04 November 2011

Newsflash! Next week The Jacky Winter Group and Lamington Drive will be opening The Gallery at Chadstone, Melbourne’s Fashion Capital. A 12-month temporary space which will feature some of the groups most exciting Fashion illustrators in a series of solo shows in a new purpose-designed space.

We are currently on the lookout for 4-5 hard working volunteers with a passion for fashion, illustration, or creative management to help bolster our ranks. We are looking for individuals with advanced…

03 November 2011

If you want a good omen for a summer campaign, you want an artist named Sonny Day to work on it. If you want “Thread Creds”, you probably also want to throw in Biddy Maroney. Tribe recently approached Sonny and Biddy from Webuyyourkids to conjure up seven limited edition t-shirt designs for the new Schweppes Summer Rewind 2011 campaign. Webuyyourkids worked their usual illustration magic to create these retro designs for Schweppes brands including Pepsi, Solo and the always passionate…

02 November 2011

Get your voting fingers people, because you’re about to pretty up a piece of Prahran with a few swift clicks. Jacky Winter’s Cat MacInnes is one of four artists in the Art Prahran competition, where the winner will take over the eastern facade of brand new apartments designed by Rothe Lowman and Crema Group on High Street, Prahran. To vote, go to the Art Apartments Facebook page, get a little friendly and ‘like’ Cat’s image. You have to get in quick though, because the winner will be announced …

31 October 2011

Looks like we’re going to need to build a bigger pool room. The latest trophies to come our way were from the 2011 Caxton Awards for Excellence in Newspaper Advertising, where Jacky Winter dominated the illustration category. The first ‘best illustration’ award went to Stuart McLachlan for his work with the always brilliant DDB Melbourne on the Original Juice ‘Tastefully Original’ campaign. The second ‘best illustration’ award went to magicians Toby and Pete and super-creatives George…

28 October 2011

The latest Flutter job to hit our screens is this set of super-snappy animated indents for Foxtel Channel 111 Hits. Working with the Bowery’s info-graphics superstar Anthony Calvert, Flutter developed eight separate animated indents for 111 Hits, featuring shows such as ER, Law & Order, Friends and Grey’s Anatomy. Inspired by the 1985 rotoscoped music video for ‘Take On Me’, Flutter and Foxtel asked Anthony to utilise his grade-a rendering skills to illustrate characters from the classic TV…

27 October 2011

The Hatch’s Tim Molloy got monstrous with Ginger Whale to create an iPad Book App with a whole lotta heart. Titled The Greebley Greebley, the story allows kidlets to create their own customised monster before they get lost in the tale. It’s available on the iTunes App Store from tomorrow – just in time for you to get your gruesome hands all over it.

25 October 2011

Not so long ago, Karl Kwasny was asked to utilise his mad type skills and inject his signature whimsy into the creation of the new Follow Store identity. The brainchild of the delightful duo from The Finders Keepers, Follow is a design concept store situated in Sydney’s Surry Hills. We loved watching this illustration unfold and can’t wait to see these graceful forms in the shop-window-flesh.

24 October 2011

Like the good parents we are, we’re proud when we see our babies out there in the real world. The pride factor was kicked up a few notches on this one, as it featured the winning combination of our new animation house Flutter, the always amazing Webuyyourkids and an impossibly cool commercial by BMF. A few moons ago, BMF approached Webuyyourkids to create the animatic frames for their Tooheys Extra Dry ‘Nocturnal Migration’ campaign. A love affair developed, and soon enough Flutter came on the …

21 October 2011

Jacky Winter’s Travis Price seems like too much of a nice guy to get mixed up in criminal activity, but hey, it looks as if we got him all wrong. Travis recently worked with Pop Magazine to create these criminal environments for a 10 page fashion spread, playing with concepts such as break and enters, line-ups and forgery. A crafty fella indeed.

20 October 2011

We’re absolutely charmed by the great Oslo Davis. We know you are too, so when we got wind of Oslo’s latest project we knew it was our duty to alert you without any dilly-dallying. It’s called Libraryland, and it’s a limited edition book of sketches and illustrations drawn by Oslo at the State Library last year. The thing is, Libraryland needs a wee bit of support before it can be launched into this crazy world of ours. If you want this baby to be born, we suggest you head over to the

18 October 2011

Awards and nominations are flying around all over the place for our incredibly brilliant illustrators. The latest is for Oslo Davis, who’s cartoon ‘Assange’ has been nominated for ‘Best Cartoon’ in the prestigious Walkley awards. It’s really tempting to write a pun about leaks right now, but we’re going to abstain. Go Oslo, go.

18 October 2011

Everything’s coming up Milhouse at JWHQ these days. In all the excitement we completely failed to mention that last Friday not one, not two, but three of our illustrators worked on campaigns that received MADC Awards. Paul Nolan worked with Publicis Mojo Melbourne to create the ‘Play Melbourne’ logo for Tourism Victoria and walked away with a Silver for best typography, while Stuart McLachlan’s work with DDB Melbourne on the ‘Tastefully Original’ campaign resulted in a Bronze for best…

17 October 2011

Fresher than Will, jazzier than Jeff, Jacky Winter went and got itself a serious makeover, with a few extra limbs thrown in for good measure. First up, we have a huge announcement. Jacky Winter have teamed up with those motion mavericks over at 21-19 to create a full-service animation house more spectacular than twelve Zac Efrons. It’s called Flutter, dear friends, and it means that 100-strong team of Jacky Winter artists can now move with ease. Seriously, this pool of talent is so potent…

14 October 2011

Master illusionists Toby and Pete have been at it again, this time for Mitsubishi’s i-MIEV. Working with Clemenger BBDO, the hard-working pair were responsible for electrifying the i-MIEV in this very clever billboard campaign.

13 October 2011

Jacky Winter darling Edwina White recently got her editorial hands dirty and inked up this very fine illustration for the New York Times. These searching travellers accompanied the article ‘Fine-Tuning Your Flight Search’. Investigating travel options sure looks like a perilous business.

11 October 2011

Heath Killen recently teamed up with the sharp creatives at BMF to give our streets a bit of Tooheys Extra Dry flavour. Tying in with the incredibly cool and hypnotic ‘TED Nocturnal Migration’ commercial, these posters and paste-ups have carried the migration off our screens and into the great outdoors. True to their nocturnal nature, we hear that some of these street posters even glow in the dark. Ah, glowing stags – just another element that deepens our love for this dynamite campaign.

10 October 2011

We follow the trials and tribulations of Craig Redman’s cult character Darcel Disappoints with the same love and fury exhibited by fans around the world. We love this guy so much that we’re not surprised Colette has a crush on him too. The latest collaborative project to come from the super-hip pairing is this set of three smiley lighters. Collect the set before it’s too late.

07 October 2011

It’s been a bit over a day now since the news of Steve Jobs passing reached our offices, and as the director of the agency, I thought I would break from our regular broadcast on the blog to add my own thoughts and reflections to the growing number of sentiments that have been circulating online and in print out of respect and gratitude for a man whose contributions to the world have not only touched me personally, but also have had an unmistakable impact on the design and illustration…

07 October 2011

Rilla Alexander has a knack for making us giddy with the things she creates and exhibits. This time around we’re getting the warm fuzzies from this piece, which will feature at the Florentijn Hofman exhibition ‘Big Dushi Tales’ opening in Berlin tonight. Inspired by one of Hofman’s large scale animals, Rilla illustrated a dog dreaming of dinner. If you’re in that fine part of the world, do us a favour and make us jealous by checking it out.

06 October 2011

Webuyyourkids and band posters are a match made in glorious, unadulterated heaven. Seriously, cupid couldn’t set this shit up if he tried. Here are a bunch of our favourite new posters from the dynamo duo, for artists including Gotye, Phil Jamieson and The Grates.

05 October 2011

Info-graphic guru Anthony Calvert recently dabbled in a spot of contemporary dance for the Performance Space in Sydney. Anthony illustrated this very descriptive image for Performance Space’s upcoming show ‘Return to Sender’. Featuring a collection of eight short dance works exploring the influence of international creative relationships and Australian dance artists, the performance narrows the gap between Australian audiences and the performances they miss due to distance, geography and…

04 October 2011

If anyone approaches us wanting to be enveloped in loveliness, Marcela Restrepo immediately comes to mind. Earlier this year, Marcela worked with The Brand Agency to develop this idyllic garden scene for The Sanctuary in McKail.

03 October 2011

Not only does James Gulliver Hancock have a schmick new website, he has a schmick new website completely populated by stunning work. One of our recent favourites was this very fine map of Naples, obsessively built up for an Italian Shopping Guide by LeftLoft.

30 September 2011

Whilst everyone is scrambling to sign up for the Golden Plains ballot today, we’re basking in the Autumnal hues of the sweet, sweet illustration. Jacky Winter’s Oslo Davis was the man responsible for the warm and gooey spots you see dotted around the 2012 site, including the logo’s nice new watercolour costume.