tim hunkin/posters 2

POSTERS
This page contains my better known posters

I've republished some with Zazzle.
They cost about Ł17.00 (plus Ł4 postage, inland UK) for A1 (24 by 36inches).
You can also buy A2 versions for about Ł13 and A3 for Ł11.

Zazzle posters currently available: Adnams Brewery 1975
                                                      The Tree 1991
                                                      The Secret Life of the Home 1995
                                                      Buck and Follocks share certificate 2003
                                                      Electric Shocks 2005
                                                      Rent-a-dog 2004
                                                      The Celestial Bed 2005
                                                      Wateraid 1993
                                                      TV Studio 1986

WATERAID 1993 Drawn for the charity to illustrate all the different technologies used for providing water.		TV STUDIO 1986 This is probably the most ambitious drawing I’ve ever done – trying to do the perspective, combine the chaos of lights with the action below, and get reasonable likenesses for all the characters (from the soap opera Emmerdale Farm)

TREE POSTER
(New Scientist 1991)
The charity Common Ground encouraged me to draw this poster and then sold the idea to the New Scientist. I like doing posters – finding a solution that’s eye catching from a distance but then draws you in and contains lots of detail.
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Detail from the tree poster to give some idea what it really looks like.

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
2003
Commissioned by the New Scientist.

The process of producing this poster was so tortuous - endless stages of editing and redrawing - that I now can't bear to look at the finished thing. It taught me that there's no point in endlessly making compromises, because the finished thing is bound to be a total mess. I should have jumped on a train and talked everything through face to face rather than accepting the editor's changes, which were probably made in a few minutes - they really weren't thought through at all. Editors really can get drunk with power.

Something good always comes out of disasters though. In this case it was converting my hand drawn lettering (that I use on my cartoons) into a truetype font. Its been so handy. I use it on proposals and everything I make that needs to look 'hand made'.