#commercial art
the joy of radiators
Let me take you to Brussels in 1930 and the Stenos radiator company, which has just commissioned the Warnotte design studio to update its image.
They’ve done rather a good job, I think.
These splendid chaps are from the hand of artist Harry Riley who specialised in men’s fashion and motors, as well as the occasional travel poster, in his commercial work from the 1920s-50s.
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Mixc World
Victo Ngai
I was commissioned by Mixc World, a shopping center in Shenzhen China. to create a billboard image celebrating their launch in September 2017.
Mixc World is a community comprises of a dozen buildings, hundreds of shops and restaurants and public areas including art installations and historical sites. The main inspiration of this piece was drawn from the Chinese name of Mixc World - “萬象天地”, which has the meaning of “a place with everything and all things” but can also be literally translated to “Elephant World”.
With this image, I want to create a whimsical carnival-like world that is filled with fun and curiosity. I like to sneak in visual signs for the viewers to figure out, clues which would allow people to connect dots into line, whether consciously or subconsciously. For example, we see the Cosmic Elephant presents a flower to the little girl. The interior of the flower corresponds to the cosmic pattern on the elephant, while the external stripes related to the stripes on the elephant, the girl’s skirt, the building, the clouds in the sky, and so on. We get a sense that everything is related and all is one, the flower being gifted opens up the possibility of the entire world, similar to the experience Mixc World is offering to its shoppers.
Some development work from a while ago for “Mr. Wallace’s House” for a Kraft commercial that slipped through the cracks. Bummer too because it was supposed to be stop motion and could’ve checked that one off the ol’ bucket list
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Sometimes when you’re a designer who can also illustrate, you end up doing commercial illustrations that are not your thing at all. I do brand design work via my agency and the illustration/mural wasn’t part of the original plan, but it happened. The end product in the photo isn’t what I had in mind and you can see the initial illustration in the second image.
This is my first indoor mural in a commercial space (it’s a giant sticker ), so kind of proud but kind of underwhelmed at the same time hahah.
Still asked a friend to take an awkward photo of me for my parents tho.
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