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One sunny Friday back in September we spent the day in an unimposing field with Jean Jullien. Armed with a RED camera, a selection of pens and one brightly coloured Hawaiian shirt, Eoin & Angus unleashed their cinematic minds with the aim to create a film that captured Jean's work and his process and of course, his striking personality.
Jean Jullien is represented by Handsome Frank
Dan Funderburgh worked with AMV BBDO on this striking 'Made of Black' campaign for Guinness Africa. Dan created the patterns to incorporate the iconic Guinness harp emblem which were then used as the backdrop to portraits by artist by Steve Caldwell. The images depict young creative talent from Africa: Eva Alordiah, Phyno and Olamide
Dan Funderburgh is represented by Debut Art
Gary Newman was commissioned to illustrate Orangina’s summer outdoor campaign. Gary’s fabulous graphic artwork can be seen on billboards across Europe.
Gary Newman is represented by New Division
Pietari Posti was commissioned by Porto Agency to produce this series of posters to help promote the attractions at Westfield Shopping Centre.
Pietari Posti represented by Debut Art
The very talented Aleksei Bitskoff (represented by Arena) is responsible for designing NatWest's new piggy characters, Pigby and Friends for the launch of their children's savings account. NatWest ran a competition for kids to design a piggy bank, the winner was 13 year old Kwamina Longdon and, with the help from the folks at Aardman Animations, Aleksei was asked to base his characters on Kwamina's drawing and develop them further to include a fashionista pig, a skater dude, an artistic pig, a nerdy one and a sporty one, along with Pigby "the little helper" who loves saving money.
John Rielly was chosen by Puma to illustrate the launch of their new evoPOWER range. The dynamic campaign, which was inspired by Roy of the Rovers, combines over 15 of John's comic strip style artworks with stunning live action shots.
John Rielly is represented by Meiklejohn
Turine Tran works with Leo Burnett in Vietnam to produce a series of hand drawn images for a Crayola advertising campaign.
The campaign was to promote brand awareness in a visually arresting way with the concept of 'unrolling' a colour pencil, laying it out flat, and seeing all the visuals that are waiting to be drawn by that pencil. Currently used on billboards, street posters, in-store, as well as press and digital use, the three drawings celebrate the craft of drawing. Turine says "The main challenge was actually creating a visual that just used one colour. Each visual (red, green and blue) features only objects of that one colour. So for example, red is full of London buses, Santa Claus, roses etc and blue is full of blue water, blue whales, blue jeans etc. We had to use only one colour in each illustration to create light and shade and a feeling of depth and movement. The key objective was to make passers-by stop and go 'wow'....It's been a great deal of fun working on this, and people's reaction with the billboard is awesome to behold."
Turine Tran is represented by Illustration
Creative Review's Ad of the Week features a series of three ancient maps for Whiskas illustrated in fine detail by Dave Hopkins. Dave Hopkins worked closely with the AMV team over two months to create these highly acclaimed and innovative ads which have been entered for the prestigious Cannes awards.
Dave Hopkins is represented by Phosphor Art
Paul Higgens meticulous photo-real illustrator, has been working on an exciting news drinks product for Russia over the past two months which will be launched very soon. The client chose Paul on the strength of some great pieces in his folio. Watch out for the new work coming soon.
Paul Higgens is represented by Phosphor Art
