Neil Buchanan was double-booked

My hands were filmed drawing for a short animation recently. Stay tuned - there'll be something to show very soon!

DIY Ethics

Here's an illustration I did for Carl Prechezer's blog, accompanying his post all about doing-it-yourself. You can read it here.

ECO Pop Up Shop

Just got some leaflets back from the printers for the ECO Pop Up Shop in Bristol, showcasing Aymo and Mabboo products. Be sure to give them a visit. Printed on 100% recycled paper. Obviously. Like a boss.

Mabboo Mural

Here is the live art I created at the ECO Pop Up Shop at the weekend. The ECO team had a fun Saturday night launch party and needed some art for their walls. The shop is located on the top floor of The Galleries shopping centre, Bristol, and features Mabboo Bamboo T-shirts and products, and Aymo shoes and satchels. The mural features some Chinese, a  lucky cat, some bamboo, clouds, a sunburst, hot air balloons, the Clifton suspension bridge, and the SS Great Britain. If you're in Bristol go take a look! Thans to Ed and the Aymo team, (and special thanks to Sam for his help: his filling in was exemplary!).

Halsetown Inn

Here is an illustration I created of the Halsetown Inn - a new addition to my illustrations for the Blas Burgerworks website. You can see it sitting on the internet right here, and read all about their menu and wish that St Ives was closer!

Brighton Skateboards Sticker & Packaging

Here's a deck sticker and package design I did for Brighton Skateboards. The 22" grip tape, deck sticker and spare wheel set combo now come free (for a limited time) with all the new boards ordered online via their site. Can't argue with that. They're now available - just in time for Christmas - right here! PS: watch out for me on my new board. I WILL crash into you if you don't move out of the way. Haven't nailed turning yet.

Movember portraits

Here are some of the portraits I've been doing to raise money for bloke cancer charities as part of Movember over at Gallery of Mo. There's still time to get your portrait done in exchange for a donation. Here's my page.

Vanity Project...?

Here's a poster I did for a group of DJs calling themselves "The Gentlemens Vanity Project" - with blank spaces for them to scrawl the line-up and venue of their next exciting instalment... Hopefully the Preacherman makes an appearance.

Brighton Skateboards T-shirt

Recently won a competition to design a tee for Brighton Skateboards. Available here for only £19 with free P&P and sticker packs.

How's My Grilling?

Coming to a festival near you this summer: the Blas Burgerworks Street van! The St Ives-based burger restaurant, revered for its organic ingredients, locally-sourced produce, sustainable credentials (and most-importantly tasty burgers) is going on the road this summer. They asked me to put together a design for the 'Blasmobile', which was unveiled last weekend at the Golowan Festival, Penzance, and the Quay Fair day. The design was very kindly artworked onto the van by the good people at Signs Express, Exeter. All this thinking about Blas Burgers is making me hungry. Cornish Blue Cheeseburger please. I wonder if they'll deliver to Brighton...(picks up phone)...

In their own words: 3.5 tonnes of burger love coming your way! Follow Marie, Sally, Lisa and the team's antics here, here and here ! Phew!

Stitched Up

Check out this amazing cross-stitch by Linda Turner - her present to Blas for their 5th birthday. Its an amazing version of my illustration for Blas Burgerworks' website, designed by rndm and baar

Meat is Murder...?

Yuck! That looks like actual brain, but I'm still surprisingly kind of hungry...

Half Coke – Half Diet Coke

Ran in the Brighton Half Marathon again this year - completing it in 1 hour and 53 minutes - skimming an entire three minutes off of last year's time. Mad good improvement...

It explains the lack of posts recently (James) - sorry! Thanks for all the shouts of "Go on Mabboo Bamboo" from the ravers in the crowd, and to the over-friendly baggage attendants. And to Aiko - proprietor of Choc in 神戸市 for the running candy (?).

Farewell...

Dom's leaving card (sob sob). We will miss him. But he was really militant about the tea-making - not that I adhered to his strict regime, despite the threats. Props to the copywriters.

The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me

Here's a square serving bowl I painted in Prague back in May - only just got it back. The devil is based on a drawing I'd done that day in the Prague Toy Museum. They also had the Planet of the Apes dolls and MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice Barbies. Bitchin'.

Hit the link for a couple more shots if you're like...that interested...like James...at work...

The Power of Dreams

(No wait - that's Honda...Does Mazda even have a catchphrase? 'Zoom zoom' I'm being told - yeah - as in the faster you drive it, the less likely they are to see you in it). Anyway...

The Lost Boys are setting off on the Mongol Rally in a couple of weeks. They're doing-up the Blue Bullet as we speak - decorating it with their logo that I designed, along with some of their sponsors' stickers and ads. And in an unexpected blast from the past - the Blue Bullet is also sporting a Gasbusters poster I created last year. Hit the jump for a couple more shots of the car.

Cool runnings

I completed the 16 mile Kingston Breakfast Run last weekend. 2hrs 27 mins. Er... I don't look like Dr Manhattan by the way...

And All That Could Have Been

Here are some T-shirt designs that were commissioned and then canned at a late stage. Friends (yeah friends - plural - more than one - not just my mum) have said they really liked them - so I thought I'd throw them up here for everyone to see!

More Bad News

A recent collaboration with fellow illustrator Hannah Forward - alternatively creating a frame, developing a short narrative... Short run of single colour screen-prints, edition of twenty. If you'd like one email me

Mashed up

More random screen-prints from the ever-growing pile. More coming soon. In the meantime if you want one lemme know.