Client: Jägermeister
Illustrations for Australia Jägermeister’s social media campaign “Creatures Of The Night”. Working with social marketing agency Society and UM, the award-winning campaign debuted in 2014 and is ongoing due to it’s success.
Through their research, Jägermeister found that it’s the banter on a night out that bonds group of guys together. So they asked me to design a group of characters that could reflect the voices in a typical group of Aussie guys, and in turn create relatable vignettes that could be tagged and shared among friends on Facebook and Instagram.
Each week the characters were fleshed out more and more. After the first season, the Creatures of the Night left the bar in the woods and went on to engage in more and more relatable outings; they went to festivals, night clubs, toga parties, oktoberfests, BBQs and more. They were celebrating cricket world cup wins, preparing for Australia Day and cutting a rug at Christmas work parties.
Audiences adopted the characters like they were their own, using our social stories to tag their friends (usually to have a little dig at their expense!).
Client: Coca-Cola
An Illustrated Facebook campaign designed to get everyone wondering: “What’s inside the Big Prize Surprise?”
Four big red Coca-Cola containers mysteriously appeared across Australia. It’s revealed that they contained a total of $1,000,000 in prizes, and a correct guess is all it took to win. As the country started talking, Coke wanted to keep the buzz alive, so it was my task to amplify the social component of this campaign with some humorous and engaging illustrations.
12 Local celebrities; footy players, TV hosts, musicians, and actors were all asked to have a guess at what might be inside each of the big red boxes. Fanciful, impractical, or just plain ridiculous, the celebs each had their turn in deducing the contents of the boxes. It was my job to take this information and display it in an engaging manner.
From a “giant glitter cannon that fires rainbow unicorns” to a “remote-controlled, pop-up wardrobe” the celebrity guesses were fun and child-like. The campaign coinciding with Coke’s call to “open happiness” and so a highly cartoony illustration style was chosen to best reflect the tone of the piece.
Client: Nike
A series of graphic T-shirt designs for Nike, to be sold exclusively in Footlocker’s European stores.
Nike’s long-running T-shirt collaboration with Foot Locker is well known for it's specific shoe-centric streetwear graphics. Here I was asked to interpret two of Nike’s best-sellers, the Nike Free Run 2 and the Nike Blazer, and design big, bold graphic full of character and energy.
To do this I took my cues from nature and added a twist; from blinged out shark’s teeth in 'Biters Beware', to a complete arachnid/sneaker mash-up in 'Scorpion Fresh'.
Client: Drawing Book Studios
A group of artists from The Drawing Book Studios have taken their favourite dirty words and expressed them in their illustrations.
The theme of the exhibition was "Colourful Language", the artists were instructed to interpret this theme using bold colour choices and graphics that cleverly disguised their profanity, making them suitable for t-shirt prints.
Client: Oticon
Three new super-powered character designs and a comic book story to introduce Oticon’s new range of hearing aids.
Representing Oticon’s three new hearing aid products; the powerful and courageous Dynamo, the beautiful and mighty Plus Power, and the kid hero Sensei, all powered by Oticon’s BrainHearing technology.
These heroes and their unique powers needed to represent the unique capabilities of the hearing aids that they each embodied. Dynamo’s super fast processing speed gives his heroic equivalent supersonic flight, the discreet design of the Plus Power means that the heroine version can shrink in size and still maintain the power of a giant.
Secondary characters like the de-powered Soft Speech and the villainous Feedback were created to further develop the exciting world of Oticon’s BrainHearing technology.
Client: Threadless
The Next Big Tee was a competition to come up with the next iconic t-shirt design, to be worn by Threadless fans for years to come. The guys at Threadless called me on Skype to surprise me with the news I'd won, and surprised I certainly was!
Shop "INTERNET" at Threadless here.
Client: Gutter Gutter
A series of T-shirt graphics designed for the streetwear arm of the DJ Deekline empire, Bass Boutique.
Deekline loves bass but he also loves his pop culture, so in order to project the Deekline brand we went digging through the things that were important to him growing up and forming his identity. We took a vintage Star Wars poster and gave it a ‘Miami bass’ twist, we had the Mister Men out to a rave and let the characters of Street Fighter loose in the streets of Miami.
Client: Fuller's
An overhaul of Fuller’s pump clips for their seasonal ale calendar.
Fuller’s calendar comprises 16 beers in both cask and keg format. These beers stylistically define each season, from the fresh zesty flavours of Spring, to the warm, familiar flavours of Winter.
The art that described these ales was logical when viewed alone, but incoherent when viewed together. Fuller’s was looking to refresh it’s line of seasonal ales, requiring a consistent style to bring the range together.
In collaboration with design firm Thirst we created a modern, house style for the calendar using a limited colour palette teamed with a bold, contemporary line.
Spring Sprinter, Summer Ale, Red Fox, and Old Winter Ale make up the season staples and we remained mindful of the previous imagery to inform our updated style.
The resulting clean, modern designs now help to move the Fuller’s brand forward, yet retain the brewery’s rich history and tradition.
Illustration by Billmund
Design by Thirst
Client: Fuller's
An overhaul of Fuller’s pump clips for their seasonal ale calendar.
Fuller’s calendar comprises 16 beers in both cask and keg format. These beers stylistically define each season, from the fresh zesty flavours of Spring, to the warm, familiar flavours of Winter.
The art that described these ales was logical when viewed alone, but incoherent when viewed together. Fuller’s was looking to refresh it’s line of seasonal ales, requiring a consistent style to bring the range together.
In collaboration with design firm Thirst we created a modern, house style for the calendar using a limited colour palette teamed with a bold, contemporary line.
Some of these beer clips existed in a previous incarnation and needed updating, and some of the designs were created a-fresh for a new beer altogether. We remained mindful of the previous imagery to inform our updated style.
The resulting clean, modern designs now help to move the Fuller’s brand forward, yet retain the brewery’s rich history and tradition.
Illustration by Billmund
Design by Thirst
This is a selection of illustrations that I've created for various Affectors exhibitions and group shows.
Affectors run highly interactive workshops with organisations and individuals to lift performance and inspire action. They offer services in the form of business training, speaking events, creative content, and they also run themed group shows for the artists they work with.
I’ve been invited to create artistic interpretations on themes ranging from 'Mythology' to 'Common Sense', from 'The Artist Behind the Mask' to 'The Art of Storytelling', with each theme bringing something exciting, experimental and personal to the art.
Client: Roy Earl
Boy, girl and robot character designs for the new children's fashion line Roy Earl.
Client: Telstra
Eight sales managers were tasked with unlocking the ‘super-power’ potential in their sales staff, so Telstra set the task to create the super identities of these eight super-managers.
The sales managers needed to retain their work attire; their sharp business suits would need to be endowed with special powers and the requisite mask to portray them as new age superheroes with style.
The Telstra style guide links different colours on the visible light spectrum to different business areas, and these colours were to be incorporated in the unique design of the super eight. Each manager was dealt a superhero codename and from this I created a unique character design and superhero pose.
Client: Femtastic
Femtastic is a network of female artists (mc/singers/fine artists), DJs, musicians, and promoters that organise different events and other creative collaborations. For the past few years they’ve been hosting their own club nights, in Umeå and Stockholm, performing at festivals and different galas with great success. So when they wanted to start a new night called Klubb Femtastic in Malmö, they asked me to help out with some vibrant, almost black light-style posters.
Client: Private Commissions
Comics were a big part of my formative years and to this day inform a lot my stylistic choices. This is a selection of privately commissioned comic art pieces.
I often get asked by commercial clients to create comic book characters, comic book panels or even animated comic books, and I love to say yes. I love it so much that I’ll take on private commissions for comic art; bespoke pieces not for use in the commercial realm.
I work hand in hand with the client to take their favourite characters and devise the ideal pose and style treatment to create super fun one-off pieces of artwork.
Bartkira is a fan art project featuring crossover recreations of the Akira manga and anime film with characters from The Simpsons.
Inspired by the original crossover drawings by Ryan Humphrey, James Harvey initiated the Bartkira project, enlisting 768 artists from around the world to redraw the entire six volumes of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira.
I was assigned these 5 pages from volume 2, you can read the whole thing here.
In 2011 Foot Locker ran the Foot Locker Art Prize, the most affluent art competition in Australia. My entry was heavily influenced by comics legend Mœbius. Ultimately it was not picked but I'm still happy with how it turned out!
Client: Threadless
Pitched t-shirt designs for Threadless' Sony X Headphones collaboration. This design was an attempt to visualise the sensation when your favourite tune comes through your headphones and the place it takes you back to.
Client: Deekline
Deekline has been a long-time client and collaborator throughout Rat Records, Hot Cakes, Bass Boutique and beyond. His labels represent bass music in its truest form; a melting pot of dubstep, UK funky, garage, bassline, dancehall and breakstep - so they're always fun to design art around!
Client: Transperth
The client had just installed several USB charging points around the main Perth station for people to charge their devices. The charging points are not very obvious, so Transperth wanted to find a way to help them stand out a little more.
The idea was to create an illustrated decal to go around the USB charging points, so that they really stood out to the public. The concept of the Transperth robot was created, and I was asked to bring him to life.
The idea was to make the charging point look like part of the robot’s body – so you’re effectively plugging in your phone and drawing power from the robot. The brief asked two things, that the robot had a big smiley face, and also that it was modular, so that all the separate limbs could be moved around to fit on different surface areas.
Client: Gas Safe Register
This work consists of four comic strips and an animation adapted from children’s drawings.
For Gas Safety Week 2014, Gas Safe ran a competition called ‘My Gas Safe Hero’ and called upon registered engineers to get their family involved.
Children aged between 4-12 who had a relative or family friend that was Gas Safe registered were invited to submit a picture or short story that depicted their relative or family friend helping to keep the community, or a particular family, gas safe.
The idea was to transform four of the children’s pictures/short stories into comic strips re-drawn by a professional. The overall winner, Poppy (age 10), also had her entry made into a short animation by animation director Katy Davis.
Great care was taken to ensure that the character designs and colours used by the kids were adapted as faithfully as possible. It was important for us to retain the energy and sense of fun inherent in the source material.
The short film was screened, and the illustrations exhibited at the Gas Safety Week launch event at the House of Commons.
Client: Purple Sneakers
This project required branding, including a new logo, website design and a series of T-shirt designs, to refresh the old Purple Sneakers to better reflect the night-life aspect of the club night brand.
The Witching Hour refers to a time of night when creatures like Demons, witches and ghosts are thought to come out of hiding and have the world to themselves. It’s a fantasy time and with this rebrand the objective is to get people’s imaginations running wild.
Australian art and design publication Empty chose to use my artwork "Pride the Sin" as the cover for their 10th issue.
Client: UCSA
The cover to the debut issue of CANTA Magazine for University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Self-commissioned, unpublished and unofficial artworks. Loose Ends created by Jason Latour, Chris Brunner, and Rico Renzi. Battle Kittens created by Rebecca Dart. Yeezus logo by Joe Perez. Justice League published by DC Comics.
