Creatives in Captivity

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Creatives

in

Captivity

by Block


Creatives

in

Captivity

home was your workday felt as full as ever, in fact, be

it feel even more loaded. However, it was the hours tha

Without the commute – with the pubs, restaurants, c time took on a strange consistency; simultaneously

‘creative’ for a living, the natural instinct was to reac

else to do. We’d invent things to distract our unhealth

deafening silence of Lockdown. If nothing else, we’d d

took on many forms, many media. Occasionally the primordial ooze of half-considered daydreams and

For prosperity’s sake, we’ve collected some of these

zoo so we may bestow on them some semblance o


March-April-May 2020: The thing about working from

eing in a perpetual state of Zoom-preparedness made

at surrounded the workday that seemed eerily empty.

cinemas, cultural and sporting events, all denied us – passing quickly and slowly. For those of us who are

ch for a pencil and paper when we didn’t know what

hily overactive minds in a vain attempt to quieten the

doodle incessantly. Often obsessively. Those doodles

ey’d evolve the means to free themselves from the transform into fully-fledged ‘self-initiated’ projects.

e semi- and fully-formed creatures into a digital PDF

of legitimacy. This, is what Lockdown made us do:



Rachel Boon Zoom heads 2020 Ink pen on paper


Mark Braddock Selfie doodle while on Zoom 2020 Ink pen on paper


Rachel Boon Cam on Zoom 2020 Ink pen on paper



Mark Braddock Selfies 2020 Digital sketch


Joseph Dennis Cramp my style 2020 Digital sketch


Joseph Dennis I’ve cracked 2020 Digital sketch

Joseph Dennis Head of streams 2020 Digital sketch



Cameron Murray I’ve been learning how to make Instagram filters in AR Triptych 2020 Augmented reality, screenshot


Mark Braddock Untitled figure 2020 Ink pen on paper



Rachel Boon Character design for pitch that never went anywhere 2020 Digital collage


Rachel Boon The day the server was soooo slow and I had to package something massive 2020 Ink pen on paper


Joseph Dennis Fringe World straight 2020 Digital sketch



Joseph Dennis Fringe World weird 2020 Digital sketch




Rachel Boon Untitled 2020 Ink on paper


Rachel Boon Untitled 2020 Lead pencil on paper Rachel Boon Untitled 2020 Colour pencil on paper



(right) Rachel Boon Still life with Spam 2020 Colour pencil on paper (below) Rachel Boon Untitled 2020 Digital photograph



Cameron Murray I said yes 2020 Digital photograph, burger ring




Rachel Boon Walking scenes 2020 Digital photographs


Joseph Dennis Villanelle typeface 2020 Typeface



Joseph Dennis Counter Culture Grotesk concept 2020 Variable typeface


Joseph Dennis #36daysoftype 2020 Instagram project


Mark Braddock Mark Misfits 2020 Basketball uniform concept for Lockdown Backyard Basketball League (LBBL)


Fraser & Mark Braddock Fraser Phoenix 2020 Basketball uniform concept for Lockdown Backyard Basketball League (LBBL)


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