{"id":1141,"date":"2016-12-01T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.korsenndesign.co.uk\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2019-06-07T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T18:20:14","slug":"merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year-for-2016-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.korsenndesign.co.uk\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 2016 from Mike @ Korsenn Design!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Turkey_ChristmasBit of a Turkey this one!<\/span><\/h4>\n

At Korsenn Design we look forward to working with you again in 2019, many thanks for your work over the past year\/s,\u00a0across the board!\u00a0Its always appreciated of course the varied design projects we’ve worked on this year, from tradit print to web stuff and back again.<\/p>\n

So for this years Christmas Card and for a bit of festive fun, I decided to go back to my\u00a0older portfolio archives and\u00a0re-illustrate digitally this time in Photoshop, a cartoon-card illustrated back in the day in inks and magic markers, (which was Dec 1991)!\u00a0The original the result after a very late night and several beers no doubt at my then design studio\u00a0employers\u00a0The Marketing and Communications Business, in Notting Hill, London.<\/p>\n

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My original Turkey-Toon Christmas Card illustration,,..rendered in old school Magic Marker Inks, circa 1991. I can still smell those marker inks now, you used to get high as a kite using them!!<\/p><\/div>\n

MCB were a cool Design Agency as far as I was concerned, being a newbie to all things London circa 1988. Housed on 3 floors within\u00a0a Victorian gothic and crazily turreted building, set at the junction of Westbourne Grove and Pembridge Road in Notting Hill, London.\u00a0With\u00a0Moet &\u00a0Chandon, Mercier Champagnes, Vrigin\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0and even NATO\u00a0and\u00a0Nuclear Electric on it’s varied client roster, the agency liked to party! The area was always\u00a0a vibrant and varied place to work or socialise at anytime, back then with poverty and affluence\u00a0existing cheek in jowl, typically London. But it was especially evocative at Christmas time, it snowed heavily in December 1991 too, causing havoc and giving it a really Victorian\/Dickensian feel to the area with the lack of traffic!<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0building had\u00a0an interesting history, originally a respectable Bank for over 50 years. Prior to\u00a0WW2 it was\u00a0the tempoary HQ for George Mallaby’s Fascists\u00a0Blackshirts (yikes) who assembled outside for rallies and an enivitable punch up!\u00a0After WW2 and in the austerity of the late 1940’s, early 1950’s, it was also a late night drinking den that George Orwell and drinking pals frequented allegedly, according to local folk lore. In my time in the late 1980’s\u00a0to\u00a0early 1990’s, it contained 3\u00a0floors of the design agencies ‘creative\u00a0<\/em>folks’<\/em>, including myself. Who’s characters were as diverse as the client workload. Manically working all hours of the day and night. Also handily placed to watch the stunning colourful atmosphere of the Notting Hill Carnival pass by each August Bank Holiday’s and handily located for London’s West End and its culturally diverse life. A building that definitely had an atmosphere. Its now in part a modern art gallery and open to all, so good to see its gone full circle.<\/p>\n

So hopefully it\u00a0will make you smile and enjoy that Turkey if your having any of course!?
\nBest wishes<\/p>\n

Mike Reed, Graphic Designer and Illustrator, Korsenn Design – December 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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