Dream Clients (daydreaming)

I remember Ben talking about how he made his portfolio fit his dream client Folio Society, with the hopes of being commissioned by them.
Its very wishful thinking for me to be talking about dream clients when I'm only in third year, but I think its good to be aware of illustration commissioners and exciting projects and working hard

These are 2 projects that are my dream projects to work on:


- Green Man 

is a music festival in Wales that I've been going to for a couple of years now, the visual identity of the festival is always amazing, every year they pick an illustrator who works with a design company to produce the visuals for the whole festival - posters / merch / tickets / animations / branding on beer cups / signage / large cut out characters around the festival. My FMP has gotten me completely immersed and in love with folk tales and folk art, and its so exciting to see a modern application to this kind of work, some of my favourite illustrators like Nous Vous and Sunniva Krogseth have done this job in the past. I'm really enjoying developing characters and my own stories, so this is the kind of project which would be a dream!



Nous Vous - Green Man 2014




Sunniva Krogseth - Green Man 2018


Icinori (Mayumi Otero & Raphael Urwiller) - Green Man 2020



At Hanbury I got chatting to Arthur from Polytechnic who designed the typeface for Green Man!! I geeked out a lot about it and it was fascinating to hear how they designed it with inspiration from old Welsh type etc. I love projects like this with historical depth and interesting links. Eeeeeeee



Arthur Carey type for Green Man



- Folio Society  

produce absolutely beautiful illustrated editions of books, some of my favourite illustrators have done work for them including Laura Carlin / Jesus Cisneros etc. This is the dream storytelling brief. To immerse yourself into a body of text, a whole world encased within 2 boards and illustrate it mmmmm. Storytelling is intrinsic to my practice, really enjoying my FMP, would be a dream to get a commission which feels like a similar way of working and approaching image making.


Laura Carlin - Folio Society



Jesus Cisneros - Folio Society



Obviously these are BIG dream clients. I'm just daydreaming. good to shoot big ...????