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The Subtle Art of Hip Hop Puppeteering

‘kind of like a kids tv show for adults’ is how the pacific northwest’s premier hip hop puppeteers, The Fungineers first described themselves to me when they approached me to design their album artwork and then apply the same subtle approach to their website, which is now live so you can work out for yourself what it is exactly that they do. Just put on some shades first…

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The Glossies

Just as I was shutting down for the festive break, Saatchi & Saatchi handed me a nice, fun brief to illustrate the cover of Marketing magazine. Thus keeping the crap tv and saturates at bay for a little while longer. It looks like this…

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Merry Boxing Day

Merry Boxing Day, to all who, like myself, are still working. I salute you comrade. Wear your pallid, midwinter complexion and accompanying under-eye swelling with pride.

It’s been a crazy busy end to the year and I shall soon be updating the site with some choice graphical produce for the likes of Droga5 and Saatchi & Saatchi amongst others . For now, here’s a christmas stocking.

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Vectors

Getting pretty intimate with adobe illustrator for a rather large ad campaign I’m working on presently.

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The broadsheets

A little editorial in this week’s Guardian’s independent bookshops supplement. All about a science fiction bookshop in Edinburgh. I’m no expert, but as far as I’m aware there are only two visual memes within the context of ’science fiction’ and I will pipp for ‘camp-50’s/60’s’ over ‘The Matrix’ any day.

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Guardian There will be unicorns illustration

New Promo

My new promos arrived this week, in readyness to be sent out to everybody that’s anybody whether they like it or not. Should you be lucky enough to receive one without even asking, then congratulations, you’ve made it. If not, then keep reaching for the stars and please contact AgencyRush or myself directly if you’d like one.

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2010, The Year This Blog Forgot

I hereby declare this blog open…. again. Although it has always technically been open, it has now been stagnant for 8 months, gathering several inches or internet dust (which mainly manifests itself as spam comments advertising registery cleaners and cock pills). Not anymore! hear me roar Tim Berners-Lee! Starting with this bombshell! – ‘…And there will be unicorns’ is currently undergoing a slight overhaul… of sorts.

I am in the process of setting up another site to house my general portfolio, leaving ‘and there will be unicorns’ more streamlined, coherant and ultimately a truer expression of my illustrative style of choice. A few examples of which can be seen below. So if all goes to plan, there’ll be plenty of exciting projects and applications involving said style over the coming year and beyond.

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Sneaky Peek

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A little sommit n sommit I’m working on for a certain haircare brand at the moment. 123

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Enchante,

'There Will Be Unicorns', is the studio moniker of Designer, Illustrator and Art Director, Thomas Henry Burden.

Thomas graduated, to (his own) rapturous applause, from Camberwell College of Art's Graphic Design BA in 2007.