“A jumbo marker pen or a bucket of paint? – A bucket of paint, it’s more gooey. Though you have got the fumes with the marker…..”
Sadness, introspection, city parks, people behaving well in a poorly behaved world.
“…an exercise in spontaneous creativity and originality, and a response to the growing accessibility and control provided by digital media in the designer’s practice.”
Revealing the world of a strange small man, who spends his days away from the world. While divulging in strange pleasures he is suddenly thrown into a fantastical journey.
“..my mind runs free and I follow it. The ideas constantly torture me, I wouldn’t change a thing but have to make sure I get them out.”
“I think that T-shirts are the best piece of clothing. I want to get together a massive collection of T-shirts and be able to look through them in a massive book.”
I grow vegetables on an allotment, I find the gentle work (surrounded by birds) relaxes my tiny brain enough for problem-solving.
I have done enough mindless, laborious jobs in the past to always appreciate getting paid to illustrate, no matter how frustrating the client or how corporate the project. Look Ma, I am drawing for a living!
A music video by Overture with music by Eltern by Hauschka from his album Ferdorf released by FatCat Records, 2008
“….the story of an old man who confronts his fears, traveling across a personal landscape to accept his path of growth”
A recent drawing from designer Ben Branagan’s ongoing series called sections and slices.
Three images from designer Ben Branagan‘s time in Switzerland working on a new book.
‘We all really share only the same one story, my work only tells that story over and over.’
