Dmian Gascoigne

An illustrator and a film maker Damian is a multi talented designer who has served the industry for the past twenty five years. His approach to his work is quite simple as he believes that there is always something around us which can incorporated in to a piece of work. He works when he is not working. What this means is that he is constantly collecting images digitally or collecting item which he feels might add something new to his work. He is quite intrigued by body posture therefore he is always observing how people move or even animals behave when not conscious about what they are doing. Damian believes that its not hard to find characters for a story or an illustration as if we observe effectively, people around us can be the characters we are looking for. Being an illustrator for such a long time Damian decided to work with moving image. He is not good with the program therefore he hires people to do it for him. He is now adding 2d with 3d image. Its quite different to what he is use to producing but he feels this is the next step in his career and as a designer.

Otto

Otto is an illustrator and over the years has produced work for numerous newspapers and magazines. He did graphic design in 1991 and after he finished his studies, he focused on promoting himself as a designer. He was interested in drawing cartoon characters more figurative work before he got in to screen printing. He finds screen printing more effective as oppose to digital prints. He is interested in the quality of the screen printing and its behavior on paper. As his work is been commissioned based, he has to work quite quick and effectively. He finds that having a good image references can make work and coming up with ideas a lot easier. After doing quite few commissioned work, he felt that his work needs to have a new element to it and thus his work started be more abstract and more playful. He likes the idea of combining real images with his screen prints as it enhances the overall visual impact. His influences are Russian and Polish designers and through out his work there are traces of these influences. Quite bold and simple thus they convey the message quite clearly. He has worked for the Guardian newspaper, Independent newspaper and also has produced his own books of illustration(using re-cycled images at times). Renaissance paintings are vital for his references as he depicts the figures and re uses them in his work. He also uses the motion pictures for his ideas. Especially films made by Alfred Hitchcock. He likes the dramatic acting and the cinematic shots through which he can generate ideas for his composition. It is a good way of working as it will add something new to the work and will keep it fresh and relevant. He likes working alone as it helps him focus and are less distractions to deal with.

Tracy Kendall

Tracy Kendall is an interesting designer. She has many interests or better yet she is quite keen on working with various mediums. She has done BA in fine arts and later worked in Royal college as a technical support for print making. She has always been interested in designing prints which were simple but effective at the same time. In order to achieve the simplicity in her work, Kendall focused on simple subject matter in her work such as flower, stem, leaves etc. She has worked as a wall paper designer for many years and therefore posesses a great amount of experience in this particular field. She started off producing wall papers which would normally be around 2.15 meters tall and that would be her format to work within. She then would take hundreds of pictures of the subject matter(a flower's stem for example)and then would choose the image which she feels has the beauty the potentcy and the strength to be the main image for her wallpaper. Kendall also produced prints for lamp shades which has been quite popular with the homeware retailers(sold her designs to Habitat, a store which sells home ware items). She exhibits her work quite regularly and therefore stays in public eye. Paris, Newyork, Milan and London are some of the places Kendall has exhibited her work. She mainly uses black and white as her colour scheme as she is targeting the her audience as most exhibitions are dominated by male audience. The monochrome scheme seems to work for her and also gives that elegant and sofisticated look to her designs. Later in her career, she moved on from using just one particular medium. She then started playing the idea of interaction, the idea of feeling and touching. This added a new dimension to her work as it was starting to become unique and exclusive. Kendall is influenced by fashion and she adores it, so therefore fashion played a big role in this transition. She used buttons in some of her designs all hand stitched and would give her work a new dimension. Paper patterns, jigsaw pieces, photographic imagery are some of many ideas she started to incorporate in her work. She would hire a professional photographer to take series of pictures of book stacks, stacks of dishes etc and would be made in to a wallpaper design. This shows her creativity and self believe in what she does. She has confidence in her designs which is what makes them so successful every time. Her aim is to produce simple, clean and pure ideas and by doing so she manages to capture the audience's attention and the visuall impact needed in order to make her designs stand out from the ever-growing crowd in the world of art and design.

Tal Rosner

Tal Rosner is a versatile practitioner who has worked from various mediums. He has studied graphic designing and after he got his degree, he moved on and worked for magazines and posters for three years. His interest grew in terms of design and wanted to achieve more. Therefore he turned to moving image in which he felt he had less limits and more possibilities. He wanted to translate his graphic design work in to the moving image which essentially would add a new dimension to his designs. Doppel Ganger was one of his early works which he produced in the final year of MA. Here we get to see numerous ideas blended in one short film. Very experimental, interesting and visually eye catching. The whole film was produced digitally and the process of making it was quite digital as well. Small hand held cameras were used in the process for maximum freedom and maneuverability. The budget was fairly limited so therefore some things he had to be compromised with. In 2004, he produced another short film called Docklands. It was filmed in South London. There was emphasis on repetitions and patterns hence the visuals were quite dynamic and clever. For example there's a bit where a train is going past the camera and what Rosner did was have the same shot flipped in to each other and therefore it looks like the train is going in to each other. Not only that, but this time around more shots were used and evidence of creativity and maturity could be witnessed within Rosner's work. His understanding of the genre seem to be growing with every film he created. He is self taught and learned things and techniques as he went along. He works with minimal crew and the reason is so that he will have full control over his film and therefore he will have the right results.
He prefers to work on a smaller scale as oppose to big. He feels that on a smaller scale, one has more control over the composition and it will be more successful in the end. His work was getting recognized and popular within the entertainment industry. He got commissioned to create a film for a classical music album which was quite different to what he is use to which is techno music. Over the years, Tal has produced his films using techno music and was not a accustomed to classical music at all. It was a big challenge for him but in the end he manage to pull it off and Abstractions is now known as Rosner's finest pieces. The music was quite fast and the pace also varied therefore, the images had more variation to them and again we got to see Rosner's ever growing understanding of the genre. After this, he got commissioned to produced visuals for the opening title of Skins. The budget was limited as it was only the first season for the series but he had more tools to play with and also had some good experience in the bag. The opening title was only few seconds long and had to represent each character quickly hence he used more effects than ever and manage to execute it at the same time. It was a success and was commissioned again for the later seasons for the series which followed after. Rosner's work is quite unique and exciting. He has grown as a designer which is evident in his work over the years he produced. It connects to the viewer and somehow keeps their attention with his wild visuals and attention to detail.

Very effective piece of composition. Even though it hasnt got the 3d element of Whadcock's work or the texture's of Parker's work it still manages to charm the observer with its clever composition and flat colours. Top stuff. It has helped me in my recent brief which was to produce a composition for KPMG, a business company. the composition is large scale and I feel his Whadcock's work has that simplicity and that impact which would be fitting on a large scale composition.

Scott Roberts

I am quite excited about Scott Robert's work. It is very clever and its simplicity adds to its visuall dominance. Its vector based art therefore the shapes and lines are accurate and crisp. The balance is well considered and so is the space. I will be keeping an eye on Scott's work

Very bright and colourful image. The obvious emphasis seems to be on colour and composition and visually makes it stand out. The colour combination is working well together and compliment the overall success of the image.

Valerie Pezeron

There are few different elements within this particular image. Combination of ink with digital media seems to have done wonders here. Feels like a collage but also gives an impression of a graphic design image at the same time. Quite exciting technique which I will definatly consider in my coming projects.

Sara Tyson

Sara's work has a different look as opose to other illustrators of more recent times. It is abstract and also seems to have cubist elements to it.

Very clever and well thought through piece. Colours are kept to the minimal which balances the overall composition.

Ian Whadcock

Whadcock's illustrations had cought my eye. There is an element of 3d and a sense of structure within some of his pieces. He mainly works digitally and therefore the composition is strong, bold and crisp.

The mediums play a vital role. In this particular image he has used acrlic and cut paper to achieve the effect he wants. Simple yet effective results

He uses signs and colour to emphasis his point he wants to make via his composition. An important factor in his style of work.

Tyler Parker

Tyler Parker's illustrations are quite interesting. Simplistic shapes combined with texture adds a new depth to the piece. It is quite influencial and therefore will be refering back to his images.

Great combination of colors and they sync well together making a good visual impact

Gillian

Gillian blease. Great composition and well balanced piece.