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Posted by Gavin Lucas, 11 April 2007, 15:52 Permalink Comments (0)
Many of you will be familiar with the work of Australian illustrator Jeremyville. Not only is his work colourful and distinctive - but the man is positively prolific in his output - as his latest tome, Jeremyville Sessions (published by IdN) testifies. The book contains over 300 pages dedicated to showcasing collaborations with hundreds of international artists, brands and companies and is split into 13 chapters to include an array of project types - from art collaborations, toys, magazines, books, comics, characters, animations, posters, clothes, accessories, Sketchel bags and more... Essentially, the book functions as a portfolio for Jeremyville's work to date and the text explains how he has collaborated with artists such as Darren Firth and Jon Burgerman, companies such as adidas and MTV, AND he has taken on a phenomenonal amount of commissions over the last few years creating posters, T-shirt and skateboard graphics, designs for vinyl toys, packaging designs, logos, comics, animations. Jeremyville Sessions demonstrates one illustrator's quest to be productive, to take on just about any commission, and to do as much work, with as many like minded people as is humanly possible.
"I've always worked on my own, up until a few years ago," explains Jeremyville of this project. "I wanted to create a book that specifically looked at the process of collaborating with either artists or companies, and the nuances of such projects and also included a short synopsis of what was involved in each project. The title Jeremyville Sessions implies a sort of recording session in the studio... and I think that analogy is an apt one as my collaborations are about people coming together to make something greater than the sum of the parts – in a set time frame with a shared creative vision. Like Brian Jones playing sax on Beatles track You Know My Name (Look Up My Number), or John Lennon and Paul McCartney singing backing vocals on the Rolling Stones track We Love You in 1967."
Here are a selection of spreads from the book:

Jeremyville collaborated with artist Damion Silver to customise this pair of Converse. "Damion painted the first layer, masking it etc, and sent the shoes to me so I could add my own layer," explains Jeremyville.

Play Imaginative invited Jeremyville to be a party of their 10 Inch Trexi series. On this spread Jeremyville shows his design for the doll and also his design for the packaging for it too.

Another toy collaboration - this time Jeremyville collaborated with John Shakespeare, who he met whilst working as a cartoonist at the Sydney Morning Herald. Shakespeare took Jeremyville's 2D vector drawings of the Collabo Bunny and created the 3D toy design shown here.

Back and front cover of Computer Arts magazine as created by Jeremyville

The above two spreads show The Sticker, a comic stirp commissioned and published by Swindle magazine in the US – a collaboration with Shepard Fairey and Roger Gastman

A selection of character designs

The opening spread of the Posters chapter

Spread showing posters for Get Involved, Ripe Off The Press, The Click Project and also Concrete Hermit

Collaboration with Monkey Skateboards
Spread showing customised vinyl created for Wear It With Pride's Remixed show

Ah, T-shirts, all collaborations with DESIGN Lab

Ah, more T-shirts! On the left hand page are designs comissioned by Zimtstern in Switzerland, and also T-shirt graphics created for LEGO (on the right hand page)

Collaboration with Adidas (above left) and with Pabobi Snowboards (above right)

Spread that includes button badges and illustrations created for the forthcoming book Badge/Button/Pin, published by Laurence King
Opening spread of the Sketchel chapter. Sketchel is a project set up by Jeremyville with Megan Mair. The pair invite artists and illustrators to create illustrations to adorn specially designed bags. Check out the Sketchel myspace page!

The book also comes with a set of stickers, a fold-out poster and a DVD full of animations, screensavers, wallpapers, templates, interviews and games.
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