A4 sketchbook, dating from my time on the HND Multimedia course at City College Manchester [1997]. Amongst other things, this sketchbook features design work for my greatest practical joke evarrr: we had to make a multimedia piece about a C20th artist. I invented a Russian revolutionary character called "Vladmir Kryzhnwcki" –a "peddler of filth" film-maker and artist, who had initially been championed by the communists because his films & paintings ridiculed the church authorities and ruling classes, but who later became an embarrassment and was exiled to Mexico, where he commited suicide.

I think I partially got away with my jape; my tutor told me he’d never heard of Vladmir Kryzhnwcki and that he suspected I’d invented him. But, as this was back in the days before the intarwebs was so ubiquitous, I reckon I just about received the benefit of the doubt.[I think it’s quite impressive how I kept the pretence up all through the development work in the sketchbook; lots of 'researched' facts and figures in there].