100 years of the Coca-Cola bottle

This year Coca-Cola celebrates 100 years of their iconic contour bottle. To mark this important anniversary, the company challenged artists, designers and illustrators around the world to use vintage Coca-Cola bottle imagery as inspiration to create posters using just three colors: Coke Red, black and white. Over 130 artists from 15 countries took part with 250-plus pieces for the #MashupCoke project. Here is my piece. 

East London Design Show

I am very excited to be exhibiting and selling my work at East London Design Show, opening next week. Come and find me at Stand 47 selling a range of prints, books, stationery, cards, tote bags and more. The show is held at the Old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane and opening hours are as follows:

Open to everyone Thursday 5th December	12pm - 6pm
Open to everyone with late shopping Friday 6th December	12pm - 9pm
Open to everyone Saturday 7th December	10am - 6pm
Open to everyone Sunday 8th December	10am - 6pm

It's a great event with loads of brilliant designers all under one roof and a perfect place for Christmas shopping. Entry is £5 for adults and £3 concs. Would love to see you there!

Sell, sell, sell at Selfridges!

'Bright Young Things' at Selfridges showcases emerging creative talents across the UK in their famous windows on Oxford Street. This year 'The Poundshop' collective was chosen to take over a window with a fantastic array of products all available for £1 or £5. My  'Hedgehog', 'Partridge pear' and 'Strange deer' greetings cards are here against the amazing background of rainbow coloured ribbons! They are also available in Selfridges concept store and Poundshop 8's online shop. Read more about Bright Young things here.

Grafici Mobili exhibition

I was recently asked by Corraini studio and 121 bookshop to take part in an exhibition as part of design week in Milan. Grafici Mobili is a poster exhibition in which Graphic designers and artists re-interpret designer objects or pieces of furniture graphically. My chosen object was the 'ball clock', designed by George Nelson in 1948. I chose to re-invent it as a solar system, with the sun in the middle and the planets surrounding it. I had to include several dwarf planets as well to get the number up to 12! Here is the inspirational clock and finished poster.

The exhibition opened yesterday and runs until May 5th.

New Era Cap

90th Anniversary exhibition

I had a really great day a couple of weeks ago decorating this baseball cap for New Era, who celebrate their 90th anniversary this year. My idea was simply to do a 'thinking cap' with various things that the cap could be thinking written on and illustrated - for example 'I am 90 years old - don't I look good for my age?' and 'I love baseball' etc. etc. Great project - and it was really refreshing to get some paints out and get away from the computer screen. It was also quite a challenge to imagine how my design would translate from flat paper on to the 3 dimensional cap, I realised how much of a 2D thinker I am! Here's the finished design, plus some work in progress pics.

New Era provided each artist with an amazing boxed cap kit, containing blank canvas cap plus an array of coloured markers, and also encouraged artists to document the process of creating the designs. The caps will be displayed in New York and LA later in the month.