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Oliver Sacks
Posted in Things I love, October 25 2011
Beautiful covers designed by Cardon Philip Webb.
Matthias Heiderich
Posted in Things I love, October 25 2011
I’d fill every inch of my house with his photographs.
The Birthday Issue
Posted in Things I make, Things I see, October 24 2011
I’ve just been handed the shiny new issue of the onboard journal for Porter Airlines, re:porter. This being their fifth year since the airline first took to the skies, the cover features a special silver foil to complement my illustration of their beloved raccoon mascot atop his gigantic birthday cake.
New tasty calendar
Posted in Things I see, October 12 2011
Hamburg-based design studio EIGA have included my Marathon Cake in their new 2012 calendar, titled Eat! Design with Food. I just received mine in the post. It looks scrumptious.
A pie in the sky
Posted in Things I do, September 20 2011
If you happen to be flying with Porter Airlines this month, be sure to check out issue 16 of the in-flight magazine. There’s a handful of my illustrations, mostly of food.
Porter in Process
Posted in Things I see, September 19 2011
My copy of Melbourne-based design publication Process Journal, which features a case study on the branding and advertising work Winkreative did for Porter Airlines, arrived in the post this weekend. There are some nice big photos of selected spreads on their photostream online.
Inherent geometry
Posted in Things I make, September 16 2011
Illustration and working sketches for an editorial piece.
In the mood for data
Posted in Things I love, September 8 2011
Following on from my last post, my obsession with information graphics continues… I particularly love these visuals that strip the actual data away and leave you with just a beautiful abstraction of the original idea. This is a mood board I created at work for a client last week, including images by Hvass & Hannibal, Chad Hagen, Erik Nitsche, Marius Roosendaal and Metric72.
Measuring happiness
Posted in Things I love, August 23 2011
The other day I came accross this rather beautiful visualisation of happiness by Ben Willers, mapping his mood against various other activites and events happening in his life at the time. I wonder what mine would look like? It would definitely be worth the experiment to find out how much I’m actually affected by things like weather, income, sexual activity, what country or city I’m living in and who I’m living or working with. Of course, happiness is bloody difficult to measure, and god knows we’ve tried. But maybe we can take a hint from the nine-year-old protagonist of one of my favourite novels:
Guacamole and salsa
Posted in Things I make, June 1 2011
A tasty one for re:porter, the in-flight magazine for Porter Airlines.