Isolation
Isolated tIme at home leads to increased creativity and inspired me to get back to my artistic roots.
Last time I was down south I found this most excellent shell. Drawing it and wishing I was there now.
Stay safe everyone.
The Drive
I think anyone with a soul remembers the first time they encountered the sweeping lines of a Jaguar E-type in real life.
For me, I was driving along the river and saw a wild-silver-haired old lady in this long silver convertible parked on the bank, enjoying the calm summers afternoon. Both the lady and the car had seen better times, but I was struck enough to stop and ask her about it. She was quite mad, as in crazy, but this seemed to work in my favour as she offered me the chance to take it for a drive.
I was still on P-plates and probably not the most cautious or skilled driver in the world, but this didn't bother her and away we went, flying along the river with that long, long bonnet stretched out before us and a swathe of surprised onlookers in our wake. I'll never forget the feeling.
So, back to the present day and that lady is long gone. Perhaps the car is as well. A client asks me to illustrate a stretch of road on their premises for a presentation to the board. What car am I going to include?
This is just a crop of a much larger illustration... but it is my favourite part.
Here's to you crazy Jaguar lady. I am forever in your debt.
The Book of Life - Tickets
It's time for our next movie promo. Together with Grand Cinemas and The Examiner Newspaper, Blackrooke are giving away a stack of family passes to see an advanced screening of the new animated family movie THE BOOK OF LIFE.
(We promise you CAN bring your kids to this one. It wont be like 'Kingsman' at all!)
For your chance to get along, send your contact details to bookoflifecompetition@hotmail.com by 5pm, Monday 23 March.
Share and enjoy.
Pilbara 2050
We’re pleased to see our Pilbara 2050 infographic kicking up some lively debate in Australian press and radio.
We created it at the request of Curtin University researchers Jemma Green and Julian Ilich who have produced the Pilbara 2050 report, assessing the region's economic, social and environmental future.
Media links:
ABC
Sydney Morning Herald
Curtin News
Romantic novelists
We recently designed some new swipe cards for the local City libraries.
This version for young adults is about the brief interpersonal relationships of train travel (that may become long relationships).
The Cape Times
Nice campaign for the Cape Times.
The line reads, "You can't get any closer to the News."
The Economist
It's been twenty years since the first poster was created, but The Economist's iconic White out of Red ad campaign is now available to buy as a series of limited edition screen prints.
The function of type (1922)
In 1922, Benjamin Sherbow, a "consultant in Typography" and the author of Making Type Work and Sherbow's Type Charts, self-published Effective Type-use for Advertising. This was six years before W.A. Dwiggins's Layout in Advertising and Jan Tschichold's Die Neue Typographie, the two leading books on type use. Sherbow's book is credited by "designers," art directors, and type directors of the era for being a no-nonsense guide through the rights and wrongs of typographic text and display.
See more here.