The Duke for Supamart at Freshwater

Kev ODonnell illustrates The Duke for Supamart at Freshwater.

Story goes: Freshwater Beach will always remember that day in the Southern Summer of 1915 when the great aquatic Hawaiian, Duke Kahanamoku gave an amazing exhibition of wave riding with a solid surfboard modeled on the very type used by him in his native Hawaii. Over a period of time while he stayed at the Boomerang Camp at Freshwater, the Duke fashioned a solid board from the local timbers, and it was with this board that he first introduced to the Australian Surfing community the ancient craft of Hawaiian kings - the art of surfboard riding.

Joe Whyte supplies M&CSaatchi with architecturally dreamy illustrations for CBA campaign

The concept was centred around CBA turning small business dreams into a reality. Using Joe Whyte’s illustrations with a combination of photography M&CSaatchi created some beautiful visuals that bring this campaign to life.

Gina for FTN Motion

A killer project for Gina Kiel to showcase her oozing psychedelic patterns - for FTN Motion. Check out these rad wheels here.

Fridge O-doption

This was a cracker of a job for The Bottle O brought to us by Dig Agency.

With stellar painting crew Nico, Kim, Pabs, Sindy and Lachlan - these refurbished fridges were given a new lease.

Check out the write up on Campaign Brief

And go here to see the fridges site

Raining Down Art at Raine Square Perth

Toe to ceiling large scale murals, custom animations and projections and interactive LED displays rippling water as you walk by. We had the pleasure of going to town on Raine Square Shopping Centre.

A few months in the making. But now done! We are so proud to see this baby come to life.

Chris Nixon, renown Perth based artist, was teamed up with Charter Hall’s Raine Square Shopping Centre to transform a little train station thoroughfare and centre into a transient work of art.

Nixon has almost covered every corner of the centre with colliding shapes and patterns from one end to the other.

Childcare Centre receives an amazing upgrade and a stunning mural by Nixon

Early on we had the pleasure of working with the talented interior designers from Alexandra Kidd in and old church converted childcare centre installing an amazing mural done none other than Chris Nixon. Cheltenham Early Education Centre based in Sydney’s West real testament with beautiful natural surroundings which Chris Nixon captured in the artwork.

Artwork For The Sol

Recently we had the mouth watering honour of teaming up Creatives from Leo Burnette, Sydney based killer artist Sindy Sin with Sol Food gods Oporto.

Sindy picked up the colours and created a piece for Oporto’s campaign ‘Food For The Sol’, which was reproduced across Australia with the help of Apparition Media and we bloody love it!

Sindy Sinn spicing up B2B for Just Global

Sindy Sinn had to jump through a few hoops for us to get this one across the line but in the end put forward something that definitely created interest at the B2B Marketing Leaders Forum at Doltone House - bang on brief!

Before Convenience Delivery with Rob Elliot for BWS

A fun storyboard we worked on with MC Saatchi for BWS.

BWS have become the first Australian drinks retailer to offer a guarantee on its one-hour drinks delivery service!

We think Rob Elliot nailed the gnarly BC characters!

Gina Kiel X Rebel Rebel

Rebel Rebel Sanitizer approached dream girl Gina Kiel to do some banging packaging artwork for three deliciously scented Hand Sanitzers.

MILO Cereal ‘Beast Mode: Activated’

With Connecting Plots and our mate Jeremy Lord we facilitated with explosive colour pop for Milo!

Building on MILO’s strong association with active fun,  ‘’Beast Mode – Activated’ evolves the MILO master brand focus on team sports to celebrate how MILO Protein helps teens unleash their own full potential, to take their training to the next level and successfully compete with their peers.

Shannon Crees and the Museum of Self Love

With agency Marilyn and Sons for The Body Shop Shannon Crees turned the travelling Museum of Self Love into an eye catching activation on the streets of Sydney.

“Self love to me is not a one size fits all method, it’s about honouring the individual elements that make each of us special and unique. For me personally self love has been a journey of practising what I love most in the world and that’s to express myself through my art making process. It’s a journey of digging deep and being in flow, I’m forever grateful to have this calling that continues to define who I am and what I love.

I created this colourful piece to celebrate diversity and to symbolise the multiple facets that define beauty inside and out.

I love that this work is organic and joyous and hope that it inspires its audience to reflect and celebrate with moments of self love. ”

— Shannon Crees

Celebrating International Womens Day

The untold stories of the women of Sydney.

As part of international womens day, Chulo Creative had the great pleasure of teaming up with SheSaw, World Square and City of Sydney. Putting on a pop up exhibition portraying some of the untold and incredible stories by the women of Sydney.

The month-long event ‘Now You See Her’ to increase the visibility of Sydney’s women. 

Located in a beautiful pop-up space on the corner of George and Goulburn Streets, the event centres around a portrait exhibition of 12 ‘hidden women’ of Sydney. By following a self - guided World Square walk on the new SheSaw app, visitors can discover virtual statues ready to share these women’s inspiring stories. 

Launching on International Women’s Day 8 March until 11 April.

Visitors can also get involved and help SheSaw reach its goal of sharing 1 million women’s stories by adding one to their selfie wall, putting even more women on the map, where they belong.

Killer artistic girl team included: Kim Siew, Noni Cragg, Roselle Flatley and Amy Claire Mills.

Portraits featuring:

• Jenny Leong - Local politician and human rights advocate

• Patyegarang -  Protector of Indigenous language 

• Bonnie Mealing  - First Australian to win Olympic Gold in the backstroke (1932)

• Roberta Perkins - Transgender rights activist

• Bernice Agar - Photographer

• Margret Campbell -   Director of Dreamtime Tours - SouthernX

• Jennie Scott Griffiths - Revolutionary feminist and early editor of the Australian Womens Weekly

• Ann Hordern - Entrepreneur 

• Ruby-Payne Scott - Australia's first female radio astronomer. 

• Florence Violet McKenzie - Australia’s first female electrical engineer

• Juliana Nkrumah AM - Human rights campaigner and social reformer, supporting women, migrants and refugees. Founder of African Women Australia. 

• Queenie Chan - Manga artist and graphic novelist, challenging stereotypes in her profession. 

Year of the Ox with Christina Huynh for Marina Square

Marina Square Wentworth Point celebrated Chinese New Year with this homage to the Ox painted by the talented Christina Huynh @stynabyna.

In Chinese culture, the Ox is a valued animal. Because of its role in agriculture, positive characteristics, such as being hardworking and honest, are attributed to it.

Oxen are the hard workers in the background, intelligent and reliable, but never demanding praise.

See more mural work from Christina Huynh here.

Introducing Master Craftsman Caio Bucaretchi

Caio Bucaretchi is an Art Director from the city of São Paulo, Brazil. He works across 3D, 2D and animation and his level of craft and fines is something to behold.

Check out his 2020 show reel below to see the highlights.

Chulo Creative is looking forward to introducing Caio to our clients.

Salamander Bay Coastal Vibes

Charter Hall wanted to inject the foodcourt at Salamander Bay Square with some coastal beachy vibes, this abstract nautical design worked wonders and elevated this space dramatically.

Alliance To End Plastic Waste motion graphics

Once in a while a client comes along reminds you why you do what you do, the Alliance To End Plastic Waste was one of those for us. With a powerful vision described Together with policy makers, non-governmental organisations and local communities, we are driving and delivering transformational change: to end plastic waste in the environment and protect the planet.

Chulo Creative worked closely with the Alliance to create three informative motion graphic animations, see below.

Credit to Mike Watt for the illustration and Michael Delmar for the animation that brought these special initiatives to life.

Huge thanks to The Alliance To End Plastic Waste for the work they do and for getting us involved in this one.

Etching motifs for Lyres RTD's by Kev Odonnell

The Kinetic Agency approached Kev Odonnell from Chulo Creative to create some new etching style illustrations for a variety of new flavours.

Using the tasting notes from each of the flavours to create beautiful motifs to wrap around the cans, Kev worked his magic adding in beautiful detail and craftsmanship.

Sky Bending with Daniel O'Toole

It’s always a treat to see a new style of Street Art emerging on streets. If you have been following Daniel O’Tooles practice this image will be familiar to you, its the canvas of a large scale wall that’s really exciting.

We asked Daniel to share with us the progression and process this work has taken, read below his statement.

My new mural piece on Barry Street in Northcote / Melb is the first of its kind. I have been working with video pieces and sculptural installations in the studio but I hadn't transcribed any of the video stills onto a wall until now. It's been interesting to see how the feeling of the screen still comes through and the video reference is less abstract than I had expected it would be. The scale and the format is really satisfying, I chose this wall as it had a texture that reminded me of film grain and the white space was a perfect frame for the panel, making it feel like a canvas hanging in a gallery.

Daniel O’Toole

See below the video work 'Sky bending' that this painting was taken from

The Queen's Gambit - It's an entire world of just 64 squares.

A series of mosaic portraits of Beth Harmon by Charis Tavis, aka Anya Taylor-Joy, made out of chess symbols. A self-initiated project honoring a good book, an interesting mini-series, and of course, a fantastic game.

It's an entire world of just 64 squares.

— Beth Harmon

Read below in Charis’ words

The Queens' Gambit is, without doubt, the tv series hit of 2020. A year like no other showed us many unknown and unexpected parts of the human soul, identity, and behavior. Beth Harmon is a heroine that many could relate to, and chess is the platform on which many psychological and sociological schemes can be applied. In 2020 every one of us had to play a strange chess game against the coronavirus pandemic. It's an ongoing game with many different challenges, unknown moves, obvious and not so apparent strategies, dilemmas, and complications. This game against an invisible enemy has shaped our lives and showed us our limitations. Finally, it gave us an ultimate chance to rethink ourselves and our civilization.

I have created these series as a side project the last months. I wanted to build my mosaics on a simple checkerboard with a limited color palette stolen by the mini-series.