In a moment of madness I thought I'd look back on what I'd achieved in 2022. It didn't really seem like much but then last year was all about exploring new things and educating myself to be better at my job. So I created two lists I'm calling 7 x 7. Here are some of [...]
1 You need patience and bucketloads of it. You will wait. A lot. For emails. For feedback. For the green light on a project. For approvals. For the final say from everyone involved that the job is complete. For your invoice to be paid. The last one is usually the biggest wait of all. 2 [...]
While I was clearing some stuff out from my office today, I stumbled upon an old License Europe magazine. Aside from seeing how much the licensing industry has moved on since 2003, there was a lovely interview with the incredibly talented illustrator Dick Bruna from the Netherlands. Some of you may already have heard of [...]
© Slinkeee Working together with Dylan Moore from Aqua Design Group, we came up with the idea of creating an Ann Summers themed illustration to send as a Christmas card to Ann Summers & Knickerbox chief executive Jacqueline Gold. With myself doing the illustration and Dylan putting together and printing the card, collating all the [...]
I stumbled upon The Total Licensing Report yesterday and having worked in the licensed character industry, thought I'd catch up on what's new as you can sometimes fall behind the times when you're not able to take time out and don't have children. I came across an advert for a License Creative Manager called David [...]
It may seem odd to some people given what I do for a living that I don't have any children. My love of illustration and animation comes more from a misspent youth watching cartoons and drawing at every opportunity. So when I stumble upon a fantastic animation like this, it comes from just being a [...]
Photographs © The Art House website Another place in Alnwick worth a visit is The Art House which can be found on the main street near to the arch down a small alleyway sprayed with replicas of grafitti artist Banksy's works. As you follow the artworks up the stairs, you are led into a beautiful [...]
After a meeting early this morning on the 'other side of the water', I decided to seek out some art while I was there. Someone had told me about an exhibition I might be interested in called Once Upon A Time based on children's books at The Customs House in South Shields. This was no [...]
© Disney Last night I made the spontaneous decision to revisit The Lion King. I never got the chance to see it in the cinema back in 1994 and so my first experience of it was when it was released on DVD. It has always been one of my favourite Disney films and although I [...]
