Trying something a bit different with my first promo mailer of 2012…
Rather than sending a single postcard, I wanted to send a number of images to each prospective client. Taking advantage of their printfinity system to have different images on the front of each card, I used moo’s business cards and selected illustrations from my portfolio that would be relevant to each prospective client (I also created a few new Illustrations where I didn’t have something relevant to use).
Once printed, I placed them in a plastic business card holder strip, trimmed the holder to size (sent 4 cards to some contacts and only 3 to others) and sent them off with a hand written note to each dream client – ensuring that my branding was consistent throughout.
The strategy behind sending multiple, smaller cards was that prospective clients would then have spare copies to pass around to other people in their department and spread the awareness of my work.
Fingers crossed…
Total cost of printing, business card holders and postage to 16 carefully chosen contacts was around £40.
Here are the finished cards showing the 10 images that I chose, along with the back of the card with all my details etc…
Here are the wallets for the cards trimmed to size…
And finally, the hand written note along with the relevant set of cards for that prospective client…
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This new Illustration will complete the set of promotional images that I will be sending out to Natural History Museums throughout the UK and US over the coming weeks – it was inspired by this weeks Illustration Friday topic ‘Grounded’.
The illustration was created using traditional cut paper collage with a few digital additions here and there.
Below is a scan of the original collage (pre-digital additions) where you can see my feint sketch of the feet that I went on to create in Photoshop.
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The Then There Were None desktop wallpaper for December 2012 features a little taster of what’s to come for the site in 2012 with an introduction to Tiberius The Siberian Tiger!
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I’d created this tiger collage a while ago for my Then There Were None project, but decided to use the Illustration Friday topic this week to play with creating a collage environment for him to live in.
While the ’Then There Were None…‘ site is going through a number of changes as we prepare for the next phase of the project (due early 2012), the free ‘Then There Were None’ monthly desktop wallpapers will temporarily live here.
I hope you enjoy using these desktops – please feel free to share them with your friends and family and help us spread the word about Then There Were None and our mission to help save endangered animals. The desktops are all 1600 pixels wide x 1000 pixels high.
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As some of you may already know, I run another site to help raise money and awareness for the plight of endangered animals worldwide called ‘Then There Were None…‘
The site is currently going through a number of changes as we prepare for the next phase of the project (due early 2012) and so for the time being, the free ‘Then There Were None’ monthly desktop wallpapers will temporarily live here.
I hope you enjoy using these desktops – please feel free to share them with your friends and family and help us spread the word about Then There Were None and our mission to help save endangered animals. The desktops are all 1600 pixels wide x 1000 pixels high.
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After what seems like an eternity at the framers, my Golden Eagle, Grey Heron and Winter Hare original collages are back and now available through Trent Galleries.
This marks a new venture and outlet for my work and I’m excited to be taking this step with a well renowned Gallery.
If you’re interested in purchasing any of these original wildlife collages, please contact Andrew at Trent Galleries.
I recently received another commission from the ‘Dino Pop-Up Book’ client – this time sea creatures!
After the fun creating the collage dinosaurs for the previous project, this time I got to work on traditional collages of a Great White Shark, a Hump Back Whale, a Sea Turtle, an Angler Fish (such weird creatures) + another 12 or so fish.
I’m still mid deadline (everything is due at the publisher on 4th October) and it’s been a pretty grueling schedule, working until 3am for the past 7 days straight due to other work commitments, but with such lovely subjects to work on it’s also been a lot of fun.
The publisher will be taking both the dinosaur and ocean finished artwork to the Frankfurt Book Fair mid October so fingers crossed they get picked up and reach publication.
I’m not allowed to show the full sea creature spreads but here’s a sneak peek at the Octopus and Humpback Whale collages.
Right, back to work – there are magazines waiting to be turned into a Leopard Seal tonight!
