The Beaters Car Club

I made this new logo last week for the Beaters, cool people with cool cars!

Extreme Jet Rock'n'Roll from Japan!

I've just made this poster for Guitar Wolf who are playing in London in June - if you haven't seen 'em, get yerself there, strap yerself down and wait for the blast!

Road Star

John and Steve at Road Star Cycles have very generously let me "work" with them for one day a week, learning mechanics. They're highly skilled engineers and their knowledge of British bikes is unsurpassed - if you need some running repairs, or a total rebuild, they're the people to go to!

Turn on… Tune in… TRIP OUT!

I was asked by Anna and Estelle to design the poster for their new event The Trip Out. The lettering is inspired by the original 60s film poster for The Trip which I used to have on the wall years ago.

I've also designed them a leaflet. It promises to be a great event!!

American Gothic

A poster for the Handsome Family, who are playing in London on 27 May.

Crankhead Customs

I've just made this poster for Jason Brumby, who makes the most incredible, accurate and realistic sculptures of cars -

He does commissions too, so you could own a unique one-off sculpture of your own car. Amazing!

Number 1 for Family Fun!

It's been a bit of a while since I last posted on here, because I've been very busy working on this new website for Carters Steam Fair.

I started working on it back in July, visiting the fair wherever it was working at the weekends and taking photos, and asking the very patient Carter family tons of questions about stuff that they do every day – things that to us are extraordinary. It's been a bit of a labour of love, learning as much as I could so I could write it, design it and illustrate it with as much knowledge as you can glean about a whole family's lifetime in a few months!

Carters Steam Fair is the largest and most authentic travelling vintage fairground in the world, operating, restoring and travelling a large number of vintage rides and equipment with a fleet of classic lorries, while living in traditional showman's wagons.

They're passionate, friendly, welcoming and dedicated, and hugely knowledgeable about the history of fairgrounds in Britain, as well as being immensely skilled artists in their own right. It's been a huge pleasure working with them... if you find yourself in London, the Home Counties, Somerset or Kent during the Carters season, pay them a visit and have yesself some fun!

Ah thankayou very much-aaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!

New poster for The Chambers Halloween shindig!

Hearts and Arrows…

I've just made a second poster for Danny and the Champs. This will be silkscreen-printed and will be sold at their gigs.

When in Rome…

When I was about 25 I was taught to cut letters in stone by my grandfather, Stephen Rickard, who had learnt at the Royal Academy in the 1930s and 40s. It's a very satisfying medium - the piece in the foreground was my first attempt, and it was on a bit of broken York stone (hence the choice of word). The alphabet behind is on a slab of Portland. There's something temptingly mischievous about having the ability to "set things in stone"!