To celebrate the launch of the new Arjowiggins Graphic Paper range, their Graphic Designers at Bostock and Pollitt decided to ask a whole bunch of creatives to come up with an illustrated response to what One Tree means to them. The brief was to take the template of a number 1, then use this to create your tree image.

The selected images were then printed onto the various different Graphic Papers in the range, creating a most charming illustrated sample book.

My Tree is an inky white on black drawing of a perfectly preened topiary timber, complete with blossoms and midnight owl. It represents one of a series of trees which my Dad and I planted at our Fish Farm in Aberdeenshire when we first moved there 20 years ago.

 

 

It had been a long and busy day on the farm, so by the time we planted the trees darkness was beginning to fall. We dug the holes and planted them by the banks of the loch in complete darkness. In the morning, we anxiously awaited sunrise to see just where the little saplings had ended up and if we would need to replant.

In the end, we left them in the squiggly S formation they seemed to have landed in. Twenty years on, they are all going strong!

So that, is what One Tree means to me.

To see what it means to the 11 other Illustrators, get your paws on a copy of the ‘What One Tree Means to Me’ book.