Murals for Hackney Council

Hackney council's Public Health department asked me to create four images to be displayed as 'stair murals' internally on their flights of stairs.

The brief was to represent Hackney in all its diversity and variety, showcasing what the borough has to offer, the theme of 'wellbeing' and also to include enough detail to keep people coming back to the murals and the stairs.

So here are four great things about Hackney - London Fields Lido, the 38 bus, the glorious Hackney Empire, and the ever energetic Ridley Road market:

And here they are installed in March 2017.
I hope the vinyls stand the test of time, and some serious footfall!

Graphic Recording in Madrid

Last week I was working at a sales conference in Madrid, creating visual minutes with Federica Ciotti and Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen.

As well as working big, we also produced A4 sketchnotes. These work well when a client doesn't want a drawing 'performance' to distract from the main focus of the speakers.

It was also great to visit Madrid, a wonderful city.

If you go, I recommend staying in the Huerta district.

Empathy Illustrations for The Happy Newspaper

This time of year, with the short days and cold nights, can be a trial. If you know someone who is suffering, then empathy (not sympathy) is one way to make them feel supported.

For more information on this and other uplifting stories, get your mitts on the recent edition of 'The Happy Newspaper':

https://thehappynewspaper.com/

Happy 2017!

Wishing everyone a creative and inspiring start to a fresh working year!

Graphic Recording for Comic Relief

Some recent work from a schools project commissioned by Comic Relief in partnership with GlaxoSmithKlein. The theme was the continuing fight to rid the world of Malaria.

This was held in a great space - the McLaren Thought Leadership Centre, Woking.

http://www.mclaren.com/technologygroup/news/views/stunning-and-sustainable-mclaren-technology-centre/

I was asked to capture the ideas the students came up with as well as the spirit of the event. They had a lot to take in and navigate as they were given real world challenges and a limited time to come up with solutions.

Live Visuals - Not just a bit on the side!

Recently I was working for a group of 'Impact Investors'. The reason I've given them capital letters is because they're trying to use their investments to improve things either socially, environmentally or economically for the people and places they invest in, whilst still producing a return on their investments.

Truly a 'win win' situation.

What I was also impressed with was the intuitive way they took what I produced and fully integrated it into their conference. The lower image was used as part of a voting system, as a mnemonic, and finally as a way of celebrating the time they had spent together. Bravo to TONIIC !

http://www.toniic.com/

Graphic Recording for Comic Relief, London

This event for Comic Relief was hosted by the Overseas Development Institute (ww.odi.org) in Southwark, London.

The event centred on the theme of 'diaspora finance' from a research perspective.

The thing that surprised me the most was that it's the poorest that are hit by the biggest transfer fees to send money either home to, or across the borders within, Africa.

https://www.odi.org/remittances-africa

Thanks to Georgina Awoonor-Gordon for asking me to get involved.