Bring Out Your Dead!

Illustration for The New Republic magazine in the USA featuring 'Warm Bodies', 'Twilight', 'True Blood and zombie classic 'Dawn of the Dead'.

Chrissie Macdonald

New website from Chrissie Macdonald
www.chrissiemacdonald.co.uk

Kaspersky

In partnership with Trunk Animation we created 8 films (5 of which are shown here) for internet security experts Kaspersky. We were asked to create a concept that would help explain their various products while remaining bright, colourful and engaging. In order to work globally and be easily translated into 14 languages we worked within a simple set of rules and colours - with Spencer creating the illustrations, Miles policing the art direction and palettes and Pete managing the movement and animation.

Business Week

 Robots for Business week.

Transparent Sound

Transparent Sound are looking for help to print a 20 page postcard book and double album which takes a look back over their past adventures. Go to Kickstarter

The New York Times

 The Marquee club in Chelsea NY for the New York Times Style. View it here and look out for the roll over animations.

PeepShowReel Spring 2013

For more information please contact Pete Mellor

Vogue Japan

Here are a few 2013 images from my monthly illustrations for the contents pages of Vogue Japan. They provide me with the theme of the issue, some key words to incorporate in the images and catwalk pictures for colour and pattern reference.

Which Magazine - Travel Insurance

Back on the Which magazine bus, this time illustrating travel insurance.

A Liar's Autobiography

We were one of fourteen animation studios that directed sections of the feature length stereoscopic 3D film based on the memoir of Monty Python's Graham Chapman.

Our section is perhaps one of the only truly autobiographical sections in which Graham's dad collected body parts after a plane crash during the Second World War and is voiced by Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Exclusive 3-D screening and Q&A with the animation companies involved at Rich Mix, Monday 25th Feb, Rich Mix, London, E1 6LA. 6pm. Tickets here.

Telegraph - ESET - Internet safety.

Here's two of 6 illustrations I've drawn for the Telegraph newspaper for ESET. Basically there all about  how we get kids using the internet saftely.

Mixmag

One of six characters Elliot recently illustrated for Mixmag's Dance Tribes feature. Issue 262.

The Big Egg Hunt

Yesterday was the launch of this years 'The Big Egg Hunt', an event to raise money and awareness for the charity  Action For Children. All The eggs are on display in Covent Garden until the 17th of February before touring the country. Check the dates here.

Flavourfirst

January brought a new monthly column for Tom Parker Bowles at Flavourfirst which celebrates great British produce. Illustration here for the Art of Carving.

Pick Me Up

Chrissie Macdonald is collaborating with Studio EMMI on the new identity for 'Pick Me Up', Somerset House's annual contemporary graphic art fair. More details at an article at Design Week.

18 - 28 April 2013

http://www.pickmeuplondon.com/

A Liar's Autobiography

'A Liars Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman', in UK cinemas Feb 8th. On Demand Feb 11, DVD & 3D Blu-Ray Feb 18th.

We worked on section of the animated film alongside, Trunk Animation, Not to Scale, Treat Studios and many others.

Woman's Health (Australia)

From a series of new editorials for Woman's Health in Australia accompanying the article 'The One Question'.

Telegraph Magazine - Shades Of Grey

Produced this for the lovely people at the Saturday Telegraph magazine for their end of year round up. This year I got to illustrate Fifty Shades of Grey on the tube.

Then, Now, After...

Brighton illustration: Then, Now, After...

18th Jan 2013 - 14th Feb 2013

University of Brighton Gallery at the Faculty of Arts in Grand Parade, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

A star-studded line-up of the nation’s top illustrators has come together for a unique exhibition at the University of Brighton.

All of the artists either graduated or worked at the university and they include Sir Quentin Blake CBE, who illustrated Roald Dahl books; Raymond Briggs, who illustrated The Snowman book; and award-winning children’s books illustrator Emily Gravett.

Curators of the exhibition “aim to reflect on the diversity of work originating from the Illustration studios at Brighton over the last 40 years, celebrating achievements and highlighting the possible direction illustrative practice may take in future.”

Other artists among the 130 exhibitors are George Hardie, best known for producing album covers for rock bands; John Vernon Lord, illustrator of children’s classics including Lewis Carroll’ The Hunting of the Snark; and Peepshow Collective, the design studio launched by University of Brighton graduates.

More info here. Animated gif by Jake Evans

The Boston Globe

Two Illustrations for The Boston Globe accompanying the article 'The Love Machines' by Dan Slater. Using primitive computer technology, students from Harvard offered the first computer dating service in 1965.