Editorial illustrations for Atlassian’s Work Life Blog.
Atlassian Corporation is an Australian software company that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams. Their global headquarters are located in Sydney, Australia with US offices in San Francisco, New York, and Austin, Texas, to name a few. The company is committed to providing a working environment that fuels collaboration and allows each employee to feel welcome and at ease. Many of the offices have varying styles and themes, artists and craftsman are frequently involved in creating custom murals or spaces.
I created framed art prints, murals, and wallpapers for offices in Yokohama, Japan, Manila, Philippines & most recently in Austin, Texas.
Atlassian’s illustration system is called Tandem, and has been evolving since it launched in 2016. People (or Meeples, as Atlassians refer to them), are an integral part of this system and give each composition a richer narrative; highlighting diversity, inclusion and teamwork. Atlassian’s products are highly technical, the introduction of people, helps familiarize and welcome customers to understand and interact with the products.
As an illustrator on the design team, I was responsible for creating all of the illustrations for a variety of product websites. Working closely with designers and copy writers, we were able to deliver a complete experience, from written headlines to thoughtful, stylized illustrations.
Game Stack is a full range of game development solutions from Microsoft. I worked on the team for a time and developed their illustration style.
Game Stack’s Illustration style is fun, immersive and engaging. It takes complex topics and interprets them into visually interesting compositions. Detailed scenes produce movement and energy, while the grid and triangles bring stability and symmetry. Familiar game tropes are distributed into every illustration, honoring the different settings and worlds of games.
The style is drawn on an isometric grid. The lines make up the foreground while the marker grid serves as a background element, providing texture, and movement while maintaining balance. The triangles are bold and decorative, echoing the network of Game Stack’s product solutions.
In 2018, Box Fort Studios, (a small animation team at Amazon) worked on various campaigns; Amazon’s Echo team needed help with a concept video for a presentation.
Our first concept for the project was to showcase different rooms in a family home. The Echo would interact with the family during different times in the day. Each room would have various subtle animations, as well as life-like characters, bringing the scene to life. This concept was sadly declined by the customers. They wanted rougher, sketches without much detail so as to bring more focus to the Echo in each room.
We landed with a sketchy, more traditional storyboard. It shows a day in the life of three families around the world interacting with their Amazon Echos. The storyboard was converted into a short video accompanied by audio.
As a visual designer on the OneDrive product team, I complemented many projects with unique and custom illustrations. Some of these included: the OneDrive landing page, first run experiences (in the Android & iOS mobile apps), guided tour banners, email campaigns, empty state illustrations and OneDrive Premium upsells & feature cards. With the addition of illustrations, the experiences became humanized and delightful. They impacted performance in the product, by increasing views, sign-ins, account creations and sales. As a result of my work, OneDrive developed a personality and demonstrated the importance of well-crafted design enhanced by illustration.
These three posters: Madison Park Beach, Lake Union and Green Lake are a few of my favorite places in Seattle. I created the series to be shown in the Madison Park Art Walk this last September. They highlight the craziness, and fun of being out and about on a summer day in the city.
I used a pastel color palette inspired by the famous painting "Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat. I made the people simple but highlighted the difference in body types, skin color and clothing. The compositions are busy and chaotic which give the viewer a sense of the millions of different scenarios, conversations and situations people are in on a constant basis.
Jack and Jill went up the hill…
I was commissioned to illustrate a non-traditional wedding reception invitation. My client wanted a psychedelic, lucid, sunset vibe with a vintage “Jack and Jill” storybook twist.
After researching hippie and psychedelic art, I was able to come with with a style and color palette that fit the client’s vision.
PicMonkey is an online photo editing and design tool offering thousands of professionally designed templates and graphics.
While there, I created hundreds of graphics that appear in themed sticker sheets on their website. The graphics are completely customizable and were constructed in a specific way to allow color customization. They vary in category, theme and style.
I merged my fascination with astrology, mythology, ancient Greek/Roman sculpture and interpreted the 12 Signs of the Zodiac into individual cards and a poster. I was inspired by tarot cards and their symbolic imagery which led to the card format and size. I chose a dark color palette contrasted by thin, gold lines to mirror starlight.
The Fayble Shop is my side hustle where I illustrate and design greeting cards for holidays. Check out www.thefaybleshop.com to see it all!