I was really chuffed to be asked by the The Times to illustrate the front cover of their Student Law supplement that was published today. It was particularly nice to be commissioned by Jon Hill for a second time after the image I did for the Law section back in June of last year. The article the image was for focused on issues around the government funding of law student’s being cut and how they’ll struggle to support themselves while at university. I’m really happy with how the image turned out on paper, especially since it’s one of the largest illustrations I’ve done.
I’ve finished building my new website!
www.kerryhyndman.co.uk is where it lives.
I’ve recently been working with the awesome band O’Messy Life doing a poster for their series of ’ O’Messy life present’ gigs. I’ll also working on some more space themed illustrations for then to be revealed soon.
In the mean time you should give you ears a treat and give em a listen… here
I was commissioned by Haas Business School at Berkeley University to design their 2011 Greetings Cards. The brief was to feature the sky line of their buildings and to create a greetings card without including any Christmas imagery, robins, snow or Christmas trees! The image above was one of my favorites from the design process and one below was chosen as the finished card illustration.
I’ve been a bit quiet on here of late as I’m now managing The Flood Gallery in Greenwich, which has been super busy over Christmas, but as it’s now quietened down a bit I have the chance to start blogging my recent work. Here is a poster for the up coming GhostPoet gig in Newcastle on the 27th Feb. you can find more out about the show HERE on the portions for foxes site.
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(last order date in time for christmas: 19th Dec)
I was recently asked by Boneshaker magazine to create an illustration for Issue #7 to accompany an article by Jet McDonald. The article included reference to a trip where Jet found himself enjoying ‘short lapses of silence’ while cycling on a plateau through the Turkish mountains. In contrast to this memory he also talks about the busy, hectic and noisy experiencing of cycling in a city where people seem preoccupied with jumping red lights and listening to music rather than enjoying the simplicity of the ride. It was these images that I chose to focus on in the spot illustrations.
I’ve just finished this illustration for The Silver Screen Society - Each month a different film is chosen and illustrators are asked to create a piece of work inspired by that film. My film was Woody Allen’s ‘Sleeper’. You can see the rest of the entries HERE.
This week I took part in the Ten Paces and Draw blog. Everyone is given the weekly theme (this week was world culture) and then creates a sketch. Someone then turns you’re sketch into a finished illustration while you illustrate somebody else’s sketch. Above is the image that I created from a sketch by Natalie Andrewson. And below is my Morris dancers sketch that Adrien Dacquel turned into an awesome illustration HERE.
I’ve been working on some christmas card images and thought I’d try and do an off duty/deep in though Father Christmas portrait. Because he’s probably a bit worried about all the work that needs doing before christmas. I was going for an old weathered fisherman type look but in retrospect thats probably not very festive. The first time I did the portrait he looked maybe a bit too grumpy so I thought I’d try again and add a bit of ‘jolly’ to him.
I’ve made a little process video of me working with photoshop and illustrator on these images and I would really appreciate any feedback on the portraits and if you think that they’d work as christmas cards. I’m worried they may be a bit too gloomy to be festive - but then again Christmas is a pretty stressful time of year for everyone involved!
My mum made a cushion out of my London Pattern fabric last week. my mum is ace!
I was commissioned by Redactive publishing to illustrate an article in Bulletin magazine about a new data analysis software package available to the speech and language therapy services.
I was was really pleased to find my Hartley Map on Pikaland.com. Its featured alongside some really great illustrator’s maps including one of my faves, Ah studio!
I was recently commissioned by The Quarterly to illustrate a map of Italy showing the resorts featured in their travel article. My colour pallet focused around the Italian flag and my inspiration for the typography was taken from Italian calligraphy.
I am an illustrator based in London.