We had the pleasure of working with Sarah Martin and Andrew Walker at the Environment Agency in Chichester and were tasked with creating 8 to 10 images that would be used as part of a wider presentation to help show the public different options and choices that could help protect properties along the Pevensey Bay to Eastbourne stretch of coastline.

Initial illustration reference provided by The AE were more traditional (a more typical arch/vis water colour look) although they were happy to go with something different. We pulled together an initial look and feel that was more contemporary in approach which was liked and helped get the project moving. Rough sketches were provided by Andrew and along with our own research initial roughs of each illustration were submitted and amended before creating the final illustrations.



We helped the client (busy with actual flooding in the area at the time) with research and this helped us get a greater understanding of the project and at the same time was really interesting.

Finding out how Groynes are engineered and how they play their part in creating a beach that can help protect coastal properties was great, but I think the best part was the research into vegetated shingle.

Being interested in all things natural it was a highlight finding out about all the different wild plants that survive and can flourish if supported and left to grow in these harsh environments.

Encouraging the growth of these plants helps hold shingle banks together providing a natural barrier to the sea. This in turn means less use of large machinery (and less CO2 emissions) to move tons of shingles back to where it is needed. During the process we were also asked to layout the text and add branding elements - this would help to speed up the project which was on a tight deadline.

Much of the work we do is more design based but recently there have been more projects coming in that are image and illustration focused and this certainly continued with that trend.

The work was completed on time and successfully with smiles all round. It’s now out there helping the environment agency inform the public of the work they propose to do to help protect properties along that coastline.

We'd love to help you create imagery for any projects that you have coming up. From 2D imagery like this project for the Environment Agency to 3D animation.

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