Festas de Lisboa 2017 Sardine Contest
A Devonian visualization of human progress. Illustrator; 2017.
This piece began as an entree to participate in the 2017 International Lisbon Festival of Sardines Contest in Portugal, where they celebrate sardines as a cultural delicacy. The only restriction is to fill a sardine shaped template with any illustration, and 5 designs win.
The final designs explore 3 distinct time periods of human technology and its relationship with humans.
Mainly I wanted to illustrate our codependent relationship with our tools.
the Geared Sardine - 2017, Illustrator + After Effect
the Motorized Sardine Locomotive - 2017, Illustrator + After Effects
the uSardine - 2017, Illustrator + After Effects
Scale of Progression - 2017, Illustrator + After Effects
I was inspired by a biological illustration of the organic and skeletal structures of a sardine. Because I enjoy illustrating mechanical parts and technologic designs, I began by interpreting the skeletal structure in a robotic style. I then vectorized it in Illustrator, and took it into After Effects to animate each part.
Process Sketch
I was inspired by a biological illustration of a sardine’s innards, and reinterpreted it as having mechanical organs.
