Mr Jones Magazine

DIRECTIONS FOR DAPPERNESS

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THE PROJECT:

Mr Jones is a quarterly magazine/broadsheet published by Medium Rare Content on behalf of premium Australian department store David Jones.

I was asked to sketch up a number of spot illustrations to accompany their 'How-To' piece.

Working with coloured pencils and going for a semi-realistic finish is not something I normally do so I was stoked to see the illustrations to come out as nicely as they did - if I say so myself!

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LINKS & MORE INFO

David Jones is Australia's most prominent and premium department store

davidjones.com

Medium Rare Content is Australia's leading content marketing agency, offering full strategic and content production services across print, web, video, social and more. They publish brand publications on behalf of Qantas, David Jones, Bunnings, Coles and Jetstar.

mediumrarecontent.com

Mat Faint is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Paddington, Sydney, Australia. If you've got a nice slice of white space in need of some resplendent illustration, drop me a line. (All my contact details are at the bottom.)

matfaint.com

A Kind Of Guise

A NICE HELPING OF INDO-INSPIRED SARTORIAL STYLE

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THE PROJECT:

A Kind Of Guise is an acclaimed Munich-based fashion house that champions design that is contemporary yet timeless, classy yet functional.

They only use carefully selected high-quality fabrics and manufacture our pieces entirely in Germany.

Each season, they take to the road to venture to a far-flung exotic location to draw inspiration for their new collection.

As part of their Ayam Cemani SS19 collection, I was asked to illustrate a fabric pattern that combined high-low Balinese culture and an old-school Hawaiian shirt.

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THE APPROACH:

I drew up a pattern that incorporated a bunch of decidedly cliché Balinese icons such as:

• palm trees;

• Bintang cans;

• Hindu temples;

• cock fighting; and

• Balinese dancers.

I then coloured these icons in a muted colour palette that complemented - but not mirrored - the tones that traditionally adorn classic batik fabrics.

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THE RESULTS:

The finished pattern became a foundational motif in the collection with it being applied to a silk shirt, swim shorts and a scarf.

The shirt and shorts retailed between EUR150 and EUR200 and sold out within days.

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LINKS & MORE INFO

A Kind of Guise is a German brand that offers a wide range of menswear, womenswear and accessories. Besides their seasonal collections, which are released twice a year, they also provide never out of stock products for your daily wardrobe.

Their design is contemporary yet timeless, classy yet functional. They only use carefully selected high-quality fabrics and manufacture all their pieces entirely in Germany.

They're globally stocked in around 90 boutiques and department stores as well as in their own retail outposts in Munich and Berlin.

akindofguise.com

Mat Faint Design Co. is a one-man, independent design agency and illustration studio based in Sydney, Australia. Got a crisp piece of apparel you need coloured-in? Get in touch and we can get to work putting together a real nice illustrated pattern for your kit.

matfaint.com

Animals At Work

AN EARLY INTRODUCTION TO ANIMALS AND THE WORLD OF WORK

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THE PROJECT:

Initially starting out as a little daily Instagram challenge, Animals at Work developed into a fully-fledged baby book that introduced young learners to three concepts at once:

1. the alphabet;

2. the animal world; and

3. the world of work.

I published the book and sold both hard and soft copy versions via Etsy and some select retailers in Sydney.

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MORE INFO

Mat Faint Design Co. is a desk in an apartment in Sydney, Australia manned by graphic designer and illustrator Mat Faint. Mat is in the process of creating a nice little collection of illustrated children's books, both self-published and for larger publishers such as MultiLit. At time of print (post), Mat is on track to illustrate 12 books in 2020.

matfaint.com