I was approached by Deb Ralls to design her logo for start-up freelance marketing company. The brief was incredibly flexible and I was given lots of creative freedom to produce a range the initial visuals. These were then edited down and the final logo solution is a vibrant fresh […]
For the larger home entertainment releases there can be advertising across print and digital media. Ranging from printed posters to online ads, the artwork is adapted across a broad range of media each with specific requirements. These Room adverts for StudioCanal, show a small range […]
Based in Surrey on the outskirts of London, Anthony Mortimer Fine Art has over 30 years experience in buying selling and valuating art. Specialising in modern British art AM Fine Art have a vast inventory of abstract, figurative and landscape paintings and both original and limited edition prints. I […]
Au Haoure is a traditional 18th century Gascon farmhouse in the most beautiful rolling countryside. The house and outbuildings form a courtyard with gravel area for boules, and stone terrace, shaded by a Catalpa,with seating for 14 overlooking the pond, orchard, rose garden, and on […]
Mad About Food, private catering, prides itself on cooking delicious seasonal food. Dinner parties, canapés, lunches, buffets and weeks abroad can all be catered for and bespoke menus designed where necessary. The company owner, Katie Fiducia approached me to work on her website. Katie wanted a very […]
My Time For Young Carers is a charity aimed at providing fun activities for children and young people whose lives are made difficult because of the physical or mental ill health of family members. At their sessions, members can forget their troubles, meet other young carers […]
Peter Lawrence Stallworthy are Project Managers, Chartered Quantity Surveyors, Development Consultants, Building and Contract Advisors providing pro-active solutions to your development and construction requirements. PLS approached me to modernise their website, make it mobile friendly and add the ability to add and edit content. I implemented a […]
Fluent Architectural Design Services are experts in residential planning and design, and also specialise in producing high quality feasibility studies and planning applications. Fluent were looking to freshen up their website, make it mobile friendly and change the structure of the content so it could easily be […]
Reed Watts Architects is a design-led studio, based in London, producing creative and thoughtful architecture. With a diverse range of work covering a variety of sectors, they design houses and fit-outs to larger commercial and residential projects as well as public, cultural buildings. Initially I worked with co-owner Jim Reed on […]
In Israel and South Africa, Ilan Pappé brings together lawyers, journalists, policy makers and historians of both countries to assess the implications of the apartheid analogy for international law and political activism. With contributors including the distinguished anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, the book offers a bold and incisive perspective […]
The 1% and the Rest of Us by Tim Di Muzio is a Zed Books title incorporating provocative and original arguments about philanthropy, social wealth and the political role of the super-rich, the author reveals how the 1% are creating a world unto themselves in which the accumulation of ever more […]
Breathing Space by Mark Everard and Understanding Energy and Energy Policy by Timothy F. Braun and Lisa M. Glidden are both Environment titles from Zed Books. Both titles I think work extremely well as simple, clear sleeves that get the message across. Breathing Space is a favourite of mine, […]
Three Development titles from Zed Books. The Crises Of Microcredit (edited by Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet), Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (edited by Dominique Caouette and Dip Kapoor), and Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne). The Crises Of […]
Making Sense of the Central African Republic (edited by Tatiana Carayannis and Louisa Lombard) and Chinese Migrants and Africa’s Development by Giles Mohan, Ben Lampert, May Tan-Mullins and Daphne Chang are both Zed Books titles on the subject of Africa. These are certainly a case of old school and new […]
Three Latin America titles from Zed Books, Land And Freedom by Leandro Vergara-Camus, Media Movements by María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord, and The Punitive City by Markus-Michael Müller. Media Movements is a nice graphic sleeve and uses a modern monospaced typeface, a style I enjoy playing around with at the […]
Sentient Relics by Janice Baker explores museums through cinema and challenges the dominant focus of museum theory as an inclusion–exclusion debate. Conservation Of Architectural Ironwork by David Mitchell discusses the contextual history and key material features of architectural ironwork, and then goes on to guide readers through the management […]
Introduction to Geopolitics by Colin Flint will provide its readers with a set of critical analytical tools for understanding the actions of states as well as non-state actors operating in competition over resources and power. Both students and general readers will find this book an essential stepping-stone to […]
Three book covers that for part of Routledge’s Education range. Discourse, Dialogue and Technology Enhanced Learning by Rachel Pilkington is invaluable to all those wanting to explore how dialogic processes work and how we facilitate them. A simple concept, I really like the subtle way in which the three […]
Inside The Video Game Industry by Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister, Randy Nichols, and Ryan Kaufman offers a provocative look into one of today’s most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming, art, animation, design, production, quality […]
The Death of Desire by M. Guy Thompson and Creative Psychotherapy (edited by Eileen Prendiville and Justine Howard) are from Routledge and cover the subject of Mental Health. Quite different in content and execution (apart from their use of Avant Garde), The Death Of Desire benefits […]
These two books from Routledge are part of their Psychology range. Genealogy, Psychology and Identity by Paula Nicholson explores who we are, our place in both contemporary culture and historical context, the importance of genealogy in the identity and the therapeutic potential of family history in cultivating wellbeing. […]
Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management. An interesting and important subject […]
Focal Press is a publisher of media technology books and it is an imprint of Routledge, itself an imprint of Taylor and Francis. These two books are by the same author and feature a similar design style, not quite the same but near enough. Although the sleeves are not part of […]
Another section of books from the Academic publisher David Fulton. These mainly feature abstract images in use with text. With Computing and ICT in the Primary School, the final sleeve actually removed the dots in the background, however I think this makes the sleeve to […]
This week saw the release of Swallows and Amazons on Blu-ray and DVD. An enchanting new take on the beloved novel by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing out on their […]
David Fulton is a book publisher that specialises in education and produces textbooks for trainee teachers, practical books for classroom practitioners, and research and scholarly books for the international academic community. I’ve been working on some of their academics titles that have recently been published. The selection here features images of children, it’s surprising that […]
Dead In Time is first book from the The Sara Jones Cycle, a paranormal thriller written by Terence Bailey, it’s published by Accent Press. The book focuses on a psychologist based in London and Wales, so these places were the main sources of images used in […]
Wildfire is the first in the Smoke Chaser series of books published by Accent Press and written by Annabel Allan. This is the first fiction book I’ve worked on. Again a thorough sleeve brief from Accent, left me with a clear design style that I wanted to follow; create […]
The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the […]
Q: A film about Tickling? A: A film about Tickling. Tickled. After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and Tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the […]
The Sound Barrier is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic title. Directed by David Lean and written by Terence Rattigan. Starring Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot, Ann Todd and Nigel Patrick, the film is about the men who challenged the speed of sound. I like the simplicity of the sleeve, but the […]
His name was Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repairman sentenced to death for a series of sick and twisted murders. But it’s after his execution by the electric chair that the real trouble starts. Having made a deal with the devil before his death, Horace Pinker has now transformed […]
Enrol at the wacky College of Lifemanship where a senior host of great British comedians teach a completely uproarious course on how to come out tops in any social situation. Study with Alastair Sim and learn his valuable hints on the art of comic One-upmanship. Follow his expert advice to […]
Billed as the first East meets West Western, and directed by Terence Young, Red Sun is based on a true story from the American Wild West of 1870, when paths cross for an outlaw (Charles Bronson), a gunfighter (Alain Delon), a prostitute (Ursula Andress) and a […]
Room is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue and featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson. One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and Directed by Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson, Room is an intensely powerful […]
I enjoy working on the Vintage Classic titles, some can be a real challenge with limited assets, while others have some really lovely old archival posters that cry out to be used. With Pool Of London I loved the original title treatment, but I was little sceptical about […]
A Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. Payroll has got a couple of lovely, if poor quality, shots with beautiful ‘film noir’ lighting. This is a film that I had previously worked on, and the assets […]
Released on Bu-ray and DVD comes Mon Roi. Seemingly a straight-forward artworking of the theatrical poster, there was quite a bit of work on different concepts for the sleeves, but ultimately the director was set on keeping the original image. The grainy nature of the sleeve reflects the […]
Lion In Winter is a Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, featuring a very impressive cast of (the Oscar Winning) Katharine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Filmed in 1968 and directed by Anthony Harvey it’s the story of King Henry II’s obsession with finding […]
From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland, LEGEND is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance. It such a nice feeling receiving an […]
