Sound of Shaving

Philips was looking for ways to innovate on shaving devices, so our assignment was to find a new way to engage the consumer. Our final concept was based around two concepts: First of all, the packaging should be more than just a box that you dispose the minute you arrive home. In this case, the packaging can be folded over and transform into a docking station that holds the machine, accessories and a speaker, which brings us to the second concept: Creating music with your friends while shaving. 

Packaging with foil wrapper

Concept advertisement (fun fact: it's actually a picture of a young Martin Luther King)

Manual providing a visual guide of the concept

Ideation process

Moodboard to define the stylistic constraints

Scenario's created to gain insight on possible usage context

Airship

see process below

Original Sketch

First time (serious) airbrushing :D

Cleaning up (a little) with chalk & pen

and finishing touches in photoshop

more on the design process next time

Bentley keyfob

3 concepts for an electronic car key/keyfob

The Lighthouse Knight: Final Report

so, at last, here is the final report describing the visual development of some key elements of a hypothetical IP. Hope y'all like it. ps: you can find most images in high res on my blog here and you can download the pdfversion itself here (the colors seem to be quite off in the preview version below)

The Lighthouse Knight: Monster & Forest

Here are the last two designs I did for the lighthouse project, a monster and the forest he lives in. The final report will be uploaded shortly.

And a little bonus: the matte painting for the backgound of the trailer

The Lighthouse Knight: Castle

back after a vacation in south england. So here is the promised castle design

The Lighthouse Knight: Gregory

Design for the main character gregory, a ritiring knight. I will describe the entire process in the final report. Next up: the castle

The Lighthouse Knight: Trailer

The Lighthouse Knight Trailer from Mark Zwart on Vimeo.

Trailer for the project I am working on. The Lighthouse Knight will be a study project for university and consist out of concept art for a short story about a retiring knight. Focus will be on the design of some characters and environments, which I will upload more about in the coming time, and the end result will be a report which describes my entire process, which I am also planning on uploading once it is ready, which will probably be around Octobre

For now enjoy the trailer, but keep an eye on this place. It was made with Blender and Photoshop, completion time 3 weeks (give or take)

ExpositIO: The Arrival

I made these images for an exposition called "ExpositIO" hosted by my study association, which opened yesterday. If you are interested and happen to be in the area, you can still visit the expo till may 7 (location: Vrijhof building, UTwente, Enschede, the Netherlands). There's some pretty cool and diverse artsy stuff from about 20 industrial design students.

As for the images themselves, the idea behind them was to see an explorer arriving in a tribal society from the point of view of the tribesmen. I started out with making photos of ink droplets in water to get something to start with, which gave some pretty cool results (like the one below). One of the inspirations was these documentaries, definitely a must see.

Animals

Hi y'all, time to put something up again. This is a piece of concept art that I recently did for an upcoming movie called Animals by the awesome Ryan Braund. The movie is about 5 teens with animal masks who are hiding in the pine woods of alaska, where they kill people that come too close to their hideout to stay hidden. When a 14 year old girl comes by, one of the boys decides to run away with the girl.

My task was to visualize the environment and the kids in one image to get people excited. Ryan originally wanted to have all kids standing next to eachother (like thumbnail #2 below), but I thought it would be interesting to have a more dynamic composition, so I showed him the thumbnails below. Luckily he liked it, so I finished thumb #3. I had a lot of fun working on this, so big up to Ryan for giving the opportunity.

More mechs

Quick chicken robot design sketches

Quantum Realm

Logo and album cover I did a couple of years for me ol' buddy Koen Dercksen, a.k.a. Quantum Realm. Why not check out his music, I think he's a pretty good DJ :) Also, he does sets & stuff on Livestream sometimes (though not a lot lately).

Rock '70

>>Click here for original resolution<<

This image is one of the first serious attempts at digital painting. I got a tablet two months ago, but until now I only made some quick sketches to get used to it. This one though took three days to make, and might be a bit over detailed.

detail

So the idea behind this image was to make it a secret military genetics research facility in the 70's/80's, which is part of an operation codenamed "Project Ammit". I think it is quite an interesting background story, because the whole genetic engineering science and cloning stuff started around that period, so you can imagine that if the facility still existed, they might be able by now to create massive evil pink rabbits that are ready to take over the world :)

The design is inspired by the functionalist design movement of the time (Bang & Olufsen and Braun/Dieter Rams, that stuff) and syd mead-ish futurism. Also I tried to fit the design into the environment. Looking back, I think I could have spend some more time in emphasizing this relation and the retro designfeatures.

Hope you dig it. I would really be grateful with any critique.

Mark

[Edit] - Fixed some issues with the image