Graphic Gibbon

February 22, 2017   Writing a book was one of those bucket list items for me, I guess. A must do it before I die type of deal. That's certainly how it all started out, about ten years ago, in Australia.   I'd always liked writing stories as a kid growing up in the Scottish Borders, and had spent a few summer holidays hunched over my parents old typewriter, trying to hammer out my "bestseller". It would invariably be influenced by whatever my favourite movie or TV show was at the time, or maybe by the books I was reading. I liked macabre tales of mystery, horror, fantasy and science fiction mostly (and still do in many ways).    It didn't take me long to realise that writing an actual book was a really big deal (particularly when I was 13 years old and only had six weeks off school!) so I switched to short stories (that I had a realistic chance of finishing) and had the odd one published in my high school magazine as a teenager in the mid-1980s. Tha...

An English teenager is moments away from a death more horrific than anyone could possibly imagine. Billy Twigg has no recollection of how he’s come to be lying broken and exhausted in the demolished remains of a famous national landmark until a fraction of a second before he is to be killed. Then he remembers everything in a deluge of nightmarish memories that are too crazy to believe, yet too shattering to ignore. Dreams can come true. Nightmares too. Voting is now open on Amazon's Kindle Scout  site. Head on over to read an extract from the book and give it a vote if you like it. Look for web links there for more Billy Twigg related shenanigans.

For the last few months I’ve been leading the charge on the Rio Olympic Games graphics package for Graphic News in London. With help from artist Mike Tyler , (and a footy graphic from Chris Dinsdale ) we’ve produced what we hope is our best ever Olympic Games graphics package. We've constructed 60 event graphics for traditional print clients, plus I've just finished designing Graphic News' unique responsive versions , which target smartphones and mobile devices with graphics tailored to fit those screens. We also have a smattering of fully interactive web versions for events that benefit from such a treatment, designed by Ben Mullins and Phil Bainbridge . Here are a couple of my full-size samples from the above thumbnails, Golf and Rugby Sevens — incidentally both historic Scottish sports now about to find a global Olympic audience. As well as covering all the events, we have even more graphics available, such as logos, pictograms, calend...

Here are a series of Adobe Illustrator screen shots from a graphic I created last November, showing how a new eco-friendly cell phone is constructed. It was surprisingly fiddly to do – drawing electronics is rather like drawing buildings. I started out with a few component photos from Fairphone's website, and a useful video showing it disassembling. Then I traced all the elements as flat shapes that fitted together (image 2) and began the lengthy process of extruding all the elements. (Images can be clicked and expanded) The finished infographic, complete with labels This image, and 1000s of other quality infographics, can be seen (and purchased) at Graphic News . More of my work can be seen here .