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."

Ede's Arch Card

Chris Ede creates this dynamic, hero inspired Arch Card for the NFL and McDonalds. He says “the illustration depicts a running ‘back’ flying and catching a ball in mid-air, whilst ripping through a layer on a card. The Arch Card is a replica of trading cards collected in the comic world".

Russian Zodiac

Chris Ede's illustrations of the zodiac for Elle Russia are published now, and looking mighty fine!

Natural Curiosities

Chris Ede has created this piece for David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, a new TV series aired on the Eden channel. The art, commissioned by Red Bee Media has been in the Guardian as an A3 fold out poster, and in many major newspapers as a standard advertisement. Trine Johnson, producer at Red Bee Media says: "It was an absolute pleasure to work with Chris on this project. He was full of great ideas and suggestions and he worked tirelessly to get the piece right."

Sports Illustrated

Chris Ede has produced this stunning graffiti cover art for Sports Illustrated which has just hit the shelves in the US. Featuring Deron Williams, the issue dives "into the history of Brooklyn sports, as seen through the eyes of a writer who covered the borough’s basketball scene in the 1970s." You can also see an animation of the cover here.

Shots Magazine

Chris Ede's conceptual pieces for Shots magazine illustrate the new age of advertising in the Middle Eastern region with his distinctive graphic style. The article sets out to explain the modernisation of advertising in recent years with the aid of social networking and other new technologies.

Lufthansa Mural

Chris Ede

Chris Ede

Miss Led

Miss Led

Ben Tallon

Working with Wunderman in Germany for Lufthansa, several of our artists have contributed to an amazing mural exhibited in Berlin. Chris Ede, Ben Tallon and Miss Led along with others illustrated the "Zukunft-Berlin-campaign", "Sieh doch, was Du willst". Each piece from the individual artist has been combined to create a massive mural in a giant public space in Berlin.

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."

Synctracks Album Covers

Chris Ede has completed a challenging project creating 40, yes 40 album covers for production music library Synctracks. Commissioned by Liz Williams, this was a huge project for Chris and has shown his amazing versatility in having to create a different style for each album.

Tuff City

EMI’s KPM department has been working with Chris Ede on two album covers.

This Hip Hop compilation entitled “Tuff City” is a striking piece, very in tune with the genre of music. Chris created the double CD design and artwork.

Chris Ede's Special Blend

Also fresh aboard this month are the mixed-media stylings of Chris Ede. His special blend of hand-drawn and photographic elements are digitally montaged and manipulated to create a wonderfully multi-textured, conceptual and humorous illustration style - ideal for the editorial and publishing markets, where Chris sits happiest.

All At Sea

This dazzling bookjacket design comes from Chris Ede who was commissioned by publishers Falcon vs. Monkey, Falcon Wins for the short story collection "Torpedo Volume One".

These Melbourne-based publishers are "dedicated to supporting emerging writers and illustrators", and Chris was of course delighted to create this high seas-themed first cover for them.

Guest Of The Guardian

Pushing the limits of sanity recently was Chris Ede and his 5 week stint as guest illustrator at the Guardian.

Sara Ramsbottom commissioned Chris to work on Micheal Holden's All Ears column which comprises "random, humorous, bizarre and shocking conversation the writer hears throughout his week, be it on the train in a newsagents, on the phone...". Chris's unique style illustrates the task perfectly...

Reaching Boiling Point

Literally boiling over with quality is Chris Ede and this terrific cover illustration for Leadership Focus Magazine.

Fiona Duthie at Redactive Publishing commissioned Chris to create front cover and editorial pieces that would illustrate the pressure and strain head teachers commonly find themselves under. Notice the word "STRESS" cleverly written within the brain itself.

One Good Minute

Exposure doesn't come much greater than it did for Chris Ede who was commissioned to work on the recent Olympic One Minute Handover Ceremony.

Working with design and production agency Skaramoosh London, Chris created all artwork for the original pitch, and also created some of the graphics and illustrations used for the final animation. The animation was played in Beijing, on TV channels around the world, and at the Mall Party Concert in Buckingham Palace, with some 40,000 in attendance.

Chris Ede's Scrapbook

This week leading illustrator Chris Ede takes us behind the scenes to reveal what inspires him to create his amazingly popular work.
Chris Ede's Scrapbook

Ede's Geometry

Chris Ede has just finished this visually stunning self promotion piece.

He explains, "I've created a new logo/identity from which I started to explore a different method of working using bold geometric grids and shapes. The aim of this project was to create a poster mail out encompassing this new style whilst retaining my original line work." We think it's super!

Diplomat Wrap

This month sees the very talented Chris Ede reaching out across the globe with this incredible cover wrap design for Diplomat magazine.

This exciting image which perfectly illustrates the Climate Change issue, will be landing on the desks of every Embassy in the world with high praise indeed from the Art Director who declared it "the best illustration she had ever commissioned".