Sam Andruszkiewicz

Working on some new character designs.

Qantas has four kids' characters buried in coloring books. A kangaroo, a koala, a galah, an emu. Simple shapes, forgotten in the seat pocket.

I rebuilt them the way Hermès would build a plush toy. Visible weave, embroidered eyes, seams that show the craft. Then I put them on the...

My favorite kind of message.

I never wanted to be a starving artist.

Wanted to be a talk show host. Then a Vegas lounge singer. Anything but an artist.

For the Renoise × Contra challenge I got personal.

60 seconds, autobiographical, every frame on a plan: childhood daydreams shot in degraded consumer formats...