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50 Things you didn’t know about Star Trek (for Virgin Movies)

Following on from my recent ‘20 things you didn’t know about Iron Man’, Virgin Movies commissioned this more ambitious piece. The key challenge was to ‘solve’ the layout, balancing the facts for each movie and making the overall text shape flow. Hope you enjoy, and maybe discover some interesting facts about the Star Trek movies along the way!

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Excited to announce that the prints I’ve contributed to the Bad Robot (Gallery1988) and Scorsese-themed (Spoke Art) shows this month are now available to buy online, and are both available in limited numbered editions of 10.

The End of Vulcan (A3 giclée – $40) More info/Store link

I Recall Every Fall (24” x 18” giclée – $50) More info/Store link

20 Things you Didn’t Know About Iron Man (for Virgin Movies)

I Recall Every Fall (for Spoke Art’s Scorsese: an art show tribute)

I’m pleased to be able to share the Raging Bull-inspired piece I’ve created for San Francisco’s Spoke Arts show, Scorsese: an art show tribute, which runs from Friday 19th April to Sunday April 21st at Bold Hype Gallery in NYC.

Going back through Scorcese’s films seeking inspiration, I suddenly spotted the aesthetic similarities between the pool where Jake first sees Vickie, and the boxing ring. Both flat surfaces effectively, framed/penned in by 3 railings for the pool, and 3 ropes for the ring. I felt this could work well visually, but then also have a nice semantic depth to it, as it’s possible to see Jake and Vickie’s first meeting as the beginning of his downfall, both personally and professionally.

Ten gicleé prints will be for sale at the show, and then online afterwards.

After Spring Break (for Vertigo Films)

Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers came out in UK cinemas last weekend, and Vertigo Films commissioned me to create this exclusive artwork to help celebrate. The ‘Before Spring Break’ piece was revealed on the day of release.

Of course they were also designed to sit together, so I’ve also included portrait and landscape versions in this photoset.

The Paperboy (for Virgin Movies)

My editorial piece for Virgin Movies this week accompanies an article by Charlie ‘Ultra Culture’ Lyne entiled ‘The Paperboy’s Route from Crap to Camp’ and features portraits of Efron, Kidman and Cusack.

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The 85th Academy Awards in Numbers - infographic designed and illustrated for Virgin Movies.

As you can imagine, I had lots of fun putting this one together, figuring out the composition and balancing out the design and typography with all the illustrations needed.

Basically I created a nice tight grid to build everything on, and used various weights of Museo Sans (which is actually a typeface that Virgin used but it also just happened to be perfect for my needs) to bring it all together and add interest. With the wealth of information to be presented (in terms of the statistics themselves and the visual complexity), locking the palette down to black, white and red (and grey) seemed like a natural way to unite everything and ensure that it packed a punch.

Huge thanks to Virgin Movies for letting me loose on such an interesting challenge.

UPDATE: Pleased to say that the image made it onto Reddit’s homepage getting as high as number 12, and the original imgur file has had over 650,000 views!

Dredd/Anderson

Finally caught Dredd over the weekend. Loved 2000AD when I first discovered it around age 12, and the gritty taut feel of this adaptation really hit the spot for me. It certainly doesn’t mess about for a single moment (well, despite the Slo-Mo!), and I felt inspired to capture the visages of Dredd and Anderson.