My agency 9xb recently moved premises and required a full refit. Part of the existing setup was a rather blank white wall with a red fire alarm top center of it. This area was to be the reception wall that clients and guests would see when entering the building so we decided to go crazy and generate some artwork to fill the space and brighten the room up. The simplest thing to do would be to paint it, but we’re not like that here, we don’t mind taking risks and thinking outside the box.
Before the refit started we took a couple of shots of the wall from different angles and mocked up a few ideas.
Options whittled down
Option 1: Millions of sheep
An illustration of hundreds of sheep with one cheeky-chappy chilling out.
Option 1: Millions of sheep – closeup
Option 2: Crazy phychodelic sheep
Seriously bright, seriously mental.
And the winner is…
The crazy phychodelic sheep of course!
Another angle mocked up
The final file ended up being 1.4gb in size, measuring 3.5m by 2.2m. Sheep image from istockphoto, printed out and an industrial high res scan created, merging a phychodelic rainbow as a Photoshop Smart-Object then sent to printers who came a week later to fix it to the wall. I’ll get a real photo uploaded asap.
Previous digital art for 9xb
View 9xb digital art post here
February 9th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
The crazy sheep is awesome. I see you didn’t mention the airbrush marks around it’s feet, your secret is safe with me
February 10th, 2009 at 4:57 am
they all look pretty sweet, but i like the sunglass one the best