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Extraordinaires Design Studio

Here's a project I participated in about a year ago with Belfast's Creativity Hub. I was asked to illustrate two of the Extraordinaires characters along with a host of Ireland's best known and talented illustrators. The final product is called  Extraordinaires Design Studio and is being marketed as a toy to help train our next generation of Designers – great idea. I missed last night's unofficial launch party, but I'll be in Dublin on Friday night to attend the official launch and put my signature on some prize giveaways as part of the OFFSET conference.

Here are the two Characters I designed for the Design Studio…

 

Come & Play, Everything's A-Okay…

Okay, I actually completed this a few months back, but the shows only began broadcasting today. In the summer I was approached by the creators of cbeebies phenomenon Sesame Tree to create a library of book jacket designs to appear in the show – the premise being, that Potto pulls a book from the library each episode. This was a great job to work on – so if you have kids, make sure you tune into cbeebies! Here's a sample of what to expect…

 The Sesame Tree Gang, featuring Potto (centre) & new character, Archie the Squirrel 

Sesame Tree is a co-production with the world-famous Sesame Workshop in New York and the second series will be broadcast on BBC's cbeebies channel from 22 November.