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This is a proof-of-concept I completed to present the style of illustration that I would like to use for the various children’s sections at a book retailer. I’m very excited by the prospect of working on more illustrations, and while the start to this project was a little rough it promises to be rather rewarding.

Luggage. Whether it be a backpack, a laptop bag or a set of matching travel bags, it represents potential. Potential experiences; of places to come, things to see and people to meet.

It also carries the residue of the past. Of places visited and of memories made. Of moments spent alone, or moments shared with friends. Presently, such memories are abstracted and intangible. It wasn’t so long ago that these experiences were memorialised into pieces of aesthetic celebration that take the form of luggage labels.

Pieces of commercial art, let’s not make any mistake about that. But these illustrations celebrated the setting of these memories in a very unique, and often quaint, way. It may now seem tacky to plaster your luggage with stickers, I can’t help but think significant links to a personal history is lacking by not doing so.