Early in 2014 I was hired by an Edinburgh based design agency to illustrate some food packaging for their client. After a brief meeting I found out the client is “Lees of Scotland” who you will find in many supermarkets. After that initial project I have illustrated...
Earlier this year I set myself a self-initiated project which entirely focused on book cover illustrations and designs as I have to date not been hired to make anyone book covers. When I was an illustration student I always liked any book cover illustration and design...
Japan is one of my favourite destinations. I went to Japan 3 or 4 times when I was really young but as you know kids never truly appreciate the fun, the culture and the food. So now I'm an adult and I'm all into food and culture (and of course all kinds of other...
Bread Meats Bread is one of my favourite restaurants in Edinburgh. In fact it was actually the Glasgow branch of Bread Meats Bread where I first came across their wonderful food but I love their food. I love the burgers, their poutines and the sweet potato chips. They...
Bostock Bakery Edinburgh Illustrated Food Guide. I decided recently to start a new self-initiated project which is to create an illustrated restaurant guide of Edinburgh. This illustrated restaurant guide of Edinburgh (well, EH postcodes) will contain some of my...
United States of America Map illustration. Over the last couple of months I've been working on my latest map illustration which is an illustrated map of the United States of America. As you will know there are so many states in the USA so it took me quite a long time...
The Food & Health Innovation Service commissioned me to illustrate a Scotland food map animation. They commissioned me through the design agency "The Gate Worldwide". I created a food map recently for a personal project which they saw and they asked me to...
For the second time this year UK Foodies Festival commissioned me to illustrate another food festival for them, in this case the winter foodies festival and as usual they are going to use my illustrations for their posters, flyers and tickets. The Foodies Festival...
When I started out as an illustrator just a few short years ago one of the things I discovered I was quite good at illustrating and also really enjoyed illustrating food. After all I was a chef for many years so it's natural that any work I do will be influenced in...