view Bob Venables's Latest Blog Articles and comments http://www.goodillustration.com/ Bob Venables illustrated a recent advertising campaign for The Economist depicting God Vs Science. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:32:14 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/The-Economist/id=167/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/The-Economist/id=167/ Bob Venables has been busy illustrating in-store and print campaigns for Duck & Cover clothing. Here are a few screen grabs from the Duck & Cover website to wet your appetite. We will post further work shortly.   Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:13:28 -0400 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Duck-Cover/id=160/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Duck-Cover/id=160/ Illustrated by Bob Venables & published by The Folio Society. Bound in cloth, printed and blocked with a design by Bob Venables. Set in Poliphilus with Lithos display. Approx. 288 pages; frontispiece with 7 colour illustrations. Size: 9½" × 6¼".   About this book... A powerful expeditionary force is despatched from the West, tasked with effecting regime change in a Middle Eastern state … It is spring 401 BC, and a vast army of Greek mercenary soldiers travels to Persia to aid the satrap Cyrus in his attempt to overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When Cyrus is killed, the expedition turns to disaster. Stranded in enemy territory, betrayed by its Persian allies, the army is in mortal danger, until its commanders, including the Athenian Xenophon, take charge and lead the men on a perilous retreat. This is Xenophon’s eyewitness account of those events. The march of the Ten Thousand was one of the most famous and gruelling military journeys in all history. The foot-soldiers travelled 1,500 miles across enemy terrain, through present-day Iraq, Syria and Turkey, towards the shores of the Black Sea. They faced terrible hunger, six-foot snowdrifts, attacks from the Persian military and from local inhabitants, and the threat of mutiny and division. Yet this ragged army was a democracy on the move. Rallied by the brilliant Xenophon, the soldiers elected officers, debated strategy and resolved disputes through arbitration. Their fortitude was finally rewarded by the sight of the coast, which they greeted with the triumphant, and now famous cry, ‘The sea, the sea!’   ‘One of the great adventures in human history’ WILLIAM DURANT   The Persian Expedition is one of the best surviving portraits both of the Persian Empire, antiquity’s first genuine superpower, and of the ancient Greek character in all its valour and complexity. It has thrilled the imagination for centuries, and inspired countless commanders from Julius Caesar to the Duke of Wellington. Eunapius of Sardis wrote that ‘Alexander would never have become “great” without Xenophon’. In the classic translation by Rex Warner, it remains an enthralling account of an epic adventure. Our specially commissioned preface by acclaimed historian Theodore K. Rabb reveals why writers and historians alike ‘still look to Xenophon as a master of his craft’.     ‘To read [it] is memorable … as if it were an adventure that you made yourself’ FORD MADOX FORD   Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:34:15 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-leads-a-Persian-Expedition/id=152/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-leads-a-Persian-Expedition/id=152/ Bob Venables provided the cover illustration for ‘Al Murray the Pub Landlord says Think Yourself British’ published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.  Al Murray is a popular British comedian best known for his stand-up persona, “The Pub Landlord”, a stereotypical working class British nationalist with a dislike for anything "un-British". Predicated to top the best-sellers chart this Christmas, the Pub Landlord offers a unique and hilarious look at modern British life. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:12:56 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-illustrates-chart-topper/id=147/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-illustrates-chart-topper/id=147/ The latest Bob Venables illustration for the ongoing Artemis advertising campaign. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:33:22 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-Artemis-advertising-campaign/id=144/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-Artemis-advertising-campaign/id=144/ Bob Venables has illustrated 4 well known nursery rhyme subjects highlighting the impact of CO2 emissions on behalf of the Central Office of Information. Each illustration has a distinctly different style to the next. The campaign is currently running in the UK national press. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:56:25 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-illustrates-Act-on-CO2-climate-change-campaign/id=141/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-illustrates-Act-on-CO2-climate-change-campaign/id=141/ Bob Venables has been illustrating the Artemis 'profit hunters' advertising campaign for four years! The latest image depicts a healthy profit! Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:20:32 -0400 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-continues-to-profit-from-illustration/id=131/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Bob-Venables-continues-to-profit-from-illustration/id=131/ Bob Venables has illustrated the latest Wrigley's Orbit campaign for AMV BBDO. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=27/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=27/ Bob Venables was recently commissioned by The Hospital Club, the online network for the creative industries, to illustrate a series of gruesome revolution scenes in the style of 'Gillray'. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=32/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=32/ Classic Pooh story illustrated in the style of E.H.Shepard by Bob Venables, commissioned by The Times. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=46/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=46/ Bob Venables continues to illustrate the highly successful Artemis campaign. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=51/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=51/ Bob Venables has illustrated the latest advertising campaign for Belgium's leading radio station, Pure FM. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=56/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=56/ Bob Venables illustrates a new campaign in a retro Italian film poster style for The World Gold Council via BBH London. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=59/ http://www.goodillustration.com/blog/details/Title-of-blog-post/id=59/