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Misc. Illustrations 
* If I don't draw for a while, when I sit down to illustrate it's like drawing with someone else's hand – it feels as though I don't have control of the line....
YA Fiction | Cover design 
Young Adult fiction is often dark and slightly twisted – unsurprising, when you think about what's happening hormonally. As a designer who illustrates, I get to...
Interior/Environmental graphics 
Wall graphics for The Cut, a high end bar and grill in The Rocks, Sydney. The interior designers, Luchetti Krelle, briefed me to design a floor to ceiling graphic...
The Public Life of Monkeys 
For about three years, I've made almost daily 'visits' to a troupe of wild monkeys in the Nagano region of Japan, via a live webcam that updates every minute. When...
A Life in Frocks | Design and Illustration 
* Winner: Australian Publishers Association Award for Best Design Non-fiction book, 2011. This memoir is structured around the author's fashion experiences. I...
Two books on Japan 
These two handmade books were part of a 2013 exhibition, The Public Life of Monkeys. Although not directly about monkeys, the books document my cultural awe and...
Illustrations for Trunk Books 
Illustration for Rebecca Huntley's article on 'Serious Hair' in Trunk, vol. 1: Illustration accompanying Rebecca Huntley's article on cooking with blood, in...
On Naughtiness 
My friend Tom Lee wrote a essay called 'A Poetics of the Naughty'. I loved it so much I immediately wanted to DO something with it – to make it into something, to...
Still Life with Typewriter 
This book is a visual response to Tom Robbins' novel Still Life with Woodpecker. Within the novel, the narrator interrupts his story with asides about his writing...
Nonficiton | Cover design 
Most of these covers were designed while I was in-house at Allen&Unwin. * Winner: Australian Publisher's Association Book Design Awards 2006, Best Designed...
Unlikely Avian Taxonomies 
A project with my colleague Kate Sweetapple, recategorising real birds into new taxonomies, based on patterns in their names. We spent the better part of a year...
Memoir and Biography | Cover design 
* * * * * * Co-designed with my colleage and friend Tabitha King: * *
Book(ends) 
* Book(ends), 2002. I wrote and designed this book as my undergraduate honours project. A print book and a digital book meet in a bar. Print is depressed because...
Fiction | Cover design 
These covers are all 'commercial fiction' (as distinct from 'literary fiction') – the brief generally specifies that the cover should appeal to readers in both...
Type Horses | exhibition 
Before computers and i-things took over, anyone who had anything to say relied on the typewriter to make it happen. This collection of drawings, posters and...
Hand, Writing | exhibition 
DAB LAB Research Gallery (UTS). This exhibition was the final excavation of all the handwritten ephemera I produced in the process of writing my doctoral thesis. I...
Sundays | exhibition 
* An exhibition of three handmade books, accompanied by annotated process work, exploring how and why graphic devises could be incorporated into a short...
Logo design 
Various logo and visual identity design projects. * Logo design for a gelato and dessert bar in Westfields: * Logo for St Augustine Academy, a...
Graphic Design 
* Odd jobs and projects, from 2002 – now. Logotype, web template and room sheets for an exhibition at the UTS Gallery: * IDEN journal visual...
Eugene's Fetish 
In a post-print age, Eugene is considered a pervert for obsessing over the smell and feel of paper. The images are mixed media collages – turps-release prints...
T-shirt graphics 
Over a couple of beers at our local pub, my mate Oli announced that he'd always wanted to start a t-shirt business – he had the cash/web skills and I had the...