Photo / Illustration project

A project that combined hand-drawn illustrations with photographs locations. It was a great excuse to visit Wing-Yip's chinese supermarket in Croydon.

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How To Be a Transformer

This brief was to create a manual for something, and being a major Transformers geek I naturally went for that, basing it on the classic style of the Transformers manual.

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Diesel ad campaign

These are designs I made for an brief from Diesel. Starting with the idea that, well, the posters will probably end up being vandalised anyway, I thought what better way to take advantage of that than by giving them posters with pens attached, and a highlighted space to  do graffitti on. This led to an idea of not having logos and standard designs, and letting the customer have a more interactive relationship with their clothing.

 

These are mock ups of leafelts to be published with magazines as part of the campaign, and the website activity. The idea was that your design would be scanned, either by yourself, or by sending it into Diesel, where it would appear on the clothes on the screen. Each user would have their own account, with their face scanned into the online 'model'.

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Winter Warmer Project

This is a series of illustrations to go with brief for an article from Sleazenation magazine about keeping warm in the winter. As you can tell, my ideas were not entirely serious. They are:

Attach several small animals to yourself to form a living jacket (Pros- Environmentally friendly, and great if you love wildlife, but remember, a coat is for life, not just Christmas; Cons- Urine stains down your front, and any time a squirrel crosses your path, your coat will drag you, yapping and hissing down the street).

Buy a puffer jacket, cut open each puff, and turn them into hot water bottles (Pros- Pleasant, gentle heating, which will also soothe upset stomachs; Cons- Unpleasant and embrrassing if you spring a leak, and will cool to an ice-pack if you stay out too long).

Iron your clothes while you're still wearing them (Pros- Fresh, crisp and warm clothes and skin; Cons- Painful blisters and burns, plus the prohibitive cost of constant skin grafts).

Get a job at a laboratory and genetically modify yourself to be less susceptible to the cold (Pros- You'll be able to go out in January, wearing just your pants; Cons- Get it wrong, and you'll grow toes out of your forehead).

 Volunteer for some insanely dengerous experiments and become a thermally powered superhero (Pros- You could gain fame, respect and tremendous power, and you'll be able to wear your pants outside your trousers, if you want; Cons- You'll have to spend the rest of your life in mortal fear of Kryptonite).

Sleep in the oven (Pros- Saves on central heating and double glazing, and is convenient if you do lots of cooking, as the oven will still be warm; Cons- Take at least one night off a week, or you'll end up basted).

Do you love the smell of napalm in the morning? Try bathing in it for that all day long scorched-Earth-warm feeling (Pros- Not only warm enough to flay the flesh from your bones, but sticks to your skin, so you'll be toasting for hours after you get out of the tub; Cons- After a couple of baths, there will be no flesh left below your waist).

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A few pieces from my degree course

 

 So, let's see if I can remember all of them: This is an image that was for a magazine article juxtaposing hot and cold.

This one is another one for an article about the apocalypse (remember, this was 1999/2000, lots of apocalyptic discussion going on).

This. Hmmm, I can't really remember. I think it was more of a concept sketch. Kinda cool though.

An observational sketch while I was working on a site during the holidays.

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Portrait of the artist as a zombie

So, welcome to a new blog I have set up to have my art available on the web. I thought it appropo to start with a self-portrait, so here's me, from a day when I felt, well, a bit crap. So, yeah, zombie James.

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