A few recent pages

Screen prints - Advertising and Dissent

Lino - Logos and Revolutionist posters

New Kowloon - The Floating City (wip)

When the Pacific eco system failed, the fishermen were out of work. With no income and no new jobs, their boats were all they had. Many had to live on their boats when the banks took their houses. The ones lucky enough to keep their houses, sold their boats.

US Courts ruled that ports were not residential and kicked the ex-fishermen out to sea where they met the drifting Chinese and Japanese boats in the same situation. Many small clusters formed around the brand new wind farms off the coast of florida with a few entrepreneurs taking boats out to them with food and other essentials. Red cross gave sparse handouts and the US put their nationals on unemployment benefits.

The economic crash that followed stumped tourism in the pacific and across America leading to cruise liner companies to go bust or reduce the size of their fleet. Some were stolen before they could be taken apart for scrap, others sold to 'investors' who rented space onboard to the growing numbers of mortgage defaulters. Some small clusters became towns made up of old oil tankers (now defunct due to depleted off shore reservoirs) and cruise liners.

As the US and Japanese economies strengthened again and more jobs became available, many of the small clusters dissipated back to land. A few floating towns however grew in size as the few boats left behind in small clusters had to join onto other larger clusters in order to receive food and benefits.

These floating towns were self policed and generally un-governed. Boats came and went with no checks. Crime was common but rarely seriose. The areas were so close knit and cramped that violence rarely escalated to deaths. The few cases where it did, the perpetrator was executed by the self appointed police who had the best of intentions but were not by any means incorruptible. 

As time went on the floating towns merged into bigger communities of ships. An infrastructure of inports was made, power distributed and high-speed internet connected. Through the growth of the towns, jobs were made to support the communities and a leadership emerged.
These floating towns were a safe heaven for political dissidents and morally questionable businesses. It was rumoured that many of the larger ships had their lower decks converted into server rooms by the chinese government to attack it's enemies servers. There was no evidence that it was Chinese or even agressive but this was largely true. The main source of these servers was from middle class activists hackers and the, now mythical, Anon.

By 2087 it was evident that Anon ruled the largest cluster of ships known as New Kowloon. Anon brought justice and order to the city, even if their methods were questionable...

A collection of sketches

Quick ZEP advertising development

Sling Shot tours advertising ideas 

ARK Branding

Denton Industries Logo

Kowloon City

A documentary in german about the walled city of Kowloon outside Hong Kong, China. Torn down in 1993, the last relics of this city are few and far between. few documentaries were made about Kowloon City and fewer got cameras inside (I can't confirm how many, I've found but one so far).

Building buildings

An idea of what sort of building might become more common in 2100

Suburban homes on stilts to protect from flooding with built in greenhouses for small crops.

Stacked housing with large solar panels and wind turbines.

Roofing of one floor becomes a shared crop garden.

The pyramid structure is very strong making the building earthquake proof.

Half pyramid, half tower block. Large crop areas on lower roofs. Wind and solar on the top roof.

 Tapered octagonal tower built to resist extreme winds and earthquakes.

In my constructed future, the world has only gotten more hostile. Buildings have to become stronger and more self relient. Space has become more of a commodity but growing food for yourself is a necessity for many due to low income and rising food costs, so the garden has to occupy less space.

LPID-Geo-Nations

LPID (Low Power Information Database) - Geography start screen

The Starting animation for an LPID map of the 3 main unions formed by treaties and war.
Sea level rise has caused many coastlines to change dramatically. Many islands and countries have been totally submerged.

A short animation showing potential sea level rise using google maps and resources

I forgot about the transparent black issue with google gifs

City ARK

The book Earth by david Brin talks of large structures with domed glass canopies housing endangered and other wise extinct animals. These structures are all over the world and contain animals from the surrounding area. This is my first rendering of such a structure in Sketch-up

First screen print of term

Space Pilot

From drawing to vector, to mono halftone for silk screen original sketch coloured with markers (about 6cm by 4cm)

More refined drawing coloured with markers, ink and food colouring (about 14cm by 9cm)

I then trace the sketch in illustrator, refining lines and adding symmetries. (just under A4 at 350dpi)

So that the image can be screen printed I have to transfer the image to illustrator and separate the colours to represent the inks I wish to use later. This is the black channel with a half tone dot applied to it. (again just under A4, now 150dpi)

Lost Memories - Digital Vs Physical

LOST MEMORIES (French, English Subtitles) from Francois Ferracci on Vimeo.
A Brief snap of a future Paris where monolithic buildings stretch into the sky decked in holographic advertising. Everything is stored online. Everything is digital. A couple take pictures infront of the Eiffel tower when an EMP hits. All the man has left of his now estranged girlfriend is a polaroid of himself, taken by her.