Tu Chi Sei?

Tu Chi Sei? (Who are you?) is a philosophy book for children and curious adults, published by Edizioni Corraini and written by Ilaria Rodella and Francesco Mapelli, collectively known as Ludosofici. It came out last week and was launched at Festivaletteratura in Mantova. I contributed some drawings of philosophers, plus a portrait of the authors!

Family photos

My illustration for the May issue of Red Magazine, about those edited out family photos that you would rather nobody saw -  cabbage patch kids, jabba the hut, cauliflower ears and prisoner cell block H!

Family fitness illustrations

Some exercise illustrations created for Ebony Magazine for a feature on family fitness. 

6 out of 10?!

Rating your partner as a '6' out of 10 for attractiveness is definitely not to be advised, in fact Rosie Green describes is as relationship napalm! Illustration for the April issue of Red magazine about the minefield of marital rules of attraction. 

Illustration for Resurgence & Ecologist magazine

I created this piece of a man in a hammock years ago for a studio exhibition on the theme of Happiness. Originally a silkscreen print, it now appears in this month's issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, to accompany an article about Leisure. You can see the piece online here.

The Ketchup thief

An illustration for the March issue of Red magazine, to accompany an article called 'Partners in crime'. The piece explores the small misdemeanours of every day life performed either individually or as a couple - from re-gifting children's presents to eating stuff before it is paid for in supermarkets, to stealing ketchup sachets from service stations! 

Illustration for Red Magazine

Happy new year! Hope you had a good break over the festive season. Here's a little illustration I did for the January issue of Red magazine. The article is a regular column written by Rosie Green called 'Life's Rosie'. This month's theme is over-politeness - compulsive courtesy, waving at strangers just in case you know them, and pretending to remember someone when you simply can't place them and end up overcompensating....!

Illustrations for Oprah

Here are some illustrations I worked on for a feature about worrying for the October issue of 'O' (Oprah) magazine. They cover subjects as diverse as farting in yoga, superbugs and networking!

Hot Flushes illustration

Here is my recent piece for St Louis magazine about hot flushes. The article is amusingly written and in it the author describes a hot flush being like a sudden volcano erupting within her, heating up her face like molten lava. I enjoyed the visual this conjured up in my mind and tried to re-create it in my illustration. I had to include a fan and bucket of water in order to cool her down! 

Eleanor & Park

Here is my cover for young adult novel 'Eleanor & Park' by Rainbow Rowell. The book is already out in the UK and will be published by St Martin's press in the US in February next year. The book is about a very intense first love between beautiful, troubled red-haired Eleanor, and quiet, cool, punk-rocker Park. Below are a couple of my black and white roughs.

New York Times

Here is a recent image about bilingualism which appeared in last Sunday's New York Times Sunday Review.