Creative projects

These are artworks and drawings I created myself. None of the images in this part of my website were created by Artificial Intelligence, they are all by hand.

Tree of knowledge image

I started this by using a compass and ruler to reproduce some sacred geometry, inspired by images in The Secret Teachings Of All Ages (1928) by Manly P. Hall.

My seal

King Charles has seals for his projects. In fact he’s gone a bit seal mad, having had three created in about a year, all designed by Jonathan Ive’s LoveFrom design agency.…

We need to talk about your information diet

Download a PDF version of this essay for classroom use.

Marriage of Heaven and Hell image

I started this image many months ago. The inspiration for this work comes from many sources, including Italian Renaissance magic and William Blake. I inked the stems and…

What is the perfect layout in the age of screens?

The history of book design is fascinating. Page layout has developed slowly over centuries of refinement. But what is the perfect layout in the age of screens? Landscape…

William Blake timeline - information visualization experiment

information visualization

I’m a huge fan of William Blake. As an information visualization experiment I decided the make the timeline below. My original intention was to make all the images in the…

Making neat notes whilst standing up

I like to take neat notes. If I don’t concentrate when making notes they are terribly messy and worthy only of the bin. Making neat notes is satisfying and an end in itself…

Uncle Lubin - experiments with colour palettes

I’m a big fan of the ligne claire¹ illustration style, which is basically clear strong lines filled with flat colour. I am also a fan of the eccentric drawings of Heath…

AI is coming for your job

artificial intelligence

The news has been full of it lately - Artificial Intelligence is coming for your job¹! Within a few years, Artificial Intelligence is going to make you unemployed, and…

The Moral Machine - Could AI Outshine Us in Ethical Decision-Making?

artificial intelligence

There has been a lot of hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth about the dangers of AI. Artificial Intelligence is going to be the end of us all, apparently. But is this…

How I improved my digital handwriting

Writing by hand has been demonstrated to have a positive effect both on learning/memorization and achieving goals. And so earlier this year I started to take handwritten…

More experiments with Stable Diffusion

artificial intelligence

Stable Diffusion V2 was released this week (Dec ’22), so I decided to do some experimentation with it. To do this I used the ImaginAIry Python code by Bryce Drennan. I also…

Experiments with Stable Diffusion

artificial intelligence

I created these images using the Stability Photoshop Plugin by the wonderful Christian Cantrell, with images generated utilizing the Dreamstudio service. It’s a paid-for…

Drunk Schrödinger cartoons

¹ What is Life? article on wikipedia

Kepler’s Somnium

The astronomer and astrologer Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) wrote one of the very first science fiction novels, and the book caused his mother to be tried for witchcraft.…

William Blake postcards

I’m a huge fan of William Blake. He was a crazy genius. These postcard sized images are inspired by quotes from his work The marriage of Heaven and Hell. The second two are…

Paradise Lost cartoons

information visualization

A few years ago I got a bit obsessed by Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is a difficult work to read. It starts like this:

Abiogenesis pictures

Some little drawings I did around the concept of abiogenesis, using a fiber-tip pen and coloured pencils.

The Medici family tree

information visualization

The Medici were a powerful banking family during the Italian Renaissance. Their influence spanned a couple of centuries, and they produced four Catholic Popes. They were…

Introduction to Psychological Sciences lecture 3

These are my visual notes, created on the iPad using the Concepts app, for Steven Pinker’s PSY 1 Introduction to Psychological Sciences course¹. It’s a great course. I only…

Introduction to Psychological Sciences lecture 2

These are my visual notes, created on the iPad using the Concepts app, for Steven Pinker’s PSY 1 Introduction to Psychological Sciences course¹. It’s a great course. I only…

Notes on Pinker: Introduction to Psychological Sciences

These are my visual notes, created on the iPad using the Concepts app, for Steven Pinker’s PSY 1 Introduction to Psychological Sciences course¹. It’s a great course. I only…