Hand Made Maps Ltd

Val de Brévine . Time-Lapse Video

admin — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:53:32 +0000

Time-lapse video of artwork – aerial view illustration of Val de Brévine in western Switzerland.

Commissioned by Exxtra Kommunikations, Zürich. Published by Schweizer Berghilfe.

Landscape Intitute : Urban Parks poster

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:14:12 +0000

Recent (Jan13) project for the Landscape Institute – a ‘mind map’ poster of Urban Parks 1839 - 2012

Commissioned by Dark Horse Design

Hotel Bel-Air time-lapse movie

David — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:25:00 +0000

The process revealed! – Shot at intervals of 10 seconds and then edited, a movie of the artwork for the Hotel Bel-Air aerial-view being created – to be used as publicity and guest location guide for the hotel clients. With thanks to Jonathan Mattis, Marketing Manager at the Hotel Bel-Air, who provided visual reference, including movies and still shots from a helicopter circling the site.

Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles

David — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:17:00 +0000

Aerial View Illustration and Hotel Plan for Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles

Commissioned by Dan Bernstein of &Smith Design Group on behalf of the Dorchester Collection

St Trinian’s : Original illustrations

David — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:14:00 +0000

Some of the illustrations prior to animation for “The Legend of Fritton’s Gold” the most recent St Trinian’s Movie.

St Trinian’s – The Legend of Fritton’s Gold

David — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:04:00 +0000

Recent St Trinian’s movie illustrated by Hand Made Maps Ltd . Animated by Matt Curtis of Abrahams Pants – the animated map sequences used as a link in the story-telling of the film.

Coworth Park Hotel

David — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:31:00 +0000

Commissioned by Anna Leaver at the &Smith design group – an aerial view illustration of the newly completed luxury hotel at Coworth Park, Sunningdale, Surrey, UK. The Hotel is part of the Dorchester Collection and due to be opened Autumn 2010. Illustration to be used as part of the literature introducing guests to the facilities on offer.

Globee Ltd

David — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:46:00 +0000

In recent months Hand Made Maps has been creating a series of illustrated globes for Globee Ltd. The concept, originated by Mr David Sinclair, is to illustrate cities and their main points of interest, to be retailed in the tourism market. Some of the globes will talk (!) – by touching a specific illustration a commentary comes from within on the history of what is being touched…

Already completed are globes for London, Harrods, The Royal Collection, Edinburgh. Cambridge, Las Vegas and Los Angeles (shown above) , Berlin, Paris, Rome, Venice, Sydney and New York. More destinations are planned.

Award for Charles Darwin exhibition ‘Uncovering Origin’

David — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:34:00 +0000

Including maps and illustrations from Hand Made Maps Ltd the ‘Uncovering Origin’ permanent exhibition at the home of Charles Darwin at Down in Kent has been awarded the ‘Best UK Tourism Project for 2009 Award’ by the British Guild of Travel Writers. There are further examples of the artwork featured earlier in this weblog, but better still visit the exhibition !

Hellboy II

David — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:29:00 +0000

(Click to run tiles sequence for Hellboy II.)

Commissioned by Matt Curtis of Abrahams Pants, we produced a series of drawings (above) in renaissance manner to be used in the title sequence of Hellboy II ( directed by Guillermo del Toro).

The sepia drawings and da Vinci-style mirror writing were reversed out into glowing white overlaying the machine animations.

The concept behind the commission being that the mechanical monsters had humanistic traits, hence the use of drawings styles from the great humanist age of the Renaissance.