Edward Snowden
About Work Contact Shop THE DEPLORABLES:EDWARD SNOWDEN The Avatars of The Great Awakening The Deplorables is a series of designs that honor popular figures who advocate principles of privacy, transparency, and truth – in particular, those associated with the revelation of secrets. The notes are denominated in the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum and have been specially […]
Avatars of The Awakening
About Work Contact Shop AVATARS OF THE GREAT AWAKENING Republica De Los Deplorables A series of designs produced initially as NFTs – Non-Fungible Tokens, of which this is the first. Non-fungible Tokens are digital assets on the blockchain, and so have digital scarcity. These NFTs will be in editions of no more than 25, and […]
Donald Trump
About Work Contact Shop THE TRUMP NOTE First Preview Released A rough sketch of a forthcoming banknote design, featuring President Donald Trump has been released and circulated on social media. The note is scheduled for release in July, and pays homage to the President’s first 4 years in office. The ‘Trump note’ will feature a […]
One Hundred Pounds
About Work Contact Shop ONE HUNDRED POUNDS A Speculative Design This speculative banknote was actually the first product of a long investigation into Brexit’s impact on design. The back of the note was a response to various attempts to redesign touch-points of British identity – such as the British passport and paper money. The iconic […]
Brexit
About Work Contact Shop DESIGNING FOR BREXIT Investigations into Brexit’s impact on design The experience of Brexit in the UK has progressed with extreme complexity. It has revealed fundamental polarities in the UK’s culture that cannot be easily reconciled. It has been a rallying cry to British identity – an identity which remains fluid and […]
Guendalina Test Note
About Work Contact Shop GUENDALINA TEST NOTE Portrait of a harp player Test note designs are used to showcase a particular feature or technology. In this case, the design challenge was to create a portrait in several layers, using line width modulation – a continuous line with variable thickness. An experiment in line-width modulation The […]
Allegories
About Work Contact Shop ALLEGORIES Thought Attracts This is a design for a unfinished series of promotional designs, each focusing on a different aspect of consciousness. The designs utilize iterative patterns, illustration and geometry, and were intended to be printed in intaglio and offset.Unfinished designs in intaglio and offset. Ingres Test NoteBanknotesIngres Test NoteGuendalina Test […]
Bitcoin Banknote
About Work Contact Shop THE BITCOIN BANKNOTE Full Stack Artist In thinking about the future of cash, currency and ID, I decided to blend all three – the final design is a nationally-issued plastic Bitcoin wallet, with a personalized portrait. Anything can become a Bitcoin wallet, as long as it has a sending and receiving […]
Albania Design
About Work Contact Shop ALBANIA 10,000 LEK Speculative design for a new high denomination The Bank of Albania approached me to propose a new high denomination banknote, with equivalent face value of around 90 USD. The note design is bright red, and features important aspects of Albanian culture and history, as well as holographic strips, […]
Brixton
About Work Contact Shop THE BRIXTON POUND Upgrading A Local Currency The Brixton Pound was one of many local paper ‘currencies’ circulated in the UK. In reality, these were not rival currencies to the GBP, but re-branded Pounds with a one-to-one exchange rate. Though the popularity of such currencies is probably past, for a brief […]