Resy City Guides

Illustration
2019

Featured artwork for Resy as the editorial team launched Chicago and Boston city guides.

The Resy editorial team reached out asking to collaborate on some artwork for the headers of two new city guides they were launching, in Boston and in Chicago. Together we worked on this concept of these cool, 3D, hand-lettered and hand-painted blocky letters of each city’s name, floating around in this soup of drawings of recognizable cultural objects and places that celebrate each city.

Resy's Chicago and Boston city guide illustrations
Illustration of 3D letters for Chicago with a saxophone, hot dog, lion statue, sailboats and the city skyline

Other Concepts

Here are a couple of illustrations for Chicago and for Boston from the concept exploration phase that didn’t make the cut. I thought it’d be really interesting to take these 3-D blocky letters and really add a lot more texturing and depth to them, as well as to a flood of city illustrations around them – so that the result is this full-color, maze of Chicago and Boston cultural icons all swirled together in the canvas area.

Blue drawings of Chicago places and things with giant letters spelling out the city name
3D hand lettering of Boston floating around in city cultural icons

Credits

Art DirectORS
Emily Wilson, Allison Chesky

Illustrator
Russell Shaw

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