Tag Childhood
SHERBET PIPE

This mind-alteringly tasty SHERBET PIPE was inspired by reading the way child-targeted snack manufacturers/marketers talk about trying to get kids addicted to their products. In particular this bit of copy for Cheetos corn snacks:
TOOTH FAIRY – CASH 4 TEETH

Tooth Fairy poster from my Pocket Money Loans installation, featuring a series of predatory financial products for kids, inspired by the child-focused and playful cartoon imagery of adult payday loan advertising. It wasn’t until a while after I made this…
ACTION MAN: BATTLEFIELD CASUALTIES – THE TOYS

As part of my Join the Army comic I made this poster of three Action Man ‘Battlefield Casualties’. If you’re not already aware of it, the British military have their own line of children’s toys which tend to focus on how much fun war is, (called H.M. Armed Forces). I wanted to make something of an antidote to that. I also recently wrote a short article for Veterans For Peace UK about the project and military advertising in general. You can read it here. These will been shown at the launch exhibition for the comic.
SCALEXTRIC

Here’s a new thing I did about the disappointment of adulthood. Get a print here. I finished my anti-army recruitment comic. Details coming very soon!
BABY’S FIRST BABY PRESS

Baby’s First Baby has been getting a lot attention recently, featured on BoingBoing, Gizmodo, The Huffington Post and Dangerous Minds. Perhaps the crowning moment however, is the story today on the Daily Mail website. I look forward to seeing what that the Mail readership make of it. It seems like the majority of commentators have misunderstood my intentions however and decided I’m making a comment on reality tv shows exploiting teen pregnancies. I’m not. It’s about the way these toys intrinsically train girls to have and care for children while they are still only children themselves. If you look in any toy catalogue the girls section is wall-to-wall babies and prams, make-up kits, kitchen sets and hoovers. We complain that children are growing up too quick, getting pregnant too early, when the only toys we give them teach kids to act like adults and prepare to have babies. It’s goes without saying that teaching young girls that these are the type of things which adult women should and do concern themselves with is also a very narrow definition of womanhood. This image in particular inspired me to make Baby’s First Baby. #Toys
BABY’S FIRST BABY

ORIGINAL SOLD
BARBIE

#Daft #Toys
SANTA GIVES MORE TO RICH KIDS THAN POOR KIDS

This was part of my Fine Art, (Environmental Art) degree show at Glasgow School of Art. Originally I was going to put up a billboard with Maiden Outdoor, advertising directly to both children and adults, telling them some unsettling truths…
