aMUSE MAGAZINE - HOROSCOPES

I was recently asked by aMUSE magazine to produce illustrations for their horoscopes page (see below for more info). Having worked with one of their team before on illustrations for Borough Market, I knew the type of imagery they were after. Below are the 3 illustrations I did as examples for Pisces. They went down a storm in the office, but unfortunately the publisher pulled the whole page. Something else came up though - will post the finished result once it's done. 

aMUSE London is a brand new free high-end fashion/beauty/culture title for women launching mid April 2012. With a monthly circulation of 120,000, it will be distributed at selected London transport hubs and in key London shopping destinations. aMUSE is published by aMUSE Media and founded by Stephen Murphy, former founder & publisher of luxury lifestyle title Square Mile Magazine. The Editor is Sasha Slater   and her deputy editor is Stephanie Hirschmiller.

Just to clarify - the colour one is deliberately not matching to give the team more options.

HACKNEY CENTRAL STATION

This little guy was just chilling out on the platform in the middle of the afternoon. No joke.

THE JOURNEY

Our brief was to illustrate a journey of any kind in 7 images. What that could be was entirely up to us. I ended up choosing to follow a fox, from the depths of the countryside, to the midst of the city. Instead of taking a fictional ‘disney’ slant, I wanted to show what the reality of this could entail. The images themselves were created by making gestural paint marks on scraps of paper, blotting them on other surfaces, then collaging these together to create the backgrounds. The foxes are monoprints, which were then scanned in and superimposed on top of the backgrounds to create the final images. Above is a selection of my favourite final prints.