Invisible Dot

End the genocide in Gaza

2014-08-04T09:07:00.000-07:00

The original poster

Several years ago, I stumbled on a database of vintage Zionist propaganda posters (I can’t find it anymore, or I’d link to it). I was struck by the optimism and innocence of those brightly coloured seventies’ designs – they looked like the pages from any number of classic children’s books – and by how it contrasted with Israel’s terrible actions against the Palestinians.

This one on the right caught my attention especially, probably because the big story at that time was the wall that Israel built, seizing yet more land and turning Gaza into a giant prison. So I made this updated version. I don’t know if it’s really worthwhile – I suppose it’s a very design-nerdy response to the murder of thousands of people – but it was on my mind for a long time, so I finally just did it. The line was originally going to be “End apartheid in Israel,” but given recent events, it didn’t seem strong enough anymore.

Feel free to take this image if you want it. If you want to do something, here are some links:

The United States gives Israel over $8 million in military aid every day. Send a letter to Barack Obama to ask the US to stop arming Israel.
Sign this petition asking corporations to pull their business out of Israel.
Check out the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, and stop buying Israeli products.

Dubliners has been funded!

2014-07-27T13:48:00.000-07:00

Cross-posted from Wake in Progress

De Selby Press has passed their funding goal for the illustrated Dubliners! Thanks to everyone who’s got involved, whether by ordering or book, sharing the link online, telling their friends, or simply sending encouragement, it’s all meant a lot to us.

To celebrate, here’s a recap of all the illustrations I’ve shared so far, in order. And don’t forget, if you haven’t ordered a copy yet, there’s still plenty of time to get one along with a lot of enticing Dubliners-related swag at the fundraiser page.

Wake in Progress at Urban Light

2014-07-12T10:54:00.002-07:00

Cross-posted from Wake in Progress.

Thanks to everyone at Urban Light for hosting my work during the Phinneywood Art Walk last night, and thanks to all of you who came. I for one had a great time, met lots of interesting people, and stayed up way past my bedtime. The Instagram below is the only photo I know of to prove that the event took place. You might make out in the back there that, as well as the Wake, we also previewed some of the Dubliners illustrations. If you weren’t able to make it, then I hope you’ll come to the BIG art walk on August 8th, because I’ll still be there.

Preorder Illustrated Dubliners

2014-07-01T12:50:00.000-07:00

De Selby Press has launched their campaign to fund the first edition of Dubliners illustrated by me. If you’d like to preorder a copy, you’d be doing them a big favour to do it now to help them meet their goal! Rewards include signed editions, posters, signed prints, and an mp3 of The Lass of Aughrim, the song from “The Dead.” If you already have a thousand copies of Dubliners clogging up your bookshelves (it’s weird how they seem to multiply, isn’t it?), then please share the link with all your Joyce-loving friends. Thank you!

Just go here.

The City: a reservation... for ONE

2014-02-05T08:34:00.003-08:00

Over in The City, Josef checks in.

The City: Unmistakable Bathsalts

2013-12-18T12:00:00.000-08:00

Over at The City, Cassegrain Sanglot returns briefly before we continue with the ongoing story of Mr. Josef Potnik (for that is his name).

The City: Only one way out

2013-12-12T21:42:00.003-08:00

Page nine of The City is available for reading, so read it!

The City: A fugitive on board

2013-12-06T21:16:00.001-08:00

The story continues in The City...

The City in Gorse

2013-12-05T10:42:00.002-08:00

Five pages of The City will appear in the first issue of Gorse, a new Irish arts/literary journal launching in January! Take a look at the full list of amazing contributors and pre-order your copy RIGHT THIS INSTANT.

I mean, you don’t have to. But you’ll probably be pleased that you did if you do.

Big in Finland

2013-11-29T20:00:00.000-08:00

For that Finnish-speaking Finnegans Wake enthusiast in your life, here’s a treat in time for Christmas. It might have been as much as a year ago that I was asked to contribute an essay to an anthology on Finnegans Wake entitled What Does Finnegans Wake Mean? In Finnish. Obviously I jumped at the chance. I’ve seen my illustrations in print a few times now, but I think this is the first time something I’ve written has been published. It’s very exciting, of course, but also disorienting to see my name above an essay I can’t read. I wish I could read the whole book, as the scraps that I’ve taken the time to transcribe into Google Translate have seemed very promising. Each of the essays is also illustrated with one of my pictures! Many thanks to the editor, Ville-Juhani Sutinen! If you do read Finnish, you can take a look at the publisher’s website here.

Cross-posted from Wake in Progress

MODCOM by Minnie Moskowitz

2013-11-06T06:00:00.000-08:00

I designed the wordmark on the cover of Modcom, the new EP by French electro-pop band Minnie Moskowitz. Go give it a listen, they’re coolissimes!

The City: There isn’t much time now

2013-11-03T21:12:00.001-08:00

Today’s page of The City marks the beginning of an ongoing storyline. I’m a bit nervous.

Vestoj

2013-10-30T11:07:00.003-07:00

I really enjoyed doing this series of illustrations for Vestoj Magazine, to illustrate an article about the justice system’s sexist attitude to the fashion industry.

The City: Not from around here

2013-10-23T17:34:00.000-07:00

The City continues! Take a look, why don’t you?

The City: Isms

2013-08-28T07:21:00.001-07:00

A new improved version of the latest City page is now up for your enjoyment.

Promotional Mailers

2013-05-24T05:43:00.000-07:00

I’ve just finished preparing my first ever batch of promotional mailers. I had big ideas of putting together some kind of fancy package, but decided not to get too clever for my first attempt. Fly, my pretties!

The City in Modern Painters

2013-04-29T11:07:00.000-07:00

Page one of The City features in the May issue of Modern Painters magazine! Let’s take a tour, shall we?

I’ve never been so pleased to see Tracey Emin. She looks more ambivalent.

My comic. In print. OMG. (See it in legible form here.)

My photo is the only one that looks like a holiday snap because you know why.

The City: A brand new axe

2013-04-26T12:17:00.004-07:00

I have a new page of The City for your enjoyment. YOU LUCKY PEOPLE!

Baby picture of the Universe

2013-04-11T05:02:00.000-07:00

My editorial career has claimed its first casuality: this illustration – about photographing the afterglow from the Big Bang – was killed in favour of photographs. Which was probably a good idea, actually.

China’s Massive Water Problem

2013-03-28T07:44:00.000-07:00

Another IHT-riffic editorial illustration. (I’ll chuckle over that for weeks.) [link]

The City: Cassegrain Sanglot

2013-03-21T13:27:00.002-07:00

Over in The City, a new page awaits those WHO DARE TO SEE IT.

Another Earth

2013-03-14T06:18:00.002-07:00

Here’s an alternate version of the SARS illustration that they didn’t go for. I’m really into the brush pen right now.

How SARS was contained

2013-03-14T06:07:00.000-07:00

Another illustration for the Herald Tribune, for an op-ed about the international response to the SARS outbreak ten years ago.

International Herald Tribune

2013-03-09T04:29:00.001-08:00

Here’s my first (is there an emoji for touching wood?) illustration for the International Herald Tribune, for an op-ed about the reconstruction of Japan after the tsunami.

The City Page

2013-02-27T07:14:00.002-08:00

The City now has its own dedicated page, so that the words are big enough to actually read. Here it is!