Work

Contact: hey@johncooperdesign.co.uk

Festival mascots, illustrations of folks doing live shows and live drawing at events. Just a sample of the last few months of output...

This is Liza Bee-nelli, the mascot for the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival. The character design is a reimagining of the Fringe Mascot from 2017, when she was first introduced to promote shows. For this new version, I started with a pencil sketch in ClipStudio, then took it into Affinity Designer, my new favourite playground for […]

A full day of capturing an event, as is happened. Live drawing, graphic recording, it has many names, is the process where an artist (me!) draws quickly to capture an event as it happens. This is often talks, discussions and Q&A's, visually representing the themes and subjects that are spoken about. Like taking minutes, but […]

Heading off to the Edinburgh festival this year? Need posters, flyers and a social media pack for all your online stuff? I've got you covered. How about some illustration to really make your idea pop out? Edinburgh is a tough space to promote in at festival time (I should know), publicity needs to be super […]

A selection of character design work from books and publicity. 

Teaming up with animation and CGI company, The Outset. Providing the illustrations for this promotional video on place-based innovation See also: The Outset. Motion graphics work

Making Presentations is a training company that specialises in presenting skills, online and face to face. The design work, logo, icons and deck slides are all bespoke. This is communication design, where the artwork has a very specific job to. The icons are more detailed illustrations, to keep online attendees engaged longer. The series of […]

Posters for events, campaigns and promotions. We work a lot with the live events industry where design needs to be high impact. We provide posters alongside branding and social media packages.

Isometric design is a form of 3D drawing that's ideal for maps and infographics. The location in this example is Wasing Park in Berkshire. The event theme was 'enchanted forest', so the fantastical elements are placed around the outside, to keep the informative elements clear. See more graphic design styles here.

Looking for a caricaturist or event artist? Here's a sample of my speed portrait work. These photos were taken at Art Battle Manchester. I've done speed portraits for a few different types of events, which I can turn around pretty quickly. Getting an event artist is a great way to give attendees something permanent that […]

Here's a list of all the artists and work at the Manchester Open Exhibition 2022, at Home. NO. ARTIST NAME ARTWORK NAME PRICE 1 Amy Mizrahi The Great Escape £4,200.00 2 Emma Reynolds Community Action - Peaceful Protest is a Human Right £35.00 3 Natasha Klutch Visit Britain £300.00 4 Mike Thorpe Got a ticket […]

Get Distance books 1 & 2 Collecting strips both collections in softcover. 106 pages.UK Delivery £24.95 (inc P&P) Update Jan 2022 New Distance strips for 2022 - Read them here The first 100 strips - Read them here Update Dec 2021. Distance at Manchester Open Exhibition 2022. Artwork from my 2020 comic strip diary about […]

Busy times and places. A few weeks back I spent 2 days live recording 'Firefit', the national UK firefighter's conference. They got in touch back in Sept via one of their speakers, the brilliant John Parkinson who coaches and mentors folks in the firefighting service. I'm always curious so it was great to hear talks […]

This weekend I'm dropping off my artwork for the Home Open Exhibition 2022 in January. Don't mind saying I'm super chuffed to be picked for it, and I sincerely hope that no pandemic related grimness gets in the way of an amazing exhibition. Home is Manchester's independent gallery and cinema, a very popular cultural hub […]

March of the Robots! For October, I'm doing #inktober, a drawing challenge where artists and illustrators have to make an image every day. I did it back in 2018 and it was knackering finding the extra hours in the day to draw.  It has been this year so, on top of what has already been […]

Upperthong is a village outside Huddersfield in North Yorkshire. When author John Simes and his agent got in touch asking if I could do the cover to his book, 'The Upperthong Thunderbolt', I just assumed he was from there. When I found out he was based in Devon I was surprised, but I shouldn't have […]

I don't want to blow my own trumpet, but if you look at some of my illustrations and compare them to the great Horrible Histories illustrator Martin Brown there are some similarities, we both clearly have a sense of humour. I'm a fan of clean lines, stylised yet accurate anatomy and exaggerated expressions. You could […]