Entries from November 2008

November 14, 2008

Shark vision

Here’s an infographic I recently completed for FHM Australia. The size of the circle represents where a shark is likely to attack you. According to the article sharks don’t actually like the taste of human beings (if they did “it would not be safe to go into the water at all”). For some reason that [...]

November 14, 2008

How to take an apex (in a Ferrari F430)

This illustration for Motor magazine was my first experiences using 3D software (the marvellous Google Sketchup) to create an illustration. I was given some reference material and asked to illustrate the racing line around a corner (this route minimizes time spent in the corner, while maintaining speed). The green arrow represents the correct racing line, [...]

November 14, 2008

Seeing red

An illustration for an upcoming story in FHM about websites that allow people to post defamatory comments online I will upload a scan of the full story once the magazine its newsstands in December.

November 4, 2008

Up against the wall

This illustration is a parody of an Australian television program called Hole in the Wall. Based on a Japanese game show, Hole in the Wall requires celebrity contestants to fit through holes in a styrofoam wall moving towards them. The results are often hilarious. Here’s a video clip of the original (and best) Japanese version:

November 3, 2008

Is a smart bomb an oxymoron?

This illustration was commissioned for an article in FHM on so called ‘smart bombs’. According to New Scientist magazine, the US air force is trying to develop a cluster weapon that would release a swarm of ‘bomblets’ – each identifying and pursuing an individual target. The question is: how would this weapon distinguish between combatants [...]