Making the magic happen.

This particular job had quite a strange beginning. In October 2024, I was asked by the design agency, Chorus, if I could open a file that had been sent by their printer – because nobody else could (given the file was in excess of 28GB in size, it was unsurprising). 

My then Apple Custom Shop iMac was able to open the file and I provided them with a new version that I had converted to CMYK, making sure it kept its high resolution – 3,000dpi at 10% of actual size – and its spectacular colouring (adjusting the levels in Photoshop after the CMYK conversion).

Since then, I’ve revisited this file a few times; creating new crops of the floor file for various Johnnie Walker projects around the world. Most recently, having got myself a new MacBook Pro M4 Max, I was able to convert the file into a new image that I could shift and add to, creating a new piece of artwork that could be used on elevator walls, etc. for the Johnnie Walker Drop in Edinburgh.  

Latest update – as at 27th October 2025 – I’ve just created (possibly) the biggest version of this graphic… 10m x 11m for an upcoming installation in Athens. That was probably the most difficult version I’ve created in that it took 2.5 days to get the steps right to create the artwork, from flipping a copy so it mirrors to saving the file, it took up to an hour for each process. Even saving the document took over an hour.