A companion gallery for Shell vs Donovan, bringing together images from the Don Marketing years, Shell promotions, the Star Trek evidence trail, the AI-era bot wars, and the closing family material.
The Don Marketing Years
ART-012John Donovan, circa 1984, during the Don Marketing years before the Shell dispute took over his life.
ART-013John Donovan, Roger Sotherton and John Chambers at Don Marketing's Chelmsford office, circa 1985.
ART-001A collage of game pieces created by Don Marketing for Shell and other blue-chip clients, circa 1985.
ART-002A collage of game pieces created by Don Marketing for Shell and other blue-chip clients, circa 1992.
Shell Promotions
ART-003Promotional material from Shell Make Merry, one of the Shell campaigns created during Don Marketing's successful years with the company, circa 1984.
ART-004A Shell promotional success story from the Don Marketing years, linked to a major Harrods tie-up, circa 1984-1985.
ART-005A 1991 Promotions & Incentives article on the Shell Star Trek promotion, reproduced as evidence of Don Marketing's public connection with the game.Source: Promotions & Incentives.
ART-006A Shell Star Trek promotional game piece designed by John Donovan, circa 1991.
The Bot Wars
ART-007Generated by John Donovan using ChatGPT in 2026 as part of the bot-wars image set.
ART-008Generated by John Donovan using ChatGPT in 2026: an illustration reflecting the risk that artificial intelligence can produce confident but mistaken answers.
ART-009Generated by John Donovan using ChatGPT in 2026: an imagined argument among bots, reflecting the unreliability of machine certainty.
ART-010Generated by John Donovan using ChatGPT in 2026: an image invoking the Donovan archive as a large body of damaging material about Shell.
Memory And Aftermath
ART-011John Donovan in his back garden in 2020, photographed by Nick Gill, holding surviving posters from the 1984 Make Money promotion for Singapore.
ART-014Generated by John Donovan using ChatGPT in 2026: a portrait sketch of the author.
ART-015Alfred Donovan, John's father, in an image/sketch reproduced from a Wall Street Journal article.The visible Wall Street Journal footer/source should remain visible wherever this image is reproduced.
