Mobiles to blame.

One of three illustrations for the current issue of Sainsbury's Magazine.

The Hot Rods And Hairy Beasts website website has been updated. Check it out for info for the upcoming show!

Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts

An Illustration show - Coningsby Gallery
Monday 29th September until Saturday 4th October 2008

Hot Rods, Hula Girls, Hairy Beasts, Himalayan Head Hunters and the Holy Bible are just some of the subjects under discussion by illustrators Linzie Hunter, Rod Hunt, Nishant Choksi and Allan Sanders. No subject is too small for this group of seasoned professional illustrators and adventurers. With clients spanning the world of advertising, publishing, design and editorial this band of battle scarred buccaneers are prepared for the eventuality of just about anything. Their motto is simple : to illustrate the obscure ...and beyond!

Hot Rods And Hairy Beasts website


Linzie Hunter The terrifying Linzie Hunter orginated from the barren highlands of Scotland but now resides in a North London suburb where she feasts on worms and grubs whilst working for clients including Random House, BBC, The Guardian & Little Brown. Linzie recently hit the headlines with her lettering work based on the spam e-mails in her inbox. Her book "Secret Weapon: 30 hand-painted spam postcards" is published by Chronicle Books in Autumn 2008.

Rod Hunt Born in rural Dorset, the diabolical Rod Hunt now inhabits the swampland of Greenwich, South London where he feeds mostly on shrubs and berries. Rod has developed a reputation for retro tinged illustrations & detailed character filled landscapes and among his client list he includes FHM, Maxim and Vodafone. Notably Rod illustrated the cover of the best selling book “Change the World 9 to 5” published by We Are What We Do. He is also Deputy Chairman of the Association of Illustrators.

Nishant Choksi The monstrous Nishant Choksi orginated from a murky lagoon in the centre of London and is now often found foraging in the wooded areas of Crouch End. A real life B-Movie monster, Nishant is inspired by advertising of the 40’s and 50’s and has worked for The Washington Post, The Guardian, JWT, Macmillian and others. Nishant recently worked on a prominent print ad campaign for Vodafone and has just completed work on his first TV spot for them.

Allan Sanders Born in the frozen tundra of the Northern wastlelands, the horrendous Allan Sanders, a mostly hairless biped, now resides near the water in a settlement known as Brighton. Existing on a diet of rock pool delicacies, Allan has produced quirky, character-based and often humorous illustrations for clients including New Scientist, The Economist, The Guardian and The LA Times. Last year Allan became the poster boy for The Oregon Humane Society’s “End Petlessness” campaign.

Hot Rods And Hairy Beasts is showing at the Coningsby Gallery, London from Monday 29th September until Saturday 4th October 2008. Private View Thursday 2nd October from 6.30pm

Coningsby Gallery 30 Tottenham Street, London. W1T 4RJ. UK.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7580 7017 www.coningsbygallery.com

Blockheads

2 Colour Screenprint. My printing night class has ended now so this may be the last screenprint for a while!

Spoonerist shopping list.

The Electronic Bureaucrat

- A special report on technology and government. This supplement appears in the current issue of the Economist. I did the cover and nine illustrations inside for this one.


Cover Image.



"Putting their services online should allow governments to serve their citizens much more effectively. But despite heavy spending, progress has been patchy, Says Edward Lucas".



Identity Parade. The danger of centralized government databases.

Read more of the report online at the Economist Website.

Once upon a time in the west.

2 colour cowboy screenprint on card.

End Petlessness Billboard.

I spotted this on flickr the other day. It's one of the billboards which formed part of the End Petlessness campaign I did for the Oregon Humane Society last year. Really cool to see the billboard in situ.



Photograph by Aaron Hockley

Reproduced with permission. Thanks Aaron!

Plumbin the depths...

Well it's a long time since I posted on my blog. I have been distracted by Christmas, New Year, the city of Berlin, family, Tax forms and working on projects that I can't post about on here just yet.

Below is one of three illustrations for this weeks issue of Building Magazine:



The Money supplement cover for last Saturdays Guardian which runs alongside an article entitled "Never do a tax form again":

The Corker

The dangers of being a wine merchant for "The Corker" column in the Christmas issue of Waitrose Food illustrated - out now. I am off to Berlin on Wednesday which means I won't be posting on this blog anytime soon, So that's normal service as usual then!

A lick of paint.

I did this for Regenerate Magazine a couple of weeks ago. As you can probably guess it was about re-fitting run down council blocks and making them into desirable properties.