin entry today. I used pyrography to illustrate elements from the book on the legs and added some moss – another reference from the book. Wahey.

Other stuffs

Posted on February 16th, 2011

world book day madness

Posted on February 16th, 2011

I felt over enthusiastic today and so decided start working on a poster for the planned fun at WSA for World Book Day. I was inspired by carnival posters, faires and playing cards. I want to start making things sooner rather than later, because time is rapidly running away from me. This design will no doubt change quite a bit, hopefully we will make more than one for the event, but I would definitely like to have them screen printed.

Posted on February 7th, 2011

teleportation

Posted on February 7th, 2011

A quick info graphic-type experiment. I’m intending to make these in order to simplify and outline the facts from each element of fringe science I will be looking at. These will not be the outcomes but a step in the process to aid the creation of other work.

Cardboard Objects

Posted on January 19th, 2011

Over the last few days I have been working to finish all my projects, and now I have just completed the 21 sided dice I wanted to make for the manifesto project.

The die, before cutting it out:

Here it is finished, but I still want to add a layer of varnish or something to protect it a bit before it gets rolled around. I’m quite eager to give it a go!

The depth of field here is a tad ridiculous but they were really quick snaps, just wanted something to shove on the old blog. Will hopefully photograph them tomorrow using the copy stand…

Posted on January 18th, 2011

brief 2 typeface

Posted on January 17th, 2011

Gifs

Posted on January 17th, 2011

today’s progress

Posted on January 16th, 2011

DIESEL bits and bobs

Posted on January 15th, 2011

I’m sad to say that I am entering triangle territory. But in my defense it is due to the shape of my teleidoscopes. Hopefully I will make more sense at a later date.

Ju-Ju-Julia!

Posted on January 15th, 2011

Just starting to try and piece some things together for the Julia brief. I would really appreciate some feedback from people, so if you have an opinion feel free to give it. Meh! I’m planning on laser cutting some quite simplistic graphic poster designs onto cardboard too, so they should look far more awesome than this….I hope!

Wheel of Fortune-type thing

Posted on January 14th, 2011

An update on the progress of my wheel of fortune for the manifesto brief. I did the second screen print layer the other day, sadly the white I intended to use was far to translucent and so I used brown instead. Needs to be neatened up a bit but it’s more or less there now.

Final DPT

Posted on January 11th, 2011

Finished DPT video. I was right, it changed again!

DPT screen grabs

Posted on January 6th, 2011

Just a few quick shots of some of the crap I have been doing for DPT. It will probably change yet again before I am finished!

JACKARSE

Posted on December 29th, 2010

I felt inspired today to make an attempt at playing with the jackarse idea. I was thinking 80′s films, ford orion badges, lens flare and cheese. I’m kinda thinking this could be a TV series or something…of course in no way related to jackass. Inspired by Josh and his comment on the sauceblog.

weekend sketchbook challenge

Posted on December 20th, 2010

bit of cross stitch

Posted on December 15th, 2010

orbit

Posted on November 19th, 2010

I’m developing the orbiting idea that I came to at the end of the music project. I am in the process of creating an animation in After Effects to demonstrate how this could be used in iTunes etc.

Julia Brief

Posted on November 15th, 2010

Some examples of ideas for the Julia brief. Still got some way to go before I have some proper finals.

Brief 2 progress

Posted on November 4th, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010

My feelings on today

Posted on October 12th, 2010

I made this poster design today, after having a tutorial this morning that was slightly depressing. I am not very good at putting my point across, and sometimes I don’t take criticism very well, especially if it is something I feel quite uncertain of myself. This project makes me feel like a bit of a douche bag, I don’t like writing about myself and most of the points I have made make me sound like a dick. Ah well! As I see it there are two choices: Keep working at it, or get pissed! Hmmm….