A brilliant piece of news came in at the beginning of December. I received an email from the art director of the New Scientist magazine. He had seen my work at Society6, and especially this piece; toad. And was interested in have me do a replica with some changes to suit the magazine articles. it would be the Christmas edition. After some two weeks of work it was complete.

You can view the piece in the illustration gallery from the main menu, or of course, go out and buy a copy.

After participating in the 2011 drawing day, and sumbitting my artwork. I was very pleased and excited to find out that they had included my piece of art in the publication of the event, in their latest book.

If you are interested in looking at more information about the book you can find it here, at this clink and if you'd like to purchase the book, then this is the place you can make an online order; here.

The latest design done by creative Rob Snow present to be presented on the artist workspace site; Society6. The concept was derived from the saying "Dog Day Afternoon". And shows a hunting dog reclining in a cafe chair, with arms crossed, and waiting for his afternoon tea to cool.

The aim was to try a new tangent with my artwork, that would fit better into the style that seems to be more appreciated in these modern social art sites. This is an attempt to get a create a bigger revenue from my artworks. The full example of the sketch can be seen on the Rob Art Blog at the following link

The latest of icon designs done by creative Rob Snow present a challenge of a different kind. Two logos were required by an American company to represent a website dedicated to the education of cannabis, in medical terms. And the second icon used to be a logo incorporated in the book that will accompany the website.

The challenge was that a stereotypical image of cannabis was needed to be avoided. This is a difficult challenge as there is not much else to cannabis unless the drug aspect is used. So, the solution was not totally avoiding the shape, it was just showing in a different way. This was achieved to simplification and colour. As the book icon was called chronicles, after some searching an shape of a pen nib was seen in the upper leaf element.

The medical website logo was even more challenging. There was a need to embrace both the medical symbol and the leaf. After some searching common shapes were found and the two forms were brought together to create a minimalist logo all-in-one. Both logos will be put on display in the graphics section in due course.

Recently Rob submitted two ideas into the "Human Rights Logo Competition". The aim is to develop a universally recognisable logo for the organisation. The competition closes in July. Rob has submitted two concepts. The first can be seen in the thumbnail to the left, and the second can be seen on the site. The two links can be found here: Design One & Design Two

The main concept behind the design was based on some research into symbols and the discovery of an African Ideogram called “Bi Nka Bi”. The symbol depicts “peace and harmony” and literally means “Obi nka obi (bite not one another) and avoid conflicts”. Thinking this appropriate for the form of Human Rights around the world, a closer look was taken at the original form, and the shape of hands were conjured out of the design of the symbol. So with some modification the original symbol was translated into a logo design, replacing the elements with four multicoloured hands. The central element was also then changed to harmonise more by having a heart shape connecting all four hands. Three versions were formed with the necessary text configurations needed to design an appropriate logo, and then converted into monochrome form and a layered transparent form.

Had a recent spate of logo design commissions come in. The challenge always with these designs is to make the design simple and clean, and at the same time deliver what the client requires. Sometime this process works well, and sometime there is a ot of work and trial and error. This is where the creative thinking process has to work well in order to explore the possibilities.

The recent commissions have included the health spa "figura sana", and Athens based radio station, and an American based research office, looking at the medical aspects of the brain.

Being an avid creative and artist, Rob Snow took the challenge of taking part in the International Drawing Day, on 4th June with interest and vigour. Waking early and on the balcony sketching out both a rough concept, and a cleaned version before lunch.

The final artwork was then uploaded to the official site and added to the collection of designs and artists who took part.

For the third year in a row, a design produced by Rob Snow will be included in the Autumn collection of the Ritzenhoff 2011 range. There was some doubt if it would be included, after being rejected in the first round of selections. However, due to popularity from members of staff at Ritzenhoff it was resubmitted and in the second round was chosen to be included.

The design, seen above, will be included in the Pearl range of wine glasses, having a platinum trim. For more information and for other products designed by Rob Snow at Ritzenhoff, follow this link: Rob Snow at Ritzenhoff