Commercial | Megan Hayes Illustration

Disability History Month: Commemorative Postage Stamp Series

This project answers a set brief from the first trimester of second year BA Illustration, designed to draw focus onto Disability History Month. This begins each November and exists to raise awareness of the challenges faced by those with seen or unseen disabilities, relating to human rights, equality and diversity. I’ve decided to illustrate contemporary disability advocates from British broadcasting and media. I wanted to achieve a set of stamps that celebrated the individual and challenges the idea that disability has inherent limitations through focusing on representing their life’s work and professions.

Shortlisted in The Sustainability Art & Design Prize 2026.

Exhibition: January 21st - February 4th 2026, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge.

Recyclable Animal Mask Album Cover

Cambridge School of Art project to create and photograph an animal mask using recyclable materials for a 12" album cover. My wearable Zebra mask was crafted using textured cardboards. This project recontextualises the practice of illustration and applies it to tactile, physical making that can be documented with photography and transformed into an illustrative outcome. I connected the concept of the handmade to the 80's, inspired by stop motion music videos that made use of analogue materials.

Speculative 12" single album covers created for Depeche Mode's 'People are People' and Siouxsie and the Banshees' 'Dazzle', being a play on words for a group of Zebras.

Photographer credit Matilda White @awallofclimbingivy97

Photographer credit (Siouxsie and the Banshees' 'Dazzle' album cover image) Haarunya Balasubramaniam @hb_illustrationss_

PSD mock-ups sourced from mockupfree.co.

Cambridge Archaeological Unit

Reportage illustration on location with Cambridge Archaeological Unit during weeks 8 - 12 of my first trimester of BA(Hons) Illustration at Cambridge School of Art.

I use observational drawing as a library to inform all my work. It gives me the opportunity to capture and show my personal interpretation of the world moving around me; using experimental mediums, imaginative and playful colours as another level of communication in my images to show the viewer what intrigues me in a scene, person or subject. Observational drawing provides me a way to channel my curiosity as a creative and develop a deeper understanding of the little gestures, behaviours, organic and industrial landscapes that build a greater feeling of humanity within my illustrations.