The Future Of Work

 

Here's a recent and weighty commission for Virginia Tech Magazine on the Future Of Work no less. Virginia Tech are at the forefront of technological research and innovation across multiple disciplines so it was a joy for me to interpret the institution's future in my own 'tech-centric' style. The colourful cover and feature illustration collages are a mash-up of students, campus buildings, history, science and tech from disciplines such as medicine, construction and the arts. Overall, a very satisfying commission to work on, right up my strasse as they say. You can check out some of my other technology illustrations on the blog here.

ABRSM Crescendo

It's been a bumper year for ABRSM illustration commissions and here's a mega-post to catch up on all of them. The bulk of the work was rebranding ABRSM's Music Theory series which required a new visual concept that could be used across the 5 grades of Work and Answer books. I presented a few approaches before settling on an organic design that emanated from a large central  grade number featuring 3d notation, textures and patterns. The illustration had to be versatile enough to work with the five colour schemes and for the Answer book I inverted the tones of the numbers and background imagery to differentiate them. Monochrome versions were also provided for the Sample Paper covers. Aside from that I created new covers for Piano Exam Pieces and Scales & Arpeggios with designer Kate Benjamin. Great jobs to work on as always. You can see all the previous work for ABRSM here.

Bowery Bronze

Very pleased to discover last week that my recent 3d animated music video, Kilder's 'Down For Whatever Feat. Friday Night Plans' picked up a Bronze award at New York's Bowery Awards in the animation category for Film Craft / Motion Video. Really pushed my puny 3d skills on that one so I'm chuffed with the acknowledgement.