Art Toppling Tobacco is a competition that encourages entrants to create art that does damage to the tobacco industry.Read More
Following up from my last post, I am excited to say that I was selected as the winner for the 2014 Art Toppling Tobacco competition! Read More
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Art Toppling Tobacco is a competition that encourages entrants to create art that does damage to the tobacco industry. Below are my two submissions along with a short description for each. Read More
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A watercolor tiger done for a watercolor themed challenge over at Threadless. My finished illustration is a combination of two real watercolor paintings plus some digital work.Read More
Below is my submission to the BlizzCon Original Art Contest. The contest asks for submissions of original art based on any of the Blizzard Entertainment game franchises. As a fan of Warcraft in particular, I wanted to do something based on the World of Warcraft franchise. Since there would be a lot of insanely polished digital art by people who should be working for Blizzard, I wanted to take a different route and do something with a limited palette and more graphic style. Read More
Alacran is having a contest to decorate their black matte tequila bottles. My entry was inspired by the Alacran scorpion device, the distinctive black and white bottle and also some very cool marketing Alacran has done in the past, which showed the black bottle “splattering” other objects with black.
I recently finished my submission to a challenge over at Threadless. The challenge is to create a design inspired by creatures of the forest and is held in collaboration with Music for Relief. MFR is an organisation was founded by the band Linkin Park which provides support to communities and the environment following natural disasters.Read More
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about joining in on the fun at Threadless, a community-centered online T-shirt printing company. Each design that is submitted is put up for voting and then considered for printing by the Threadless team. At any given time they often have a few challenges going which give a specific topic, theme or brief for designers to tackle.Read More
Since 2011 Holden have held a design competition to apply a custom design to a Barina Spark. Last year I entered the Holden Designer Spark competition but I didn’t have much time to design and promote my entry. So this year when they issued an email about the 2013 competition I made myself a goal to at least get a few entries in. The designs can be created using the digital tools or templates provided on the Holden Designer Spark website. The following are my three designs, I did want to do a fourth featuring a peacock but unfortunately ran out of of time again!Read More
My recent hiatus from the blog was due to my trip to Los Angeles for the Swatch TTR Art Rules contest. I was in LA for five days, meeting the Swatch crew, the other finalists, exploring the city and filming our interviews before the winner was revealed on Friday night at a spectacular event at the Royal/T café.Read More
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