I was asked to create work in response to some of the objects at the Craft Council’s 40:40 show. They’ve made a beautiful website to show forty objects from their 40 year collection and have asked six artists/musicians/collectives and an illustrator (me!) to create work inspired by them.Its Nice That and Prick your Finger are among the others asked to respond to the show. Theres some amazing pieces in there and some lovely responses, i love this scanner track

Take a look at the full website here
craftscouncil.org.uk/4040

My page is over here, i created the images below and explain how they were inspired by the objects from their collection

I was involved in this architecture competition a couple of years ago through my friend Leonora. I didnt have this blog at the time but just thought to post it now. The competition was to design a multi-use park around a Grade II listed Victorian Gasholder next to Kings Cross station in London. It is part of the massive re-development of Kings Cross
 
The gasholder structure is one of the first ever built and our idea was to remind visitors of energy past and future in London, one of the worlds first industrial cities. The park surrounding it was to resemble a carboniferous landscape which formed the gas that the gasholder contained and would be planted with carboniferous-era vegetation; ferns, monkey puzzles and cycad palms. The design also featured solar panels and wind turbines and through engraved paving slabs visually tells the story of the carbon and energy. A huge movable canopy covers the area for indoor events. I did some visualisations and presentation design and was going to design the paving features. We didnt win 🙁 There was more than 100 other entries and the overall winning design was by Bell Phillips
 
Our team were Leonora Oppenheim, Anna Maria Orru, Nick Hancock, Jacek Grabowski, Luke Engleback, Roger Cooper and Fergus McCormick and Laurie Abbott
 

I was asked to illustrate the letter Z for the small print’s latest project to illustrate the alphabet. Theres some amazing artists involved and some beautiful images. I think my favourite is richard hogg’s nocturnal
They are all available to buy online via PrintProcess and there’s a write up about it on creative review
 
thanks to everyone at the small print

http://thesmallprint.ie/projects/illustrated-alphabet/
 

we also had a competition to design your fair trade own rug through NODE
the winner was the very talented and funny nadia shireen with this AWESOME bear rug! there were so many fantastic rug designs, thanks to everyone who entered.

So Far the Future
44 Emerald St
London WC1N 3LH

1-7 Dec
Tues-Sat 11am-7pm

http://www.so-far-the-future.co.uk/exhibitions/digital-handmade
Thanks very much to the Lamb bookshop for doing a lovely display in their window and the Peoples Supermarket for supplying the beer and wine