I found some beautiful blank books created by local artists last year. One looked like a small spell book, and one was covered in an very unusual soft leather. I decided my niece and nephew probably needed a bit more magic in their lives, so i decided to illustrate a fairy tale bed time stories for each of them.First was Sarah’s drawing book for her 10^th birthday, with the fairy tale as an inscription on the inside cover:

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To make sure her little brother didn’t get jealous, a few months later i made Tom’s 26 page story book:

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(tom’s story was kindly written by the amazingly talented and only ever so slightly sinister hayley franklin as my 25th birthday present, and later adapted into pictorial form for tom. thankyou again miss franklin!)

I thought it might be interesting to recreate some original propaganda imagery with a new message about the nature of advertising and design as modern propaganda.

Propaganda exists today in the form of advertising and design because it is the most effective tool for influencing popular opinion. Indeed, all mass media is capable of this manipulation.

This piece is an old Lenin propaganda poster recreated with a new message:

“With mass communication comes responsibility! Remember that visual communication can always alter popular opinion, for better or for worse.”

This piece is still incomplete, as I’m not certain the translation I’ve been given is gramatically correct:

“MACCOBA? ?H?OPMA??? TPE?YET OTBETCTBEHHOCT?!
?OMH?TE ?TO TEAE B??EH?E MO?ET ?3MEH?T? O??ECTBEHHOE MHEH?E, B O?HY ?A? ?PY?Y? CTOPOHY”