Here are some magazine covers I've worked on recently, with sketches, development work, and a bit of info about each project.
Cheers,
Charles
CAMPAIGN ASIA
ASIA'S TOP 1000 BRANDS 2016
Campaign Asia wanted a bold, dynamic cover for their Top 1000 brands issue. They had a strong idea of what they wanted me to do stylistically, so I was able to get stuck into the design pretty quickly: isometric, interconnected, 3D, bright colours. Job's a good'un.
SKETCH
ART
DETAIL
COVER ART
LAWN & LANDSCAPE
THE TOP 100 ISSUE
For this cover I created some stripy type, which at the sketch stage was a reference
to grass, but ended up being more abstract, with just the colourway referring to
the subject.
SKETCHES
COVER ART
DETAIL
SCIENCE MAGAZINE
SIGNALS IN RNA
Most complicated brief EVER. For this project, Science mag, a US publication, wanted me to communicate "some of the sequence features and base modifications that modulate the many and diverse functions of RNA". I created a typographic rollercoaster with various events occurring along the type. I'm not going to attempt to break it down any further here as it is way complicated but you can read about it here. Good luck!
SKETCHES
LINEWORK
COVER ART
COVER ART DETAIL
ALTERNATIVE COLOURWAY
ILLUSTRATION TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE
DETAIL
DETAIL
CREATIVE REVIEW
THE ANNUAL
Best commission ever. And probably the only job that I would cancel a fully-paid-up stag do trip to Dublin for. Gan aiféala. CR gave me a fairly open brief - "something with depth". As a compendium of so much creative work it made sense to attempt something simpler for the cover, so I included a sketch just using 3 strands interwoven to create an A. It was a double cover so I made the 3 strands feed through to the back to create another A. I'm so pleased CR picked this route as it presented an opportunity to work in new ways.
INITIAL IDEAS
SKETCHES
MONOCHROME VECTOR ART
COVER ART
FRONT
BACK
FRONT + BACK
