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Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons Notebooks A set of four notebooks featuring classic Arthur Ransome titles A series of 4 notebooks (plain inside) featuring the classic Jonathan Cape covers of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. He originally wrote 12 in this series. The four most evocative (and/or) famous were chosen for the notebooks: Swallows and Amazons, We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea, Winter Holiday, Pigeon Post. The covers had to be digitally re-created (from scans of the original dust jackets) and altered to create a faux, sympathetic replica of the originals which at time of design were still published by Jonathan Cape. There was no detailed illustration on the book backs as you can see. Elements were repeated, and freshly created to seamlessly create a new cover which would wrap. New box elements were also created with new typography to match the hand-drawn serif type by Ransome. Arthur Ransome himself created the illustrations and many of the detailed maps which feature in the books.   The front and spine of the original dust jacket (reverse was mainly type). The re-created and retouched cover for a complete print wrap. All3D VisualsAppBookBrandingCatalogueCorporate IdentityDigital RetouchingFabricFurnitureIllustrationLightingLogotypePackagingPlayPrintProductStationeryTypefaceTypographyWeb/Online Swallows and Amazons Digital Retouching, Illustration, Print, Product, Stationery Appleby: Notebooks Book, Illustration, Print, Product, Stationery TimeOut – iPhone 3D Visuals, Print, Product, Typography Ordnance Survey – iPhone 3D Visuals, Packaging, Product, Typography Designs Brochure Catalogue, Print, Stationery, Typography Shake your ‘Bot 3D Visuals, App, Illustration, Play, Product, Web/Online Faber Poetry Playing Cards Packaging, Print, Product, Typography Jane Green – The Beach Fabric, Furniture, Product Harrogate Crime Festival Fabric, Furniture, Product Thesaurus Book, Print, Typeface,...
A-Z Cards

A-Z Cards

London's A-Z Key places turned into witty cards A series of 8 square cards designed for Art Meets Matter Ltd – product design and gift company. Card titles were based on ‘found’ sections of the A-Z of London: Noel, Sugar Sugar, NeatHouse, Friend, Great, Wow, Valentine, Love. Each place retouched and enhanced from scanned print sections of London’s A-Z. Sold in Blackwells and design-lead retailers.   All3D VisualsAppBookBrandingCatalogueCorporate IdentityDigital RetouchingFabricFurnitureIllustrationLightingLogotypePackagingPlayPrintProductStationeryTypefaceTypographyWeb/Online Swallows and Amazons Digital Retouching, Illustration, Print, Product, Stationery Appleby: Notebooks Book, Illustration, Print, Product, Stationery TimeOut – iPhone 3D Visuals, Print, Product, Typography Ordnance Survey – iPhone 3D Visuals, Packaging, Product, Typography Designs Brochure Catalogue, Print, Stationery, Typography Shake your ‘Bot 3D Visuals, App, Illustration, Play, Product, Web/Online Faber Poetry Playing Cards Packaging, Print, Product, Typography Jane Green – The Beach Fabric, Furniture, Product Harrogate Crime Festival Fabric, Furniture, Product Thesaurus Book, Print, Typeface, Typography A-Z Cards Digital Retouching, Product, Stationery, Typography Softbacks™ Furniture, Logotype, Typography Transport for London Branding, Logotype, Typography Treasure Island Book, Digital Retouching, Print, Typography U-Bend Lighting, Logotype, Product, Typography Milli Lighting, Logotype, Product, Typography Open Secret Branding, Logotype, Typography Stone Paper Knife Ltd Branding, Catalogue, Corporate Identity, Logotype, Print,...
Treasure Island

Treasure Island

Treasure Island Transforming the Island of Unst into Treasure Island The Unstlanders of the Sheltands island of Unst have always claimed that their island inspired R. L. Stevenson when he drew his own map for Treasure Island. Visiting his father, who was building Muckle Flugga lighthouse, the shape of the island and its bleakness sowed seeds of a treasure map. This work was intensive Photoshop pixel editing and retouching. The island needed to be assembled from more than one OS Landranger grid unit. All the roads, buildings and other modern evidence of civilisation had to removed from the flat file composite of the Ordnance Survey map of Unst. New icons were created. Whole areas covered with trees. Areas of sea had new grid lines and numbering created. Contours were re-drawn (2 pixel size) and placenames added in sympathetic typography to seamlessly suggest that the OS team of mappers had been there and seen it all. Part of a series of ‘modern’ maps of imagined places for a book to be published in 2015 including: Pemberley, Manderley, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights and other places of ‘fiction’. Or are they…?   Before digital retouching After digital retouching All3D VisualsAppBookBrandingCatalogueCorporate IdentityDigital RetouchingFabricFurnitureIllustrationLightingLogotypePackagingPlayPrintProductStationeryTypefaceTypographyWeb/Online Swallows and Amazons Digital Retouching, Illustration, Print, Product, Stationery Appleby: Notebooks Book, Illustration, Print, Product, Stationery TimeOut – iPhone 3D Visuals, Print, Product, Typography Ordnance Survey – iPhone 3D Visuals, Packaging, Product, Typography Designs Brochure Catalogue, Print, Stationery, Typography Shake your ‘Bot 3D Visuals, App, Illustration, Play, Product, Web/Online Faber Poetry Playing Cards Packaging, Print, Product, Typography Jane Green – The Beach Fabric, Furniture, Product Harrogate Crime Festival Fabric, Furniture, Product...