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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

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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. :)

]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:58:41 EST http://drawger.com/linzie/index.php?section=articles&article_id=7148 A wee while back, my lettering sketchbooks on flickr were featured in Creative Review Magazine.  Sometimes with these things you either get lots of postive feedback or hear doodly pip.  Luckily this time, it brought in a few nice jobs which were a bit different to my normal digital work.

Before Christmas I was commissioned by Woodmansterne Cards here in the UK to create three cards aimed at the teenage/student market.  The brief was pretty open but  I was asked that they should look have the doodley feel of my sketchbooks. For someone who works digitally a lot of the time, it was nice to just play around with marker pens and not the computer. Even better that they liked what I did with the "sketches" -- not often for me that the roughs ARE the final art.







]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:15:28 EST http://drawger.com/linzie/index.php?section=articles&article_id=7102 A quick post about a fun job I did a wee while ago for Sonic Drive-ins. If you're in the mid-west and of a certain demographic, you might find this insert in your magazine. These are good jobs for me, bit of hand lettering and a bit of illustration.



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]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:02:18 EST http://drawger.com/linzie/index.php?section=articles&article_id=6700 Just a quick message to wish you all a very merry christmas! I've been a bit rubbish this year, missed all the international postage dates, and only just made the domestic ones... I managed to knock up some festive-y gocco christmas cards last minute though







I'm up in Scotland for a few days with the family.  sadly no snowy photos this year- just drizzly rain up here. Wishing you all a lovely time and all the best for 2009!

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