In early 2023 I had the pleasure of working with Production Designer Stephen Bryce and 72 Films to film sections of their upcoming Bond-themed reality/challenge series 007: Road To A Million.

Had a lot of fun working on this and hope audiences enjoy it when it releases on Amazon Prime this Autumn.

For season 2 of Netflix’s Heartstopper, I was asked to help put together the “prom” for the series finale. Production Designer: Carys Beard

Early 2022 I stepped in for a stretch on Apple TV’s upcoming dystopian series “Silo” as Set-Dec Art Director. In my time on the show I designed and facilitated the manufacture of a number of props which appear throughout the series.

For the Waitrose “It’s Beginning to look a lot like Christmas” campaign, we filmed a host of vignettes across several farm locations across the country. This included honey being extracted from beehives, fence-posts being hammered and ice being broken on a pig-trough (not an easy thing to film in 20°C sunshine). We went to a vineyard, an apple orchard, a sprout field and a cattle farm. Some of these locations were filmed on John Lewis - Waitrose’s own Leckford Estate.

As well as this, we had a great time working with farm machinery.

There was also a Christmas Dinner scene…

The Sports Direct “Give Me Football” campaign comprised of 3 parodies of cliche’d Christmas Commercial archetypes. Specifically; The Pretentious Perfume ad, The Smart-Home Device and the traditional Christmas Dinner Set Up.

We built sets for the “Family Dinner” and Eau De Footie” ads while the “Directa” commercial was shot on location. You can see the set build in a time-lapse at my Youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/4vUB6Zqwkqk

In late 2021 I had the pleasure of working with Production Designer Laura Ellis Cricks and Production Company Drool to make the “what’s Your Thing?” campaign for DFS.

Set construction was managed by Dragon Smoke Construction and props and effects were done by Matter SFX.

The Red Dwarf special aired in April 2020. It was an amazing experience to work on the show I grew up watching and have such fond memories of.

Working again with Dominic Roberts, we have put together a series of new sets as well as restoring the old sets from the previous series.

The set renders on this page were published in SFX magazine in March 2020.

For the latest season of Top Boy for Netflix, I worked with Production Designer Carly Reddin and Art Director Stacey Dickinson.

I was brought in to arrange a selection of set builds, these were a full council flat with an adjoining corridor and 2 rooms to a terrace house that was rigged with fire effects for a house-fire sequence. Special effects were care of Colin Gorry.

Following the series, I worked with Stink films to make the announcement film that was released ahead of the full trailer.

In 2021 I had the pleasure of designing the hero dollshouse for More4’s miniature themed challenge show “The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge”.

Working with Production Designer Stephen Bryce and the Producers at Yeti TV, I got involved in figuring out the layout of the house which affected the pace and running order of the series.

In Summer 2021 I was given the job I’ve dreamed about since I was about 7, to design and build a real-life video-game race track. For the “challenge of the week” in BBC3’s first episode of their youth-orientated motoring show, “Gassed-Up”, I did just that!

With the help of Matt Dyson and his team, and taking inspiration from video-games old and new, we dressed a military training village with a variety of decorations, lighting features and obstacles for the UTV buggies to navigate around (sometimes through).

Can you spot any references to your favorite games in these screenshots?

For Sam Smith and Disclosure's 2012 breakout single "Latch" I was responsible for the design and construction of the elevator set, complete with sliding doors and "sprinkler system" water effects.

In late 2020 I got the opportunity to work on series 2 of Netflix’s hit reality show Too Hot To Handle. Not exactly something I was expecting during a pandemic.

Working with Production Designer Patrick Watson and Construction Manager Matt Dyson, we transformed an existing villa on the Turks and Caicos Islands into a functioning Reality TV living space.

This involved installing truss that had to be measured to fit into each main room and sent out from a supplier in the UK, then clad in a way that fits into the environment. We also had to build-in cable-runs all over the villa, these were worked into the design of the rooms and the exterior canopies.

I also got to make use of Unreal Engine for this production to make animated fly-through visuals to give a better understanding of the layout of the villa. There will be more about this in the “Virtual Environments” section of this website.

I was involved with the Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother for about 3 years, in which I’d worked on re-designs for the house each season, the Diary Room designs and the re-fit of the Big Brother’s Bit On The Side sets. This is where I learned the ropes of Light-Entertainment set design, as well as developed my CAD and 3D design skills.

The chair in particular, seen above in both it’s finished and un-clad forms, was made of 240 pieces of birch ply that had to be CNC-cut to fit together perfectly.

Cancer Research's 2013 commercial, directed by Frank Budgen was a mix of effects shots and inserts shot on location at the national Cancer Research Centre in West London. My input as Trainee Art Director for Julia Sherborne was in the facilitating the effects shots, sourcing materials and dressing the laboratory location.