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Recent Educational Illustrations: Food & Drink

November 17, 2020 by Geo Parkin

Self-explanatory, really. These were all produced for a recent series of English-language teaching books, published by OUP. Click on any of the images to enlarge.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, boys, Café, Cartoon, Character design, coffee shop, Cooking, eating, educational publishing, Food, girls, healthy, Holidays, Humour, Illustration, Lifestyle, Men, People, seafood, Shopping, supermarket, vector illustration, Women

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Kamba!

September 29, 2020 by Geo Parkin

In 2019 I worked with Go For It Games on a card game called Kamba. There are 52 cards in all, each with its own illustration depicting a three-word tongue-twister. The brief consisted of little more than the tongue-twisters themselves so it was a great opportunity to run with the madness and get surreal. A lengthy job but great fun! Here’s a selection of the illustrations used on the cards, with their accompanying tongue-twisters.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Animals, art, autodesk sketchbook, Birds, bizarre, boys, Buildings, Café, card game, Cartoon, Character design, Children, Cooking, Costume, Drinks, Fantasy, Food, Games, girls, Holidays, Humour, Illustration, Interiors, Landscape, Lettering, Lifestyle, Men, music, musical instruments, Packaging, Party, pastiche, Restaurant, surrealism, Transport, Travel, Vector artwork, Wacom Cintiq, Women

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Vector artwork – figures and settings.

June 3, 2020 by Geo Parkin

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, boys, Buildings, Café, Cartoon, Character design, Cooking, Crowd, Family, Food, Games, girls, Holidays, Home, Hotel, Humour, Illustration, Interiors, Landscape, Lifestyle, Men, music, musical instruments, Party, People, Transport, Travel, Uniform, Vector artwork, Women

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Chilli Pickle rebrand – poster illustrations

December 13, 2018 by Geo Parkin

Earlier this year, in preparation for the opening of their second restaurant in Guildford, the Chilli Pickle had a branding makeover, overseen by Design LSM. The idea was to formalise the visual and environmental elements of the restaurant to enable brand consistency to be maintained across multiple locations. Up until this point, their visual identity had evolved in a piecemeal, organic manner, but had nevertheless proved very successful, so an important consideration during the project was not to lose sight […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Animals, branding, Brighton, Cartoon, Character design, Chilli Pickle, Chilli Pickle Canteen, Cooking, Curry, Food, Guildford, halftone, Illustration, India, Men, monkey, musical instruments, Poster, Restaurant, sitar, snake, tiger, Vector artwork, Women

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More everyday people

May 22, 2017 by Geo Parkin

Here’s another selection of recent publishing illustrations in a similar vein to those in the last post. People, locations, and situations pretty much sums it up. Click on any of the images to enlarge.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, autodesk sketchbook, bicycle, books, boys, Buildings, business, Café, Cartoon, Character design, Children, Cooking, cycling, domestic scenes, Drinks, fire, fire engine, Food, girls, Humour, Illustration, Interiors, library, Lifestyle, Men, Party, Restaurant, sci-fi, traffic, Transport, Travel, urban scene, Vector artwork, video game, Women, workplace

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Everyday people

May 21, 2017 by Geo Parkin

The following is a selection of recent vector-style book illustrations, created for a series of educational publishing titles. The images I’m commissioned to produce usually involve figures in specific settings or situations. The subject matter can be pretty prosaic, but I managed to keep this project engaging from my own point of view by trying out a slightly different technical and stylistic approach to the final artwork. Experimental, but not radically so. It was also very well received by the […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Animals, boys, Buildings, Café, cars, Character design, Children, Cooking, Costume, Drinks, education, Food, girls, Humour, illness, Illustration, Interiors, Lifestyle, Men, music, Packaging, Publishing, Restaurant, Shopping, sport, Transport, Travel, Vector artwork, vector illustration, weather, Women

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Chilli Pickle Kids’ poster

February 14, 2017 by Geo Parkin

My latest poster for the Chilli Pickle restaurant, advertising their fab Kids’ menu. The kids in the image have been named Abheek (boy) and Baani (girl) – as chosen by the chefs, apparently. If you’re in the area, swing by and have a look!

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Animals, boys, Character design, Children, Chilli Pickle, Cooking, Curry, elephant, Food, girls, Illustration, India, kids, Lettering, Poster, Restaurant, Travel

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Honey Kasundi label

December 27, 2016 by Geo Parkin

My label design for a recently-launched new product now available from the Chilli Pickle restaurant.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Animals, bees, Character design, Chilli Pickle, Cooking, Costume, Food, honey, Illustration, India, label design, Lettering, Packaging, Restaurant, Vector artwork, Women

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Happy Families / Go Fish!

January 24, 2016 by Geo Parkin

In 2013 I worked with a small London-based games company, Go For It Games, on the packaging design for their Games With Names card game. The job went well, and subsequently led to us working together on a significantly more ambitious project in 2015, re-imagining and combining the classic card games Happy Families and its US equivalent Go Fish, for surname-specific target audiences. This was to involve not only the pack design (and multiple variations thereof), but also 52 individual card designs. As I say, […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Animals, boys, Cartoon, Character design, Children, Christmas, Cooking, Costume, Design, Easter, Families, Family, Food, Games, girls, Go Fish!, Halloween, Happy Families, Holidays, Illustration, Interiors, Lifestyle, Men, Packaging, Women

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Gentrification and the Hipster Breakfast; illustration for latest Square Meal magazine.

November 10, 2015 by Geo Parkin

  Illustration to accompany an item on restaurants and cafés as an instrument of gentrification, for Square Meal magazine. The image is inspired by the recent, high-profile case of Shoreditch breakfast joint Cereal Killer being targeted by Class War demonstrators, which is referred to in the article. Great fun doing this one, and creating alternative versions of Snap, Crackle and Pop. It occupies a full page of the magazine and, at first glance, could easily be mistaken for an ad. Although emphatically NOT […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, breakfast, Café, Cartoon, Cereal, Character design, Cooking, Food, Humour, Illustration, Lettering, Lifestyle, London, Packaging, Restaurant, Vector artwork

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Two more Chilli Pickle labels!

November 9, 2015 by Geo Parkin

Red Chilli Sauce and Mango Chutney – now on the shelves at the Chilli Pickle restaurant. And now that we’ve got bonfire night out of the way, I believe it’s obligatory to start using the C-word, so here goes – the perfect Christmas stocking-fillers!

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Animals, Chilli Pickle, Chilli Pickle Canteen, Cooking, Food, girls, Illustration, India, Lettering, Mango Chutney, Packaging, Red Chilli Sauce, Restaurant, Travel, Vector artwork, Women

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Educational Publishing

September 8, 2015 by Geo Parkin

Educational publishing, in particular English language books for the overseas market, has been a constant source of work from the very start of my career in illustration. It’s an arena that has perhaps unfairly gained a reputation among illustrators for being slightly uninspiring and workaday. While it’s true that these commissions tend to arrive with quite prescriptive and detailed briefs (the images usually have very specific roles to play in support of related text and audio content), and do not provide the ideal platform […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Beach, boys, Buildings, Café, China, Cooking, Family, Fashion, Food, girls, Holidays, Home, Humour, Interiors, Japan, Lifestyle, Locations, Market, Men, Narrative illustration, People, Shopping, Situations, sport, Students, Technology, Transport, Travel, Vector artwork, Women

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Food

September 7, 2015 by Geo Parkin

A slightly nebulous category, I admit. Food and drink, eating, restaurants and cafés all frequently play a peripheral part in my illustrations, but here I’ve selected a few in which comestibles, beverages and eateries have a more central role. A wider selection of my Chilli Pickle restaurant images can be found in their own section. Following two images produced for Square Meal magazine.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Animals, boys, Café, Cooking, Curry, Deli, Drinks, Ethnic, Fast food, Food, Fruit, girls, India, Italian food, Japan, Japanese food, Kitchen, Market, Meals, Men, Party, Restaurant, Shopping, Sushi, Transport, Travel, Vector artwork, Vegetable, Women, Youth

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The Chilli Pickle Canteen webstrip

August 26, 2015 by Geo Parkin

Website comic-strip for the Chilli Pickle restaurant. Armed with just a few scribbled notes made during my meeting with the owners Alun and Dawn, I was tasked with creating a comic-strip account of the long-debated decision to add a takeaway service to their successful restaurant business. It ended up running to nine quite busy horizontal panels and can still be found on their ‘Canteen’ website. The first commission of what has gone on to become a most enjoyable and creatively fruitful […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Buildings, Car, Cartoon, Character design, Chilli Pickle, Comic strip, Cooking, Drinks, Food, Humour, Illustration, Interiors, Lifestyle, Railway, Restaurant, Transport, Vector artwork

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Chilli Pickle labels

August 25, 2015 by Geo Parkin

A selection of labels designed and illustrated for the Chilli Pickle Restaurant’s range of Chutneys, Pickles and condiments. More are in the pipeline. If you’re ever in the vicinity, treat yourself to a jar of the Garlic Pickle. You won’t be sorry.  

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Animals, Buildings, Cartoon, Character design, Chilli Pickle, Chilli Pickle Canteen, Cooking, Curry, Food, Fruit, Illustration, India, Kitchen, Lettering, Packaging, Restaurant, Travel, Vector artwork, Vegetables

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