Several times I was involved with coming up with a Christmas card for our agency. I thought the best way to come up with something unique was to do some sort of unpolished illustration. Hence the grunge reindeer.
The first Christmas card I did a takeoff on Rudolph’s nose. The old metaphor — a brilliant idea = light bulb. Didn’t want to do a standard reindeer.
I also had a reindeer sweater which made its way into the final rendering.
Grunge reindeers must have been in that year.
Another Christmas card used a classic Christmas icon — mice. (Was thinking more the Night before Christmas, not the Nutcracker). Deadline was extremely tight on this one. The image had to be done quickly. Necessity dictated a very simple idea. So instead of doing an entire room I came up with the idea of just doing an overhead view. And the bed filled the proportion of the card.
