Out of this world

I spent the holiday season working on a campaign for Southern Comfort, Japan. They are trying to introduce Mardi Gras in Japan. My friend, Takuya, hired me to do all the illustration work. It turned into one of the strangest ad campaigns I have ever seen, and I am super excited about it. When all the products are finished and I receive photographs I will post a lengthier exegesis.

But, while finishing it up, brand manager Haruyo Naka convinced someone to hire me as a kind of representative artist for the year. This entails doing a mural kind of piece that Southern Comfort will use to promote their brand in Japan.

Anyway, last week I finished it up and this is what it looks like.

Southern Comfort

I just whipped up this poster in a two night frenzy.

My good friend Takuya runs a design business in Tokyo. He was hired by Southern Comfort (yes, the liquor company) to do some design work. Part of his job was promotional work for a party they are sponsoring to kick off Design Week in Tokyo, which is 01Nov-06Nov11. Takuya hired me to do the postcard and poster for the party in exchange for a future trip to Japan. So…

Here is the poster:

The postcard is basically the bottom half of the poster, but in black and white: