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 […]
Back in 2018, I did the logo and rebranding on the Kings Arms Theatre pub in Salford, but I never did a blog, so here it is. As a regular there they knew me well as my graphic design work for other productions had already graced their walls. When it came to their rebrand, they […]
What is an explainer video? Well as you can probably guess they're videos that help explain a particular topic. The goal of an explainer video is to take a potentially quite complicated subject and make it engaging and easier to understand. They are most often hand-drawn too, sometimes on a whiteboard, where you can see […]
Way back in December 2019 I was invited to help relaunch the Luc Hoffmann Institute's website, an environmental organisation dedicated to maintaining biodiversity in life on earth through innovative projects. I'd already been working on updating the site in its previous form which was showing a little bit of age and using a page builder. […]
If you're thinking of moving your business online we can help. From taking payments through your website to adding booking systems, we can find a solution that works best for you. In this project for Willow Glow Yoga, we helped yoga teacher Wendy with her website, adding a booking system to take payments online, with […]
Before I started drawing and illustration, my older brother Peter would draw comic strips. In some ways he did a lot of things I got interested in, apart from football. Through the years the idea of collaborating had never really crossed my mind, until a few month ago when he suggested it, so it was […]
'Theater'? That's not a typo. My annual visit to the USA allows me to meet a lot of new creative folks with business plans. This month I've been helping Ria Toricelli with the branding of her new theatre space 'Shore Thing Theater' in New Jersey. Simliar to a previous branding project for The Fresnel Theater […]
Illustration, motion graphics and voice work combine in this video production for The University of Manchester. Back in January, I started work on a video project for The University of Manchester. The brief was to celebrate and publicise their 'school governors initiative', a programme where university staff help schools and colleges to improve, and in […]
I recently finished work on a new biodiversity website for the Luc Hoffmann Institute, and agency of the WWF. This website follows the themes of the institute and their work in the environment. Promoting a fresh look at biodiversity by encouraging scientists and researchers interested in future sustainability to contribute essays and thought pieces to […]
At the beginning of the year, I was referred to the environmental and conservation organisation The Luc Hoffmann Institute to help out behind the scenes with their website and social media requirements. It's a pretty straightforward job for me, but worth mentioning as looking over their website, the work they do is very important for […]
Time for a Spring update of what has mostly been web design and illustration work. Back in February, there was plenty of illustration going on helping the guys at GroundBreak productions with another ambitious TV advert. Moving from digital to hand-drawn and back again, the 'Great Mirth Run' got a new flyer and poster, created […]
What is WordPress 5 and is it worth upgrading? Let me try to explain that in under five minutes, and hopefully showing how quick and easy it *should* be to use.
