posted: June 18, 2009

Last month I worked with Katherine Botes at Saatchi & Saatchi, Cape town and contibuted some hand lettering to their latest campaign for the Save Our Seas foundation, a non profit organisation that works to preserve marine creatures and their environment. 
Saatchi & Saatchi have a long standing relationship with the foundation and this latest campaign, "The Ocean speaks out" took place over three days at Muizenberg beach, C.T.
Day One: The team collect a number of large shells which are then fitted with a mini speaker and are placed back on the beach early in the morning for people to find later in the day.  On holding the shell to your ear, a plea for help from the sea is heard and listeners are directed to the SOS website.

Day Two:  Another early start for the team. On this day, beach goers discovered messages in weathered bottles that had appeared to have washed ashore. Inside the bottles were handwritten letters from different sea creatures asking for help.

Five illustrators including myself (Ray Frenden, Cristina Guitian, Toby Newsome and Alex Latimer ) created the typography for each letter...  Here's my letter from "Shawn the Prawn".

Day Three: Probably the most "dramatic" element... a coffin appears on the beach with a sobering message on the front...

Photos by conservationist and photographer, Lesley Rochet

Watch a movie overview of the campaign on Katherine Behance Portfolio

posted: June 2, 2009

Hi All, I've been a bit lazy of late with the blogging so hopefully will make up for it in the next few weeks :)


I was recently contacted by the very nice people at Balitmore Magazine to create their very first fully illustrated cover and a batch of illustrations for the main feature.  While I've done quite a few book covers in the last couple of years, I don't often get asked to do magazine covers so this was a cool job to do.

Some of the illustrations I created for the 101 Things feature...

All in all, one of those fun jobs, working with a great art department  and with no major problems. :)