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Welcome to the Dukes Up! blog, the personal design arena of Bunch of Fives, aka Simon Evans: designer, illustrator & all round creative tinkerer.

On this page you will find a collection of influences, ideas, sketches and sneak previews.

Click here to have a gander at my portfolio site at www.bunchoffives.com
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The EURO 2012-inspired illustrated postcards by Simon Evans

Rooney. Malouda. Zlatan. Cristiano. All will bring their talents to Ukraine and Poland in less than 100 days for EURO 2012. Artist Simon Evans sent us these brilliant “illustrated postcards” that he created as part of a larger project for Goals 5-a-side Soccer Centres. Focusing on the goal celebration, Evans captures the emotions of the stars from England, France, Sweden, and Portugal, respectively.

[Find more about Simon’s project here]

My Ibrahimovic inspired footy illustration postcard. Full project can be viewed here.

Florent Malouda Illustration. See the full project here…

Rooney inspired postcard for Goals Media. See the full project here. 

A Ronaldo inspired postcard for an upcoming Goals Media campaign I have been working on. Full project here

Murray vs Djokovic teaser poster. Seeing as the top four are through to the semis in the Aussie Open, I thought I would knock up a quick illustration.

Murray vs Djokovic teaser poster. Seeing as the top four are through to the semis in the Aussie Open, I thought I would knock up a quick illustration.

Self branding identity design work for my Bunch of Fives portfolio site (www.bunchoffives.com).

Character Illustration & Simple Flash Invite 2011

My mate’s wife approached me to tackle his 30th invitation. I decided that Sinan’s ‘Arabic country gent’ look was the perfect focus for the invite and set about drawing a caricature of the man. I then inked it up and recreated it in Illustrator, before adding the final touches and simple flash animation. The full process can be viewed below, and the final invite can be viewed at www.sureboss.com/sinaninvite.

Boom Box Media Brochure 2010
This A5 landscape brochure is one of a series of promotional pieces for Boomerang Media’s various advertising environments in 2010. This one highlights the benefits of advertising in schools via a ‘Boom Box’ - a cardboard dispenser that can hold postcards, badges and other relevant media.

As well as guiding the creative direction and carrying out the design work (including major image manipulation), I also created custom vector ‘doodles’, which now form the basis of the Boom Box media branding.