Abstract figures + ephemera

Experimenting with abstract figure shapes, forms, textures and ephemeral items (click for enlargements).

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Masked and Anonymous



Recreating a dream scenario of rifling through an old box of prints and photos and coming across some unusual images.

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Torn

Experiment with combining abstract forms, texture, layout and ephemera. Becoming something of an ongoing, intermittent, theme/series.

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Replacements

Replacing the physical with drawn counterparts. No matter how abstract almost anything will read when placed above a pair of shoulders.

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Headaches and Treatments

Tammy from Consumer Reports got in touch and had a piece about self-care strategies for treating headaches/migraines. Something quite straightforward was required, depicting the problem and the three solutions for treatment i.e medicines, dietary changes and exercise.





Above is the printed page and a few initial sketches showing how the migraine could be depicted.

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Headscarf

New composition, figure with collaged, ephemeral elements - vintage look.

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Sketchbook

A new sketchbook page.

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Cape

Another design in an occasional series of combinations - sculptural figure/forms with elements of clothing/fashion.

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Seated Figure with Hat

Self-generated image - another variation on the seated figure theme (click for enlargements).

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Healthy Aging

I was contacted by Peggy from Tufts University in Boston requesting a homepage image that captures the work of the university-based research centre. Tufts are one of the largest research centers in the world studying healthy aging and its relationship to nutrition and physical activity. The brief was to produce a design that included the various elements involved in the research and that sat well with their established website style.



Above is my initial submission (click for enlargement) that I produced after the sketch below had been accepted and approved. Usually I adhere pretty religiously to an accepted sketch but in this case things started to change when working on the artwork and I felt that the re-arranged elements just had more visual interest.



As it turns out the client preferred the original design, so I worked up the revised version below. Colours were then shifted more towards a blue which synched better with the website than the coral tones above.

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