If you follow us on Twitter you'll be no stranger to our daily
doodles. We've been posting links to a doodle every day for the
past 30 days. Ok, Brian calls them doodles but to the rest of us
they're illustrations. Brian is of course our in-house artist and
illustrator, and he's wasted no time in getting Project 365
going.
So, this post is here to tell you a bit about the project and to
big up Brian who's offered some lovely insight into his
inspiration, his techniques and his plans for the next 30 so do
read on.
Have you heard about Project 365 yet?
It's still in its early days but we've all signed up to this
in-house project that in a wider sense shows our commitment to
creativity in all its forms. Over the course of the next year,
we'll be looking at ourselves, our environment, our knowledge, our
industry and our influences. Then, we be trying to capture and
express how we think and feel about things through various forms of
design, art, photography, illustration and even music.
A doodle a day...
Doodle a day is just one of our 365 projects. It began with a
doodle, and is now up to 30.
Brian likes to spend time drawing every day so it wasn't so hard
getting him to apply himself to 365. He's been thinking about
technology, gadgets and recent events and has come out with 30
really striking visuals. Here's what he has to say about it:
"I decided straight away to rely on my strengths and do a series
of inky drawings containing devices and little people 'desktop
doodles' essentially.
The devices were mostly peripherals in and around the studio;
laptops, scanners, keyboards. The tiny people I introduced in all
the drawings were either using the device, interacting with the
device in a normal way or, in some cases, present in quite a
surreal manner (elephant, boat, crane etc).
Over the course of the month, my confidence in my technique
grew. I played it safe at first with outlines, then introduced
solid black and cross hatching as my ideas developed. I'm now
really pleased that I have come to the end of the desktop series
without exhausting the concept.
I created a larger final 'desktop doodle' for the
30th one:
It seems that Brian is on a roll now, and besides laying down a
challenge for others to start sketching, he's already planning a
series of 'Studio Doodles', which will, in his words, 'offer a
veritable feast of options and plenty of inspiration'.
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Why not take a look at all Brian's doodles over on Flickr.