Book Plans

Proof's in.

Proofs of new book "Fancy Dress" due to be available in December 08.

Book WIP 5

Screen printed winter poster

The past few weeks

Guinness

Guinness - Made Of More from David Wilson on Vimeo.

Young Colossus

Before christmas last year I was asked to work on a musical project by Orlando Weeks. He had produced 6 songs that told a story. He wanted the music to be released with a visual narrative and for me to illustrate it. The book Young Colossus is written by Orlando Weeks, produced by Nic Nell, additional vocals by Alessi Laurent-Marke (Alessi's Ark) and released on Fiction records. you can buy it here. www.youngcolossus.com

Toronto Comic Arts Festival

The book I have been working on for Nobrow press is going to be released at the Torornto Comic Arts Festival. Here is are the details from the NB HQ. Nobrow is proud to announce our attendance at TCAF 2011 from Saturday May 7th, 9am-5pm to Sunday May 8th, 11am-5pm. As well as bringing several ultra-recent titles from our catalogue, TCAF will also be the official launch of Rob Hunter’s hauntingly beautiful new comic The New Ghost (pictured Above).

The Toronto Comic Arts Festival exists to promote the breadth and diversity of comics, and what is considered comics, as legitimate medium of literary and artistic worth. We seek to promote the creators of these works in their broad and diverse voices, for the betterment of the medium of comics and to reach as wide an audience as possible for them.

The first Toronto Comic Arts Festival (“TCAF”) was held on the weekend of March 29th 2003. It was the natural progression of years of disparate book signings, author appearances and miscellaneous events put together by a group of volunteers interested in promoting the literary and artistic merits of comic books and graphic novels. Approximately 600 members of the public attended the first festival, with 25 staff and approximately 70 creators in attendance.

Studiomate

I now share my studio space with Jon Mcnaught, look at his work here. JON McNAUGHT ILLUSTRATION

People I remember, Places I Don't

Over the past few weeks, i ve been working on a book for an exhibition at KALEID gallery in london. The exhibition is a showcase of work by bookmaker and publisher Jonathan Ward and he invited a few guest artists to create a piece to show along side his work. The theme was child hood memories. i decided to draw the images for the book in a medium that i was most familiar with in my childhood (coloured crayons). Here is double page spread from the book.

Picador 40th Anniversary

Over the summer I was asked to design some of the covers for Picador's 40th anniversary series. The Brief was that every cover was to be designed only in solid black and white. Certain areas of the cover are printed in black ink and other areas are a glossy black foil. The process of the foil slightly de-bossing the paper and creating reflective area's creates shifts in tone and texture on the finished book. Personally I was hoping for a classic typeface to run throughout the series to tie it all together, but this wasn't the case and I feel that some suffer from this like the cover for "Dirt Music".