More Than You Expect
London-based agency Feref came to me and asked if I would be able to design and illustrate a mural to be painted by the staff frequenting Vodafone's Dusseldorf campus, designed to show off Vodafone's excellent own-brand smart handsets and tablets.
'No problem' I said.
And then it got complicated: we needed a number of canvasses- all to be painted concurrently, which would encapsulate the theme of being 'More Than You Expect'- the canvasses would each be a frame of a simple animation to be converted into a gif, and time would be tight.
And then I threw the Droste effect (an endless zoom) into the mix.
After coming up with a suite of characters to embody the features of the handsets that Vodafone wanted to call out, each had four frames in which to animate:
After testing the animation digitally, I decided to use the tried and tested 'Paint by Numbers' system so that everyone would paint the correct colour in the right place! All that remained was to go over to the campus and, in two intense days of painting featuring over 400 volunteers and gallons of paint, paint the four 5m wide canvasses....
From Digital to analogue and back again!