Inspiration/Concept: A personal project that began after a visit to Edinburgh, inspired by the city's architecture and the visually compelling, historic details of unique buildings.
Goal: To consistently translate the architectural essence and cultural feel of various global cities (including London, Melbourne, Marrakech, etc.) into a cohesive, colourful, and highly detailed visual series.
Outcome/Impact: This ongoing series serves as the definitive expression of the Cheism illustration style, showcasing a command of architectural detail and vibrant colour, which has directly led to commissions for murals, branded campaigns, and private collectors.
Client: Borola Cafe, Mexico City
Brief: Illustrate the cultural and artistic essence of the San Angel neighbourhood onto a hand-drawn canvas installation
Solution/Impact: Delivered a detailed, unique artwork (completed in one week) that serves as a central feature, enhancing the cafe's local, artistic brand identity and offering guests a visually rich connection to the neighborhood.
Client: Lonely Planet Magazine
Brief: Create a stylised illustration for the monthly travel quiz, requiring a visually engaging design that incorporates a specific country's recognisable animal.
Solution/Impact: Provided a high-quality illustration of an elephant, aligning the artwork with the feature's theme (Thailand) and successfully enhancing reader engagement for the magazine's monthly editorial feature.
Answer: Thailand
Client: Dewynter's Reception, London
Brief: Commission a bespoke, unique piece of artwork illustrating the amount of West London Theatres Dewynter’s work with in the area.
Solution/Impact: Delivered a mural that acts as a visual focal point, enhancing the professional atmosphere of the client's London corporate reception space.
Client: Eagle Moss Publishing / John Brown Media
Brief: Produce a detailed, engaging World Map for kids' activity and educational materials, specifically for distribution in Russia and Ukraine.
Solution/Impact: Created an appealing and accurate World Map for a cross-cultural audience, used to successfully support children's learning and editorial content in the client's distributed magazine.
Client: Heart of London Business Alliance (Westminster City Council)
Brief: Design a promotional hoarding to celebrate and visually enhance London’s Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square area during construction.
Solution/Impact: Delivered a successful large-scale, site-specific public art installation that celebrated the local area and improved the streetscape while installed in Central London (Orange Street and St Martin Street).
Client: Dead Horse Beats, Montreal-based Musician
Brief: Illustrate an original album cover and accompanying text for a new music release.
Solution/Impact: Created a unique, illustrated album cover that captures the artist's sound and identity, providing a distinct visual asset for the musician's physical and digital packaging.
Client: Google Think Quarterly Magazine (via YCN and Church of London)
Brief: Collaborate with 11 other illustrators to create a single, massive collaborative illustration for the magazine's special edition.
Solution/Impact: Successfully executed a piece for the large-scale project, which was then digitally segmented to create 2,500 unique, one-off special edition covers for the magazine, demonstrating professional collaboration and innovative usage of the artwork.
Client: Menier Chocolate Factory, London (Theatre)
Brief: Design an illustrated poster for their performance of the classic French satire, Candide.
Solution/Impact: Developed a striking theatrical poster, utilising detailed, hand-drawn elements from the play, which served as the primary marketing asset to promote the show and capture its satirical tone.
Client: Norte Marketing Espportivo (Brazil) / Ativo Running Events
Brief: Produce three distinct illustrations to represent the country themes (Canada, United States, and Turkey) for their international running event series.
Solution/Impact: Delivered three culturally-rich illustrations that were used across event media to promote the running stages, successfully connecting participants with the international themes of the sports competition.
Client: Cornelsen, Educational Publisher
Brief: Provide engaging editorial illustrations for two distinct features: "Lost Property on the London Underground" and "Urban Life" for educational home study books.
Solution/Impact: Delivered two sets of bespoke illustrations that help contextualize and visualize language topics, successfully supporting the publisher's educational material for English language learners.
Client: Cox & King's (Travel Company)
Brief: Submit original artwork for the "Inspired India" competition, later exhibited at the Royal Geographic Society, London.
Solution/Impact: Artwork was selected for exhibition and won the competition based on public vote, demonstrating high quality and popularity among travel industry professionals and enthusiasts, resulting in significant exposure.