Author name: Jonathan Whelan

Old Mutual Movember Illustration

Old Mutual Movember

Old Mutual Movember Social media campaign (part one) The agency that I work for (hero strategic marketing) was given the great opportunity to come up with a social media campaign to create awareness for Movember and help support people suffering with serious illnesses, particularly testicular and prostate cancers. As a creative team, we decided to attempt …

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Batman Moustache

batman moustache

      batman moustache I was commissioned to create a conceptual representation of a moustache for Movember 2013. Since the company I produced it for goes by the name of Hero, I thought it was only fitting that I produce something with heroic connotations.  Since I had watched Batman’s – The Dark Night Rises …

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Anatomy of a top dog

anatomy of dog

This is a visual representation of my professional attributes. Anatomy of dog is a graphic demonstration of all the components that make up the best creative individual. The image pasted into this post may display the key to each attribute a bit too small as it was designed as an A2 poster, so i will …

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happy friday

Happy Friday everyone. I am just so happy today is Friday. I felt inspired to draw this quick doodle to honour the best day of the week.   Go on, share it…

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Steve Biko

Steve Biko

    Steve Biko was once quoted as saying : “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor, is the mind of the oppressed”. Another famous quote of his was “Black is beautiful”. These two quotes were my inspiration for the poster and t-shirt designs that I created for a competition. I remember seeing …

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Steve Biko

Steve Biko

    Steve Biko was once quoted as saying : “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor, is the mind of the oppressed”. Another famous quote of his was “Black is beautiful”. These two quotes were my inspiration for the poster and t-shirt designs that I created for a competition. I remember seeing …

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September 11th memorial poster

911 memorial poster

    I decided that today I would commemorate the 911 tragedy by creating a 911 memorial poster. This event should never have happened in the first place, and not ever be repeated. Sadly the world is filled with hate and people who just can’t learn from history. I set out to create a visual …

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Say Cheese vector graphic

Say Cheese

I was inspired to create a visual based around one of my favourite foods, cheese. This illustration was first used in a t-shirt graphic design contest as a way of improving my typographic illustration skills. It has received a lot of positive feedback. Agency: Emdash (personal work) Art Director: Jonathan Whelan Designer: Jonathan Whelan Illustrator: Jonathan Whelan Go on, …

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