Diver
Cover / IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine
Taxi! / Self Promo
7 Blunders Hearing Attack / Men's Health Magazine
Extraordinary Images
Ballerina Cow / Cow Planet
Beach Beer Bucket / Carlsberg
Zantac / Paling Walters
Emergency Weights / Men's Health Magazine
The Roar Of Thousands Makes Me A Giant
New Label Launch Nescafe Gold / Dynamo
Madame Butterfly / Arizona Opera
Mini Cabriolet Launch 1/ Ptarmigan
Fitness Prompter / Men's Health Magazine
Pringles Corner Wrap
Orangina Bus / BDHTBWA
Zero Gravity / Women's Health
Hangover Cure / Men's Health Magazine
Hedgehog Heaven SONY Playstation / TBWA London
Moby Dick Exclusive Books / Ogilvy
Exploding Vial / Scholastic 39Clues
Hashtagable / Microsoft UK
Box Internet / 01NET
Juggler / Men's Health Magazine
Google Glass
Scrawny To Brawny / Men's Health Magazine
Sphinx / Plascon Woodgard
Merlion / Euromoney
Marble Track / Euromoney
City Scene
BOOMTOWN / Vanderbilt University
ABSA / Make Online Payments
Castle Lite
April 2020 / Security & Privacy
ICS Security / Security & Privacy
Sloth Machine / Women's Health
Roulette / Women's Health
Mzanzi Magic
Spitfire / Self Promo
Hardware Security Cover / Security & Privacy Magazine
Reproducibility / Security & Privacy Magazine
Men's Health Fitness Awards
Data Scientists / The Banker
TV Ball / The Knowledge
London Boat Show
Euromoney / Wired
IEEE Hackers
Fantastic Library / Corporate Tech Trends Report
Past as Prologue / Global Big Four Professional Services
Hydra / Security & Privacy
Loaded Cover / AOPA
Paper money to cryptocurrencies / Euromoney Magazine
Whale Book
Trojan Horse / Security & Privacy
Survivor / AOPA
Wish You Were Here
Inception NYC / Euromoney
Midance Jo'burg Dance Co.
Mini Cabriolet Launch 2 / Ptarmigan
ABSA Accountant
Science & Cocktails
Bacardi Festival / Billington Cartmell
Trainer Brain / Cosmopolitan
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
Robo Falcon / Euromoney
Extreme Athlete Cricket
Play To Win
Neon Food / Men's Health Magazine
The Empathy Effect
MPL / Euromoney
Digital Plant / Euromnoney
Elliot Removals
CACM Robot musicians
Bloomsbury SMEK
Content / Microsoft UK
Under Water
Love Hurts In The Desert
Vagus / Women's Health
Extreme Athlete Turtle
Excercise Knights / Women's Health Magazine
Rock Chicken Poster / Self Promo
Ship of the Desert
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
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
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
Carla Chicken Children's Book
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
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.