Coin Designs for The Mint

2014 Year of The Horse

2014 Year of The Horse

2013 Year of The Water Snake

Chrissy Lau works with The Australian Mint to produce several coin designs.

Following her first commission to celebrate the Year of the Water Snake - 2013, her most recent designs for the Year of the Horse 2014 have just been launched.
Chrissy was asked to work on two distinctive illustrations for the range. The first is an energetic kicking horse inspired by Chinese brush paintings and the second design illustrates eight horses,  '8' being the symbol of wealth and success in China. Chrissy was able to research her Chinese heritage and look extensively at patterns and tapestries of past Dynasties to help with the concepts. The result being these precious collectable coins.
Chrissy says "The Year of the Horse 2014 is the year of the Wood Horse and people born in this year exude strength and stability, which is represented in the muscular tone of the horse in this design."
Chrissy is currently working on designs for the 2015 Year of The Goat, so there's more to come!
The Prestige Lunar Series Coins can be seen here.

Mortal Business

Richard Phipps creates fabulous spreads for France's 'Liberation Next'. The story entitled Mortal Business is set in the future where people with terminal illnesses sell their life insurances to make money. Richard's classic work looks wonderful in this popular magazine.

IRS Calendar

Embracing a paper theme, Gail Armstrong was commissioned by the IRS in America to supply illustrations for their 2013 calendar. The calendar highlights key dates in the financial year and gives tips on completing accounts and tax forms, and as this was the last year of producing a paper version before switching over to digital forms, it seemed more than appropriate to ask a paper sculptress to come up with the goods! Gail says "...(the images) closely reflected the text of each month...(and) the tone throughout was reasonably lighthearted, yet authoratative, some of the images being created using tax forms, brown envelopes and ledger paper."

Portal Financial

Bill Greenhead produces this animation using After Effects and Photoshop with the production company Rogue Gene. The Scottish squirrel explains the benefits of using Portal Financial, the UK's leading pensions group. Watch it here.

The Fear Index

'The Fear Index', a book by Robert Harris has been reviewed in The Financial Times Book Review. Chris Ede's dark illustration for the article 'Money Stalks' tells the story of a hedge fund trading on fear. Chris says "Robert Harris is a very well known and great writer and it was an absolute pleasure to add my own take on his work."

If Greece Goes

Two front covers two weeks in a row by Derek Bacon for The Economist, both commissioned by Graeme James, and both forecasts of economic gloom.
The second here; 'If Greece goes...' concerned the bail-out plans to save the Greek economy. An early version of this had a hand coming out of the plughole, and pulling the man down by his ankle!

Optimism from Brand Republic Daily News

IPA Bellwether Report: Optimism returns despite more marketing cuts
by Arif Durrani, Brand Republic 18-Jan-10, 00:01

LONDON - Optimism is returning to UK marketing companies and budgets are set to rise in 2010, despite the ninth consecutive period of cuts in Q4, according to the latest IPA/BDO Bellwether Report out today (18 January).

The IPA survey panel, made up of marketers at 300 leading companies, collectively presented the most upbeat financial outlook for their industries since the question was first asked in the second quarter of 2005.

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