The Joyful Bewilderment

Hangtime at Bristol's Here Gallery this weekend... good times! Go and check out the show if you find yourself in the area. Here Gallery, 108 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3RU

New!

Some new things I've made this week...

LOST CAT

My friend Dan has lost his cat Ron. Help us bring him home! Ron's pro-modelling career was just taking off when he went missing 2 weeks ago from Gun Street E2; not usually camera shy, this is out of character and I ask you people of the east end to keep your eyes on the streets for that bushy orange tail he stole off a fox (distinguishing feature: white gloves).

Betamax print for Blisters

This drawing is available as a three-colour 50x70cm screenprint from Print Club London and will be available in their online store in the next couple of days...

Grafik - Alan Kane feature

Drawings for Grafik Magazine to illustrate Alan Kane's new "Life Class" on Channel4.

Faesthetic #12

2-colour magazine spread based on home and how inside protects you from out. Thanks UPSO - this is a fantastic magazine, everyone should check it out...

The Illustrated Ape

new cover for one of my all-time favourite magazines, The Illustrated Ape. Out soon!

make a physical

My ideas for new-era t-shirt 'prints'

Secret Blisters 2009

I'm hidden somewhere in this print show which opens at Dalston's Print Club on 26th June. Come!

Beasts of Oslo

I went to Norway for the weekend and met these guys.

The Independent

all-new hyperhyperhyper realism drawings for the Independent on Sunday

Converse

Tour De Force

I have just finished photographing the latest collection for Tour De Force and designed a lookbook. Modelled by my good friend Tea Tamminen.

New!

After several months as a nomad living between London and elsewhere in various rooms and configurations, I have decided to set up a new studio in London. My website is offline while the momentum gets going... the paint is still drying...

Owl & Lion Gallery

Thanks to curators Story Motel, my new zine 'YES' is currently on show at Owl & Lion in Edinburgh. 'YES' and all the other zines in the show can be purchased online here

Brick Lane Gallery

At a show called History Repeats Itself curated by graphic designers Europa, students from Winchester School of Art Graphic Arts Programme will exhibit work alongside a series of great talks from practising designers & illustrators. Don't miss it!

Binz, Rügen

Munich - YES

Last week i worked on a project with Timm Haeneke (DE) in Munich called YES for Owl & Lion Gallery in Edinburgh. We produced a 24 page zine which explored people's response to objects in an unexpected context.

Flohmarkt

I love making up stories.

Dizzy Spell

Due to health problems, I find myself renting a shack-like house on the border between Mexico and Texas. The sitting-room is in the United States, whilst the kitchen is in South America. I exist on a mixed diet of Twinkies and tortillas, mulling over my emotional difficulties and awaiting a selection of telephone calls which never come. Time passes without comment, and a rusty film of disinterest forms over my thoughts.

Over a period of vaguely discernable weeks, I develop a species of vertigo which leaves me unable to look either up or down without extreme dizziness. My vision is locked on a horizontal plane. My situation deteriorates until I cannot look at the window without seeing the word 'window' and a foggy reflection of my own countenance.

Eventually I cannot enter the United States without being overcome by emotions which manifest themselves as an overwhelming compulsion to whirl around smashing everything. When I retreat to the kitchen I find mountains of crockery coated with a mixture of coagulated food and thick dust.

I huddle in the short hallway that occupies the space between the USA and Mexico, quivering with fatigue. I cannot find my tenancy agreement. I realise that I will be stuck here, in this hallway, forever.

from Small Thoughts by Stanley Donwood

Away

I'm back in Berlin for another month, and after a few days exploring the leftovers of this years Pictoplasma conference around Mitte and P'berg (and eating waffles in a snowstorm) I met my friend Anje Jager in her new studio - an exciting run-down sped-up office leftover from the past - perhaps an old bank or social security building. i'm going to be working here for the next few weeks...

New York Times

from a collection of weekly editorial drawings for Lives in The New York Times magazine

Holly portrait by Timm Håneke

Sunday

Vodafone

Guns - Fight Recession!

Valentines Day Card

Boris Johnson's Adverse Weather signage system

I found this in Kings Cross today.

Urban Outfitters / Nylon X colab

Greystone Motel

Anxiety Costume

Tangible by DGV

I have some work in this new book called Tangible, out next month, published by DGV.

Merlin

just found these - two t-shirt prints i designed for menswear label Merlin, back in 2006...

ship wot I just drew for my weekly column in the New York Times

one day 485 will have their own ship.

Design Week supplement - Vision 2009

interview in Grafik magazine - 2008 How Was It For You?

ROJO Magazine / Project OCHO

New collages to be featured in Project OCHO for ROJO Magazine, alongside Ian Stevenson, Gareth Bayliss, Jody Barton, Jasper Goodall, Anthony Burrill, Jon Burgerman, Supermundane, Andrew Rae and Phil Ashcroft. Group show to follow at Concrete Hermit, Club Row, London E1 6JX in 2009.

Birthday!

Kobayashi

artwork for the new record by Kobayashi, made with Steve Bliss and stolen photocopier toner.

Does Anybody Know Im In Here?

New work as part of a personal project, also published this month in The Wizards Hat alongside brilliant hands and minds Alex Bec, Mike Perry, Damien Correll, Jon Burgerman and more...

Skill Wizard 8/11/08

A0 format poster for Skill Wizard at the Old Blue Last
Photos by Steve Bliss

The Guardian

look out for these over the weekend - they are part of a press ad campaign for The Guardian and The Observer.

RCA / The Animatics

Frieze Art Fair - Education Space

Frieze Art Fair opens in Regents Park this Thursday. With typography by Anthony Sheret and Graphic Thought Facility I have produced the artwork for the Education Space at this year's fair for the curators, ReachOutRCA, the outreach programme at the Royal College of Art. Go along and check out the walls and the printed guide!

Olympus 35mm Half Frame Camera

I found this half-frame camera on ebay and it came good.

Gin

drawings for The Telegraph

This is The Future (Lab)

Editorial illustrations for Viewpoint Magazine

The Missing Weekend

Tape Off

old old old

The Joyful Bewilderment

I'd like to invite you to the private view of The Joyful Bewilderment, an exhibition I have co-curated with fellow illustrators Master Simon Peplow and Captain Marcus Oakley.

A year (or more!) in the plotting, this great show has finally come together and will open at Rough Trade East in London on Thursday October 2nd at 7pm. This international exhibition of the newest handmade work by the most exciting image-makers and illustrators is sure to be a real treat, so hope to see you there!