A new commission for innovation charity Nesta got my mind racing, recently. Every year, they publish a list of ten trends, social movements and technological breakthroughs that they believe will impact people's lives over the coming twelve months. I had to create an illustration for each, along with a wide banner image incorporating elements of all the predictions. The subject matter, though fascinating, was quite complicated and coming up with options for every one really made my brain itch! Here are all the illustrations, with a couple of screenshots of the webpages when the campaign was released. You can read the full predictions in detail here.

On the night of the launch, in addition to inviting lots of informed/informative/informal people, the Nesta team had printed up my banner design for the wall of their communal space. In addition, there was a rather slick booklet produced featuring all of the predictions (with my pics, naturally).

Helen Goulden, Executive Director of Nesta

My artistic life hit the SE19 neighbourhood once again, as I was invited to take a tour of the Crystal Palace transmitter as part of the national Fun Palaces weekend.

The tour around all the working digital and obsolete analogue equipment was great. Armed with a few permitted photos on my camera, I hot trained it back home to create these three pieces of acrylic and ink artworks. My analogue dirt and expression of the clean lines and smooth wires of some of the old transmission devices.

I took lots of photos inside. The noisiest rooms were the operational ones. All the fans needed to keep the computer equipment cool create quite a racket: more like a factory than the gentle hum of zeroes and ones that I'd expected.

Find out more about the weekend at the official web gallery here http://crystalfunpalace.co.uk/transmitter/