This was the cover commissioned for a restaurant menu in Truro. They were going for a Californian, sunny outdoor theme.
Pencil sketch, helping with homework
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. Psychologists will recognise the elements of the Shepard and Metzler experiment on mental imagery and rotation. I was very disappointed with the print quality compared to my original. But two shades doesn’t get you far with a 3D design.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. This DNA took ages to craft, using a ray tracing package. Then I had to write some custome code to get 2-colour separations for print purposes.
Commissioned by The Psychologist in 1992
The scene from a classic experiment by Bowlby in the 1950s (I think). Demonstrating that infant monkeys still preferred comfort even if the other simulated monkey was the provider of milk.
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine.
Psychologist – multi-cultural issue. Owes a lot to reference from the National Geographic magazine.
I drafted this shape on my home Acorn computer, before a full-quality rendition on our Meiko parallel processor at work.
Office workers. I was trying to break away from the dotty style which I’d adopted for too long.
A ray-tracing visualisation of Stars-n-stripes.
Not really for a play, just a little exercise in water-colour
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. It was supposed to symbolise the maze in your head through which the psychotherapist would have to navigate. I sneaked in a practical joke too, by ensuring that the maze had no way through to the centre.
This was some Psychologist theme about explosive or surprising personality traits.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine.
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. Built by my hand-crafted Postscript.
Not sure what inspired the idea for this, but stylistically it is a nod to Barry Windsor Smith
Every evening class for painting seems to raise the idea of painting shoes.
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
My first & only attempt at “painting” entirely in Photoshop
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. The Y sign is a Psychology icon. The shape was built with a 3D visualisation package which was more accustomed to showing simulated rock-structures.
Cover commissioned for the Psychologist. One of those challenges where you had to make an abstract idea concrete. It was drawn on an Acorn and then unusually I got professional acetates printed for the colour separations.
I drafted this shape on my home Acorn computer, before a full-quality rendition on our Meiko parallel processor at work.
Pyschologists might recognise a fancilful version of Shepherd and Metxzer
