Ever evolving portfolio

Hi, my name is Zen. Ths is my website full of stuff. Feel free to have a browse around some of the things I have done, and don’t forget about the media player at the top. Read how the site was made by following the blog posts.

Panda on a dirt bike

Printed magazine advert for DIRT magazine featuring a panda riding a bike. Lots of photoshop fun to be had, and strict brand guidelines so that it fit part of a series. It is quite attention grabbing and colouful and hopefully brought along some punters.

Printed in Nov 2007

Cover art for the Urban Beekeeper

Created for the cover of the debut EP, nothing reaches higher than a giraffe on stilts.

To emphasise this theme I set the giraffe on top of Mount Everest and on the inner sleeve is a pyramid of giraffe.. all on stilts!

Giraffe on Stilts is a highly customised photoshop composite – see below for a larger version with all the detail.

The sounds of skateboarding

Every watched a skate film and wondered what the incredible music playing is? Wonder no longer with Skate sounds – the first website in the world to offer the tracklistings to many of the world’s great skateboarding movies. Keenan in Mouse? Rattray in Anthems?

Conceived in the mid-90s, skatesounds was a database driven reference guide to the music in skateboarding movies.
The logo was produced for the original incarnation of the website which allowed you to locate song information based on simple search criteria.

Originally the roadmap was to add social features so that anyone could update the site, to statistical charts highlighting which songs are most popular, which styles are least used and, for example, who skates to the most Wu Tang (Gino!).

You can see the original version archived at

The Skate Sounds Archive : Snapshot 1998