Triton stencils

  • Illustration
  • Art direction

Creating hand-drawn illustrations and converting them into stencils that could be transferred onto a bespoke Triton titanium frame.

Star stencil and a hand-drawn figure on a titanium bicycle frame

The ask

The client was inspired by his time working abroad and wanted a way to honour the memories.

The titanium build was being commissioned by Triton and his vision was clear. A few brainstorms later, I proceeded to work on a series of hand drawn illustrations that I converted into scalable graphics - these were used to create the stencils that transferred them to the frame.

Floral stencil graphics on the junction of a titanium frame
Sketchbook to stencil
Hand-drawn vector flourishes on a titanium tube beside a cable port
Hand-drawn vector artwork
Stencil transfer on a titanium dropout marked Triton
Stencil transfer on titanium

Deliverables

Hand drawings were cleaned up and redrawn as vector graphics to ensure the stencils were flawless.

I art directed the collaboration end-to-end - from concept sketches through to craft handover with the frame builders at Triton.

Dripping graphic stencilled onto a titanium frame joint
Frame graphics
Close detail of a matryoshka stencil on a titanium tube
Detail studies