Colouring Book Review

Here’s a lovely video made by that walking dictionary of retro computing historical facts, Mr. Andrew Fisher! Chances are if you regularly read any of the retro gaming press you would have read one of Andrew’s articles. I would thouroughly recommend subscribing to Andew’s channel on YouTube as not only does he cover books which […]

Crossed Wires Podcast

Graphics, Cannon Fodder, And A Colouring Book After a recent break from social media and doing interviews I was delighted to appear as a guest on the Crossed Wires Podcast hosted by James Bilsbrough. Recorded last night at 8pm I settled in front of my desk, freshly made cuppa to hand and clicked the invite […]

Turbo Tomato Cover Amiga Future

Seeing my artwork being used for a video game box is one thing but then seeing it again used on the cover of a magazine just adds another layer to the joy in doing what I do. I was delighted to see my artwork for the most excellent Amiga game Turbo Tomato being used for […]

The Colouring Book of Retro Computers

Exciting news! I shall keep this brief, I’ve teamed up with Neil over at RMC The Cave to create a very cool colouring book of retro computers (and maybe the odd bit of associated tech too).I’m over the moon and greatly honoured to be tasked with creating all 30 (maybe more) illustrations for this book […]

Finally, My Shop Lives!

www.thedesigndroid.co.uk Well well well, it appears after what seems like an age and a lot of replies to my wife that “It won’t be long now, almost done” my new shop is finished and is online. Yay!

Zzap! 64 2021 Annual Kickstarter

It is with great pride to announce I have teamed up with my old mate Chris Wilkins of Fusion Retro Books to bring you an exclusive art canvas presented as a tier level reward with the new Zzap! 64 2021 Annual Kickstarter campaign. The 12″ x 12″ canvas features the iconic Commodore 64 set against […]

A chance Tweet – Web of…Terror?

I like how things sometimes just happen… Take this morning for example, I was just checking my Twitter feed, sipping my morning cuppa when I gazed upon a tweet from YORE COMPUTER. The tweet was showing an advert from the 11th issue of Zero Magazine 1990 – the advert was a game I had “helped […]

Retro Tea Breaks: The Book!

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Neil for his Retro Tea Breaks series last year which as a regular viewer of his superb channel was a real honour. So when Mr.RMC himself asked me if I would be interested in creating some pixel art portraits of selected guests for his new book I […]

A4 Lightbox Review

Light boxes used to be quite chunky – a light bulb inside a box with an opaque  panel to work on,  simple but effective. The one I used to use generated quite a bit of heat due to the incandescent bulb and had only one light setting, how things have changed looking at these new […]

BBC Level 23! I was on it!

Before I start this post I’d like to send out a big thanks to Quang from Asobitech for putting Danny (BBC Level 23) in touch with me without whom I would not have been a guest on the show – thanks man I appreciate it! (Quang is awesome by the way check out Mao Mao […]