Helms Workshop

Communication Arts May / June 2012 Illustration Annual.  Another design house highlight section. I had seen Helms Workshop in another issue of Communication Arts where the group had been recognized for their concert poster style of screen printing for various advertising campaigns. This time around many of this types of work are displayed.  The pizza box for Pinthouse Pizza is incredible. It looks like a compass with all the various points in a multi-point star type arrangement of triangles and diamond shapes. What grabbed my attention though as I was looking through the Illustration Annual with the term "illustration" on my mind, was the image below.  It is an illustration done for the same Pinthouse Pizza.  I was taken by the subtle use of color on the background with simple black and white used to advertise for the pizza business.  I'm not sure what a "Whale" has in common with pizza, but I guess they're having a Whale of a Good Time.