Thursday, August 14, 2008

Carabiner Employees

The next few posts contain caricatures of Carabiner Communications employees commissioned for use in a new section on their website. The following is an excerpt from their news release:

Carabiner Caricatures and Fun Bios Capture the Agency’s Lighter Side
Summer Heat Making Your Office Feel Stiff? Atlanta Caricaturist Justin Galloway Gives PR Pros a Chilled Essence
ATLANTA (August 4, 2008) – To celebrate summer and provide a fun way for clients and co-workers to get to know each other, Carabiner Communications, a public relations firm that serves start-up and fast-growth technology companies, launched a new “Fun Bios” interview series online. The new website section features employees’ caricatures by Atlanta artist Justin Galloway and discusses the “carabiners’” first careers, their first cars, favorite celebrities and which rock star they’d love to be for a day.
The Atlanta agency’s growth brings together account directors as far flung as California to resources in Florida, Tennessee and the Georgia coastal region. According to Peter Baron, principal, Carabiner Communications, the fun bios were the perfect way to connect carabiners across the distance. “Sharing the caricatures and fun bios help co-workers and clients get to know more about our talent beyond just our serious sides,” said Baron.

















Two More Activity Book Covers



Here are two more book covers for my eye care client. One is geared toward middle school students and the other toward elementary age kids. Again, I did everything but the title fonts. These are just small ink drawings on illustration board, maybe 6.5 X 10 inches. Again, the client let me create all the characters, and they basically went with my first ideas, so it was a fun job. I managed to sneak in a Celtics jersey in honor of their recent NBA Championship!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

New Illustration!


Atlanta Tourist, (12X16, pencil on paper). This client was temporarily living in Atlanta and wanted a caricature to remember the city when she moved back to Brazil. She trusted me to include whatever I thought represented Atlanta in the background, so I included iconic landmarks such as the World of Coca-Cola, the Margaret Mitchell House, the Fox Theatre, etc. I also wanted to show a lamp pole with two Peachtree Streets since the city is known for having dozens of streets with that name. She was very pleased with the result and promised me it would hang in her living room in Brazil, so I've got that going for me...which is nice.