The 24 Hour Movie Marathon. The Mount Everest of  movie viewing experiences. I was asked to create an image that paid tribute to the fantastic Hollywood Cinema venue where the marathon is held each year - a building full of character that is perfectly suited to the event, and fondly linked in many attendees minds to the yearly ritual.

The New Zealand Improv Festival wanted a promotional poster with imagery playing off the tag line 'stumbling towards awesome'.  The bulb head character was an old mascot for the event, updated and re-interpreted in this instance falling through a vortex of improvisational energy.

Promotional poster created for Sarah Harpurs award winning theatre show 'Immortal Combat', performed at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

"Death is pretty deadly. Is it an epidemic that must be cured, or part of life? It’s possible that we will see medical immortality in our lifetime. But if we leave behind a legacy, is it necessary?"

Label and tap badge artwork for Pan Pacific Amber Ale, a delicious craft brew by The Garage Project.

"There is no scientific evidence to suggest that vaccinations are a cause of Autism, yet many are scared away from the needle for this very reason. This fear places us all at a greater risk as these preventable diseases are passed easily from person to person."

The first in the series of five, the poster explores and pokes fun at the irrational fear of vaccinations, a fear spread by misinformation and bad reporting. The issue is presented in the context of a fictional faux horror film.

The Silver Screen Hysteria series won a Gold Pin in the 2010 Best Awards.

"The threat of a worldwide pandemic is not nearly as high as you might imagine. In fact, the recent swine flu has a fatality rate near identical to that of seasonal flu."

The second in the series of five, the poster ribs on the hysteria and panic surrounding global pandemics - a juicy doomsday scenario that is seized upon and repeated ad nauseam by the news media. The issue is presented in the context of a fictional faux horror film.

The Silver Screen Hysteria series won a Gold Pin in the 2010 Best Awards.

"New Zealand's murder rate has almost halved in the past 20 years despite the vast public view that we are amidst a crime wave. The murder rate is regarded as one of the best measures of trends in actual violent crime."

The third in the series of five, the poster visually communicates the frightening, distorted view of crime resulting from sensational, eyegrabbing headlines and the relentless media saturation of the information age. The issue is presented in the context of a fictional faux horror film.

The Silver Screen Hysteria series won a Gold Pin in the 2010 Best Awards.

"In the wake of September 11 many feared air travel and instead took to the roads. This led to an additional 1,595 recorded deaths on American roads during the year following the attacks. This is more than half the number of lives lost on September 11."

The forth in the series of five, the poster points out how in some cases our fears can unknowingly put us at greater risk. It also aims to compare the differences in reporting extremely rare yet sensational events to the comparitively mundane yet far more frequent .  The issue is presented in the context of a fictional faux horror film.

The Silver Screen Hysteria series won a Gold Pin in the 2010 Best Awards.

"The media's focus on kidnappings and abductions would have us believe that there exists a swarm of perverts out to snatch us and our children. The reality is that abductions by strangers are extremely rare."

The final in a series of five, the poster aims to show the somewhat warped perception of stranger danger driven by the media.  The issue is presented in the context of a fictional faux horror film.

The Silver Screen Hysteria series won a Gold Pin in the 2010 Best Awards.

Icons and banner art for the Awful Betamax application.  Available for download on the Google Play Store.

Jigsaw24 are one of the leading specialist AV and creative IT suppliers in the UK. Working within the in-house design department I was asked on occasion to produce cover and spot illustrations for the company magazine.

Illustrations for 'The Last of the Dinosaurs' by Simon Cooke, first published in Level 3 edition of the September 2011 School Journal.

Illustrations for 'The Last of the Dinosaurs' by Simon Cooke, first published in Level 3 edition of the September 2011 School Journal.

Illustrations for 'The Last of the Dinosaurs' by Simon Cooke, first published in Level 3 edition of the September 2011 School Journal.

Illustrations for 'Sprint' by Peter Batchelor, first published in part 4, Number 3  of the 2009 School Journal.

Illustrations for 'Sprint' by Peter Batchelor, first published in part 4, Number 3  of the 2009 School Journal.

'The Irrefutable Truth About Pet Food' is an absurd, post apocalyptic, musical, solo comedy that runs the gamut from the mundane to the epic. Actor Barnaby Fredric performs multiple roles and switches between them through the use of wigs, eyepatches and hats.

The one sheet went on to win 'Best Poster of the Year' at the 2010 Hackman Theatre Awards.

Three average guys become convinced that their suburb is being infiltrated by zombies when three suspicious looking gentlemen move in next door. They begin a misguided crusade to rid the town of these suspected undead. Will the heroes manage to rid the town of the walking dead? Yes. Yes they will. Or will they?… yes.

A soldier pushes over a large guard dog to claim precious treature beneath in this illustration of Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Tinderbox'

             Soldier character concepts for the excellent Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale 'The Tinderbox'.

                                              Artwork for Wellington band 'The Rainsluts'

                                              Artwork for Wellington band 'The Rainsluts'