Smoony war das offizielle Maskottchen der Alpinen Ski WM 2003 in Davos in der Schweiz. Design von Ian Marsden.
Character Design, Logos, Mascots
Charakter Design, Logos, Maskottchen
In 1997 when I lived in Barbados, West Indies I was asked by my very good friend John Flann, who was (among other things) the owner of ‘Da Ark’ floating bar in the center of Bridgetown, to design the logo mascot and labels for his new product, Whistling Frog Barbados Rum.
The concept was very clever, and the bottle cap even had a frog shaped whistle built in. The labels were very nicely executed also with a blue metallic rim and embossed 3D ‘warts’ and bumps on the actual frog.
I later also designed the website for the product, the JuJu Lounge.
Unfortunately John passed away at a very untimely age and the product stopped production shortly after it had even launched.
The artwork was designed, inked and colored by hand on paper - this was just around the time when I started to use digital graphics.
(Smoony is the official Mascot of the FIS Alpine Ski World Championship 2003 in Davos designed by Ian Marsden)
I recently found an unopened Smoony keychain in one of my chests of drawers. It made me smile. They really did quite a good job on these in the merchandising department - the likeness was very good. I think I will pin it up on the big pinboard in my studio…
