Public Finance Magazine Cover

A blast from the not so distant past. I was given the a brief to create the phrase 'In The Pipeline' (the question mark was added later on) using about 5 stock images of pipes. Below you can see the trials and tribulations I went through trying to get the words to be legible and still all join together realistically.

The first attempt, took a lot longer than I expected and I hadn't accounted for perspective when I said yes to the deadline, even a single pipe with a different viewpoint to all the others would stand out and ruin the overall effect. I had to do endless amounts of cloning and jiggery pokery in Photoshop, the screw caps and joins were a godsend for hiding an perspective or pipe-join issues

Above you can see the second version which now has corrosion on the copper pipes and they have also been darkened in the hope of bringing the PVC pipes forward. It worked to an extent but the art director wanted another solution so...

...the copper pipes were removed and the white PVC was sprayed bright yellow. I also painted in a few cracks and leaks and changed the question mark period to a plughole.

Visit coverjunkie to see the final illustration on the cover.

This may not be my usual style but I enjoy trying something new especially when it's successful.

Public Finance Cover 'One Nation?'

Over a fortnight ago I created a cover for Public Finance magazine. The Art Director, Gene Cornelius asked me to execute his concept based on a letterpress design, which I gladly did. In the end I did lots of different versions and learnt a lot in the process. Below you can see the illustration that was used and some of the other designs.

This was a fantastic job to work on and the cherry on the cake is being highlighted in Cover Junkie, you can view the page here.

I hope to get more jobs like this in the future because it's great fun to experiment with printing inks.