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There is a hidden world all around us. Microscopic organisms make up eighty percent of the world’s biomass. They can be found in the deepest part of the ocean and on the palm of your hand, yet it is easy…

Augmented reality gives us the chance to add new layers of meaning to the things around us. So, how can we use it to communicate information? This is a fascinating topic and I have been thinking about this question a…

I love space. And space ships. So why not make a font using them as an inspiration? Star Type is precisely that. I started by creating an array of shapes that I worked with to develop my alphabet. I wanted…

I have found that a lot of people find ‘handwritten’ fonts cheesy, overly emotional and don’t seem to use them very often. I started to wonder why that is. Handwriting is something so personal and imperfect, so maybe the fact…

Tardigrades are perhaps the most resilient creatures on earth. While ‘surviving death’ may be a bit of a stretch, I admit, they are able to survive extreme situations like intense temperatures, starvation and even vacuum. How? By entering cryptobiosis! This is…

I’ve spent a lot of time working in a chemistry laboratory and even though it can be challenging (and frustrating, and exhausting, …) it is also more beautiful than most people would think. This animation was illustrated and animated digitally using the…

A song tells a story. In the case of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, it is a dark and haunting one. Since I love to draw I adore songs that have strong visuals and there are some that produce vivid pictures in…

Steve Brusatte wrote in his (great) book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs “The realisation that birds are dinosaurs is probably the single most important fact ever discovered by dinosaur palaeontologists.” I knew that birds descended from dinosaurs before reading the…

In the early 19th century a woman named Anne Lister wrote in her diary. Like a lot of people have done for hundreds of years. But why was Anne writing parts of it in a secret code? And, more importantly,…

So you want to be a roman emperor? Learn from the best…or worst. This illustration documents the duty and death of the emperors of the Principate, the first period of the Roman Empire. Who reigned the longest? Who died the…