BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK & SELF MAGAZINE

by jimmy turrell on Monday, 28 January 2013










Heres a few illustrations I've done for my weekly column in Bloomberg Businessweek. The Hard Choices section interviews business leaders (and sometimes artists and directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Apted) and asks them what the hardest choice they've had to make in their career has been.

Also here is a couple of illo's for Self Magazine (also an NYC publication) on the negative effects of the ADHD drug Adderall.





THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN GUIDE, BILLBOARD AND OTHER UNSEEN WORK

by jimmy turrell on Friday, 25 January 2013












A lot of the time (I guess just like in any creative proffession) you create work that either doesnt make the final cut or (for what ever reason) doesnt get shown to the wider public. Here's a few different versions of The Guardian Guide cover I did a couple of week's ago (the 3rd one down was the one that was chosen). Also here is a few New Yorker illustrations, a Billboard magazine cover and a double page spread which were all work in progress. In these cases I actually preferered them to the final pieces. 

NEW SCIENTIST COVER

by jimmy turrell on Tuesday, 18 December 2012



As I mentioned a couple of days ago I've just completed this weeks New Scientist cover. Basically the idea was to represent a feature about the ‘second brain’ in your intestine/gut without it being all gross with images of guts and brains etc

The feature briefly mentions butterflies in your stomach so I went for a simple approach - I took a few shots a friend of mine and then dropped butterflys over as a representation of communication between the head and the stomach.

THE NEW YORK TIMES, ESTERSON ASSOCIATES AND A PROMISE

by jimmy turrell on Wednesday, 12 December 2012






I'll admit it straight off the bat - I've been a bit flakey on the old blog front over the last few months. I've just been ridiculously busy lately and I've basically taken my eye off the ball a bit when it comes to updating stuff here.

Anyway I'm gonna post up everything I've been up to within the next week including new work for Wallpaper Magazine, work for the V&A and the cover for this weeks New Scientist. I've also just done a big commission for Fiat which unfortunately I've got to wait until the launch to show. Should be it hitting billboards across Europe early next year.

In the meantime heres an illustration of the rapper K'Naan I've just completed for The New York Times
and a piece I've just worked on for Esterson Associates on cyber crime and hacking. Both pretty different stylistically but hopefully a similar spirit runs throughout.

Check back tomorrow for more work and a special Xmas giveaway. Updates every week now - New Years Resolution - promise!




CREATEVOICE - JIMMY TURRELL & KATE GIBB WORKSHOP AT THE V&A

by jimmy turrell on Thursday, 1 November 2012
















































Myself and silkscreen artist Kate Gibb have been lucky enough to be invited to run a series of workshops down at the V&A in collaboration with the CreateVoice project. CreateVoice is basically the youth collective of the V&A.

The idea was to develop a workshop with young creatives that they could then present to visitors on the 2nd of November (tomorrow night!)

Myself and Kate have already worked one full day with the young people and here's selection of the work that we created. Basically we switched between silkscreen printing, hand collage and Riso printing. This work will be displayed in the V&A entrance lobby over the weekend.

If anybody wants to come down and get involved tomorrow night its from 6pm - 9pm in the Sackler Centre within the V&A. Hope to see you there - should be fun!.

WALLPAPER MAGAZINE PORTRAITS

by jimmy turrell on Friday, 24 August 2012








Heres a few portraits I've just completed for Wallpaper magazine for their contributors page. I went for a stripped back approach here - I limited the colour palette and added simple geometric halftones over the tops of the watercolours. The people featured here are Jason Evans, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Henry Bourne and Charles Negre.

GUARDIAN GUIDE COVER - THE BOURNE LEGACY

by jimmy turrell on Saturday, 11 August 2012






Heres my cover for todays Guardian Guide feature on The Bourne Legacy. The guys over at the Guardian wanted something quite stark and moody for this piece so I went for a simple watercolour portrait of the movies star Jeremy Renner coming of darkness. Also here is the original sketch I based the illustration around.