Our friends over at design studio Telegramme sent us this lovely print that is part of their Calavera Summer Series. The colourful combination of flowers and bone has the effect of summoning the ghosts of summers past, whilst celebrating the last vestiges of the current fine weather.

Telegramme’s Calavera Summer Series is a set of three A3 Risograph prints that can be purchased on their own or as a complete set of three. There are available over at the Telegramme website, where you can also enter a competition to win one of five limited edition sets.

Last month the Association of Illustrators hosted an event at the London Transport Museum to announce the winner of its Cycling in London poster competition. Airside went along, as Jamie’s Joy of Cycling poster was short-listed for the top prize.

While he didn’t win, it was great to see his design adorn the walls of the LTM as one of the 50 illustrations chosen from over 1,000 entries. Check out some more photos from the evening and the other short-listed prints over at Jamie’s blog.

Airside: The Next Generation take their first steps in the world of illustration in this gorgeous set of drawings from the prolific (Wacom) pen of Malika.

Maloo was using Airsiders as references for an illustration job (more on that, coming soon!) and decided to complete some family portraits in her spare time.

Here they are: the four Airside families. Though that does makes them seem like warring mafia gangs – we’ll have multiple murders intercut with a religious ceremony before we know it.

Let’s try, here they are: four Airsiders, their partners and young ‘uns.  That should be this year’s family Christmas card sorted for these familes. Can you draw Santa hats, Maloo?

Last month we mentioned that Airside is speaking at Typographic Circle’s next monthly event. Well, we’ve also done a poster advertising the event, which takes place at JWT in London’s Knightsbridge on Thursday 24th June 2010. Check out our pretty damn sweet piece of design below.

Typographic Circle is a not-for-profit organization, formed in 1976 to bring together anyone with an interest in type and typography. Their series of monthly lectures have featured talk by well-known type types, including Trevor Beattie, Anthony Burrill and Richard Morrison.

Airside recently finished production on an NHS campaign to increase awareness and screening of Hepatits amongst prisoners of UK women’s prisons.

We worked with creative agency Sainted, who were using digital kiosks installed in prisons to get the message to an audience with restricted access to traditional media.

The kiosk’s interactive content features animation and live action footage –designed and produced by Airside –which needed to appeal to a tough crowd about issues such as sexual activity and drug consumption.

Therefore our designs had to be gritty, engaging and entertaining. So, as well as drawing lots of scratchy characters having sex, sharing needles and getting tattoos on their bums, we got to mess around with fake movie blood for those ikky live action scenes.

As the sun continues to shine, we’re really getting into the summertime spirit here at Airside. Not to mention summertime spirits – did someone say it’s Pimms o’clock? The joys of the sunny season were further confirmed when we spotted this lovely summer-themed collection of transport art.

The Summer Time collection was curated by Prussian Bee, a visitor to London Transport Museum’s gallery website Pick + Mix – as designed by Airside. We’re especially fond of Mary Koop’s 1925 print, Summer Sales, with its eye-catching collection of umbrellas. Now that’s the kind of June weather we’re used to.

It’s hard to appreciate how happy we were when we heard about the latest competition taking place over at the Association of Illustrators (AOI) website. AOI have teamed up with Transport for London (TfL) to select entries for a special exhibition at the London Transport Museum about cycling in London. For Airside, and in particular Jamie, this was a chance to enter one of our favorite pieces of unpublished work.

Joy of Cycling is a rejected idea from a job we did for TfL a number of years back. The campaign was to promote winter cycling by offering some useful tips on how to improve the experience. Unfortunately TfL didn’t go for our take on the classic 70’s illustrated sex manual, The Joy of Sex – possibly due to all that disturbing facial hair. So, we’re delighted to finally take this one down from our top shelf and expose it to the world.

Airside was recently commissioned to design a t-shirt for Central London studio space, Mount Pleasant Studios. With a regular stream of film industry professionals flowing through their studios every day, Mount Pleasant Studios wanted to create a gift they could give to their clients as a thank you for using their space, which would also advertise their services. Reasoning that riggers, gaffers, cameramen and the rest of the crew working indoors under hot lights tend to wear short sleeves, they figured a t-shirt was a good idea.

But the t-shirt needed to be more than just a company logo. Mount Pleasant Studios wanted a design that crew members would love wearing no matter where they were, as well as having some reference to film production. Airside’s t-shirt achieved that with a double-sided design. The front shows a typical movie monster rampaging through the city of London, while the back reveals the reality behind film’s smoke and mirrors – the sets and the production crew who create movie magic in places like Mount Pleasant Studios.

We’ve recently been introduced to gorgeous child-friendly art available at Happy Thought, an online shop run by Ellen Deakin, sister of Airside director Fred. Happy Thought hopes to put a smile on your walls with their selection of decals, prints and silhouettes designed to brighten up nurseries and playrooms.

Their best-selling double silhouette of children holding hands was recently listed as one of Etsy’s picks for American Mother’s Day. Happy Thought also offers a personalised service, so you can feature your child’s name, birthday or favourite colours on any of their products. Visit Happy Thought to find out more.

Airside has contributed to Barclays’ latest ad campaign, which uses illustration to bring the bank’s products and services to life.  Barclays commissioned a series of illustrated tapestries – including one by our old comrade Dick Hogg – to tell the story of the bank’s products by illustrating their various aspects in one scene. Details from the overall tapestry could then be used to highlight specific features as required. Airside was asked to illustrate their range of insurance products.

The brief was perhaps one of the most high-brow we’ve ever received, referencing the Bayeux Tapestry, Bruegel’s painting Netherlandish Proverbs and the 1956 Paul Newman film, Someone Up There Likes Me. The idea was to narrate a fun series of accidents and near misses whose consequences are covered by the various insurances offered by Barclays, from home and buildings, to car, travel and life. Check out the full illustration below, or visit Barclays website to see detailed sections.