Selected Work

Information is Beautiful ➞

Complete website rebuild, campaign management, design contributions and various tools and utilities for working with interactive data visualizations

• dataviz
• design
• website

Space Race ➞

Produced with Beyond Words Studio, this longform interactive scrolly-teller for BBC Future explores the outer reaches of our solar system

• dataviz
• design

Beautiful News ➞

Complete website build and data visualization contributions, showcasing a good news story every day for a year. Now available as a book

• dataviz
• design
• website

Your Life On Earth ➞

Launched by Sir David Attenborough with Beyond Words Studio, this interactive infographic explores how the world has changed since you were born

• dataviz
• design

Party

LEGO set and part explorer built with the Rebrickable API, utilising web workers and browser databases to keep everything super fast and responsive

• api
• tool

Sorry For The Inconvenience ➞

Featured on BBC Radio 4, the Guardian and others, this website tracked whenever UK train companies apologised on Twitter for running late

• api
• design
• print
• website

Based On a True True Story? ➞

Interactive scene-by-scene ranking of true-story movies based on how accurate they actually are, with customisable pedantry levels

• dataviz
• design

Timeline of the Universe

Award-winning university project mapping the history and future of the universe from big bang to heat death. Large format prints available

• dataviz
• design
• print

Stellar Entities

A cosmic map of the night sky, with over 900 objects ranked and classified by type. Appeared as a double page spread in the book Knowledge is Beautiful

• dataviz
• design
• print

Browser History

Large format data visualization showing the evolution of web browsers from 1991-2013. Featured in the Book of Circles by Manuel Lima

• dataviz
• design
• print

GeoMetrics

Collated world data explorer and exporter built on various APIs including CIA World Factbook for use in custom data visualisations

• api
• dataviz
• tool

Freqout

Fast, simple in-browser n-gram explorer built to analyse large passages of text for use in various data visualisation projects

• dataviz
• tool

Astrodex ➞

Small, simple Pokédex app built with Astro to help my team pick upcoming sprint names when Bulbapedia was unavailable

• website

Hide Homer ➞

Fun (and addictive) little game inspired by the ubiquitous Homer in the bushes meme. Featured in the Metro paper and various media outlets

• game

Pokéquiz ➞

Simple browser-based game built using cached data from various Pokémon APIs, inspired by the "Who's That Pokemon?" game from the anime series

• game

Punt Hunt ➞

Heavily inspired by early-2000's Flash games, how far can you kick Jeremy Hunt? Featured on HuffPost, Shortlist, Metro and others

• game

Charticle

Backend admin and frontend rendering solution for embedding filterable, sortable infographics, some of which started life as printed pieces

• api
• dataviz
• tool

Cello

Data ingest and management toolkit built on Google Sheets, Airtable and AWS S3. Turns spreadsheets into simple JSON data stores

• api
• dataviz
• tool

Open For Adventure ➞

Built in conjuction with Dinosaur, this web app was part of a media campaign to promote Manchester's ongoing Metrolink expansion

• design
• website

Peterloo 1819 ➞

Interactive timelines and 3D scene exploration produced for the 100th anniversary of Peterloo, built with Dinosaur and Manchester Histories

• website

Coronavirus Trajectories ➞

Data API powering a suite of COVID infographics, including mapping average trajectories in the very early days of the pandemic

• api
• dataviz
• design

The Microbescope ➞

Interactive data explorer, using a custom DSL embedded in Google Sheets to tell various stories about infectious diseases

• dataviz

Exit Compilator

Web app built for Exit Records that allowed listeners to build their own custom mix CD, or choose from pre-curated track lists

• design
• music
• website

Flight Risk ➞

Created with Beyond Words Studio, this interactive, filterable graphic for BBC Future explores all major plane crashes between 1993-2014

• dataviz
• design

Human Rights Explainers ➞

Produced with Beyond Words Studio, an interactive bubble chart for EachOther highlighting and ranking 50 landmark human rights cases

• dataviz
• design

East Before West ➞

Exhibited at Qatar National Library on a giant touch screen, this interactive infographic showcases discoveries made in the East far before the West

• dataviz

Rhetological Fallacies ➞

An interactive list of common logical fallacies and rhetorical devices. Built with Charticle, originally appeared in the Information is Beautiful book

• dataviz

Coronavirus Myths & Misconceptions ➞

This graphic debunks the most contagious common falsehoods about COVID-19. Built with Charticle during the first UK lockdown

• dataviz

Common Mythconceptions ➞

Filter and sort the world's biggest myths and misconceptions. Built with Charticle, originally appeared in the Information is Beautiful book

• dataviz

Intermental ➞

An interactive list of possible tech-induced cognitive behavioural disorders. Built with Charticle, allowing users to vote on things they recognise

• dataviz

Non-Fiction Books Interactive ➞

Interactive version of a static wordcloud showcasing non-fiction books everyone should read at least once in their lifetime

• dataviz
• design

Journey To The Centre Of The Earth ➞

Produced with Beyond Words Studio for BBC Future, this interactive scrolly-teller takes you from sea level to the center of our planet

• dataviz
• design

Age of Empires

Created for the book Knowledge is Beautiful, this chart shows the relative size and length of different empires throughout history

• dataviz
• design
• print

NMSI Events

Promotional microsite for the Science Museum in London, showcasing their various event and function spaces available for hire

• design
• website

SVG Pulser ➞

Built as a side project at uni, some of the outputs from this tool were used as artwork for 12" records, posters and other prints

• design
• print
• tool

NML Reader

Simple little web app to load and parse NML playlists from Native Instruments' Traktor software and re-export as TXT or CSV

• music
• tool

Anti-Long

Joint venture providing press and PR services to the music industry, t-shirts, merch, guerilla marketing campaigns, branding and design services

• design
• music
• print
• website

PYC Sessions

Collective run by myself and a bunch of friends. We put on many live events, hosted streams and pushed Manchester's underground music and culture

• design
• music
• print
• website

Mindset Records

Series of 12" vinyl record labels, sleeves and accompanying material. Produced with my SVG pulser tool and then edited to add gradients

• design
• music
• print

Band on the Wall

Regular production of flyers and posters for Band on the Wall, one of Manchester's most iconic and historic music venues

• design
• music
• print

Soup Kitchen

Regular production of various flyers, posters and other promotional material for events taking place in and around Manchester's Soup Kitchen

• design
• music
• print

11/11/11

Flyers, posters and other promotional campaign material for an electronic music event we hosted at Hendre Hall in Bangor, Wales in 2011

• design
• music
• print

Who Said It? ➞

Browser game built using data from the Genius API to test your knowledge of hip-hop lyricists. Fiendishly difficult depending on your luck

• game

Awkwords ➞

Simple word ladder game built in an afternoon, semi-inspired by Wordle. Seems easy at first but it can be harder than it looks!

• game

Horses Discourses

Can't think of a good name for your fancy new racehorse? I've got you covered. Silly side project built on a bored rainy day

• tool