Kill Week - illustration
Illustration for Bannerflow while Creative Design Lead, as part of their in-house Marketing team.
Illustration. Logo design.
Bug killing - a yearly tradition
The development team at Bannerflow has a long time tradition. Dedicating one week per year to just killing bugs in the platform; they call it “Kill week”. Part of this tradition is having a heavy metal inspired t-shirt for the whole team to wear.
A long time heavy metal fan myself, I can’t deny I had a blast :D
The main concept played on the fact that the company logo sports a butterfly and that butterflies are also bugs. So the bug-killing parallel was really staring me in the face the whole time.
Every element was designed on paper first, then vectorised in Adobe Illustrator for for refinement, colouring, texturing, and shading.
The custom logo (with a black metal twist) was one of the most fun parts of this project.
The development team sporting the t-shirt on day one of their bug-killing week.
As a tribute to old-school comic book techniques, I added ‘screentone’ shading to various elements of the illustration.
The t-shirt was framed and added to the “gallery” together with the ones from the previous years.