Here’s another illustration from my series for Flow magazine.

This image was used as a spot illustration to accompany a philosophical feature entitled “Find What You’re Looking For”. It was used on a white background in the final printed version but I’m quite fond of this yellow version.

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I recently created a series of illustrations for Flow, a Dutch magazine for paper lovers. 

The article was called “Find What You’re Looking For” and discussed the philosophy of finding happiness in life. This illustration was used as a full page opener for the feature.

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The illustrations I made for Waitrose is 2011 were used on lots of different products in the ‘Santa & Friends’ range. As such, I created a lot of supporting characters, some of which can be seen above.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my Christmas illustrations - I’ll be back in the New Year with new work to share. Have a happy holiday and a great start to 2013!

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These door hangers were part of the Waitrose Christmas range last year. Featured characters included the elves and Santa with his flying sleigh (led by Rudolph, of course).

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These illustrations for the Waitrose 2011 Christmas range featured on a 3D Christmas tree that could be assembled and decorated with stickers.

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These are some of the penguins that were featured on products in the 2011 Christmas range at Waitrose, including thank you cards and stickers.

Living in the South Pole, the penguins had to take a trip up North to join Santa (hence the suitcase).

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Illustrating the 2011 Christmas crackers for Waitrose was an interesting new challenge as I was also required to design a board game. A lot of different ideas were tried but this one worked best - the aim of the game is to help Santa deliver his Christmas presents (provided as game cards).

The board was included inside the box and the characters on the front of the crackers were used as playing pieces.

There were also some great little gifts inside the crackers featuring my illustrations, including snap cards and a mini jigsaw puzzle.

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Another one of the products developed for the 2011 Waitrose Christmas range was a letter to Santa.

The final version can be seen in the photo. The other images show some of my favourite alternative options and the envelope design.

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Here are some of the original illustrations I created of polar bears while developing the artwork for last year’s Waitrose Christmas range.

The idea was to create separate elements that could be applied to a variety of uses, such as the skating polar bears which were used on wrapping paper.

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Last year, my illustrations were featured in UK supermarket Waitrose as part of their Christmas range for children.

I didn’t post many of the illustrations at the time but quite a lot of work went into them (almost half a year of work, in fact), so I thought it would be good to highlight some of my favourites in the run-up to this Christmas.

First up are these illustrations I created for two wrapping paper designs. The first design evolved from the idea of Santa’s present-delivering journey.

The second design was developed from initial illustrations of polar bears - originally they were standing on all fours but once they had been given ice skates, their gliding antics seemed rather suited to a pattern with the addition of elements such as typography.

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