UK author Shaun Othen commissioned me to design the covers of three of his books, starting with Taxi. The books’ plot is about the owner of a taxi company who behaves like a modern day Caligula, and treats his employees as slaves.

We wanted a feeling of grimy sleaziness to come across in the book cover illustration, so we went for a burned out neon sign 3D typography treatment, composed with gritty urban surfaces and grunge textures. The type was created in Illustrator and imported into Photoshop for texturing and lighting, the fine details were added with lots of brush work and plenty of adjustment layers.

This album of evil and menacing trailer cues demanded something epic and dark for the cover, and also needed to communicate the concept that the album is a toolkit for movie trailer producers. I came up with the idea of an epic steampunk illustration that looks like it was constructed from futuristic junk, fused with organic elements and mechanical parts.

MacUser invited me to be interviewed and talk about my work, influences and process in the August 2011 issue of the magazine. Download the PDF

Front cover illustration for West One Music’s Electro Swing album, inspired by burlesque and art nouveaux design.

CD cover illustration for Fired Earth Musics’ Immortality collection of movie trailer cues.

Death of a Centaur sculpture by Scott Eaton scott-eaton.com

Get layered! This was one of those occasions where I could visualise the finished artwork before the client had even finished briefing me. A chaotic, but structured, fusion of urban textures and surfaces overloaded with digital techno 3D elements and decorative typography. I love the gritty contrast of shiny 3D next to the distressed grunge textures and spray painted surfaces.

CD cover design for West One Music’s compilation of production music tracks. The CD was a direct pitch for licensing music to TV stations, so the artwork needed to communicate the theme of history. I decided on the heraldic theme and included references to the music on the CD in the elements surrounding the shield.

Urban typographic illustration for West One Music’s Freestyle Beats album.

Personal project using the natural media tools in Painter and Photoshop, hand painted with a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet.

Composer and Producer for TV, film and advertising Jay Price commissioned me to create his showcase website. The site uses a fixed masonry layout grid and streaming HTML5 video and audio for iPhone and iPad compatibility.

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