Saturday, 30 April 2011

Big Fat Duck Cookbook

This is a book written by Heston Blumenthal and illustrated by David McKean. It is extremely big, extremely heavy, and extremely expensive. The illustrations are very beautiful and are made using mixed media such as: Photography, painting, drawing, photoshop etc.
He uses great colour + light/dark contrasts that make the images all very dramatic. His use of line and dirty colours continue his typically macabre style that is so prevalent in all of his work. It is interesting how with most of the illustrations, the type is incorporated into the image itself, which gives it a much more contemporary feel and gives more meaning to the text.






Tuesday, 26 April 2011

eMOTIONal



"Death to the death penalty" is a campaign that was launched in October 2010 in aid of Amnesty International, who are aiming to abolish the death penalty in the 58 countries that still practice it.
This clip was written by TBWA/Paris and directed by Pleix with the production company, Warm & Fuzzy.
This ad works well as a visual metaphor representing the work that Amnesty International are doing worldwide. It says that this organisation is like the flame in the darkness, melting away the evil around it.