To mark the historic relocation of the 2026 Brit Awards to Manchester, I was commissioned to create a site-specific installation for a city-wide art trail.

Curated by Stanley Chow and produced by Wild in Art, the project featured 20 leading North-West artists activating billboards and architectural spaces throughout the Northern Quarter and Ancoats.

The piece explores themes of defiance and feminist legacy, translating complex social history into a bold, public-facing visual narrative.

Titled after the track "U Should Not Be Doing That" by Best International Group nominees Amyl and The Sniffers, the design commemorates a century of disruptive women; linking the pioneers of the suffrage movement with the contemporary female artists who continue to challenge social expectations.

I was commissioned by Lacoste to design a bespoke "city badge" for a limited-edition Manchester polo shirt, sold exclusively through Selfridges.

The brief required a visual narrative that integrated Manchester’s iconic architecture and local history with the brand’s tennis heritage.

The resulting design was executed as custom embroidery applied to a curated range of red, white, black, sky blue and navy colourways.

Navigating the technical constraints of small-scale embroidery provided a rewarding challenge; I distilled complex architectural forms into a clean, legible motif to ensure a high-quality finish during the manufacturing process.

Beat Herder music festival commissioned me to design the a line-up poster and a full poster for their 2026 festival.

The PLAYHOUSE competition was a collaboration between its originator, Carma Masson of multi-disciplinary design studio Playground Design, Ben Clark Design , and myself.

The idea of the competition was to encourage creatives from all backgrounds to design something to enable people to play at home during lockdown, and to raise funds for the National Emergencies Trust’s Coronavirus Appeal.

The competition attracted 142 entries in total from 40 different countries.

I was asked to create the main image for use on the website, competition brief and promotional material.

The illustration was then turned into a window installation at Hilton House in Manchester city centre as part of the 50 Windows of Creativity art trail, organised by Bee In The City and Wild in Art.

Logo and design by Ben Clark Design.
Competition concept and window build by Playground.
Animation by Inês Margarida at Flow.

Commissioned by The Leith Agency, I developed a bespoke visual concept for the global launch of Macallan’s ‘Distil Your World’ Mexico edition.

The brief required the creation of four 'Alebrijes': mythical creatures designed to blend Scottish and Mexican wildlife, representing the whisky’s dual heritage and regional tasting notes. These represent the whisky’s Scottish heritage and its Mexican-inspired tasting notes.

The animated stained-glass-window illustrations were showcased on large LED screens at exclusive consumer events across the globe.

View the animations here.

Flow is a design agency specialising in animation and motion graphics. They commissioned me to create these stained-glass style designs to decorate the windows of their Manchester studio. 

Each design was based on a stage of Flow's creative process.

The designs were printed onto vinyl and applied to the inside of the windows.

I was approached by a private collector to create a bespoke piece centred on the mountain gorilla.

The core design challenge lay in creating a perfectly symmetrical, highly stylised likeness and integrating these complex forms cleanly into a structural frame, whilst still ensuring the piece remained informative to the viewer.

The chosen colour palette of red, yellow, and blue deliberately represents the national flags of the three democratic territories where the species resides: Rwanda, Uganda, and DR Congo.

Additionally, the typography framing the border integrates the names of the three primary Virunga volcanoes—Mikeno, Visoke, and Karisimbi—where these gorillas are found in their natural habitat.

Beat Herder music festival commissioned me to design the backdrop illustrations for two lineup posters and a flyer.

Conceived in the wake of the Manchester Arena attacks, the book 'This Is The Place. Choose Love, Manchester' takes the lines from Tony Walsh’s inspirational poem about the city and sets them to unique artworks, illustrations and photography from over 60 creative individuals and agencies.

All proceeds were split between 3 Manchester charities: Forever Manchester, We Love MCR Emergency Fund and The Greater Manchester Mayor's Homelessness Fund.

I was invited to contribute an illustration based on the line 'Our Inventions Are Legends'. The design combines some of Manchester's lesser-known inventions with the more famous ones.

I was commissioned by the agency Marketing Manchester to create an illustration to feature on the pages of a white paper created by Greater Manchester Local Enterprise Partnership called ‘Material Gains: Building Better Cities for People and the Planet’. The paper accompanied an event at which leading commentators from the fields of science, industry and academia explored the future for Greater Manchester as enabled by advanced materials.

The illustration imagines the city region in 2038, by which point it is hoped that Greater Manchester will have achieved carbon neutrality. The brief was to illustrate a futuristic vision of a region enabled by low carbon growth and advanced materials and initiatives, incorporating recognisable Greater Manchester landmarks and potential innovations in transport, industry, agriculture and infrastructure.

Another take on the famous Manchester worker bee, a well-known symbol of the city. The ten nuts represent the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, the red represents the red rose of Lancashire, and there is a nod to Manchester’s grey skies and rain.

Available as a print here

Beat Herder music festival commissioned me to design the backdrop illustrations for two lineup posters and a flyer.

This was a commission to design a piece of stained glass to be inserted into the client’s front door. The brief specified that I include the house number and a selection of symbols that represented the client’s family, interests and heritage.

The waves represent the river Clyde, from where the client’s family originated; the pen nib represents the client’s writer daughter, and the bicycle wheel represents the client’s favourite hobby, cycling. The colours are taken from the family tartan and the red star represents the client’s business, which has a Soviet name.

The window was made by Kyran Hall Art Glass in Levenshulme.

I was approached by developers Step Places to design murals for 4 sites in their new residential development, Cotton Square in Ancoats, Manchester.

Ancoats was at the heart of the Manchester’s cotton industry and there was once a cutting room on the site, so I developed a set of graphics inspired by industrial revolution-era cotton-processing machinery.

Some designs based on the famous landmarks and heritage of Stockport, initially designed with the intention of being used on glass.

Illustration for the cover of the 'Make Hay' EP by UK folk group 'The Local'.

I was commissioned by In Place of War to design a comprehensive infographic based on the findings of the 'Art In Peace' research project, conducted in collaboration with The University of Manchester.

The brief required translating a complex academic framework into a clear visual system.

The design maps out four distinct approaches to peacebuilding through art: organic grassroots activity (Artpeace formation), cause-driven disruption (Artivism), institutionally funded agendas (Art peace building), and status-quo maintenance (Artpacification). The infographic visualises how these models interact with various audiences—from local communities to governments—whilst exploring the impact of curation, resources, and systemic barriers.

Ultimately, the graphic illustrates how creating alternative creative spaces can drive genuine cultural, political, and legal change, a process defined by the research as 'Artpeace'.

I was commissioned by fashion technology magazine The Interline, to design the cover of their annual Fashion Sustainability Report.

This deep-dive report on the evolution of technology for fashion sustainability covers “the changing landscape of legislation, the mechanics of traceability, the outlook for skilled workers in a circular value chain, and much more.”

The report is available to download here.

Studio Dotto commissioned me to create an illustration to promote the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres production, ‘Our Lady of Blundellsands’.

Design, typography and art direction by Studio Dotto.

The design is pictured in the Spring 2020 Everyman and Playhouse ‘What’s On’ guide. Photography by Laura Hutchinson.

x+why is a London-based company that creates flexible and innovative workspaces with excellent environmental credentials.

Their first workspace in the north of England was opened in a brand new building in Salford, called 100 Embankment.

I was commissioned by design agency Mammal to design two murals to enhance the corridor that leads the way into the building’s roof terrace, which is a space for events, classes and networking.

I designed a personalised print as a surprise gift for my friend Paula. There are references to her job as a doctor; Ljublijana and Lake Bled in Slovenia; Manchester, Newcastle, Giraffes, Ireland, Cocktails, Communism, and a ridiculous trip in a rowing boat we shared which ended in comedy capers.

Illustration for a hair salon in Manchester.

Working with Mocha I designed a suite of illustrations for The University of Liverpool. The illustrations were animated and featured in short films designed to attract new students to the university. Each illustration highlights a different school, covering its research topics, and is inspired by some of the stained glass windows in the university’s Victoria Building.

Below are the static illustrations, followed by the full films.

I was commissioned to design a print for a birthday present. The client asked me to include the recipient’s 2 cats, as well as references to the guitar, Greece, San Francisco , New York and coding. The client also wanted me to include a bee, which is the meaning of the name Deborah.

Working with Manchester agency Creative Spark I was asked to create illustrations as part of the brand refresh for Zen Office. These were used for product brochures and promotional material, and for a mural in the company's reception area.

San Carlo is an established Italian restaurant brand with leading restaurants in Bristol, Leicester, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and London. I was asked to create a wall graphic for the boardroom of their new Manchester headquarters.

The brief was to incorporate 6 of their prestigious restaurant sites and a splash of Italian-flavoured street activity.

Editorial illustration for Alliance Manchester Business School’s twice-yearly ‘Research’ publication. The image illustrates the lead article regarding the ‘levelling up’ required between North and South transport infrastructure projects. It appears both on the cover and next to the article inside the magazine.

In 2016 the creative agency The Neighbourhood asked me to participate in their Christmas campaign ‘Your Type of Christmas’. The idea was to illustrate a gift chosen from a list compiled by the public and other agencies. My gift was a ‘Robot Raconteur’. Some of the designs were then displayed on a rooftop billboard.

As part of the 2017 Design Manchester festival, the Anthony Burgess Foundation hosted an exhibition which saw designers from around the world share new design ideas for classic novels. 

I was invited to participate and chose the 1961 novel 'One Hand Clapping'. The novel was intended as an indictment of what Burgess saw as the degradation of contemporary Western education and culture. 

Working with Mocha I designed a suite of illustrations for The University of Liverpool. The illustrations were animated and featured in short films designed to attract new students to the university. Each illustration highlights a different school, covering its research topics, and is inspired by some of the stained glass windows in the university’s Victoria Building.

Here’s a print I designed for my friend Stacey to celebrate her 40th birthday. ‘Stacey’ apparently means ‘fruitful’ and ‘resurrection’, which inspired some of the imagery. She loves a good rave too, hence the speakers in the butterfly’s wings.

Working with the Conran Design Group I created a graphic which was made into a feature wall at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's new premises in New Bailey, Salford.

A graphic to promote PopUp Bikes' bike jumble sale, to be used on social media.

This is a cover for the science fiction novel 'Westmore and More!', by author Jud Widing.

Manchester Climbing Centre commissioned me to create a mural for one of the walls in their West Gorton-based centre, which is in a Victorian church. The mural depicts some of Manchester's most famous landmark buildings being scaled by climbers.

Client: Manchester Climbing Centre
 

Working with agency Collect Creative, I created a set of illustrated luggage tags featuring architecture and scenery from 5 different cities; New York, Barcelona, Milan, Amsterdam and Paris. These were displayed in the window of Bags Etc in Salford's Lowry Outlet Mall, as part of Freshtival, an event to celebrate 10 years of the Fresh Awards.

Each tag was paired with a product from the shop. In the few days that the display was present, sales of those particular products increased.

Client: Collect Creative

I was commissioned by film production company Mocha to design and illustrate an animation to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of Alliance Manchester Business School.

The brief was to create an animated film to accompany a poem written by Manchester poet Tony Walsh aka Longfella.

The poem encapsulates Manchester’s originality, innovation and boundless achievements across science, business, hospitality, sport, infrastructure and music; whilst celebrating the School’s heritage and ongoing contributions to the City.

Client: Alliance Manchester Business School