Graphics of the Wizarding World

Amazing graphics and props at the Harry Potter Studio Tour, the detail is inspiring!

Bestival Poster Design - Bat for Lashes

Here is my entry for Bestival and Screenadelica's poster competition. I chose to design my poster for Bat for Lashes.

While researching the project I drew inspiration from Natasha Khan's videos (Sleep Alone in particular) and her visual look when performing live. I was fascinated by her appearances with wolf-like imagery and masks and wanted to take that further by combining it with ideas of the solar system, as well as the face paint shapes she wears.

The Shining City on the Hill

Last month I designed a book cover for Caroline Collier's The Shining City on the Hill (now available on Amazon in print and kindle edition too)

If you were interested in finding out about the book, here is the blurb:

Exceptionalism gives us the idea that we, both individually and as a collective, operate above the rules due to our extraordinary virtues. Americans have supposedly been called from beyond the stars to exert our honor on the world around us, but does this grandiose self-assessment blind us to our potentially fatal flaws? The Shining City on the Hill is contemporary fiction at its most compelling, a novel about the paragon of civilization, a free society open to all who wish to do good ... at least this is what they believed ... The powerful echoes of a city groaning under its own weight ring through the lives of a dozen troubled Texans. Over the course of several sweltering August days, the burnouts, undocumented immigrants, policemen and families cross paths, never realizing that profound suffering unites them all in unexpected ways.

Aladdin Pantomime

Me and my good friend Clare Pentlow painted an Egyptian set for Rugby Theatre's January Panto - Aladdin! ... Oh yes we did (sorry). Photography by Martin Pulley.

New and improved Cycling .gif

Gif advert done as an extra to the Cycling for London Project set by AOI and the Transport Museum.

Resistance Finished.

Here's my final outcome for D&AD's Resistance brief. I chose to illustrate resisting and fighting against OCD by scratching through the dark, controlled world of niggling OCD to the ability to remove the rituals and enjoy life.

Obsessive Compulsive Development

At the moment I am doing the D&AD brief on Resistance and where I am so far is:
Producing a poster about the fight in overcoming or controlling OCD.
2-3% of people in the UK have it which is huge!
Some sufferers will have to check through their rubbish before taking it out, in fear that they have thrown something valuable away, or in one case I have read, thrown a dead baby out. Seriously.
I experienced this examination of my flat's(don't tell them they'll think I'm crazy) garbage to produce this (in progress).

Wondering about Wonderland

I love the story of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it's so weird and curious, which is why I decided to enter the Puffin Book Cover competition. I chose the scene where Alice has just seen a White Rabbit running past with a waistcoat on and a pocket watch, and so curiously follows him. I like to use a lot of depth in my work with vanishing points and angles, which is why i decided on this viewpoint. All the patterns and colour on the inside of the rabbit hole look so much much more appealing than the grey sky behind Alice, however also complicated and perhaps confusing like Wonderland is to her. There are characters merged into the background like the Mad Hatter, March Hare and Caterpillar but I have manipulated them to look not so clear, as if they're hiding, waiting to jump out at Alice after curiosity leads her down the rabbit hole. There is a dark side to the story which I have brought across in the way that the tunnel gets darker the further down you go, the two heads at the top are lit from below(or above as the case may be) to give that torch-under-the-chin/Halloween effect and red eyes on white rabbits always seem quite creepy to me. The two heads at the top belong to the Queen of hearts and the Duchess who both take charge at some point.

Window Wonderland

Christmas design for a cafe window

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© Clare Dolan 2009