2000: Wrote liner notes for the Johnny Cash box set "Love, God, & Murder" alongside filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.
(July 2007) Guest editor of Vanity Fair's "Africa Issue"
(2003) Illustrated the children's book "Peter and the Wolf" for the Irish Hospice Foundation.
(2011) Print advertisement (with wife Ali Hewson) for Louis Vuitton's EDUN baggage line (ethically made products founded by Ali Hewson and Bono) slogan: "Every journey began in Africa"