The Art Deco Poster
Inspiration

The Art Deco Poster

Posters by their very nature are ephemeral: crookedly plastered on a roadside billboard, tacked to the back of a tabac, they lasted a few weeks until advertisers issued another imaginative argument for soap or an ocean voyage. While few contemporary observers understood the richness of their design or appreciated the ingenuity of their unsung creators,…
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Art Nouveau Poster
Inspiration

The Art Nouveau Poster

The Art Nouveau Poster is the most comprehensive survey to date of this vivid and much loved subject featuring over 400 illustrations. In July 1881, bill-posting became legal in Paris. The result was an explosion of creativity over three glorious decades recognised as the golden age of poster advertising, stirring together elements of new printing…
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Hang 12 Surf Art
Sketchbook

Hang 12

An environmentally conscious spin on the classic Hang Ten surf motif. Hand-drawn in brush and inks with colours finished in Photoshop, this is an ecologically focused piece of surf art, designed to appear on posters, hoodies and t-shirts. Final Colour Sketchbook Artwork Pencils Lettering Pencils Artwork Inks Artwork Inks Lettering Inks
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Sexy Frankenstein Pin-Up
Featured Work

Electric Frankenstein

A music festival poster based around my own dream line-up. This pin-up illustration was hand-drawn in ink and brush and coloured in Adobe Illustrator after a careful vectorisation process. My idea for this was to replicate the gig poster art of the 1990s including a dream line-up of my own favourite grunge bands. Frankenstein Pin-Up…
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