The Creative Directory: Lee Lund

 

LEE LUND 

In a sentence:
Illustrator Lee Lund has risen from the fires of Carlisle, bringing with him a bold fresh style much influenced by the Vikings and Norse culture.


Sample the goods:



Branding for a craft beer brewery

Book of London graffiti translated into stories

  Booklet explain how to build a Viking Longship Design to encourage students to get themselves 'to the library!'





Based in York and having studied at the University of Cumbria, Lee's style is quite heavily lead by the Vikings, who were scary people. He also likes drawing a lot of skulls and wolves which are equally scary things to look at. On the other hand, Lee himself is quite the friendly fellow so it all works out in the end, especially for Lee who may or may not have been Loki in a past life.

So there he is; beer branding, ship building, library graphics, tattoo designs.... that should pretty much cover all your illustration needs surely?
Plus he's currently working on a logo for pop punk band You Know Nothing and more craft beer designs.

 

Here's where you can find him:

Website
Twitter

Tumblr

Behance

 



and you can contact him directly at lee@leelund.com

 

 

 

 



The Creative Directory: Rich Banks

 

 

RICH BANKS

 

 

In a sentence:

Absolutely exquisite, point perfect and HAND DRAWN illustrations by a freelance artist from my old home city.

 

 

Sample the goods:

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why:

Did I mention they're hand drawn? Can you imagine the time and patience and hand eye coordination these must take? Incredible!  

You may not be able to see from these photos, you can on the last one, but a lot of the shading has been done by a technique called stippling which is a way of creating degrees of solidity by using individual dots. Lots and lots of dots. I wont waffle on about how he does it, I'll let you read for yourself over on his blog.

 

He's an artist in residence at Bar Lane Studios in York along with my sister. I went to the open day there a year or two ago and saw his pictures up close. It really is astounding to see just how perfect they are, even after being screen printed.

 

Such a talent, from good old York!

 

Where you can find him: 

Website

Blog

Facebook

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A Fine Hand

Of all the job titles I'd like to be able to apply to myself, Freelance Calligrapher sounds like a pretty fun one. I can't however claim to be one, my mother Sharon Ellor, on the other hand is exactly that! This skill, copperplate script calligraphy, is one she's perfected over the past five decades. I personally consider her to be perfect at it and I've been improving my own attempts in the last five years but compared to my mum....well I'm sure you'll be able to tell which photos are of my writing! She just never makes a mistake, even in the slightest. I hope with more practice I'll be as precise as her one day.

My poetry journal with quotes written by Sharon

 
 We usually refer to it as Victorian Copperplate Script but I think the terms are quite specific and are determined by things like the type and thickness of the nib. So really she has just an old fashioned, English handwriting.

'Mother' by E. A Allen written by Sharon

I have a journal that she gave me for Christmas a few years ago that I write all my favourite poems in. Not half full yet but I plan to hand it down to my children when I'm old! The first few in it are quite badly written but I can see as I go through that I'm improving with time!

some of my writing

Monograms are another thing she does really well. She's done a lot for different people and this one is the combination of B and C for Ben and Charlotte. I'd like to use it somehow in our wedding, maybe as a border for the invites?

 Lord knows I love curls and swirls!

xoxo