Swindler & Swindler

Journal

Insights and discoveries from the studio on illustration, design and creation.
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Illustrating Christmas in June is hot work

How an illustration studio prepares its Christmas packaging in midsummer — herbarium references and Christmas music for the Next and Moët & Chandon projects.

By Margot••Christmas illustration
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Illustrating for wine and spirits houses — two approaches

A Port gift box in six hundred copies, a champagne gift box in two hundred thousand. Not two variants of the same craft, but two opposite approaches. A look at two recent commissions for Graham's Port and Moët & Chandon.

By Margot••packaging
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Vectorising a fine line illustration — without loosing it's quality

Vectorizing an illustration without degrading it — or why we break each drawing into thousands of layers before Illustrator.

By Rémy••vectorisation