trawling through some old artwork the other day i came across this little graphic from 20 or so years ago when i was doing lots of illustrations for magazines and children's books. i had forgotten it completely and consequently forgotten that curious was only part of a long ongoing obsession with dead dogs...
two more illustrations that won't get used in the red house, now that i've ditched illustrations altogether
the fine picture of the nazi ogre being beheaded was drawn (to order) by my son
a wordle thereof to celebrate finishing a full draft of the red house
from which, i realise, you can tell pretty much nothing except that it's neither crime, erotica or sci-if
sad song nocturnal
sometimes you need to do something with the iphone to compensate for 7 hours of doodle jump
i stumbled on this via a guardian article today. informationisbeautiful. a gorgeous website run by david mccandless which sits slap-bang on the art & design / number-nerdiness boundary. this particular image is a graphical representation of the frequency of certain words in horoscopes. click on the link below and lose several hours of your life but in a really uplifting way.