We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams Written on November 28, 2011, by Zack.

At long last, the first completed page of my picturebook! Here, Melvin’s adoration of music is introduced, as we see him experiencing a transcendent moment listening to Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life.” You can tell it’s Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life” because I got the score online and reproduced it (almost faithfully) on the scroll of notation [...]

Cover me Written on November 25, 2011, by Zack.

Last week I took a break from generating farm-based music puns for my picturebook (Radiohen! The Guess Moo! Pjörk! Please! Kill me!) to work on a cover illustration for the catalogue of the upcoming graduation exhibition for my MA course. All the students who’ll be featured in the exhibition were invited to create an original [...]

Bird brain Written on November 8, 2011, by Zack.

For the final Nancy Drew adventure I worked on at Her Interactive, The Captive Curse, I was tasked to create an illustration for a card game featuring made-up folk tale characters. FOR SOME REASON, they assigned me the character named “Professor Sparrow.” Go figure. Given I basically only had a name to work from, and [...]

Remember the Something Something… Written on November 1, 2011, by Zack.

A while back, I created a shirt design for Shirt.Woot, an awesome t-shirt company that releases one design a day on discount to whomever is lucky enough to visit the site before it sells out. As you can see, my idea was a riff off the old Memory game, only with memorable historical events instead [...]