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design, cut- out & make postcards

zara — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:55:10 +0000

I was lucky enough to complete a internship with Creative Orchestra for 3 months, working on a various design projects. It was a a bit of a learning curve and a lot of hard work but I loved every minute of it. So, this little personal project is just my way of saying thankyou ;)

As I wanted to say thanks to everyone at the studio for their help and cows seem to be the unofficial mascot of Creative Orchestra. I ended up creating these design, cut out and make postcards. The idea is that people can draw any design on their cow, then cut it out and turn it into a paper model! And in turn, have a nice little toy for their desks.But the response to my postcards was bigger than I expected, so I have since added a pig, dog, cat, rabbit, fox, tiger and a bat!

Creative Orchestra cow postbox

Lizzie

zara — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:16:16 +0000

It’s not very often I get to return to my fine art roots, but I enjoy it, when the occasion calls for it. So this project, was a welcome change to produce an art piece rather than an illustrative piece.

This was a private commission, for a client who wanted a one of piece for their apartment. The brief was create an art piece that had a quiet feel, almost like a sense of silence. After playing around with ideas, Lizzie was created but left largely un-worked as the client liked the ‘rough feel’ of the piece.

The Lizzie Portrait

eyedea badges 09

zara — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:01:00 +0000

These are badges I designed for eyedea for their 2009 collection.

I love doing these, I can play around with an all manner doodles as long as they are eyes and use the company’s colours. The 2009 collection were mainly retro comic book eyes and monster eyes. We also introduced a sci-fi navi eye which worked better than expected once printed!

So, show your eyedea love and get a badge or two ;)

2009 badge designs

click here for prickie to spread eyedea love

eyedea & erskine wall swap

zara — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:35:53 +0000

This was a personal project for both eyedea and erskine design. Erskine design set a brief called wallswaps, were anyone could send them something and in return they received a birdie badge.

As, I’m a member of the eyedea collective and wanted a badge the eyedea post box was born.

So, here it is! A briefcase style box, holding our lovely moo business cards, badges and the eyedea cyclops thing. All graphics were kept along the organic feel, (cause that’s what we like) with lots of shades of green (cause we like that to).

the eyedea postbox

click here for the erskine wallswap website

Siddel seed packet

zara — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:11:16 +0000

This was one of those little projects, you can’t really pass up. I love the idea of working of projects that focus on current green ideals. So I was more than happy to donate my time and doodles for a good cause.

I was asked by a local artist to produce the graphics for an seed packet. A local company supplied the seeds and another supplied the printing. The idea was to give these out at his exhibition in return for a small donation, to help preserve local wild flowers. They were nicknamed ‘Siddal seeds’ after Lizzie Siddal the model for Millais Ophelia. It was the artists favorite painting and somehow the name stuck.

It was a fun project, because at the heart it is for a good cause and it was great to see how excited some of the children that came to the show were about growing their sunflowers.

The Siddal seed packet

Zombie kidz

zara — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:03:28 +0000

These are the initial illustrations for the zombie kidz series, which are a personal project of mine. These started out as doodles, a way to pass the time on boring train journeys, but slowly their taking on a life of their own. They have become a series of hand made plush toys and paper toys.

As time goes on I’m slowly adding to my collection of zombie characters, so keep a look out.

‘Dodge This’ concept art

zara — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:40:08 +0000

This is the concept art created for Dodge this’ is an interactive project created by Patrick Rhoden. The over all aim of the project was to create interactive panels, where gallery goers would be able to interact with the chosen footage. The project was also hoping to extend further by allowing gallery goers to upload video clips via mobile phone to create more personal interactive experience.

The project brief was to create the concept art to show how the final project might look. I had to first create a basic prototype gallery to show possible funders, how it might look within a gallery space. This then lead to me creating another series of concept art for the London metropolitan university basement gallery, were a mini version of the project would be held. After the mini show, I had to create a final series of concept art for Rivington Place in London. As Rivington Place is both gallery and movie space, the curators wanted a clear idea of how it might look in both locations.

The gallery concept art and the ‘Dodge This” storyboards were both created as working prototypes and as illustrative pieces. These all formed a book documenting the project development and prints, all were used in the final show.

Gallery concept art -stage 1

Gallery concept art -London metropolitan university

Gallery concept art -Rivington Place

Image of a lost soul

zara — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:33:36 +0000

The Image of a lost soul is a short moralistic tale by turn of the century writer Saki, otherwise known as Hector Hugh Munro.

The aim of the brief was to create six illustrations following the events in Saki’s tale. For this particular project influences of victorian keep sake imagery, art nouveau and even manga were drawn upon.

A little random note. If you look carefully in the last three images you’ll notice a butterfly caught in a web. Seems kind of fitting, considering how sad the tale becomes towards the end.

→ view booklost soul book – page 1 lost soul book – page 2 lost soul book – page 3 lost soul book – page 4 lost soul book – page 5 lost soul book – page 6 lost soul book – back cover