Blue Suede Shoes in Central London!

I have another show coming up, this time with my illustration collective, 'Gumbo'. Our 'Blue Suede shoes' exhibition will be on again in October. This time we have an amazing location in central London - the Nancy Victor gallery at 6 Charlotte place, Fitzrovia. The show opens on 6th October and runs until 21st October. Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm. Hope you can make it along!

Image for Google

I created this recent image to go in a booklet for Google. The booklet was based on the fact that the Google display network offers 4x the click-through rate compared to the industry standard, and contains other '4x' facts illustrated by different artists. My fact was 'Women on average say 4 times more words a day than men'. I have chosen to go for a typographic solution with many words illustrated that mean 'to talk'! I was restricted to using all four google colours, plus black and white.

The Silver spoon goes Dutch....

....and Russian and Danish! I spent endless hours in the earlier part of this year rewriting all the lettering for three more foreign language editions of The Silver spoon for children - (it's already in Spanish, French and Japanese). This is a much bigger job than it sounds, as every single title, plus incidental bit of text including ingredient packets etc have to be translated, lettered, coloured and placed. The Russian was definitely the biggest challenge!

Colibri

Festivaletteratura is on in Mantua in Italy this week - home of my publisher Corraini Edizioni. I am not there this year but here is some lettering I did for the festival newspaper. It's called 'Colibri' which means humming bird in Italian.

Sixty Impossible Things....in French!

Bonjour. ‘Soixante choses impossibles à faire avant le déjeuner’ is now available and is published by Éditions les grandes personnes.

Art Auction for Burundi

A good friend of mine, illustrator Sarah Horne is holding an art auction to raise money for a small team from her church to go out to Burundi, central Africa to support the work of the Batwa project. On sale will be original illustrations, limited edition prints, signed books and original art by many illustrators including Simone Lia, Sandra Howgate and Chris Andrews. I've contributed a bike owl tote bag, as well as a couple of prints and signed books. The auction will be held on Sunday 4th September at Hermitage Moorings, 16 Wapping High Street, London, and is open to all. There will loads of great stuff to buy and bid for, and rumour has it there will be cake too! More info on the auction can be found here.

Bike owl tote bags!

My bike owl design is now available as a tote bag, printed on organic cotton using water based inks, by the lovely people at idressmyself. The full range of t-shirt sizes is now available too - from my online shop.