DAVID JAMES

David James associates have been quietly defining the aesthetics of the zeitgeist for over twenty years. With incomparable style and imagination they have effortlessly communicated the vision of countless high profile artists, fashion houses, publishers a

STUDIO OUTPUT

Studio Output is a diverse team of inspired, inspiring and creative people working in every medium.

SEB CAMILLERI

Sebastian Camilleri is an image and moving-image maker who lives and works in London. His work displays combinations of differing artistic mediums and varying processes, in order to obtain a particular graphically inspired outcome. His recent personal work has revolved around moving house, memories we take from one dwelling to another and how this changes new spaces we will come to call home.
In 2008, Seb achieved a distinction in his Masters in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins’, after gaining a BA Hons degree in Graphic Design from Camberwell College of Art in 2005. He has worked freelance for MDM Props and Model Making, in their production of sculptures for artists such as Keith Tyson, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Gavin Turk, Mona Hatoum, Marc Quinn and Darren Almond.

PAUL RAND

Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was a well-known American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs. Rand was educated at the Pratt Institute (1929-1932), the Parsons School of Design (1932-1933), and the Art Students League (1933-1934). He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design. From 1956 to 1969, and beginning again in 1974, Rand taught design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Rand was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972. He designed many posters and corporate identities, including the logos for IBM, UPS and ABC. Rand died of cancer in 1996.

ALEX TROCHUT

Alex Trochut is a graphic designer from Barcelona. His two artistic loves are type and illustration. 'I do not favor one over the other, and particularly like it when both are present in my work: as a principle statement, I believe more is more'.

MICHAEL SODEAU

Michael Sodeau was born in London in 1969. He studied product design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design where he graduated in 1994. He was a founding partner in Inflate, and set up his own design studio Michael Sodeau Partnership in 1997, designing for MSP his own production company.

MARIO HUGO

Hi, my name is Mario Hugo. I studied fine arts for a few years, fell in love with design, left fine arts for art direction, discovered "art direction" in education programs is actually another name for "copywrighting," and I have had a tempestuous affair with illustration ever since.

STROKE

STROKE is an online showcase for the design and photographic work of James Finch. After graduating in graphic design from Camberwell College of Art, James continues to live and work in London.

DAVID FOLDVARI

David Foldvari was born in Budapest in 1973. He has lived in london since 1986 and is represented by Big Active.

I AM ACRYLIC

"i am acrylic: jewellery, trinkets and other things, mostly made from acrylic."

CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY

The Circleculture Gallery is a project space for new art that was founded in 2001 under the name Cc:room. This commercially independent platform was made possible by Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer and Dirk Staudinger. In cooperation with international curators, the gallery has developed a large number of exhibition concepts based on sub-cultural movements such as street art. Renamed Circleculture Gallery in 2006, it is located in Mitte, Berlin’s famous gallery quarter, and it is developing a set artists’ program.

STUDIO 8

Studio8 Design is an award-winning independent graphic design studio with a reputation for delivering intelligent and engaging creative solutions. Based in central London, Studio8 was established in 2005 by Matt Willey and Zoë Bather, formerly Creative Directors at Frost Design London. Working with clients both large and small, in the UK and overseas, Studio8 produces a diverse range of work across multiple disciplines. With over fifteen years of industry experience between them, Matt and Zoë bring a wealth of knowledge and enthusiasm to every new project and offer a scope of capabilities that includes editorial, exhibition, signage, corporate literature, websites, and brand identity systems.

AIRSIDE

Airside is a London-based design company set up in 1999. We work in moving image, graphic design + illustration, and digital + interactive media. The Airside folk have diverse backgrounds, from fine art to programming, knitting to English literature. To f

ANTHONY BURRILL

Anthony Burrill - A graphic artist creating beautifully minimal graphics, moving-image and interactive design based on direct communication with a large dose of humour. His partnership with Kip Parker is called Friendchip, they have produced sites for Kraftwerk and Air. In addition to his music clients Anthony has also produced advertising campaigns for Nike, Diesel, Playstation, Audi and the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel.

YES STUDIO

YES is a commercial art studio, founded by Alice Cowling & Simon Earith in 2004. Our approach is ideas led and informed by the individual characteristics of each project. Recent commissions have allowed us to create collaborations in art, industry and craft. These projects represent music, art, publishing and broadcasting clients. Non-commissioned work by YES includes an ongoing series of limited edition screen-prints, available through this site.

THIS IS REAL ART

A new type of design company. It does not employ creative talent. Instead, it has a roster of individuals and small groups who merge with it to form a virtual company. Believe it or not, it works. Artists incl. Kim Hiorthoy, Ben Drury, Build, Non-Format & all.

Dan Eatock

Daniel Eatock is a graduate of Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and the Royal College of Art. He worked as an intern at the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis before establishing Foundation 33, a multidisciplinary practice that later merged with creative agency boymeetsgirl. He recently formed Eatock Ltd., an independent art and design studio where his inventive entrepreneurial approach to authorship and his adherence to the integrity of ideas are applied to commercial design work and contemporary art projects. His varied portfolio includes the creation of the world’s largest signed and numbered limited edition artwork and the ongoing design and development of the Big Brother identity for Channel 4 television.

SORT

The Society Of Revisionist Typographers is a small design group, printers and private press based in London and the South Coast. We own and maintain several presses as well as a healthy collection of type, and we strive to keep the old trade skills alive through application and practice.

muku

muku is the jewelery and accessory range from Japanese designer Mai Sakuma. Originally from Sasebo, Mai has been living and working in Manchester for the last few years. Her designs are focussed on minimal contemporary forms, with inspiration taken from urban architecture and typography.

APFEL - A PRACTICE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE

A Practice For Everyday Life (APFEL) is a graphic design studio based in London, founded by Kirsty Carter and Emma Thomas in 2003. The focus of their work is with cultural institutions and individuals, often for galleries and museums, events, exhibitions, publishing and editorial. Their thoughtful and rational approach to graphic design, has established the studio a reputation for deceptively simple and successful projects. APFEL re-designed the award-winning Architects’ Journal in 2005. From 2004 to 2007 they designed the exhibitions, publications and printed matter for the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Other recent projects include: graphics and signage with FAT Architects for the Museum of Croydon; Design of the identity for the Performa Art Biennial in New York; A publication for ‘Daniel Buren’ Modern Art Oxford; Games for the Tate Modern; Projects and publications by APFEL are held in collections at V&A Museum Archive, London, the British Library, Bibliothèque National des Livres Rares, Paris, the Royal College of Art Library, London, and the Tate Library, London.

POLIMEKANOS

Polimekanos is a design practice based in London. It was founded in 2001 by Joseph Kohlmaier and Stefan Kraus. We work across a variety of media and formats in graphic, interactive and exhibition design, from simple leaflets or posters to catalogues, book designs, websites, large scale corporate identity and brand developments, or the signage system in buildings. By the way, Polimekanos are also responsible for designing this wonderful website.

JOHNNY HARDSTAFF

Johnny Hardstaff - Designer / Director. Hardstaff was raised in the Midlands. Traditionally, the Midlands is the Hardstaff breeding ground. Johnny Hardstaff often returns there to mate. The Hardstaff’s were once mercenary staff fighters in Nottinghamshire’s forests. They would be paid to beat people. Working in the media could well be considered a modern day extension of this. Johnny Hardstaff likes to make work that is either "nightmarishly beautiful" (Creative Review - July 2005) or "a shallow example of purely offensive bile" (Creative Review - August 2005).

STUART TOLLEY

Stuart Tolley was previously a designer at the independent award winning style magazine Sleazenation, before leaving to work at Esquire. He set up Stuart Tolley Studio to provide creative and innovative art direction and design, for a wide range of client

Marc Atlan

Marc Atlan was born in Paris, France and lives now in Venice, California. Has flirted with Tom Ford, Rei Kawakubo, Oliver Stone, Andrée Putman, Philippe Starck, Helmut Lang and James Perse but loves only his wife and two kids. Designs perfume packagings, art directs ad campaigns, conceives t-shirts, builds installations, collaborates with artists and messes with everything printed. Equally likes greasy junk food and outrageously expensive restaurants. Doesn’t like name dropping or star fuckers…

BROWNS

Browns was founded in 1998 and is based in London. The studio lead creatively by Jonathan Ellery and Nick Jones works both in the cultural and commercial arenas.

ACME FONTS

Acme Fonts is a London-based type foundry currently representing the work of a number of different (type) designers. It works as a platform to showcase contemporary font design and typographic experiments to a wide audience. Acme Fonts is not exclusive and tries to present a variety of projects ranging from sound-based typography to 3–dimensional virtual type installations.

SPIN

Established in 1992, Spin¹s clients come from the arts, television, corporate, government and retail sectors. Their innovative concept based work includes contemporary identities, brand development, print, television and interactive design.

KOZYNDAN

Kozyndan are Los Angeles based mad scientists. They are working on a secret formula for controlled nuclear fusion, and are creating a line of edible chickens. For fun they like to take long deep breaths and dip their heads into bowls of raspberry jelly and lemon curd. They live indoors and don't paint on walls. The couple also moonlight as freelance illustrators.

FONTDELI

" Fontdeli , types of types for different types. Juicy and chunky and jazzy and bubbly and bouncy and quirky and phunky typefaces for all the family. C-c-check it out...... "