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leadership

By Justine Beckett | Published: May 15, 2012

illustration for CURRENTS magazine about making the transition into a leadership role.

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reflection

By Justine Beckett | Published: May 15, 2012

illustration for CURRENTS magazine accompanying an article about a man’s reflection on editing a magazine

are students learning?

By Justine Beckett | Published: May 15, 2012

illustration for CURRENTS magazine tackling the issue of higher education not focusing on student learning.

higher education

By Justine Beckett | Published: May 15, 2012

illustration for CURRENTS magazine about learning how to communicate the value of higher education in a new way.

 

 

Less Is More

By Red Nose Studio | Published: April 20, 2012

I was delighted to get the opportunity to work with the always cheerful and positive Art Director April Montgomery at Computerworld. This piece dealt with technological issues that travel eons beyond my technological limitation, so it was a good challenge to find a way to illustrate Holistic Virtualization. Keywords from the creative brief included meditation, manipulating virtual technology, all-inclusive, organizing and streamlining.

here are the roughs:

and being that the cover was going to run again on the interior, we thought it would be nice have the spectrum flow  across the gutter and above the text.

these were April’s initial rough layouts with the sketches

here is a progress shot of the figure

and my attempts at inking the spectrum lines…

 

there is something very meditative about the simplicity of pigment, water, bristles and paper.

the sound of the brush drawing over the paper, wonderful.

once the final shot was taken on set, the ink work was scanned in and then layered over the photo.

the backdrops were the backsides of an old roll of bathroom wallpaper, it had a beautiful, soft, off-white color.

and here is where April worked her magic and made everything ‘flow’.

Cricket Magazine

By Catell Ronca | Published: April 4, 2012

Farzad and Saeed – illustrations for a story about a friendship between two boys set in Iran during the revolution. Published by Cricket Magazine for kids

 

Joe Barbieri studio album artwork

By Catell Ronca | Published: April 4, 2012

For the Italian singer songwriter Joe Barbieri I created the cover artwork for his latest single entitled Zenzero e Cannella and his studio album Respiro. I also illustrated the inside illustrations for the CD booklet. The music is published by Microcosmo Dischi, Naples.

 

Machines make it easier

By Red Nose Studio | Published: March 6, 2012

I have been asked to create the website mastheads for Deliver Magazine for 2012. All in all, there will be four total.

This is the process for the current masthead. the goal of the project is to create a header image that embodies what Deliver can facilitate in the relationship between marketers and consumers. In this case, Deliver is the machine that utilizes many aspects of communication to help you best reach your customers.

Here is the thumbnail and refined sketch for the piece.

These are the junk boxes that I begin to source my materials from.

roughing out heads and sorting gears over a ‘actual size’ print out of sketch

machine starts to take shape. including everything from typewriter parts to dishwasher parts

the receiving end of the machine

assembling the heart of the machine with the deliver masthead

 

washing in the type

refining the heads and sourcing fabric

adding color to the type, late friday…. feeling good.

the weekend leads to waking up in night with cold sweat about how the masthead is too disjointed from the machine and doubting all my decisions up to this point…
this is my monday morning rush to redesign the masthead section of the machine to give it more of a unified look and create a better ‘heart’ to the machine.

here is how the final illustration works in the website setting. Follow this link to see it live Deliver Magazine .

I am looking forward to continuing on this series.

Its All About The Light

By Red Nose Studio | Published: January 9, 2012

anyone who has dared to ascend the 13 creaky steps into the studio knows how unorganized and dusty this place is. i am not saying that its a bad thing, its just i am not the neatest illustrator out there. When i received a call from the organized and meticulous Creative Director SooJin Buzelli of Asset International to create an illustration for an upcoming survey on how Plan Advisers run their practices, i was a little stumped at first on how to best visually solve this one.

here are the four sketches i submitted, based on the theme of sorting complicated data:

we decided that the librarian on stilts was the best choice.

(honesty, looking back, i am not sure why i thought the basketball players would have worked very well…)

 

with this piece it came down to the light. getting that light to stream in at the right density and angle almost drove me nuts, but it finally worked out. it is the little things like that, that keep me fired up about what i get to do everyday.

and how it appears in the layout:

 

Origin Coffee Packaging

By Simon Peplow | Published: January 9, 2012

I was commissioned at the end of last year to create the Festive packaging for independent coffee roasters ‘Origin‘ based in the UK. The image of two hugging Yeti’s guarding mother nature’s lungs runs across two new Brazilian blends: Das Almas Pulped, and Das Almas Natural Process. I also created a separate poster for the Origin head office. Thanks to Rossco at sterling design studio A-Side for making things happen. The coffee is available to purchase online here.