Footprint Scenery

What better way to launch into New Year than with a new brand campaign for our client Footprint Scenery. See our earlier blog post: ‘Building worlds within worlds’.

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Sketch Book 1 – Matt Kay

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Retouching for good

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Creative Profile: Take 2D (Chog Zoo Animation)

In case you missed it on our Facebook page, we’ve recently started supporting The Watermark by creating feature blog posts about its fabulous creative sector business residents.

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Creative Profile: Cushion Couture

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The Red Queen Effect

These Alice-inspired images were created for Armadillo Medical Communications to illustrate an evolutionary hypothesis known as ’The Red Queen Effect’ Its name is of course inspired by the Red Queen’s race in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. The hypothesis refers to the constant evolutionary arms-race between competing species.

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No Half Measures. No Can’t Do.

The energy drink sector is literally fizzing right now and not just in the carbonated sense. Relentless and SUSO aren’t just crashing the party; they’re each having a lock-in of their own.  Never mind brand loyalty; this is brand community. Piction has been working with the fabulous Fabio Antinori over at Erasmus Partners Ltd, squeezing our illustrative juices into punchy illustrations, 3D visuals and poster art for these fire-cracker, soft-drink brands.

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Do not Disturb until 2010: Looking back at looking forward.

It’s amazing what you find when you’re moving studio. In an archive box from the nineties we’ve just rediscovered a series of editorial illustrations depicting the digital future by Piction Media’s very own honcho Matt Kay. Did we really think we would all be wearing virtual reality helmets by now? The brains at PC Review magazine clearly thought it was a possibility and Matt’s illustration of their feature article predicted we would be so engrossed in our virtual worlds that the real world around us would be immaterial, abandoned and destroyed.

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Sheep Tales

From Grizedale Sculpture Trail to Grasmere and the Castlerigg Stone Circle, every escapade on our recent mini-break in the Lake District National Park would have made Bo Peep proud.

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