If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living
summary
Leaves 18 years of graphic design to teach screen printing, redraw streets with pens and hand-cover a 40m BBC staircase using pens as primary tools. Takes a McLaren launch car from blank shell to finished livery in about 3.5 days, turns a found bike into a commission for Brompton (limited run of 500 bikes sold out), self-publishes 2,500 covid diaries selling ~80% in six weeks, converts 145 enquiries into 9 paid projects (≈6%), donates £7.5k and raises £4.5k.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:32Leaving design for illustration
- 7:27Impossible mural projects
- 10:17Embracing the unknown
- 12:25Humor and risks in public art
- 15:12Mural about Alan Turing
- 19:26Knowing creative worth
- 23:03Trauma as creative fuel
- 27:15Believing in work
- 31:28Doodles to collaborations
- 33:36Visual travel diaries
- 37:282020 art documentation
- 41:03Pandemic diary book
- 43:53Art for giving back
- 45:19Embracing imperfection
