Time of life...

It seems summer has moved on, so I thought this was a somewhat appropriate autumnal image to share...

It was designed as a background for a poster, used in a presentation, which provided information on the biological, psychological and sociological impacts on health for a case study on George - a 62 year old farm machinery driver.  The field landscape suited his current work role and held connotations of harvest, symbolising the time of his life, nearing retirement.  The setting sun and horizon line also linked in with ideas of forward planning and looking to the future, whilst the setting sun, representing the end of the daily cycle, created a visual metaphor for growing old and end of life.    

Bit by a dog...

Simon asked me ages ago if I'd like to design a kind of poster for one of his short films. And so, as a result of productive procrastination to avoid death by assignment, I've finally got round to playing about with some ideas.

The film is about addiction, so I started by thinking about being attached and unable to escape.  (For a glance at the teaser trailer click here...)  

Was hung up on drawing a dog for quite some time due to the title.. But finally settled on a belt as the main object which I figure has dog lead connotations, as well as functional associations with heroin use.  The belt is in a snake shape, as though loosely discarded after use, to link in with ideas I had about being hypnotised through drug use, with smoky swirly patterns in the design...  And I've tried to blend a subtle snake head onto the end of the belt to hint at the grand biblical ideas of temptation, deceit and evil, which all seem relevant to the film.  Backgrounds vary between carpet, snakeskin and smoke... My current favourite is the carpet and snakeskin blend on top right, but this may change depending on what Simon says...