A Fair Share?

Heather Landis works on two collages for the November issue of HR Magazine.
Heather shows her illustrative skills in tackling an article called 'A Fair Share?'; discussing the government's shares-for-rights initiative and it's failure in gaining interest with employees.

New Talent Alert: Andre Bergamin

Collage artist Andre Bergamin cleverly juxtaposes elements of old and existing pictures to create new striking compositions. Take a look...

Bacon on the Shanghai Metro

on the metro

the art

the art

Derek Bacon has two works displayed on the Shanghai Metro.
Now showing in 3m wide lightboxes, the images; eye-catching to all commuters are part of the 'Shanghai JCDecaux Cup Public Welfare Ads Design Competition 2013.' Derek's art was chosen for this 'well renowned public event in Shanghai' which had 4000 entries in 2012. Besides the prize money, the winning artworks of the competition are displayed on 'metro media' with JCDecaux providing over 200 lightboxes and digital panels.

Creative Confidence

Alyana Cazalet illustrates "Creative Confidence: Unleashing the creative potential within us all".
Published last month, the book by Tom and David Kelley (IDEO founder and Stanford University Design School creator) has become an Amazon bestseller. Alyana worked on the illustrations for ten chapters of the book and says of the project "I was facing some challenging tasks for (the) visual interpretation of (the) chapters...the book was aimed mainly for corporate professionals and I knew very little about this world...yet it gave me a bit of freedom." All the images can be seen here.

VW Celebrate German Unity Day

Chris Ede works with The Gang in Singapore to produce an advertisement for Volkswagen.
Celebrating the 23rd German Unity Day, Volkswagen Centre-Singapore commissioned Chris to use his skills on this graffiti style illustration. The day consisited of 'great savings and fun activities for the whole family' whilst observing the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Mark Wiggins, head of Art at The Gang - Singapore, says of the result "Chris did a beautiful illustration for us that really leapt off the page and created great cut-through in the newspaper. He's quick, upbeat and enthusiastic. He made the whole process of working-with-an-illustrator-by-telephone-over-10,000-km-away extremely pleasant. Our client, Volkswagen Singapore, is very happy."

STOP PRESS: Asiago Award Winners

Top left: Shailesh Khandeparkar, top right: Gail Armstrong, bottom: Russell Fei

Watch Gail Armstrong create her stamp

We are delighted with the news that three of our illustrators have won the prestigious Asiago International Award for Philatelic Art.
Commissioned by the United Nations Postal Administration, Gail Armstrong, Shailesh Khandeparkar and Russell Fei were asked to create stamp designs to mark the UN's Conference on Sustainable Development which took place in Rio last year. Along with some background material on the conference, each artist was given the theme of either Land, Sea or Air and encouraged to go and create something beautiful.
Gail, Shailesh and Russell have not only achieved this but have been crowned with an award which is given annually under the patronage of the President of Italy.

Price per KWh

 

Commissioned by Haas Taguiri of Which? Gail Armstrong uses her paper skills for their current campaign on energy prices.
The image, which is used across all the relevant pages on their website and in the Which? magazine tackles the current confusion over the price of Gas and Electricity. Gail says "The gas hob doubles as a target device, whilst the surrounding flames incorporate lightbulbs, to cover both types of energy. I used concentric circles on the background to create added depth and give the illusion of heat energy radiating from the target hob. The colour palette was chosen to compliment the existing page design."

Maxus Mural

Chrissy posing with the final mural

detail

Commissioned by media agency Maxus Australia, Chrissy Lau creates a unique mural in their kitchen and dining area.
The brief was to visually translate the agency's positioning of 'Lean into Change', so after receiving everyone's ideas, Chrissy focussed on the key words of innovation, digital, change, future, vibrancy and organic growth.

She says of the end result "On one wall is Einstein's quote "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change" with the word 'change' repeated in different styles of font. On the larger wall is a futuristic rocketman leaning into change - I've made him quite playful with a propeller on his head to represent the agency's personality as they all have a good sense of humour."

And the mural has pleased the team at Maxus,  CEO Jonathan Chadwick says of the piece:

".... Chrissy created a brilliant image that we feel perfectly encapsulates the agency culture (first take). As the Mural was being developed the agency became more and more excited about the meticulous detail of the unravelling design. After a few days our mural was finally revealed and the decision was unanimous – a masterpiece had been created. Thanks for a brilliant job Chrissy, we love your work!"

Open for Business

Gail Armstrong has finished a super commission from Bader Rutter recently.
Asked to create two linking images for the cover story of Impact Magazine, Gail's creations were to illustrate the implications of moving to more open-plan office environments for an article entitled Open for Business. Gail says "The first image is of a closed box, the sides of which are reminiscent of the classic, textured partition walls often used to divide up and enclose workstations in offices. The word OPEN is cut into one side of the box. In the second image the word becomes freestanding, the walls fall away and the office workers are seen interacting in a more pleasant and free environment". A partial animation of the second image can be seen here.

Pensions made Beautiful

Cover

Heather Landis's photo illustrations for HR Magazine give the feature on pension supplements a vintage feel. Her style is a successful choice, giving the article a flavour of class and beauty.

Need a Vacation?

Stuart Holmes's recent editorial for O2 magazine highlights the need and ability of small business owners to take vacation time. He says "The illustration depicts a retail high street with various business owners closing up off on their holidays, whilst still maintaining a business presence." Using his graphic style, the illustration cleverly contrasts a vibrant street with the grey of the surroundings.

Culture Services

Using his amazing sense of colour and design Ian Murray creates these two spreads for French editorial client; Culture Services.  Ian says "The job was to enliven a feature on The Public Sectors' use of a range of communication tools such as TV, radio, and social media."

Prevost Tackles Health Issue

Mikela Prevost creates an illustration with impact for Marquette University. The image illustrates an article on the dilema of African American women being over looked in the AIDS/HIV+ community.