Scott Hull Associates

An Interview

Title of Project: Road Trip with Alice

What was the creative challenge for this project?

The project was a six page magazine feature for the Jamie Oliver cooking magazine, wherein a mother and daughter decide to take a road trip from Telluride, CO to Berkeley, CA and cook along the way using camping equipment and farmer’s market produce. Without the use of photography, matching a dreamy abstracted illustration style with recipe imagery was necessary.

How did you resolve any challenges that were presented?

After discussing what the client was hoping for in a final product, the important thing was meshing together pattern and color with the actual food being produced. Visiting a farmer’s market was great inspiration for color and subject matter, and the final product gave off a dreamlike feel of the story, adding in little elements that pop up throughout.

Any feedback, quotes, funny insights, behind the scenes stories you would like to share?

It was an incredibly fun project– I love to cook and I’d always wanted to work on some food illustrations but never realized how complex it can be. With some of the recipes, I had to actually layer on the herbs and cheese like you would when actually cooking! I can only hope that Alice and Fanny (the mother and daughter in the story) love the end result when they see it.

Art director Adrienne Pitts has this to say about working with Meg, “Meg was an incredibly creative and professional illustrator to collaborate with for issue 6 of Jamie magazine. From what was a fairly complicated and detailed brief, she created large pieces in her signature whimsical style, which really brought the story to life. As is the way with publishing, changes often need to be made, and Meg was friendly, accommodating and creative in the solutions she presented. She was fantastic to work with and I look forward to working with her again in the future”

When Meg Hunt, the newest addition to the Scott Hull family, was a kid all she wanted to do was draw pictures. Even if that involved sketching and coloring in library books. This quirky whimsical attitude has stuck with her, and her latest feature in HOW magazine’s “17 Rising Stars” special, is simply another way she gets to express herself—silliness and all. The magazine launched its first annual talent showcase, and Meg was selected from thousands of young creatives.

Influenced by Charley Harper, Jim Flora, Eric Carle, Richard Scarry, and Maurice Sendak, Meg refers to her illustrations as being “infused with little bits of humor that perk up the viewers’ eyes.” She is also inspired by a lot of vintage advertising and folk art from around the world: Mexican printmakers, Russian folk painters, Japanese pop-art. She says, “I approach illustration like a puzzle, trying to sort out how to mesh a good story with engaging characters and ton of little details. Hopefully, it comes across as timeless and fun, occasionally sinister, but mostly curious.”

One of Meg’s immediate goals is to one day work with Target, or go into house-wares and design patterns for fabrics and dishware. “I’d love to consult on an animated film or do a music video for some of my favorite bands, because I’ve always felt tied to music and art together, and the idea of seeing my drawings move makes me giddy. I basically just want to see my fun drawings everywhere, inhabiting the world I’m surrounded by.”

HOW magazine captured Meg’s spirit of adventure, fun, and promise in a fascinating light. We expect nothing but great things from her.

Meg Hunt is the newest addition to the Scott Hull Associates family and we are extremely proud to present her to the art world in this month’s newsletter!

Meg is a twenty five year old jack of all trades, currently works as an illustrator and “art-maker” outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Growing up by the sea in Connecticut, Meg learned from an early age that drawing was fun and now keeps that sense of play in her work no matter what the project. Her art is influenced by old children’s books, retro patterns, science fiction, architecture, fun packaging, propaganda war posters, horror stories, toys, travel, myths/legends, and strange conversations. Each piece of artwork is saturated with color and pattern to bring a sense of joy into the image. Her world is inhabited by colorful animals, strange monsters, secret meetings, people in disguises, and inconceivable surroundings—essentially it is a utopia of the charmingly weird.

Meg’s clients include the Washington Post, Oxford University Press, HOW Magazine, Threadless, Nickelodeon Magazine, Yale Alumni Magazine, and many more.