I Can See You

My neighbours across the gardens - an endless source of inspiration.

NHS Sunshine House, Peckham Road

The finished book - Golden Lane: Outside-In

The finished book:

The estate is a prime example of postwar social housing. I interviewed a handful of its residents revealing preconceived stereotypes I had about social housing. The project was called 'Outside In'.

It depicts the perimeter of the estate; the facade exposed to external conceptions. 'Outside In' came together as a book and as you progressed through it, the residents’ views and true thoughts about social housing were revealed, realigning the readers’ opinion.

Golden Lane: Outside-In

Basterfield House

Bayer House

Cuthbert Harrowing House (1&2), Fann Street


Crescent House, Goswell Road

Stanley Cohen House (1&2), Golden Lane

Illustrations based on The Golden Lane Estate, on the City of London’s northern border.

The estate is a prime example of postwar social housing. I interviewed a handful of its residents revealing preconceived stereotypes I had about social housing. The project was called 'Outside In'. It depicts the perimeter of the estate; the facade exposed to external conceptions. 'Outside In' came together as a book and as you progressed through it, the residents’ views and true thoughts about social housing were revealed, realigning the readers’ opinion. The drawings are pen-drawn, with colouring-pencil block colours, mounted on a background photo montage.

Schematic drawings; the library mimics the comic

Earlier in the term, I had looked at how time flows through comic strips. In this drawing I have connected the architecture of libraries to the carefully laid out science of comics.

Scott McCloud in his book Understanding Comics; the invisible art examines the difference between the eastern and western style of comics.

He noticed that comics created in Japan are much longer than those created in the west. "Traditional western art and literature don't wander much. On the whole, we're a pretty goal-orientated culture..

I wanted my Graphic Novel Library in Marseille to encourage its users to appreciate "being there over getting there."

The last close-up shows an illustration taken from City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (story by Paul Auster, graphic adaptation by Paul Karasik & David Mazzucchelli)

Schematic drawings; production and consumption

Site drawings, Marseille

Down the steep stone staircase that connected my site to Rue de la République, the broad boulevard that runs for about a kilometre down to the port of Marseille, was a series of photographs. They had been blown-up in black and white to A3, printed on thin photocopier paper. The photographs followed the various stages of a sheep being shorn and a boy receiving a haircut.

Site drawings, Marseille

Drawings for Alumno Developments - Edinburgh

Peckham

Ode to a Silverfish

Illustration Pitch

Meet Pearl the English Terrier and Rex the Poodle

Polly

I rediscovered these drawings the other day; they are the beginnings of my first children's book. It's about an Indian Runner Duck called Polly who is massively impatient.

I'm not sure if I'll ever finish her!

Mother at the Airport

We spent 7 hours at Gatwick on Sunday, and then went home. Thank you Iceland Express.

Bev and Buffy's coffee morning

Bev and Buffy both live on the Golden Lane Estate - when it's sunny, there's no better way to pass a Friday morning!

Tim and Mattie

Behind-the-bar-Brian

Journey Research Book

As part of LCC's Design & Rhetoric unit, I created this research and experimentation book.

Merlin Coverley's 'Psychogeography' was the starting point of my investigation. The first and most prominent aspect of the study of psychogeography is the activity of walking; seeking to overcome the process of 'banalisation' by which everyday experience of our experiences becomes one, drab monotony.

Psychogeographers seek to share a perception of the city as a site of mystery and to reveal the true nature that lies under the flux of everyday life.

Using one of Jules' Muji London handkerchiefs, I embroidered a week's worth of journeys. Red indicates a bus journey, orange cycling, pink the Hammersmith and City Line etc...

Musings on London

2009