Mike Stones's Scrapbook

Illustrator, Designer, Lecturer & aspirational Academic Mike Stones, on brainstorming & mindmapping to help the ideas flow. Mike Stones's Scrapbook.

A Year of Covers for Mike Stones

Mike Stones has got himself a year’s contract to produce the covers for the Lancet Oncology - a journal publishing articles and research on medical issues. He’s allowed immense freedom with the job , the fact that the client doesn’t require a visual reinforces in Mike that he’s been commissioned purely for what his work is about. Dr Lidia Siemaszkiewicz; the Deputy Editor sends Mike a summary of a key article in the issue, as long as he is sensitive to what might appear in the image and not let his style undermine the article, he can create and be creative! With 3 covers already produced this year, Mike has completed some superb illustrations combining photomontage, graphic marks and lettering to create an almost wet off the litho feel! See Mike’s entire portfolio at www.illustrationweb.com/MikeStones.

New Creative Territory

Exploring new creative territory is Mike Stones who has written and illustrated his own children's book: "Billy and Bertie on the Home Run".

It's Mike's first venture into children's fiction, which was inspired by his two young children. The work also required him to master new 3D rendering skills, which, says Mike, "have inevitably crept into my other commercial work, and even into various motion graphics projects!"