Barry Downard: digital, photo illustration, photographic - Artists

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ILLUSTRATION

MOTION

DESIGN

Hashtagable / Microsoft UK

Castle Lite

Orangina Bus / BDHTBWA

The Roar Of Thousands Makes Me A Giant

Emergency Weights / Men's Health Magazine

Pringles Corner Wrap

7 Blunders Hearing Attack / Men's Health Magazine

Moby Dick Exclusive Books / Ogilvy

Marble Track / Euromoney

Trojan Horse / Security & Privacy

ABSA / Make Online Payments

Juggler / Men's Health Magazine

Mini Cabriolet Launch 1/ Ptarmigan

Survivor / AOPA

Extraordinary Images

Exploding Vial / Scholastic 39Clues

Fantastic Library / Corporate Tech Trends Report

Fitness Prompter / Men's Health Magazine

Hangover Cure / Men's Health Magazine

Beach Beer Bucket / Carlsberg

London Boat Show

Madame Butterfly / Arizona Opera

Taxi! / Self Promo

Zantac / Paling Walters

Hedgehog Heaven SONY Playstation / TBWA London

Ballerina Cow / Cow Planet

TV Ball / The Knowledge

Scrawny To Brawny / Men's Health Magazine

Inception NYC / Euromoney

Spitfire / Self Promo

Loaded Cover / AOPA

Wish You Were Here

Mini Cabriolet Launch 2 / Ptarmigan

Sphinx / Plascon Woodgard

Merlion / Euromoney

City Scene

ABSA Accountant

Science & Cocktails

Bacardi Festival / Billington Cartmell

Albert Hall Speaker Jive / New Electronics Magazine

Mini Cabriolet Launch Invitation / Ptarmigan

Skoda Stage Set

Skoda Display

Skoda Exhibition

Ka Poww Street

Budweiser

Unicycle Knights

Whale Book

Extreme Athlete Cricket

Play To Win

Neon Food / Men's Health Magazine

The Empathy Effect

Wired Bloke / Euromoney

MPL / Euromoney

Digital Plant / Euromnoney

Elliot Removals

CACM Robot musicians

Bloomsbury SMEK

Content / Microsoft UK

Under Water

Love Hurts In The Desert

Extreme Athlete Turtle

Excercise Knights / Women's Health Magazine

Rock Chicken Poster / Self Promo

Wings / Toyota

New Ways To Finance Trade

Smek for President / Adam Rex

Quad / Toyota

Bargain Shares / Investors Chronicle

iBall

Balloon / Toyota

The Art of the Possible 4 / Microsoft UK

Graduation Ring / AOPA

Golden Years

DeLorean

Pill Shield

Born to Bingo

Phoenix

Mini Cabriolet Launch 3 / Ptarmigan

Seasons Frame / The Guardian

Times Weekend Supplement Cover

Guitar USA 2

Medical Test Injection

Mini Cabriolet Launch 4 / Ptarmigan

Fun is Near

Schlitterbahn Waterparkk

Smek Day

Scale

Line Up

Big Wolf Law Firms / Legal Business Magazine

Loading DPS / AOPA

Black Bull

Google Glass

Men's Health Fitness Awards

Flying Truck

Bulk Cover / AOPA

Steampunk

Globe Balloon

Fitness Traveller / Men's Health Magazine

New Twickenham Roof

Different Places

MF Ice Candleman

Sure Promotion 1 / Men's Health Magazine

Zippa De Skazz

New Label Campaign / Oak Village Winery

Phone Peel / Mobile Communications International

Mzanzi Magic

MooZoom / Self Promo

Aeroplane Hat Man / Self Promo

Everything On Sale

Elvis Is Found / Hasselblad Competition Winner

Smile! / Self Promo

Cactus Cleaning / Men's Health Magazine

New Label Launch Nescafe Gold / Dynamo

Carla Chicken Children's Book

Creative Cat / The Recruitment People

Guitar USA

Jeremy Mansfield / Ogilvy

Bird Dog Cow Cow Planet

Elvis Cow / Cow Planet

South Africa First National Bank Democracy

IBM Cityscape

Music Brain / BBC Focus Magazine

Singing Penguins / Self Promo

Football Planet

Running Robot / Men's Health magazine

Cycling / Men's Health Magazine

Global Cow / Cow Planet

Turkey / Supply Management Magazine

Sure Promotion 2 / Men's Health Magazine

Model Cards / General Motors

Turandot / Cleveland Opera

Mini Cabriolet Launch 5 / Ptarmigan

Waiting For A Call / Self Promo

Muscle Core Construction / Men's Health Magazine

Mini Cabriolet Launch 6 / Ptarmigan

Biography

Having worked in the advertising, marketing, photography, and allied creative design industries since 1984, Barry Downard's business is based on providing creative visual solutions and concepts (photography, illustrator, artwork and design) to advertising & design agencies, and publishers.

Trained as an interior designer, Barry designed houses, shop interiors, exhibition stands and fashion shows, played drums and worked as an art director before drifting into fashion and advertising photography. Exposure to all these varied creative disciplines provides for excellent background knowledge informing the love of detail required when constructing his illustrations.

In 1993, Barry became inspired by the story-telling possibilities of digitally manipulating his photographs, and developed a style of photo-illustration. Subsequently, he has broadened his skill set to include cgi modelling and rendering. Although Barry’s style is generally photo-real and surreal, he has a broad and diverse range of influences, including Klimt,  Robert Longo, Michael Sowa, Gary Larson, Greg Crewdson, Arthur Rackham, Ernst Haegel, and Lane Smith, to name just a few.

Barry's technique consists of taking lots of photographs (shot by himself, supplied by client, or stock images),  or cgi renders, and throwing them into a Picto-Snaffle-Matic machine, stirring it up with a generous dose of fun, and sticking it all together with computer glue.

Barry has had 3 illustrated children’s books published (Simon & Schuster, NY and Milk & Cookies Press, NY), and has worked with major ad agencies from Moscow to Los Angeles, as well as numerous publishing clients (both magazines and books).
He has had solo exhibitions of his work, at Soho House Club (London), and several South African art galleries. He won a gold and a silver “RX Club Award” (New York) for work done for Glaxo  Smith Kline (Paling Walters), and has won a prestigious South African “Loerie Award” for Photography Craft, as well as 6 Natal Newspapers “Silver Quill” awards for Photography Craft, and he won the South African section of the 2001 Hasselblad International Competition.

Clients: BMW-Mini (UK), Pringles (USA), Budweiser (UK), Orangina (A.G. Barr) UK, BDH (Manchester),   Ogilvy (South Africa, Moscow and UK), Old Navy (USA), Danone (USA), Skoda (Germany, Blumberry (Berlin), Microsoft (UK), Nestle/Nescafe (UK), Billington Cartmell (UK), Planters (Kraft Foods) USA, Mercedes Truck Division (UK), QBO BellPottinger (UK), SAAB (UK), Vauxhall (UK), Carlsberg (UK), Ola (Unilever SA), SONY Playstation, TBWA (London), Glaxo Smith Kline, Paling Walters Targis, Simon & Schuster (New York), Mens Fitness UK, The Knowledge (The Times), The Economist, Hodder (UK), Arizona Opera, Cleveland Opera, De Beers, Durex (SA), Jupiter Drawing Room (SA), Scholastic Books (Omnibus Australia), Sun International, Nike (SA), and Yamaha (SA), amongst others.

Barry is passionate about animal welfare and biodiversity conservation concerns, and a percentage of proceeds of sales from all he does is donated to animal welfare.