I’m Out Of The Office!!

Hello, good afternoon!

Some of you may, or may not know that each month we send out a mailer to all our lovely clients to tell them about our Artist of the Month.  Making the mailout and hearing the lovely responses is by far the best part… unfortunately, like any mailout, we have to (well, actually our admin monkey Michaela has to do it!) trawl through all the bounce backs, out of offices and unsubscribes.  BORING!! – or is it?

Lately, we’ve been seeing some really hilarious automatic responses which we’d like to share with you – because if they made us laugh out loud, we’re certain they’ll make you too!!

I will be out of the office starting 03/03/2009 and will not return until 30/03/2009.

Sorry, but I am away from the office. If you have a special deal on Viagra could you please send an email to the Florida retirement home: http://www.floridaondisplay.com/ If you are sending me a virus under the title “yourbankdetails.doc” I appreciate the offer and its really clever but maybe you should spend less time in an internet café on the Tijuna boarder. If you are a “barrister” who has come across some funds in Africa and need my credit details then I will provide them to you if you can tell me a word that rhymes with Orange and send me a 19 page document as to how you chose the burgundy wood to frame your ‘degree’ in gullibility and what material your ‘real’ Gucci suit is made of. For all other details please contact the front desk using the code word “Hello” on 0207 4949120 or email Wing Wing (her AC/DC track is mind blowing) who was recommended to me by the great Shui Kay Kan: http://www.wingmusic.co.nz

And most recently:

I will be out of the office starting 10/04/2009 and will not return until 23/04/2009.

I’m on holiday in Dubai. Please don’t burgle my house when I’m away. I’ve just had new windows fitted, which has left me quite out of pocket & I’m quite attached to the meagre possessions I own. If you really feel the urge to do some pillaging in the NW10 area, next-door-but-one own a bigger flat screen telly and judging by the size of their 5 Series BMW, they can afford to replace it. Come to think of it, their cat makes a terrible mess of my garden, so you’d be doing me a big favour if you stole it while you’re there. I believe it answers to the name “Satan”.

Now that my neighbour’s greater suitability for a profitable spot of pilfering has been established, if your enquiry is related to something other than larceny, please contact _ until I return. Thank you.

The above were provided by our friends Matthew Keon at Fallon and Richard McGrann at BBH.  So, thank you both very much!!!

We’d love to read more, so if anyone has some more examples – post them on the blog!!!

BBC Pokes F1

Formula 1 is one of the hottest events of the International Sport calendar – and our jelly baby Poked Studio was approached by Monterosa to help BBC online publicise this year’s races!

He has designed every race track for the interactive flash guide maps.  We think they look great!!

Click on some of the thumbnails below, or to see them in action go to:  BBC Sport Website

Jemma comments on Monday

Our jelly bean Jemma Robinson has been doing illustration for the Independent Newspaper for quite a while now! You can spot her work in the Monday edition as a comment piece – so keep an eye out!!

Jo Bird online illustrations

jelly good morning!

our wonderful illustrator Jo Bird got in touch at the end of last week with some super new online work.  You can find the above image on Spotless Interactive’s new homepage at: www.spotlessinteractive.com and her other illustrations littered around the website!

another website to check out is for Hilary Fraser Communication & Coaching where there are some cute illustrations for each of her services! go to: www.hilaryfraser.com

Pastiche, you say?

jelly hello!

We always tell you about the work which makes it from start to finish, however never really shed much light on the “behind the scenes”.

Every day, we are approached by lots of different people and companies to create test pieces for their projects or ideas.  Our super in-house team can turn around artwork at whirlwind speeds to meet people’s requests!!

We are frequently asked to replicate old styles, or as the industry knows it as “Pastiche”.  Two of our recent test examples include Phileas Fog from Around The World in 80 Days and the infamous Tin Tin!

More examples can be found:

Art Against Knives

FHM 50s newspaper illustrations online

If you’d like to know more about our Pastiche work, please contact info@jellylondon.com!

oooh fancy a cuppa!

The latest TV and online commercials for Twinings are featuring some lovely hand lettering by non-other than our Alison Carmichael.  She has been spending the last few months creating lettering for various phrases, including the one above “Discover Twinings Everyday”.  The work was comissioned through our friends at AMV and Adam & Eve.

Just the thought of Twinings gets our mouths watering; so, go grab a cuppa and join us for a biscuit!

Art Against Knives

Good Morning!

jelly was approached by Leagas Delaney to re-create a famous Van Gogh painting with ‘a difference’ to support the Charity Art Against Knives.  As you can see, our in-house team had the interesting task of giving Van Gogh a new ear!!  Art Against Knives is holding an exhibition in order to raise money and draw attention to the growing number of stabbings occurring amongst youth.

www.artagainstknives.com

A few details:

“Last year a student from Central St Martin’s was stabbed and left paralysed in an unprovoked attack in Shoreditch.

The night entitled ‘Art against Knives’ which will be held at Shoreditch house on the 5th May aims to raise as much publicity as possible about what has happened in the heart of our community by incorporating everything that Oliver loves in life. The plan is to hold an art exhibition and fund-raising auction compared by Jonny Woo. All of the artwork is going to be supplied by Art students from all over as well as various other well-known designers and artists such as Wolgang Tillmans and Vivienne Westwood. The support shown throughout the community has been amazing, as you can imagine it has had a direct impact on everyone that Oliver knew directly or indirectly.

The aim of this event is not only to support Oliver in everything he will need in the future, but also raise awareness in order to tackle a growing problem in our community. We are working closely with the Home Office and its campaigns, and the family is discussing the best way to tell Oli’s story with several national newspapers. This interest will only heighten as the full extent of Oli’s injuries become clear and the perpetrator’s sentencing takes place at the Old Bailey at the end of March.”

More information can be found here on the Attitude blog and Hackney Post

Added 29th April:

Unfortunately, we have just been informed that our artwork was not used for the campaign.  The lucky devils at Leagas Delaney managed to get their hand on the ORIGINAL Van Gogh painting image and add an ear.  How could we compare to that?  (Well, visually, not too badly! – if you fancy comparing for yourself, check out the Art Against Knives homepage)

Damien cures the Friday Feeling

Happy Friday!!

Feeling glum? Can’t wait to leave work? Looking forward to the weekend??  Even though it’s been a short week, we know the Friday feeling still haunts us all… which is why, we offer you Damien.

This jelly baby of ours makes us laugh even on the darkest of days, and we’d love to share him with you.  We have 3 particular projects of his which will make you laugh your socks off:

“Bad Nature” (David Attenborough gone wrong), “Back To Square One” (An archive of 3 Panel Comic Strips) and “Adequate Adventures” (funny, funny, funny)

Click on the images below and let us know what you think!!

Digital Arts Cover

Just a quick announcement that the currently cover of Digital Arts magazine was produced by non-other than Neil Duerden.

We think he’s aiming for world domination!

jelly house brightens CSMA club

jelly hello!

Our in-house team were approached by our friends at Presky Maves to create some simple and bold illustrations for the CSMA club.  The result was a series of iconic pieces created with sharp lines and muted colours, suitable for the CSMA club website.

Either visit their website and have a browse for our artwork (there’s many examples!), or click on the 2 images shown for specific pages!!