“The simple, sober cover design that Keith Dodds did for Verso Books' "The End of Policing" is not the kind of thing that wins awards or makes year-end 10 best lists, but holy sh*t it works to devastating effect at a moment like this”
Hoarding designs for MAC, a contemporary arts centre in Birmingham's Cannon Hill Park, to help maintain a public presence during the Covid lockdowns.
Verso Books, Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal
Verso Books, A World Without Police
Verso Books, Rhapsody for the Theatre / The Age of the Poets
Verso Books, For a Left Populism
Verso Books, A Critical Theory of Police Power
Verso Books, Direct Action
Verso Books, Revolution in the Revolution
Verso Books, Foucault's Analysis of Modern Governmentality
Verso Books, The Enemy Within
Verso Books, The Dignity of Chartism
Cover designs for Verso Books, the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
Art direction by Andy Pressman, Melissa Weiss, and No Ideas.
Black Hole Club, Welcome to the New Earth
Black Hole Club, Logo
Black Hole Club, artofficedoc.online
Black Hole Club, Press On and Play
Ongoing design for Black Hole Club, Vivid Projects' artists develpment programme, which provides space for sharing skills, testing ideas and reaching audiences through live and online platforms.
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Identity
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
Flatpack, Wonderland Exhibition
“The project has uncovered a dazzling array of material from public and private collections alike, bringing Birmingham’s cinema history to life.”
Editorial illustration for America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art.
Publication for David Rowan, based on works relating to Oliver Lodge, the University of Birmingham's first Principal, originally commissioned by the University's Research and Cultural Collections. Phantom Walls is the title of Lodge’s book of 1929, which explored the possibility of an afterlife – an alternative reality beyond death.
Pluto Press, Transgender Marxism
Pluto Press, Revenge Capitalism
Pluto Press, Postcapitalist Futures
Pluto Press, The Situationist International
Book cover designs for Pluto Press, established in 1969 and one of the world’s oldest radical publishers.
Art direction by Melanie Patrick
Wümme
Wümme, January 2020
Wümme, February 2020
Wümme, March 2020
Wümme, April 2020
Wümme, April 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, May 2020
Wümme, June 2020
Wümme, July 2020
Wümme, August 2020
Wümme, September 2020
Wümme, October 2020
Wümme, November 2020
Wümme, November 2020
Wümme, November 2020
Wümme, December 2020
Begun as a monthly risographed mailer, Wümme turned into an accidental plague diary. Twelve monthly editions were sent free across the UK, Europe and North America, the only constraint the A6 kraft envelopes they were mailed in. Print on demand and lots of hand finishing took over when the risograph died after the first month.
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
David Rowan, Paradise 1974–2016
A publication by David Rowan which bears witness to the rise and fall of John Madin’s Paradise Circus. ‘Paradise 1974-2016’ marks the passing of this brutal landmark both celebrated and contested in its’ lifetime.
Poster design for Birmingham Design Festival's Creative City poster exhibition.
Thanks to Luke Tonge for the invitation.
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
General Public, Let Us Play
Publication about the Birmingham adventure playground movement from the 1960s to 1980s. These were temporary ‘junk playgrounds’ set-up on patches of urban waste-land and stocked with ‘loose parts’ of discarded wood, abandoned building materials and other detritus, with children encouraged to construct their own play environments.
An anthology, published by Sternberg Press and edited by Jon K Shaw and Theo Reeves-Evison, in which a mixture of new and established names in the fields of contemporary art, media theory, philosophy, and speculative fiction explore the diverse ways fiction manifests.