Christmas is just around the corner and the deluge of advertising is ubiquitous and unavoidable.

If you’re a designer, inevitably the Christmas projects will have started some months ago. Working on Christmas campaigns in the autumn months is to be expected, however I did once work on a Christmas brochure for a hotel chain the preceding January – which was definitely a little too early for my liking!

I’ve been really busy over the last few weeks working on Christmas campaigns for some of my regular clients. Below are two examples of festive posters I’ve created, the first for Aspens, a school catering company. They wanted a nostalgic theme for their Christmas school campaign and a 1950′s style was incorporated into the illustration and design. The second poster – a more graphic execution – is for a local Christmas Farmers Market in my hometown in the North-East.