Pitch win - The Body Shop
It's been a crazy few months after winning a 3 way pitch for The Body Shop Vision and Strategy communication work against leading London agencies, which led to creating a 7 minute animation and supporting material to communicate the future of The Body Shop to the top 100 global leaders within the company.
Read more in the 'Thoughts & Finds' section.
Darren
The Water Men
It's Flushing Art Week and this year I've been playing in the Water Mans Rest on the quay. It's a place that's seen generations of Fishermen, Ferry men and passengers take time out, smoke a pipe, wait for the next ferry or a storm to pass. 
It's a place full of character and most mornings full of the most colourful people in this small fishing village, so this year I've been drawing some of these wonderful people and with their kind permission added a little colour to their windows for the week. 
It's certainly caused a good pub conversation or two and with any luck helped those who passed through Flushing this week discover a little more of the community that exists here.
There's more pics to be found in the 'Thoughts & Finds' section and over the coming weeks more paintings popping up in Flushing!
Darren Whittington
New Studio!
I've just moved the studio down the river to the Jubilee Wharf Eco building, a fantastic place filled with inspiring, creative people and businesses.
If you find yourself passing by pop on in for a cup of tea and a biscuit or two, love to see you and have your opinion on some new work you'll see on the walls, floor, ceiling, windows...
I'll be putting some more pics of the studio up online together with a slideshow of the 40 minute walk to the studio from jolly Flushing down the Penryn river, two swans flew over head this morning, they are huge!
Keep an eye on the 'Sketchbook' section or sign up to my RSS feed for infrequent postings.
Hope to see you soon, Darren. Workshop 8!
Vector madness...
It's been an amazing first quarter to the year, I've been working flat out without a moment to stop and think, and then I remembered my new years resolution to keep the studio news up to date, 4 months is probably pushing it so here's a quick glimpse at things since 2009 including Dog passports, bendy people, and eco design trees! The full run down on each project and more can be found in the 'Thoughts & Finds' section. Many thanks, D
Designs of the time 2009 has launched!
The inspirational project of the year is up and running and going flat out. 
I've been helping out with the 2009 Designs of the time challenge otherwise known as Dott 09 which launched last week. It's an exciting project created by the Design Council that is designed to fit in with the National Curriculum and ask year 8 pupils what's the size of their schools ecological footprint and how could design make it smaller, letting pupils take the lead in reducing the eco footprint of their school and then team up with designers/creatives in industry to help bring their ideas to life.
To find out more there's a full run down on Dott09 in December'09 Thoughts & Finds blog section. Darren Whittington
I'm dreaming of...
The work I've been creating for the M&S in-store Xmas campaign is now live in all their stores across the UK.
I was commissioned by StoryUK to create 3 snowflake illustrations that illustrated the product benefits of the M&S Premium Club card over the Christmas period which would also transcend communication into decoration. They are everywhere!
This particular illustration required a bespoke font creating to make it work in the simplest looking way possible, others in the set include a plane and a bow.
There's more on how the illustrations have manifested themselves in December'09 Thoughts & Finds blog section. Photo's courtesy of the award winning Art director Sheryl Newsome at StoryUK.
Darren Whittington
Liz Earle Superskin now in John Lewis
I worked with Turner Duckworth a while back to create the illustrations of Rose hips for the Liz Earle Superskin packaging. A fantastic job to work on with one of the most creative design agencies in London.
I'd not seen the final product on the shelves because it was orginally being sold via QVC but now Liz Earle has her own shop in London and the Isle of Wight but I was running around Milton Keynes at the weekend and found that John Lewis now stocks the Liz Earle range and has quite a large amount of space is dedicated to the Superskin products.
I managed to get a few photographs before being hunted down by the extremely polite security guards. The other pics can be seen in the December'09 Thoughts & Finds blog section.
I will return with a decent camera soon and will endeavour to get an action shot of my exit. D:)
Darren Whittington
It's on the shelves!
I've been working with Pentagram on some new Boots vitamin packaging aimed at kids. It's taken a while to see it finally get to the shelves but walking through Truro today there it was, first glimpse of the sparkly packaging.
More photos in the October'09 'Thoughts & Finds' section. Darren Whittington
It's on TV!
COI Science & Math TV & Cinema ad from Darren Whittington on Vimeo.
I was asked quite some time ago to work with a Director and create some really simple line illustrations that were to be animated within this film for Future Morph helping to promote the DCSF Science and Maths campaign aimed at 11-16 year olds.
The basic idea was to bring the line in their logo to life illustrating the interesting and exciting jobs taking Science and Maths can lead young people to.
Great fun to do and a joy to see on the box at last. There's also a very lovely website that this ad is driving traffic to that is well worth a look to see how engaging you can make Science and Maths to a younger audience. Brilliant.
Just click here to view the site.
Darren Whittington
Good Energy Shop Website wins Observer Ethical Award
A huge congratulations to the team at Leap Media for winning this years Observer Ethical Award. I'm proud to have been a part of the team designing and illustrating the interface, a big pat on the back for Matt Hocking for making it happen every step of the way.
To find out more go to the Leap blog.
Darren Whittington
Future World Interactive Game
Interactive dressing game now available to view online. It takes a short while to load as it's designed to run off the onsite servers, this is the compressed version and generally takes under 30 seconds to load.
Enjoy! Darren Whittington
Click here to view
It's alive!
New website now up and running! Yes I remember saying I was going to build it using social media as an experiment, I did but it seems hard to control so many aspects of the design and navigation still, close but no cigar.
In the end I still used all the social media platforms as a CMS system but opted to get them to feed a mother site where I could have control of all the design and nav. It's still effectively a blog site but with a huge amount of flexibility.
It's a completely new set up and as such I'll be running all the blogs through here from now on.
As you'll have probably noticed a lot has changed, I've still got some copy to write and some elements to upload, testing is almost complete and all done in about a week.
All the major things are up so please feel free to have a rummage, all comments greatfully received!
New portfolio can be seen here.
Hope you enjoy. D
In the beginning...
All new things are underway, and the rebuild of this new website is nearing the beginning of the end. To keep posted on the big day sign up to the RSS feed and I'll drop you a line to tell you when I've managed to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea. Cheers, Darren
Future World
BT Goonhilly Future World exhibition graphics now available in the portfolio to view.
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