I am so pleased to be included in Martin Dawber’s definitive yearbook of contemporary fashion illustration. This hefty volume contains so much to admire and inspire. It is an honour to have five illustrations interspersed throughout including a full-page featuring my Jeremy Laing paper doll.

I am briefly quoted in the introduction from a longer email interview I did with the author – the best bits are below the fold. Keep in mind this was written a year ago!

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Better late than never – I’ve been meaning to kit out my Behance profile for ages. Of all the online portfolio networking sites out there, it is considered the one to be on. There is so much amazing work on there – well worth browsing for inspiration, and of course a terrific hub for hiring creatives.

I’ve put up a half a dozen of my favourite projects for now, and it was neat to revisit them. Are you on Behance? Say hey and I’ll follow you.

Last week I warned everyone on my social networks that I had entered yet another internet popularity contest. I try not to enter these too often because they are, uh… silly. But when I got an idea for reinventing the Anne Klein lion logo that I felt was half decent, I decided to go for it.

I’m not kidding myself – I know I won’t be able to keep up the e-whoring for six straight days (especially because I am in Paris at the moment), however the higher ranked I am on this thing the more visible I am to the real judges, so if you like my logo idea or you like me, please indulge me and give me your vote. You only have to vote once. It would be sweet to get in the top 50, but realistically, anything better than dead last would be wonderful. Thanks so much to all of you.

Also, please scroll all the way down and check out the full concept – there’s two elements to it that I’ve shown used in a variety of ways to suggest the versatility of it. I couldn’t tell if it was too obvious or too conceptual when I was rendering it – its obviously a bit of both which is what I think makes it neat. I should have used the logo mark as the leading image instead of the figure, in retrospect.

This summer I had a dream come true – I got to work on a project that brought my paper dolls to life, thanks to a dream client, Bloomingdale’s!

Pippa is a line of chic, career-girl-friendly separates, and the paper doll is a fun way to show how easy it is to mix and match.  Visit the site and click on Mix & Match to play.

Thanks so much to the team at Bloomingdale’s, I think the site looks amazing and I am so proud to be a part of it.

My first ever glossy magazine editorial illustration was in the July issue of Threads Magazine, a magazine I used and enjoyed even before I became a fashion student. Threads had also introduced me to some of my favourite 20th century designers, Fortuny and Charles Kleibacker. The brief was to illustrate a delighted seamstress showing off her magically perfect darts, I also included my own favourite vintage domestic machine, the Necchi, as a little tribute to my Nana who gave me the machine.

Thanks so much to the editors and staff at Threads for this opportunity – I consider it a milestone in my brief career.

It is neat to get to show off a recent freelance project – a new business, MAVEN, asked me to come up with an illustration concept for their website.  I am pleased with how the illustrations were incorporated into the website design by Parade Creative – click on all the different menu options to see variations on the figures tailored to each category.  Thanks so much Erin and Marni for being great clients!

My first ever book publishing project finally came in the mail this week.  It is Fashion Illustration School by Acadamy of Art University professor Carol Nunnelly.

My contribution is nothing grand or glamourous – I did the examples of technical illustrations and a few examples of step-by-step fabric rendering.

Handbag designer Jessica Jensen commissioned an illustration for her upcoming sample sale poster.  Her gorgeous, genuine leather handbags are available at an incredible 75% discount for just two days, July 9 and 10.  See the full illustration below, and click for big.

Check out this amazing party for Worn Journal, the Bata Shoe Museum and Fashion Cares.  All the info – and a few pictures of terrific shoes customized by amazing artists – is here and you are invited.

They asked me to customize a pair of Keds too.  Here they are – top picture courtesy of Worn Journal, the rest are mine and if you click them you can see them even bigger.  These Keds will be on the auction block for a great cause at a great party.  I hope to reveal how I did them at the party, so if you are curious (or want to make a bid), please come up and say hi on June 6th.

I got the best package from the Dr. today… my very own Dr. Martens boots, the ones I designed, are finally In Real Life.  Wearing boots I designed by a company I have been buying boots from for a decade… incredible feeling.  I am thrilled.

More good news yet – the Dr. has decided to bring them to Canada – they will be carried at NEON stores in Toronto and Montreal.  Of course I will tell you when they get delivered.  Do stay tuned…