D&AD New Blood Exhibition

Here at jelly, we pride ourselves on keeping up to date with the freshest talent and contemporary work so, it’s always valuable for us to go along to D&AD’s New Blood Exhibition to see what the latest trends are.  (Of course, we like it when registering for an event involves taking stupid pictures of ourselves!!)

This year, Chelsie & Charlie were lucky enough to be part of the Portfolios Surgery, where a handful of lucky students received our pearls of wisdom about working as a commercial artist. They both agreed the standard of artwork was far better this year than previous years!

Here are a few of their favourite artists:

Funky work for Casio

Neil Duerden’s latest project has been for Casio Exilim, who are currently the consumer level choice of camera for millions of people around the world.

Neil decided to show this in a funky mid-level market graphic that appeals directly to there core consumer base.  We like it!

Caroline picked for AOI Images 33

We recently heard the fantastic news that our jelly illustrator Caroline Tomlinson has been selected to go in both the AOI Images 33 exhibition annual.  Her piece was created for The Scottish Goverment through Newhaven Ad Agency in order to promote greener living and things everyone can do to protect the environment.  It says “Step 4: Leave The Car Behind At Least Once A Week” in little green foot steps.

All of her images featured in the Scotsman back in early 2008.

Ginger’s Birthday

Last Friday was our ginger boss’s birthday!

During the day, he was surprised with a HUGE white chocolate cheesecake made by Charlie’s Mum.  After work, he went for drinks with the jelly and Three Blind Mice gang just round the corner from jelly Towers at The Hope pub.  Luckily the weather was fantastic!!

Congratulations for being another year older, Chris!!

Alison Carmichael woz ‘ere

She’s at it again! Alison Carmichael has just provided jelly with the first print, “Clean Me” of her latest self-promotion campaign entitled “Alison Carmichael woz ere”.

Award winning creative, Sean Doyle had a simple yet effective idea for a concept: Beautiful lettering in unexpected or surprising places. He handed this concept to Mark Denton to art direct, joined by hand-lettering artist Alison Carmichael and the photographic duo seanandben.com to put the idea into action!

This particular image was selected for its great subject matter and beautiful imagery from a long list of ideas. The location wass a car park overlooking the Olympic Village and London by night. The van itself was sprayed with dirt and then the artwork was projected onto the door and written in by finger. Very low tech!

A limited number of the A2 images have been printed by Argent Litho with a special UV gloss coating to be sent out as direct mail to creatives; The prints are finished off with a large unsubtle fluorescent arrow sticker reading “Alison Carmichael woz ere”. This feature will run through the campaign, and being a low tack sticker can easily be removed, should the recipient prefer the print without it on there.

Alison is pretty excited about releasing her work to the advertising and design world: ” I have a long standing working relationship with Mark Denton for creating self promotional pieces and it was really exciting to have so many incredibly talented people work on this one with me!”

jelly babies!

Let’s start with some good news for a Friday! In the last few weeks, two of our lovely jelly towers folk have had new born babies joining their family! AWWW!

The first came from our heavily pregnant, wobbling office manager Rachel-Elizabeth who gave birth to her son Louie on the 15th June.

A few days later, we had reports of another new arrival! Paul, one of our in-house artists, also was blessed with a baby boy which he and his partner named Noah.  CUTE!

Poked Studio is Artist of the Month!!

Poked Studio is one of the most unique artists in our jelly roster, providing us with illustrations and animations that are both vibrant and contemporary. He describes his style as “graphical fun… with a bit of darkness here and there”, often combining both 3D and 2D to bring his surreal ideas to life.

Poked Studio’s main inspiration comes from video-game graphics and cartoons; something which shines through in his scenes of underwater worlds and outer space battles. Most of his work is heavily character driven, and uses textures and small details to create exciting and funny characters which ooze with personality and charm.

His unique style has attracted attention from Sony PSP, MTV, Doritos and the BBC online, as well as FHM and Computer Arts magazines.  When he’s not working on high-profile campaigns, he designs bespoke artwork for companies such as String Republic shoes and Rossignol snowboards.

You can view a selection of his 2D, 3D and motion stills on our Artist of the Month website: www.jellylondon.com/aotm

EG Adventure Man album cover

jelly hello!

A few months ago, our superhero Tony Wilson transformed the musician known as Eg into a Tintin-esque cartoon character for the from of his album “Adventure Man”

Check it out at your local record store or on Amazon here.

Dulcie has a jelly face!

Another member of the jelly team to be characterised by Damien’s “your face” touch!!

check it out on yourfaceblog.blogspot.com

if you could collaborate

Our hand lettering guru, Alison Carmichael, has been chosen to collaborate with Sean Freeman for this year’s If You Could Collaborate project.
The London design studio, HudsonBec work with established designers and illustrators, as well as exciting emerging talent to produce work for publishing, exhibitions and events!
More information can be found on www.ifyoucould.co.uk