Recreating a dream scenario of rifling through an old box of prints and photos and coming across some unusual images.
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Experiment with combining abstract forms, texture, layout and ephemera. Becoming something of an ongoing, intermittent, theme/series.
Replacing the physical with drawn counterparts. No matter how abstract almost anything will read when placed above a pair of shoulders.
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.
New composition, figure with collaged, ephemeral elements - vintage look.
Another design in an occasional series of combinations - sculptural figure/forms with elements of clothing/fashion.
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.
Experimenting with the combination of fashion and floral elements, focussing on form as opposed to the decoration/design of fabric.