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© 2013 - 2015 Ella Frances Sanders
This is: Personal
A recently started and ongoing project, consisting of often slightly abstract, unrealistic trees that still look like they would grow successfully in the ground.
This was: Professional
Client: Jodi Ettenberg of Legal Nomads
The beginning of a longterm project, Vietnam is the first in what will hopefully be a series of typographic food maps of around 10 countries.
Jodi launched a successful TeeSpring campaign with a beautifully honest post, recalling some of her earliest memories of Vietnam. Soon there will also prints/posters... and all of this excitement is in sort-of-conjunction with her Food Walks in Saigon.
This was: Personal
For when living looks a lot like confusion, and for when that confusion can only be answered with life.
Or because they always told us that we were our own universe, and now I believe that you are mine.
This was: Professional
Client: Maptia
Illustrations for the launch of Maptia's new public homepage, which went live in mid-September 2013.
The screenshots below show them in context, or follow the link below to view the current homepage in its entirety.
This was: Professional
Client: Maptia
Whist working for start-up company Maptia, I illustrated 11 of these wonderful, elusive, words - which have no single word within the English language that could be considered a direct translation.
'The relationship between words and their meaning is a fascinating one, and linguists have spent countless years deconstructing it, taking it apart letter by letter, and trying to figure out why there are so many feelings and ideas that we cannot even put words to, and that our languages cannot identify.'
They went down rather well with the Internets, and have been reposted in far too many places, including:
The reaction to this post was (and still is) wild.
N.B. This project turned into a book, please go here for more details: untranslatablebook.com
This was: Professional
Client: Esc The City / Ben Keene of Tribewanted
An event being held in early September 2014, 'Escape to the Woods' is a microfestival to inspire career change, with a hundred Esc The City members meeting in a secret woodland outside of London.
The project was successfully funded on Picatic, but for a short while longer, tickets are still available here.
This was: Personal
A handful of confessions, or simply thoughts that have crossed my mind at one point or another.
This was: Personal
An experiment in boundaries and the lack of them, Statelines raises questions about borders, countries and confinement, and imagines a world without.
This was: Personal
A ongoing collection of quotes that have resonated, to keep track of words that inspire at a certain moment in time.
This was: Personal
I don't remember how exactly this came about, but I don't think that I was having a very good day.
This was: Personal
The spaces between us often don't make sense, and this is a depiction of those feelings.
This was: Professional
Client: Maptia
Originally published within an interview over on the Maptia blog with author of Vagabonding, a certain Rolf Potts.
This was: Personal
An ongoing but slow-moving series. It's just marvellous how one thin straight line can turn into anything.
Yes, I need glasses now.
This was: Professional
Client: Maptia
An illustrated poster for people who love their work, this was the center of a hugely popular blog post on Maptia. The size of the words on the infographic represents how many people felt each emotion, and how many people do what for a living. These words were crowdsourced, and over 200 people suggested Monday-morning feelings.
'Aside from being a real tongue-twister for non-Scandinavians, ‘Arbejdsglæde’ is a wonderful word that literally means ‘work-love’ or more literally ‘work-glad’. Sadly, there is no direct translation for this word in the English language.'
This is: Personal
The beginning of a series of drawings that will take a disproportionately long time to complete.
First drawing was introduced to the world within a blog post entitled 'These Are Not Pyramids.'
This was: Personal
Self-explantory and beautiful.
This was: Professional
Client: Kimi Sugiyama of Wandering Souldier
A collaboration with Kimi to design a range of travel-inspired t-shirts for her community, which were made available to purchase in late 2014.
She introduced the designs to the internets as part of a beautifully moving post, which you can read here.
© 2013 - 2015 Ella Frances Sanders