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Happy Spring everyone! With a new season upon us, and one often seen as a period of refreshment, it seemed fitting to drop a new website and a bounty of new work on you all. 2009 brought with it a jolly good shake-up, you'll see some new approaches, a lot of playing, and a good dollop of experimentation.

The new site is designed to open up doors, roll-up the blinds, and generally knock down the walls into my creative life so those that are interested, get a better understanding of the environment I've made for myself. You'll be given more insights into how I develop my ideas, where they've come from, and how they grow. However, it's early days, any feedback on how this works for you would be
warmly welcomed.

Personally, 2010 has been great so far. I'm in a new live/work space, I'm getting married, and a fairly strange no rhythm and rhyme 2009 is behind us. Professionally, a lot of my time has been spent working with Heston Blumenthal's team for his new book and TV show 'Heston's Fantastical Feasts' - this is awesome! Working with both Grade Design and Bloomsbury Publishing, we've been working tirelessly to complete one hell of a print project. One with such richness and fun it had my knees knocking when I was being briefed in. I love collaborating with passionate people and this project has been a positive stew of them.I'll be firing out what we've been up to shortly, as it will be available in book shops late May. In the meantime, here are a couple of tasters from the last few months
to get things going. Lots more on the new site...hint hint.

Toodleloo

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Tom

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bullet Queens Consort
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I was asked by Orion Books to create a typography led design for Lisa Hiltons book.They asked that the design draw inspiration from the art of the medieval period, whilst incorporating some of the subject matter. The book was printed on a thick, uncoated stock, giving it a lovely feel. Plus a hint of gold foil blocking to add that extra kapoww!

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bullet 1hundred
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Here's a first look at my new streetwear and artwork label. I'll be making a lot of the new pieces I've been working on, and some new ones in development, available as limited
edition prints and tshirts -
to begin with.

1hundred is going to be my playground. It's won't be defined by genre, won't intentionally follow trends, and exists so that people that appreciate my work can own it in different ways.

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bullet Steve Heller book
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I was fortunate enough to be asked to contribute to New Ornamental Type by the legend Steve Heller and Gail Anderson. My Inspiring Words Series was given the full-page treatment. It's a real honour to be amongst some wonderful work. Here's a link if you fancy getting it. It's a cracking book and I'm not just saying that because
I'm in it.

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bullet Back in the Blue - Free Wallpaper
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Back in the Blue is a sketch I started one day that really grabbed me. I had been experimenting with a colour palette (my pieces, 'Force of Nature' and 'What's Your Point?' show more of this palette in action) inspired by some wonderful tropical fish photographs on flickr and this idea came to me.
I want to give away goodies to my newsletter recipients so I'm starting with this piece as a free wallpaper. Click the resolution that is appropriate and a zip file will start downloading in a new window. Happy days!

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2560x1440px / 1920x1200px / 1680x1050px / 1440x900px / 1280x1024px / 1280x800px / 1024x768px / iPhone

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bullet Caffè Eleganza
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Probably my furthest ranging project to date. I wore a lot of hats for this one. It started with putting together the initial plans for the building and carried right through to branding the business, setting out an identity, plus a spot of interior design to bring it all together. Along with all these big tasks, I wrote a lot of copy, designed posters, made signage, and illustrated a massive wall canvas. It's been fun!

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bullet Keep in touch!
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I finally got round to sorting out all my profiles, portfolios, and other forms of online larking about. I'm determined to stay on top these. It would be great if you came and joined me.

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twitter   facebook   flickr   computerluv
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behance   linkedin
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