The BBC’s science based Focus magazine commissioned me to create some custom typography for the ‘Breakthroughs of 2013′ issue. Printed using four colour litho with additional metallic gold and silver spot colours. Art direction by Sam Freeman.
I just finished a little type piece for Delta Airlines in-flight magazine. An exercise in expressive type, I was asked to illustrate some interesting words. Unfortunately my first take on ‘Sexting’ was rejected as being a bit too risqué; maybe heavily salivated tongues licking each other are too much to view when eating your in-flight…
Wired magazine has used Muirside as it’s headline font throughout it’s new special edition ‘The Wired World in 2013′. The mag looks amazing with a whole host of creatives including studio friend Neil Stevens commissioned to illustrate each section, tied together by Muirside as the main display font choice.
Speaking of Jamie from Magpie Studio (see the previous article), he let me know they’d just used Muirside in a campaign for National Prison Radio. Here’s a few pics of the work – very nice indeed. I’m loving the clever graffiti styled illustrations.
Jamie from the brilliant Magpie Studio asked me if I’d design a ‘JR’ monogram tattoo for him, and he just sent me a pic of how the inked version is looking. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but monograms are pretty much my favourite thing in the world so this was a lot of…
Mike over at Art & Graft recently asked me if I’d create a poster for them to help commemorate their 2nd birthday, and I was only too happy to oblige. More over at Art & Graft.
The latest book in the popular Los Logos series from Gestalten will be out in mid-September and features a selection of my logo work. This series has traditionally been an invaluable resource to pretty much every designer I know and it was a pleasure to be involved. If it’s half as good as all the…
My mate Ali from the great Up Up Design in Glasgow asked me to draw some custom lettering for his new guitar using his grandparents names. It was a nice thing to do and the end result looks great applied to what I’m informed by people who know these things, is a rather good instrument.
You’ve probably noticed I’ve got this lovely new website. I’d love to take the credit for it but unfortunately I can’t. I enlisted the help of two of the best in the business to help me get this site up and running and the dream team of Studio Mister and Mayfield stepped up to design…
I’ve been writing out the answers to a couple of magazine interviews this week. I really don’t mind doing them at all – in fact I’m actually very grateful when someone asks me for my thoughts on something. It’s a bit of a compliment that someone out there thinks my opinion is worth a damn…
