BACKGROUND: In 2006, navigating online forums in the UAE got me in touch with two creatives who had started a social work forum for creatives. One of their projects was Paper Recycling and they wanted a simple comic explaining the benefits of recycling paper. The script was already written and they couldn’t find a cartoonist yet. Being an amateur, I decided to take the plunge and use the opportunity to see what I was capable of.
CLIENT: Creative Majlis, Dubai
PRODUCT / SERVICE: Paper Recycling
BRIEF: Visualise and convert the written script into an entertaining and educating comic.
MEDIA: Web
YEAR: 2006
ART: Umesh Ponnusamy
COPY: Mayura Sandeep
INSPIRATION:
Since the day I had created a killer resume in MS Word using it’s drawing tools (this was in 1998), I was fascinated by the possibilities these tools offered. Later in my work, I had created diagrams, charts, illustrations using these very user-friendly drawing tools.
I had even created a simple cartoon for a newsletter for an online group using the drawing tools in MS Word in 2004.
All these previous efforts, gave me the confidence to go ahead and try to visualise and execute the script given to me. It was a simple enough script.
Maybe someday if I have the time and inclination, I’ll document the entire process in this post.
2 Comments
Wow! That’s amazing that you created all of these graphics with only MSFT Office tools! Do you have anymore Office-created work floating around? We’d love if you posted some at http://www.facebook.com/office
Cheers,
Andy
MSFT Office Outreach
Thanks Andy…have done that. Will put some more stuff that I had done using MS Off drawing tools including the killer resume that I’d spoken about in the post