Alex bettler
Alexandre Bettler is a graphic designer based in London
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Amelia Johnstone
Amelia Johnstone was born in Derbyshire and brought up in Dorset and Devon, the fourth of six children Amelia has always found solace in literature, stories and drawing. As a child Amelia spent time reading out loud and discovering a passion for the writing of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. She went on to study Fine Art at Winchester School of Art transferring to finish her degree in Illustration at Hereford College of Arts and went on to the Royal College of Art to complete her MA in Communications Art and Design in 2003.
In 2004 Amelia became part of an exciting illustration movement which culminated in the publication of Le Gun magazine. Le Gun describes Amelia as "a spiritual descendant of the Bloomsbury Group with a male alter ego called Shellewellyn" [www.legun.co.uk].
Amelia has exhibited as a solo artist in London and in group shows around the world with Le Gun.
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Andy Smith
Born and raised in Norfolk, Andy Smith studied illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. Graduating in 1998 he quickly established a client list of advertising, publishing and editorial clients including Orange, Mercedes, McDonalds, The Guardian, Expedia, Sony, Vodafone, Random House and Penguin Books, directing Run London a commercial for Nike in 2000. His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism and all are executed with a handmade, hand-printed, tactile feel. Quirky characters find themselves in absurd situations, often with a large piece of lettering nearby. When not producing commercial work for clients Andy can be found in the studio screen printing books and posters about Fatty, the Target People and the Hot Dog. He has exhibited in the UK, USA, France and Australia. He lives and pretends to work by the sea in Hastings, East Sussex. His favourite colour is blue.
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Bill Bragg
When Bill isn't dreaming about the open seas and long train journeys he likes to draw pictures about the open seas and long train journeys. A freelance illustrator since 1998 Bill has worked for a broad range of clients in the U.K. and the U.S.A. including: The Independent, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Zembla, DDB, The London Symphony Orchestra, The Partners, Frost Design, Jonathon Cape and Faber and Faber. He also likes making things out of cardboard, see below:
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Chris Bianchi
Chris works as freelance illustrator. His personal work deals largely with self initiated narrative and story telling. Having self published two books "The Spinners" 2003 and "Box" 2005, he is now working on a new book as well as teaching illustration. Chris graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 and has been living and working in London ever since.
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Don Sibthorpe has always been intrigued by natural structures and the natural world. As a child he would spend countless hours exploring the world around him uncovering the many miniscule denizens of the outside world. He still spends as much time as possible scouring books and taking note of any interesting finds in the garden. Don will take inspiration from any and all wildlife be it a lowly woodlouse or a seed from some exotic orchid.
I work primarily with porcelain and bronze. I utilize porcelain’s fine grain to hold detail and its pliable nature to achieve a fluid line and organic curve. It also has a great durability and unmatchable surface quality that can vary from silky smooth to hard and scaled. I offset the hard stone-like qualities of porcelain with the liquid flow and supple nature of cast bronze or silver. I use little to no colouration relying on shading and form combined with the tactile natures of porcelain and bronze to make a piece. Each piece is unique, whether it is porcelain, bronze or a combination of the two.
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Frank Laws
A graduate of Central St Martin's, Frank Laws is an Artist/ Illustrator based in Clapton, East London. His work is has been featured in LE GUN, Bare Bones and he has exhibited at Jealous gallery and pick me up 2011
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Guy Stephens
Landscape is no longer simply based on the aesthetic representation of nature. Today Guy Stephens’ landscape images typically encompass urban and industrial environments depicting human interaction with the natural world.
Guy’s landscape photography creates an image with layers of subjectivity, which can be interpreted differently, depending on the viewer.A major factor in this work is its simplicity. Most of the images are studying the ‘place’ while the inhabitants are absent. It’s their very absence that permits the evocation of their society.
All photographs rely on the principle of the relationship between time and light. Guy’s long exposure work embeds a passage of time; the viewer is observing a period of minutes in a still image.
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Hannah Bays
Born in 1982, Hannah Bays is a London based artist/illustrator who studied Graphic Design at London College of Communication. Forever inspired by the music and mythology of rock and roll, it was whilst at the college that she received her first commissions from the bands Babyshambles and Dirty Pretty Things, alongside the director of 'Quadrophenia' Franc Roddam.
Strongly influenced by the hand-made aesthetics of punk, dada and Victoriana, Hannah's work drifts between the mediums of painting, drawing and collage, often combining the techniques. Alongside her personal projects she has worked for the likes of PPQ, Frost French, designed hosiery packaging for Beyond Retro and branded a series of well known Camden watering holes.
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Harry Malt
LIVING DEEP IN THE EAST LONDON DREAM ZONE. DAILY.
Harry Malt used to be a stock man on a pig farm. Harry Malt moved to London to further his options and education. Instead of which he went to art college. He flourished in the creative environment and is now a internationally successful artist and illustrator.
Clients include, McCann Erickson, Maestro, Virgin Active, Virgin Holidays, HSBC, Nokia, Aol., Kelloggs Rice Krispies, Colette Paris, ACE Hotel NYC, Teenage Cancer Trust, WSAG and Radar Magazine AND tons more.
He is not fussy and will consider all commissions.
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John Dilnot
With work in numerous private and public collections, John Dilnot sells his work through many outlets in this country and abroad, including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the V & A Museum London.
John studied Graphic Design at Canterbury College of Art and gaining a degree in Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art in 1984, John Dilnot went on to study postgraduate printmaking at Camberwell.
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Marcus Walters
Marcus Walters is an illustrator and designer based in the UK working in the design industry for over ten years. Marcus works across a variety of media and his work incorporates hand crafted elements such as collage and drawing to create simple and enduring images.
Marcus's client list includes the BBC, Levis, Coca-Cola, Yellow Pages, Amnesty, Honda, Orange and various magazines worldwide. He is also co-founder of graphic design studio, New Future Graphic, to which he often brings his illustrative approach to graphic design projects.
Marcus has exhibited his artwork in galleries across Europe and America and been featured in many books and magazines. He also art directs issues of cult magazine,The Illustrated Ape, collaborating with many other illustrators. He currently spends his time working from a studio near Stroud in Gloucestershire and his design studio in London.
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Maureen Valfort
Maureen comes from France where she spent her early life on a farm in the countryside. She studied graphic design at l'Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, and some years later at The Royal College of Art.
She founded her own practice. Her studio is specialised in the design of books, catalogues, identities and exhibition pieces.
She works using type, pencils, ink, scissors and the Apple Mac. She enjoys using different technologies and mediums and collaborating with others when the opportunity arises.
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Neal Fox
Neal Fox is a London based artist/illustrator.
Born in 1981, he studied at Camberwell Art College and the Royal College of Art. While at the RCA he co-founded LE GUN, the annual art journal which is now distributed world wide. Since graduating with an MA in 2005 his commercial illustration clients have included the Guardian, the Independent, Random House and Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles.
Simultaneously Fox's more personal work- large scale ink drawings of his grandfather's ghost on a phantasmagoric drunken bender through history, with iconoclasts such as William Burroughs, Aleister Crowley and Francis Bacon - has led to exhibitions at the Basel Art Fair and most recently a solo show at Gallery Daniel Blau in Munich, whose previous exhibitors have included Georg Baselitz, Andy Warhol and Chuck Close.
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Nick Morley
Nick Morley is an artist and illustrator with an eye for the absurd. His idiosyncratic and wryly humourous take on the human condition has won many fans across the globe including comedian Vic Reeves.
The major themes running through Nick’s work are masculinity, heroism and human achievement. For the exhibition at Material (June /July 2009) Nick produced new etchings, linocuts, drawings and paintings around the theme ‘Man and Beast’. The images are at once funny and unsettling; a man riding a zebra, hunters holding up their dead trophies, a giant snake and a bear riding a bicycle.
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Nova Dando
Nova likes... YOU. FUN. DISCO DANCING. PRINCE. COMPUTER NOISES. CEREALS FOR EVERY MEAL. THE COLOUR RED. STROBE LIGHTS. MIDDLE EIGHTS. CAPITAL LETTERS. OPTIMISM. GINGER BEER. SNOOZE BUTTONS. WINDY DAYS. KARMA.
Nova dislikes... GARLIC. BIRDS. CHEESE. CREAM. PEOPLE WHO SNORE. PEOPLE WHO LIKE HOT CHIP. FANCY DRESS. TICKING CLOCKS. COOKING. THE NORM.
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Primitive Press
Established in 2010 Primitive Press is a London based, independent graphic design and print
studio specialising in the production of geometric patterns and limited editions.
Through the examination and study of geometric aesthetics from cultures around the
world, their focus is on design and application of pattern to create limited edition
products within the fields of art, apparel and home-ware.
All of their products are created through the process of screenprinting, with each print
pulled by hand and numbered. Rather than mass-produce the product, they only release
small quantity editions. Screenprinting is a process Primtive Press greatly value to create
personally hand crafted products.
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Robert Rubbish
Robert was born on a small rock in the English Channel. Fast forwards thirty three years later and he is in London. He likes drawing and painting and sticking fake hair to paintings. He very much enjoys joke shops and pubs. He is a freelance illustrator.He was educated at : UWE Bristol 1996-1999 and BA Hons Communication Art and Design Royal College of Art 2003-2005.
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Ross Cooper
One half of One in Three, Ross Cooper is an artist, designer & director. Ross is primarily concerned with the power of good ideas. His varied experience and skills allows him to tackle projects in an open-minded and flexible way, through the most appropriate media. As an artist he has exhibited widely throughout Europe (Berlin, Linz, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Riyeka), Asia (Bangkok, Taichung and Tokyo) and at the ACMI in Melbourne and Siggraph in Los Angeles. His original thinking and innovative solutions have resulted in numerous awards including 2 Silver D&AD's, 1 Silver nomination and 3 'in books', the Gold award from the Art Directors Club of Europe as well as awards from Ars Electronica, Disney, Intel, ACA Media Arts and the Royal College of Art. Ross teaches graphic design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
Inset: One in Three, left; Ross Cooper, right; Bugsy Riverbank Steel
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Spoe
As a graphic designer and artist, graduated from Le Havre Art School, Tibo now lives and works as a freelance graphic designer in Biarritz, France.
After becoming involved in graffiti between 1993 and 2004, Spoe ficused his work on graphic design (cf."sur la voie..." a spoe book - collectif combo edition) and still practices his art activities self initiated.
composition is a key feature in his work through different techniques including drwing, painting and photography.
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Steph Von Reiswitz
Steph is a freelance illustrator with a penchant for bent pens and sombre colours. Educated in Brussels and London, she graduated from St Martin's in 2001. Favourite haunts include antiquarian booksellers, dingy harbour bars, defunct cinemas, and cemeteries. Her clientele includes various newspapers and magazines, the Prince's Trust, Hachette Books, YSL, Moët Chandon, Faber & Faber, and Random House.
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William Jean
Abscons est un mot qui plait bien à William Jean, il l’emploie souvent pour mettre en doute la capacité de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose à faire sens. Pour autant ses productions s’attachent souvent à savoir ce qui se passe à des endroits pareils, ceux où l’abscons pourrait non pas faire sens mais être un instrument de recherche du sens, une prise.
Trouver du sens donc là où il semble faire défaut, agiter les insuffisances, les frotter, extraire un jus âcre mais curatif.
William Jean is particularly fond of the word abscons*, using it frequently to question the capacity of a certain to person make sense of a certain proposition. His work often struggles to make sense of what happens in those situations where abscons fails to make sense in and of itself , but rather becomes the means to an end, a search for meaning, an attempt to grasp hold of meaning.
To find meaning where it seems to be lacking, to upset the inadequacies, to disrupt in order to extract the necessarily bitter curative juices.
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Wuon Gean Ho
Wuon-Gean Ho graduated with a BA in History of Art, and a professional licence as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. She has held print residencies in Kyoto, Japan; Caldera, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts and the Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology in the US; Intaglio Printmaker and Printspace in the UK and exhibits widely both nationally and internationally.
She makes rich glowing prints and artist books with a fantastical narrative exploring the borderline between beauty and beast, and the energy shifts between life and sleep, and sleep and death. She is an instructor in Japanese woodblock technique and teaches in East London Printmakers and the Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology. She has work in the collections of Aberystwyth University, the Crow's Shadow Institute of Arts and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Currently she is curating work for the second Qijiang International Print festival in China.
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