Will Hung Lives On!

These are two posters I finished a while back. This first one is for a travel insurance company. The concept that they wanted to convey is sort of vague....but basically they wanted to show the cycle of a problem resolution. I had a couple of sketches that showed a "cycle". In the end, the client ended up picking the easier solution. I drew myself in here somewhere with Nathan's patented Will Hung pose :)

I should also mention that this image was originally an idea for a personal piece which I sold recently at a group show here in LA. I'm not sure if that's considered cheating...but oh well.



This is for a "No Smoking" campaign. I'm not sure if anyone has seen the film "Thank You For Smoking"...but this is a similar idea, to stop smoking product placements in Hollywood films. I sent the agency that first idea and they sort of changed the colors around to come up with the blue (faux printed) version at the bottom.

Death in the Parks

I've been working on an awesome project for Outside Magazine the last couple of weeks.




The assignment was about different ways in which people have lost their lives in our National Parks over the years.

I worked closely with the art director and the editors to make the pieces upbeat in order to contrast dark subject-matter.

The art director I worked with had a "comic" theme in mind for the pieces, which immediately made me think of the old EC Comics stuff from the 50's like Tales from the Crypt.


These three images are from the first story which will print on three separate spreads. Two more single-page stories will run when the article comes out as well. I'll keep you posted when the issue is on newsstands.


Speaking of which, the 6 pieces I did for Esquire a couple of months ago have finally hit the stands. If you get a chance, pick up the magazine--they really look fantastic thanks to the designers totally kicking ass on it.


thanks!

Frank