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Starfish

Starfish tessellation exploration.

Animation by Jody Hudson-Powell

Infused

Cover for Infused. Henrietta Lovell’s adventures across the globe.

Art direction by Eleanor Crow and Luke Bird

Quantum Tree

Editorial piece for New Scientist Magazine

Art Direction: Craig Mackie

Philip K. Dick

A huge honour to be part of the Folio Society special edition of The Complete Short Stories of Philip K. Dick. I illustrated the story Return Match.

This illustration was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2022 in the Commercial Publishing category

Art direction by Sheri Gee

Bindings designed by La Boca

Image animated by Jody Hudson-Powell

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Honoured to have played a small part in this beautiful project for Monterey Bay Aquarium by Abbott Miller and team from Pentagram.

I was commissioned to adapt the aquarium’s distinctive symbol into a pattern as part of their brand refresh. We developed it to be used on apparel, merchandise and other applications.


Video, images and t-shirt concept courtesy of Pentagram

Monkey

Tessellating Monkeys

Experiments using Nomad

Rare Tea

Label designs for Rare Tea company’s Well-Being range with accompanying animations for social media campaign.

Animations by Jody Hudson-Powell.

Year of The Horse

Self Initiated work

Tiger Work

New cover art for Man Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri. A powerful and personal appeal for environmental justice.

AD/type layout by Jessie Price

Tree

The world as my sketchbook 🌳

Experimental drawing on 3D scans

Art of Ping Pong

I was invited by Art of Ping Pong to produce a hand crafted paddle design for the Choose Love charity auction held at The Civic Barnsley.

Centipede

Self Initiated work. Totally Reps logo by Jethro Haynes

Spatial Spiders

Spacial spider experiment

Gif by Jody Hudson-Powell

Books Are My Bag

A huge honour to design the 2019 Books Are My Bag tote following previous years artists Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, Peter Blake and Coralie Bickford-Smith to name a few.

The limited edition bag was available to buy from bookshops on Bookshop Day

Books Are My Bag is a nationwide campaign run by the Booksellers Association to celebrate bookshops.

They hold an annual award voted by bookshops across the UK and Ireland.

Animation by Jody Hudson-Powell

Varoom

The Fantasy issue of Varoom Magazine featuring the beautiful firebird Phoenix.

Editor: Olivia Ahmad

Publisher: The AOI

Design: Fraser Muggeridge Studio

In the Fantasy issue of Varoom we meet illustrators inviting you to places unlike any other. Creating believable fantasy worlds is the illustrator’s strong suit. With their command of narrative and visual language, illustrators can use the space they occupy – page, screen or venue – to transport us back and forward in time and present us with impossible scenarios and visions.

Dark Star

Cover for New Scientist Magazine

Art Direction: Craig Mackie

Syria

Syria: The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell

New cover for the awesome Sheri Gee from The Folio Society.

Pig

Year of the Pig

Personal work

Skull

Poems for Nighttime

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Poems for Morning

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Poems on Nature

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Poems on Friendship

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Christmas with Louisa May Alcott

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Christmas with O. Henry

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Christmas with Charles Dickens

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Christmas with L.M. Montgomery

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

Christmas with Hans Christian Andersen

Cover for the Union Sq and Co chapbook series.

Art direction and design by Melissa Farris

The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

Cover Artwork for Richard Fidler

Art Direction and Design: Mark Campbell

Jonn Elledge

Wraparound illustration for Headline Publishing

Art direction and design by Jack Storey

The Book of Strange New Things

Cover for the new Michel Faber novel. Winner of the V&A Illustration Awards 2015 for cover design.

Click here for a look behind the creative process featured in the Creative Review.

Art direction by Rafi Romaya.

Under The Skin

Cover for the Michel Faber novel.

Art direction by Rafi Romaya.

On the Origin of Species

Some Rain Must Fall

Cover for a book of short stories by Michel Faber. Art Direction Rafi Romaya.

This cover was a winner of AIGA’s 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2016

Blink

Entangled Universe

Cover for New Scientist Magazine

Books Are My Bag Xmas

Books Are My Bag tote pattern adapted for the BAMB Xmas campaign.

Art direction Emma Bradshaw

Bombay Sapphire

Advertisement Campaign for the "Infused with Imagination" campaign

Into The Crooked Place

Cover for ‘Into The Crooked Place’

Art direction by Liz Dresner

Undying

Cover for a book of poems by Michel Faber, addressed to his wife after her death. Art Direction Rafi Romaya

Tiger

The Tenth Muse

Cover for ‘The Tenth Muse’

Art Direction by Bekki Guyatt

Fractal Life

Cover for New Scientist Magazine

Art Direction: Craig Mackie

VMC 40th - The Return of The Soldier

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019

VMC 40th - Frost in May

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - Their Eyes Were Watching God

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - The Magic Toyshop

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - A View of the Harbour

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - Heartburn

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - Memento Mori

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - The Weather in The Streets

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - Fire from Heaven

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - The Dud Avocado

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - Faces in The Water

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - Deep Water

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

VMC 40th - Writers as Readers

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, Virago Press published a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology. I was commissioned to produce a the repeat pattern artwork to feature on all the covers. My design plays with the Virago apple logo, making it the main focus and thus celebrating the brand's heritage and legacy. In this beautiful hardback anthology, forty of the most significant writers of the past century tell us about one of their favourite writers by introducing books from the Virago Modern Classics collection

VMC 40th - The Collected Stories

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Virago Modern Classics, I was commissioned by Virago to produce repeat pattern artwork to feature on a baker's dozen of deluxe paperbacks and a hardback anthology.

Art Direction/Design: Hannah Wood. 

Click here to read further about the project on Lecture in Progress

Awards won for this series:

Books Are My Bag 2018 award - Beautiful Book category.

The V&A Illustration Awards 2019 - Book Cover category.

Shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards 2019.

Selected for the Creative Review Annual 2019.

Sea Lovers

Cover for a book of short stories by Valerie Martin

The Book of Strange New Things PB

Another collaboration with Rafaela Romaya for the paperback versions of The Book of Strange New Things. Click here for the full feature in Creative Review.

M&S

Patterns for Marks & Spencer's Classic Xmas 2014 used extensively throughout their festive range.

Dell

Advertisement campaign for the Dell Mini3i Smartphone 

OnInvesting

Cover for Charles Schwab OnInvesting magazine

The Return of Faraz Ali

New work for Sceptre Books.

A spellbinding debut set in Pakistan during the anarchic late '60s, The Return of Faraz Ali by @aaminaahmadwrites is a multi-layered tale of family, identity and the politics of power in a caste ridden society

Art Direction + Design by Will Speed

GQ

Lush

Dubai Expo 2020

I was one of 21 artists commissioned to create sculptures to generate greater levels of understanding among the local population in relation to the themes that underpin the Dubai Expo 2020.

My piece is an interpretation of the topic Financial Fluidity.

Fox

Intelligent Evolution

Cover for New Scientist Magazine

Art Direction: Craig Mackie

Booths

Front cover for Booths Christmas Book 2017

Art direction Laura Gasgarth

Panther

Visa

Advertisement campaign for Visa Infinite 

Apple

Wallpaper design test for the iPhone 3GS

Victoria and Albert Museum

Cover image for the "Pen Paper Scissors" event held at the museum. The original illustration has been acquired by the V&A Word and Image Collection

Tatler Russia

Psychedelic Snakes

Audi

A Suitable Boy

Octo

Bows

Test work for Marks & Spencer's Classic Xmas 2014

Plantimals

Cover for New Scientist Magazine

Art Direction: Craig Mackie

Fortune

Invisible Eye

Cover for New Scientist Magazine

Art Direction: Craig Mackie

Owls

Business Friendly

Advertisement campaign to promote business friendly relations in Bahrain

Adidas Bike Polo

Shop Istanbul

Peacock

Beyond the Butterfly Effect

Cover for New Scientist Magazine

Art Direction: Craig Mackie

Grafik

Illustrated Y for Grafik magazine

GQ Style Russia

Sunset Oasis

Volvo

Moth to a Flame

Mermaid

Amaterasu

Tora

Penstripe

images created alongside Taxi Studios for the rebranding of Penstripe Printers

Starfish

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Infused

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Quantum Tree

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Philip K. Dick

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Monterey Bay Aquarium

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Monkey

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Rare Tea

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Year of The Horse

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Tiger Work

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Tree

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Art of Ping Pong

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Centipede

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Spatial Spiders

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Books Are My Bag

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Varoom

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Dark Star

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Syria

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Pig

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Skull

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Poems for Nighttime

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Poems for Morning

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Poems on Nature

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Poems on Friendship

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Christmas with Louisa May Alcott

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Christmas with O. Henry

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Christmas with Charles Dickens

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Christmas with L.M. Montgomery

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Christmas with Hans Christian Andersen

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The Book of Roads and Kingdoms

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Jonn Elledge

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The Book of Strange New Things

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Under The Skin

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On the Origin of Species

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Some Rain Must Fall

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Blink

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Entangled Universe

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Books Are My Bag Xmas

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Bombay Sapphire

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Into The Crooked Place

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Undying

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Tiger

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The Tenth Muse

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Fractal Life

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VMC 40th - The Return of The Soldier

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VMC 40th - Their Eyes Were Watching God

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VMC 40th - The Magic Toyshop

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VMC 40th - A View of the Harbour

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VMC 40th - Heartburn

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VMC 40th - Memento Mori

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VMC 40th - The Weather in The Streets

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VMC 40th - Fire from Heaven

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VMC 40th - The Dud Avocado

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VMC 40th - Faces in The Water

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VMC 40th - Deep Water

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VMC 40th - Writers as Readers

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VMC 40th - The Collected Stories

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Sea Lovers

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The Book of Strange New Things PB

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M&S

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Dell

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OnInvesting

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The Return of Faraz Ali

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GQ

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Lush

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Dubai Expo 2020

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Fox

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Intelligent Evolution

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Booths

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Panther

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Visa

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Apple

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Tatler Russia

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Psychedelic Snakes

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Audi

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A Suitable Boy

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Octo

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Bows

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Plantimals

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Fortune

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Invisible Eye

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Owls

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Business Friendly

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Adidas Bike Polo

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Shop Istanbul

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Peacock

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Beyond the Butterfly Effect

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Grafik

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GQ Style Russia

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Sunset Oasis

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Volvo

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Moth to a Flame

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Mermaid

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Amaterasu

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Tora

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Penstripe

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