I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
Paul Conrad
A1 Photocopy shop posters
In Brighton there is a photocopy shop that has a fairly wide selection of sketch books, some paints and some really helpfull staff. One day they mentioned they could print A1 posters on a digital printer using any paper. As you can imagine that was a silly thing to say because I ended up printing loads of stuff which must of really annoyed them.
Wire Design have an open call for submissions for the third in thier Crossfields publications. The deadline for closing keeps slipping back; hopefully thats because they are very busy rather than the standards very low. This illustration compares the ego of Descartes that places Man at the top of the food chain against Tao which recognises Man's place within the food chain; illustrated with tiny little characters spilling over some blunt typography.
These colourful creatures were created for one of Cog Designs clients; Thames Festival. The festival already had a pufferfish that they use on their marketing materials, so sadly these happy creatures were never used.
When Cog Design turned fifteen; the company produced a small book (15cm's x 15cm's). It was split into sections which began with a set of facts that revolve around the theme of fifteen. Shown here are facts: 15ft John Bain who runs the website www.recordball and has spent five years stretching rubber bands has constructed the worlds largest rubber band ball. 15 centigrade A world map that plots the average temperature of each city; if
all added together it gives the average temperature for Earth, 15 degrees. 15 Letters All the letters used in the word 'uncopyrightable', the largest word with non-repeating letters. It is made out of letraset and plastic and bright white lights.
There were leaflets left on tables about a new magazine that would be published called Vulture; and the leaflet said they were looking for people to contribute along the theme of home. I sent them these; and never heard a bean.
I've been very fortunate to have ammassed a collection of envelope patterns that rivals the collection of Stein in Gdansk.
