News & Blog

WIRED 16.05 cover – sections of feature illustrations

Recently I completed a set of digital illustrations for the latest issue of WIRED Magazine (Issue 16.05 – May 2008). The cover feature (featuring Steve Carrell) gives tips on how to ‘get smarter’. The Wired team asked me to illustrate some of the articles in the feature, such as how to maximize your brain capacity, why not to panic, thinking positive – amongst others (you’ll have to buy the magazine to see the rest!). Was fun to open the box of tricks again and do some abstract stuff while trying to not max out the computer.

Better late than never, I just found out some of my logos are featured in the book Logo Design, published by Taschen in 2006.
I remember sending stuff in, but never heard back from them. Anyway - good stuff – although I’ve seen nicer covers from Taschen…

The April 2008 issue of Creative Review has a nice full page article about
the For Feet From A Rat comic in Time Out we did with Mother.

Fairspot has added an interview with yours truly.
Go ahead and read it if you want to find out what music I’ve been listening to lately…

Smashing Magazine has an impressive list of great book covers including some all time classics. Quite a nice surprise to see the St. Cyborg’s cover I designed last year among the list!

Comic Book Tattoo cover. Art by Jason Levesque.

Lately Liz and I have been burning the midnight oil on a pretty big print project: Tori Amos’ Comic Book Tattoo - a nearly 500-page deluxe-packaged anthology featuring some of comics’ brightest talents including David Mack, Mike Dringenberg, Jonathan Hickman, Carla Speed McNeil, Laurenn McCubbin, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Ivan Brandon, Calum Watt, Neil Kleid, Christopher Mitten, Elzabeth Genco, Chris Arrant, and Daniel Heard - all of whom turn in new work inspired by the music of Tori Amos. And we’re designing the mother!

The book will be released in 3 editions: regular trade paperback, hardcover, and a deluxe signed (by Tori) hardcover in slipcase. All available from the 23rd of July and launched at this years San Diego Comic Con.

Of course, more news will follow over the coming months, but in the meantime here’s the cover and the CBT logo by yours truly.

Comic Book Tattoo Logo. Line art by Jason Levesque.

24SEVEN, Vol2 cover

Congrats to Ivan Brandon who just scooped a Best Anthology nomination at the Eisner Awards for 24SEVEN, Vol2!

Pretty cool to hear that a book I was involved with getting that kind of recognition!

Four Feet From A Rat cover. Art by Liam Sharp

Last month Ad agency Mother and the crew at Mam Tor Publishing™ collaborated on Four Feet From A Rat - an exclusive 16 page comic that appeared in the pages of Time Out London - the first edition of what will be a quarterly supplement to the magazine with a print run of approximately 100.000 copies!

For the stories I cobbled together some logos and had some fun with the themes… all of them relate in a way to London.

You can read an interview with our own Liam Sharp over at Newsarama, and the Guardian newspaper has it covered as well (although I don’t really agree with some of the comments of their comics “expert” Will Hodgkinson).

Petronas Towers, originally uploaded by helloMuller.

Yes, I’m still alive and well! Spent the past 3 weeks in Malaysia with my wife and my brother, stayed at her parents and had a lovely time.
It wasn’t a honeymoon - rather a ‘2nd wedding’ holiday - this time with all of Liz’s relatives there (all 200+ of them!) and the traditional Chinese Tea ceremony to welcome me in the family (yes, you can call me a made man now).

Of course, no holiday is complete without something going wrong… When we arrived in Malaysia we discovered that Liz’s passport had expired and had thus overstayed in the UK… Something the Malaysian authorities don’t take lightly! A lot of time during the vacation was spent frantically trying to convince the immigration department that it was a stupid mistake on our part and hope they would give her a new passport in time before we had to return to the UK. Threatened with the penalty of withholding her passport for 3 years, I was contemplating setting up a Kleber office in Kuala Lumpur and eat noodles and steamboat for the coming 3 years - but luckily everything worked out and we’re back in London. With valid passports!

Here are some travel pics, enjoy.