My mum, AKA The Chook, quit smoking at the start of 2018 which is quite a big deal for someone who had been sucking back 20+ darts a day for 50+ years. If you’re reading this, these are the words of ONE. PROUD. SON. Go mum! (:

Having witnessed her do this, often using a chewed-up chopstick as a replacement smoke, I was super honoured to be asked to draw the mascots and identity for QUITLINE’S annual Quit Your Way in May campaign in Adelaide, South Australia with the good folks at Show Pony, Jacky Winter and Flutter (the animation team who brought my quirky mascots to life!)

The brief was super fun and included drawing quirky characters that referenced the many ways to quit smoking as well as portraying them in an inclusive, relatable and approachable way through age, ethnicity and body shapes.

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Frank & El Bean—A cute play on the phrase “Franks and Beans”—are two best friends from opposite sides of the border. Frank is stetson-wearing American frankfurter and El bean, a heavily moustached Mexican pinto bean. Together, they were drawn to celebrate diversity and friendship despite our geo-political and cultural differences. That, and frankfurters and beans are delicious! (:

These were my two artworks included in Outre Gallery’s annual Melbourne group show LOCALS in 2021. (SOLD).

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If I could imagine two mascots to represent me in my game of life it would be these two happy friends – Introducing ‘Slow’ and ‘Steady’. Like a tortoise, I’m never in a huge hurry to get from A to B, and half the time I’m working at a snails pace. This doesn’t make me slow, or lazy, I just like to bide my time, do things right, and savour being in the moment. Rush it and you miss it (good advice, that!)

I originally created them as part of the opening titles to my keynote talk ‘Slow & Steady’ live from Forward Festival (Vienna) in summer, 2019. After introducing them to the crowd—to the tune of take it easy by the great Hopeton Lewis—I talked about my journey, my work, and even hit ping-pong balls into the audience for shits and giggles. Fun times! (:

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The Daydream Club is a self-initiated (mostly) offline arts collaboration project between Timba Smits and some of the friendliest, most positive and talented artists on planet earth. The Daydream Club’s aim is to promote curiosity, creativity, kindness and positivity through art and design.

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Hand Smashed Burgers. Fries. And a cheeky little Mascot. What more do you ned for a perfect branding project? The crew at Broken Hearts Burger Club - a new burger joint in out of Brisbane, Australia asked me to imagine their identity ahead of the launch of their first bricks-and-mortar burger joint. Their story is pretty neat… starting out as Peer Reviewed Burgers – an instagram account dedicated to cataloging founder Jay Gordon’s foray into hand-smashed burger fanaticism. Initially, Jay started making free burgers for friends and family during their Covid isolation, dropping off his creations in paper bags and gathering feedback on his recipe in order to refine it further.

Soon after, he contacted me to talk shop about changing the name (to Broken Hearts Burger Club) and creating a brand identity and mascot to go along with the business. The rest is cheese melting over hand-smashed burger history.

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A collaborative campaign I worked on with Canon Cameras Australia with thanks to the legends at Monster Children.

This project was a pretty dreamy one, combining so many design loves. The brief was pretty much up my alley - to create a suite of fun characters in lockups for use on staff t-shirts and in-store visual merchandise displays referencing Canon's main lens offerings. And this is the result...

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY! Introducing Sammy Street, Wendy Wildlife, Larry Landscape and Peter Portrait, your friendly Canon family of lenses. Say cheese!!

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A good friend from Monster Children magazine outta Sydney, Australia asked me to design a fun mascot and lockup/badge design for his family’s fishing club - Clancy Fishing Club. Even if it’s raining down with work, this is one of those no-brainer super-fun projects that you always make time for.

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Easy Peasy is one chill pea.

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Introducing FOOD BUDS - Your environmentally conscious food wrap mascots. Whether you’re a burger and fries, hotdog and mustard, or a strict plant eater, my Food Buds will protect your grub and help save the planet. How? Teaming up with Jacky Winter and the good folks at Wrappa - reusable food wraps I created this print to feature on an artist-series of traditional bees wax based food wraps for JWs Christmas gift to clients.

Completely Australian made and palm-oil free, Wrappa reusable food wraps are an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic wrap which retain the natural moisture content of your fresh food. Say. No. To. Plastic. And give thanks to the Bees!

A good friend from Monster Children magazine outta Sydney, Australia asked me to design a fun mascot and lockup/badge design for his family’s fishing club - Clancy Fishing Club. Even if it’s raining down with work, this is one of those no-brainer super-fun projects that you always make time for.

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Hey, what do you call a cat with eight legs? An OCTO-PUSS. Get it? ;D
Do you often think about strange animals? I mean, what if evolution took a side trail and added an extra long tail on a Donkey with a pair of opposable thumbs, could it climb like a Monkey? Monkey, Donkey… Anyway, one day, on one of my many walks, I started to think about an Octopus. I don’t really know why. I wasn’t coming back from an aquarium, or from a Greek Tavern where I'd just eaten some, but I began thinking this… “how could I mash up another animal that had eight legs, or arms, or heads?”. Anyway, like a pun smack to the face as hard as any, it hit me (ha, pun intended). What if I simply added an ‘S’ to the end of ‘Octopus’ to make OCTOPUSS - an eight legged cat! And what do all good feline’s with eight legs like to eat? Octopuss brand All-Fish Cat Food, that’s what! And so that’s that, just a bit of silliness from the wacky brain of Timba. Enjoy! (Please note: not for human consumption).


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My good friends Pedro & Lola invited me to be a part of their debut zine called TURBOLAND to launch the opening of their new collective Workshop Madrid. The brief for TURBOLAND was to tell the story about your first car through an illustration. Mine is a funny story because I once owned a car, but have never owned a licence. I can drive, but I don’t have a ticket to drive.

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Has anyone that is NOT crazy ever been to Bootcamp before? Ha Ha. I mean, I like to exercise and keep fit but Bootcamp is a whole other level of fitness that I can’t wrap my puny arms around. Let’s just say that I won’t be enlisting to the camp of boot any time soon but I’ve done my part by designing this fun not-so-little guy. Inspired by my love of mascots and Sgt. Slaughter, one of my favourite wrestlers and GI.JOE characters as a kid growing up. Now get down and give me 50!!!

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I created this mascot and brand identity for an East London fitness company called Sports Day Events. The concept behind the brand was to offer child-like sports/games events to corporate businesses — think Dodgeball, British bulldog (tackle football) and tug-of-war — as a sort-of fun team building exercise meets training day. To separate the design from a lot of other fitness brands, I focused on the FUN. We wanted the brand to be both tough and friendly at the same time. For professional adults but for the kids hidden inside of those adults.

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Let me introduce Sunny - everyone’s favourite summer-time friend. He keeps us warm, he keeps us happy and he makes our skin turn browner and sexier. But he brings out the flies, which nobody likes, right? Right. Summer - The good-vibes club. Catching tans and swatting flies, since forever.

It’s that time (every 4 years) where the world goes bonkers for football. And this year, it’s Russia’s turn to host. Now I’m not hugely into the ‘beautiful game’ as some football heads like to call it — I’m more of a basketball, tennis and winter sports person — but I do like a good excuse to draw a fun soccer ball mascot. And well, here’s one I prepared earlier. GOAL!!!

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“Turning 40 has never been more fun”. Welcome to Summer Camp ‘79. In the spirit of turning 40, I decided to go waaaay back in time, in my planning, to the year I was born (1979) and organise a nostalgic, retro-inspired Summer Camp weekend for my friends and family – high up in the snowy mountains of Victoria (but without the snow). You know, like Wet Hot Amercian Summer style. And for such a fun event it could (really) only work with a super styled invitation in the shape of a fully branded website including fun characters and bold/retro styled lettering that I loved to make so so much. Good Friends. Good Times. At Summer Camp ‘79.


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Los Angeles based charity run FIRECRACKER L.A. tasked me to design the official mascot for their 2019 run/walk/ride in aid of charity. My designs will feature on various marketing & PR including posters, staff and volunteer t-shirts. The design itself was inspired by atomic-era Japanese cartoons including AstroBoy and Mighty Atom and was arranged to look like some reference to vintage firecracker packaging.

Illustrations, menu and new website designs for iconic London restaurant chain The Diner who asked me for a new look for their branding. Umm, Burgers... Illustration... Fries... Illustration... Shakes... more illustrations. It was a no-brainer really. Anyone who knows me well enough, would know that this combination is pretty much a match-made-in-heaven. I love inventing characters so this was a pretty fun brief. Bon apetite! 

Illustrations for UK street wear brand Dephect who commissioned me to create a series of 3 screen print designs as an official Timba x Dephect collection of tees inspired by mid-century MAD magazine advertising coupons. You know, like those whacky Sea Monkey's and Woopi-Cushion ads. Each one features a combination of hand drawn characters and type combined with vector elements and textures. 

Everyone likes Halloween, right? Right. I’ve always enjoyed drawing monsters and spooky stuff, ever since I was a kid. And I’ve been into costume parties and dressing up for halloween for as long as I can remember. I don’t really go for the sugary snacks that make your teeth fall out but I’m right into the costumes and the movies though. Oh, and pumpkin carving is pretty fun, too!

These are a few mascots I’ve drawn over the years to celebrate Halloween and all its madness and fun! Boo!

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