The path I’ve taken over the last few years have been a bit bumpy to say the least, sometimes the thinking required to deal with the problems has needed to be a bit avant-garde. Grit and determination mixed with patience and clarity is a hard mix to keep balanced. I stumbled upon a way to ask questions that some may say allows you to come at problems from a different angle and others may say taps into something ancient and from a higher energy. Either way sometimes problems n

“You can’t always get what you want. But if you try, sometimes. Well, you might find you get what you need.” Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones. My brother and me are completely different. Growing up my brother was always the best at sports, captain of the football and rugby teams, was always a leader amongst his friends and later in his building firm that he grew from the ground up. A real alpha male, not the ones they ping around today, a solid, family first, sports on weekend

In Wales we have a word called ‘Hiraeth’ a deep, bittersweet, and profound longing or homesickness for a home, place, or time that is lost, changed, or perhaps it never existed at all. It blends nostalgia, grief, and yearning, often tied to a desired place of the past or a sense of spiritual belonging.  Sometimes I sit in this space when either drawing or writing about the rave culture. It has been a massive part of my life from the mid nineties till now, wondering if it all

Its not just you we are all in an abusive relationship with Instagram. Now I’m of a certain demographic so my exes are Myspace and Facebook, plus countless forums (but that was in my early experimental phase, over the top, kissing no tongues). These new models I’m sure are exactly the same, but I think I’m too old for partners like snapchat and tik tok. But I believe ‘courting’, ‘dating’ ‘seeing people’ is the same throughout all eternity. You meet a new social media out and

Ideas are so weird, a little niggling thought in your brain that you have to tease out, you can’t pull at it, you have to wiggle it out slowly. You can move it in different directions, encourage it, but it really only fully forms in its own time. This month I wanted to constrain myself to releasing a ‘Year of the Horse’ tee, but my mind was always drifting to the awful scenes in Iran as people protest against the islamic republic, the brutal regime has killed innocent people

I don’t design for many people, but when I’m asked it is a blessing, over the years I have designed for a lot of people including a few bucket list people/products (sorry name drops incoming) Stüssy, Goldie and DRS for me they are the upper echelons, the artists, the tastemakers, the source. A weird thing happens though when you get to design for those authentic voices, they let you be yourself and express yourself freely. Chris Goss at Hospital, Zac at Incurzion, Mitekiss at

There is an elephant in the room that has been shapeshifting, changing dazzling colours, dancing, had celebrities riding it. This colossal being has been on the horizon for a few years, but the slowly trudging forwards has quickly turned to sprinting in circles around your living room. Threatening to take your job, your girlfriend, probably your pet and maybe planet earth itself.  When pandoras box was opened, we thought with obvious naivety that the shelf stackers would go f

I’ll always make myself available to help my friends ideas, from letting my DJ/MC friends use the brand name to further their chances of playing or opening doors. I’ll design for my friends businesses whether they are inline with my business or not, I’ve designed for sports teams, from professionals like the Surrey 89ers for my friend Imtayaz or my friends darts jersey or my brothers inline hockey team. I’ve designed for my friends tyre company, the local pizza shop, charitie

THE POWER OF LOCALLY BUILT COMMUNITIES Whenever I’m out and about the most common question I get from the people who I haven’t seen recently is, ‘Will you ever promote drum and bass raves again?’ And I always get caught off-guard with it, as it brings with it so many emotions. I loved the life as a drum and bass promoter and I think I was really good at it, mainly because I really cared. From the booking, the programming, the designing, the promoting, the anxiety before, the

One hot Mid-August evening in Cardiff city centre down one of the alleys around Cardiff Museum, close to the student areas. Me and Andy ‘Shrew’ pasting up art work and posters. We’d chosen a spot that could be seen from the busy road and had good footfall in the morning from both workers and students. Both laughing and joking until from the far end of the skinny alleyway the blue lights flashed. Luckily it was a riot van so we had time. The poster I was just slopping the last

When I was a kid me and my brother cornered a snake with our bare hands in Kenya, stupid thing to do, but back in Wales my mum had always encouraged us to be close with nature and we’d go collecting tadpoles, frogs, newts and the best thing to catch was slow worms or grass snakes. But here we were in the hot, humid acacia woodland of the Maasai Mara, it was completely dark the only lighting was spotlights lighting walk ways. My mum had spotted a frog catching moths attracted

Concrete Junglists has never been scared to stand on its soapbox. I get told all the time that I would be earning good money if I just kept my mouth shut, but what would I be running. The brands I used to admire, I’ve watched them grow and be sold and grow again. But as those brands get further from their source the voice diminishes and their sense of being something to wear, falls from the shoulders of the original tribe and onto the capitalist clothes horses. Take someone l

In all honesty I never knew I was gonna do any of this, my art teacher in school wouldn’t let me take GCSE art as I wasn’t good enough, my music teacher told me to mime at the school recitals as to not spoil the performance, by the age of thirteen I had resigned myself to a life behind a desk or stacking shelves. The only turning point was being sat next to a girl I fancied in my media studies class, she told me she wasn’t doing school after the exams but going to an out of t

We seem to be inundated with people telling us how to lead our lives at the moment, how to be more productive, how to be fitter, how to eat better, sleep better, think better. But behind all these people telling you how & why & when, are algorithms, pay walls, likes, comments, the new dopamine hits of digital value and the cash incentives of sponsors, subscribers and investors. Most things can be classed as fads and can be tried, tested and forgotten, somethings stick, the on