Friday, October 27, 2006

L'enfant Assassin Des Mouches.

I went to the Barbican Hall last Saturday to see Jean Claude Vannier play "L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches" and "L'Histoire De Melody Nelson" live, a great experience. "Melody Nelson" is one of my favorite Serge Gainsbourg album.
Michel Mousseau who was doing the sound effects was very funny to watch, playing sewing machine, anvil, washing dishes, slamming doors...



Oh, and I met Jarvis Cocker before the concert at the bar.

Monday, October 23, 2006

BMW.

I had the great opportunity 2 months ago to work on a very interesting project for BMW featuring their series 1 car.
I was contacted by a London and New-York based Design Studio, Fibre (very nice and talented people by the way), to develop 40 illustrations featuring the car in different settings around the UK (not all the illustrations included the car) for a book called the "BMW 1 Series – good food ride".
It was quite a challenge to get the car right in each drawings, as I had to draw the car as if I was sketching it in the streets, with a very loose line, but still get the structure of the car and recognize the Series 1.
BMW kindly let me one of the top of the range series 1 for 1 week to get the feel of the car and sketch it in all different angles.
Even after seeing the sheer size of their car park full of brand new cars and bikes, I was hoping they would forget that I had one, but they didn't, and unfortunately I had to return it back.










And some of the illustrations not featuring the car.




I even had to draw some weird things (probably a BMW concept car).



These are the test sketches I've done for the agency. My first drawing of the BMW series 1, and there was something to do with the Ipod at the beginning, but didn't make it to the final brief.


Friday, October 13, 2006

Hommage to Mattias Adolfsson.

There is this great building next to work called "The Ark". I did a quick sketch yesterday over lunch, and thought about Mattias beautiful cities and funny animal drawings he's doing. Voila.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Pom Pom Pom...

An old person I saw in the street over the weekend, reminded me of my Grandad going everywhere with his bicycle, his trousers in his socks. ("pom pom pom" is the kind of gibberish my Grandad was saying as he was strolling around)

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Shapes.

This is what I saw during a meeting, everything was strange, peoples shapes were moving around.