New Scientist cover and spot illustrations

' drinkers learn to like the taste of alcohol because they associate it with pleasure, so they could gradually re-educate their palates to appreciate substitutes too.'

'The big problem with alcohol is that it kills people. And while there's an obvious way to stop this happening - drink less or not at all - for some reason, humans find this advice nigh on impossible to follow.'

For this project we had to create a cover and two black and white spot illustrations for New Scientist. I found a great article in one magazine called 'Taking the Demons out of drink' looking at whether you can replace alcohol with a pill or whether you can solve hang overs with a pill.

Text Me Up

This project was to illustrate texts from Tracey Moberly's new book 'Text Me Up'. The book is a collection of text messages she has kept since 1999! I picked out three out the 100,000 she has! Here's a link to the book if you are interested- http://www.sanderswood.com/text-me-up!/

'Kill kill kill'

'Where's my sugar puffs'

'KY jelly £3.00 Nicole love doll £84.95 Penis enlarger £39.95. Porno Paul'

The images will be displayed in The Museum of Club Culture on Wednesday 23rd when Tracey Moberly is also doing a talk about her book, so get yourself down to that! There will be lots of other illustrators displaying their interpretations of the texts too! http://www.facebook.com/groups/378470125091/

Bruce Mau Quotes

Take Field Trips - The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered. object-oriented, real-time graphic-simulated computer environment.

Imitate - Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Go Deep - The deeper you go, the more likely you will discover something of value.

Drift - Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgement. Postpone criticism.


Slow Down - Desynchronize with typical time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.

Stay up late - Strange things happen when you've gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.