"I’d long been an admirer of John Cooper’s artwork, so when I needed an illustrator for my first book, John was my first choice. His work was always inventive, and often greatly improved on my original ideas. He can work fast, to a deadline, and can adapt quickly to a change of plan. Working with […]
A brand design is more than just a logo. It's a representation of what the product or service is – what it stand for. With a good brand should tell you what what it's selling at a glance. A good brand tells a story. Matt and Krista were looking for a designer for their new […]
ComedySportz in Manchester recently had a web design relaunch to showcase their comedy shows and workshops. I'm one of the players, so it was important to make the online presence reflects the right balance of fun and professionalism. The new website design is 'sporting' a customised version of the WordPress twenty seventeen theme, which is the […]
I've been working with some clients who have run into bother with their websites and needed a bit of WordPress support. Their sites had become slow and unwieldy, so like like a landscape gardener I went in to trim the grass and cut back the overgrown weeds. Code was re-written, badly set up page builders […]
I've recently completed new illustration, HTML5 games for the online e-learning platform, Manchester Children's University Taking their original content from the older flash format and converting it to new standards was a challenge, but also a great opportunity to get really creative with illustration, and I wanted to push the boat out on this one […]
Most years I do my own Christmas card illustration artwork. What started as a way to show off back when I was a student, has now become a tradition of sorts. “You don’t need big ideas, you need cheap experiments” said Micheal Schrage, talking about innovation in a digital economy, but he might as well […]
Time for an update of my design illustration portfolio. Here are some of the projects I've been working on in the last few months. From logo illustrations to hand drawn artwork and a corporate live event project. It was a joy to work again on Wentworth music festival redesigning the logo, look and feel of […]
My clients are awesome, but then some projects are just a pleasure to do. Madison Cooper (no relation) has been doing yoga since she was a child, and trained at a Yoga school in India to gain her teaching qualification so she could return to Manchester and set up her own business teaching 'Hatha-Vinyasa flow'. With it's growing popularity there are […]
What can get done in a day, or even half a day? I've had a few illustration designs recently that had very tight deadlines, mostly to get the artwork to the printers and meet submission deadlines. You might think commissioning original illustration work on a quick turnaround might sound a little crazy, but in truth, it might […]
