Hello Tunisia!

Happy 2017! Slowly getting back into the swing of things with some blog updates. This is a postage stamp for Tunisia - it features the Ksar Ouled Soltane, a fortified granary found in Southern Tunisia.

Some previous iterations:

Playing around with layout:

What do you think?

Hello Mauritius!

When I was a kid I used to collect stamps. (Such a nerd right?) I loved that you could learn so much about a place through stamps - I would often go and research the different and exotic places that I saw. I still have a stamp book full of the stamps I collected! Recently it's also been so lovely being part of the Postcrossing community and receiving and exchanging postcards from all over the world! Always so interesting to see different countries' stamps!

So this is my first stab at a postage stamp. 

For me nothing quite says "Mauritius" like the Dodo bird especially as it was the only known habitat of the bird! The Dodo was first spotted by Dutch settlers when they arrived in Mauritius in 1598 and it was hunted to extinction in 1662.

A few process sketches.

Playing around with colour.

 The final piece. 

I'm thinking of trying an even more limited colour palette too, possibly even it being completely linework. What do you think?

You can take a look at some interesting stamps here and here!

Garuda Indonesia Maps

A few maps that I illustrated for Garuda Indonesia.

Airport Awesomeness III

Don't mind me as I pore over pretty pictures of all things airport and flying related. (Yes, I am obsessed with airports and flying. And yes there are also two previous posts on pretty pictures of all things airport and flying related - here and here).

At the Airport by Marco Goran Romano

A colouring-in page by Miriam Bos for Transavia Airlines

A photograph for Macquarie Private Bank's Brand Book, by SouthSouthWest 

A spread from Graphic Design for Rainy Days by Studio 3

Late afternoon departure by e2kmaster

Illustration by Marc Boutavant

Photograph by Mark Wagtendonk

Hakodate Airport, Hokkaido by Ryo Takemasa

Illustration from the Visual Grammar Student Book by James Gilleard

Illustration by Rami Niemi for Monocle

Love this Expedia print campaign by Ogilvy London via Creative Review

Photograph entitled "Cleared for Landing"

Illustration by Timba Smits

Venetia Scott for Paule Ka's 2012 Fall line, featuring Caroline Trentini

Airport Runway prints by Nomo

Aerial images of famous airports by Jeffrey Milstein. 

Pictured here: Newark Airport.

Airport Code pillows by Airportag

Illustration by Atsushi Hara

Work in Progress

Snippets of an illustration I'm busy working on at the moment in my spare time. It's still very much a work in progress - I'm still going to add some texture to it; at the moment I'm just trying to get the base of the illustration down first. I'd love any feedback and thoughts on how to improve on it :)

London: Land of Pints, Pubs & Pounds

It's been a while since I last blogged but I promise I have a good excuse! I've been furiously busy making this map for They Draw and Travel :) I have such a new-found respect for map illustrators - it really is quite an art! It was a lot of fun to do and really made me dream of walking the streets of London again!! (Click to see the map infinitely bigger!)

Here are some process pics..

A lot of the typography I hand drew and designed, 

like this 'London' and 'Buckingham Palace'

I also had a typeface I made a while ago, knocking around that I hadn't quite found a good place to use yet. That was, until this map :) I'm still trying to find a good name for it; in the meantime I've entitled it "Primrose" as it has really come to remind me a lot of London - the modern, minimalist lines versus the old fashioned, almost Victorian ligatures - London being very modern while at the same time having a lot of really old, beautiful buildings. :) You can see it dotted around on the map.

Work in progress..I quite like this crop :)

You can check out the map at They Draw and Travel:

http://www.theydrawandtravel.com/maps/london-land-of-pints-pubs-and-pounds-robyn-mitchell

And while you're there, take a looksee at the gorgeous map my wonderful sister did of Venice :) http://www.theydrawandtravel.com/maps/venezia-italy-kerri-jane-mitchell

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Map featured here:

LanaLou Style, 27 July, 2012

http://lanaloustyle.com/2012/07/london-love.html

Travel Between the Pages, 23 January 2012

http://travelbetweenthepages.com/2012/01/23/cartography-can-be-fun/

UOL Antena, 2011

http://entretenimento.uol.com.br/antena-uol/album/2012/03/08/site-reune-mapas-pessoais-feitos-por-ilustradores-ao-redor-do-mundo.htm#fotoNav=5

Dannykitty.com, 14 September 2011

http://dannykitty.com/2011/09/ilustracoes-they-draw-travel/

The Travel Eater, 1 December 2011

http://www.thetraveleater.com/2011/12/when-traveling-is-art-they-draw-and.html

We Heart It, 2011

http://weheartit.com/entry/14464725/via/beelenruiz