Catherine at The New York Times mailed me with an illustration request for a piece in the Paula Span column. The subject matter concerned a new Medicare regulation that effectively shortens the amount of time that physical therapists have to assist their patients.
I was asked by Mark at Deloitte Services to produce a number of illustrations for their Technology, Media and Telecommunications brochure, Deloitte Insights, Predictions 2020. Subjects ranged from smart-phones, wi-fi and robots through to audio-books, microchips and cycling.
Image content had already been agreed on the clients side so this was a case of realising the images rather than conceptualising. Twelve illustrations were wanted in total with plenty of background area to facilitate any additional uses.
Art Director Todd from Market Watch got in touch wanting an image that represented wine distribution from the wholesaler to the retailer/consumer in the era of e-commerce. Indications of a network hub, transportation and storage were requested elements.
I'm a big fan of negative shapes and I quickly saw how one could work well in this instance. Once I had that working as the point of focus it was then a case of working out a design to incorporate the various items and deciding on a colour palette.
Ryan called with an assignment for Virginia Living magazine, illustrations for a special section on hospitals and health care. The first one here was about CBD products, followed by a more general image for the opener.
Continuing to work on giclée print designs in between commercial assignments. At the moment focussing on monochromatic palettes, distressed paper surfaces and simple figure forms.
A new assignment from ASIS International with a cover and spread for Security Management magazine. This time the theme centred around the seriousness of opioid addiction in the workplace and the inherent dangers therein. Fatalities being a very real risk.
As usual the corporate cover style is to use black backgrounds with a dominant spot color.
Experimenting with shape creation and drawing with a view to developing a new series of giclée prints. I take a more intuitive approach when making personal work. It's much more a question of finding or uncovering an image rather than the more conscious, ideas led, requirements of commercial work. I am often asked what giclée prints are. Well, it's a word derived from a French verb used to describe a fine art digital printing process, combining pigment based inks with high quality archival quality paper to achieve an inkjet print of superior archival quality, light fastness and stability.
