Railz Zine Launch

I've illustrated my local train station previously. A customer had commented while browsing my illustration catalogue, that "train stations, are you know... Not that nice..." I only hope she was talking about the subject matter and not the drawing.

Train stations are a drawing challenge, but the repetition of lines and patterns from the cables, the pillons and the tracks can be quite interesting. Growing up in the western suburbs meant that I spent a lot of time travelling to work on the train.

This zine is however, about a shorter journey, my trip from Lidcombe station to Summer Hill. It includes a bit of photography and drawing. It's predominantly black with a yellow dot grain texture. I've used a zigzag fold to keep give the zine direction  - as you unfold, the image on the back stretches out into a train track. The cover is printed black on orange card, I've hand drawn a metallic silver line over the railz to highlight the metal. This was quite a hands on assembley which I really enjoyed.  We'll be having a stall at the MCA zine fair on May 20, I'll be launching Railz along with my mini poster, stacks on cats to the masses ; )

Branding Sprout & Bean Catering

The fabulous cooking duo Kate Allan and Meredith Walker-Harding have started their own vegetarian/vegan catering company called Sprout and Bean. The girls have been cooking up or rawing up dishes for high teas, birthday parties, weddings and events.

For their new venture Sprout and Bean needed a logo, this is where I come in. Kate and Meredith make everything by hand, their food styling  also reflects this with hand written chalk boards and menus, with a touch of vintage table settings, they recycle , reuse and repurpose items that they have collected to display their fabulous food creations.

For the logo, I wanted it to be created by hand. I wrote the business name by hand and incorporated a reference to sprout and bean, which appear to be growing on the writing like on a vine. I then painted a not so perfect heart shaped leaf with water colour to contain the logo. I this the logo is a representation of the ethos of the business. I had them printed on a recycled paper stock, I'm really happy with the results.

Design for Community

Mis last year, I had the great opportunity to illustrate some banners for Ashfield Council. The banners are for display at events and festivals, they wanted a design that would appeal to the community and that was bright and engaging.

I focused on colour and shape to represent the culture, events, facilities and landscape of the Council area. I am really happy with the vibrant outcome.

Little Elephant

Just a little post about a little elephant that I drew for one of the local doctors practices. It's a little card for recording little people's growth. It was printed on recycled paper, which made their branding colours look nice and earthy.