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Beaudoin, Rayne
People, Characters, Business, Love, Conceptual, Black & White, Graphic, Cartoon, Fashion, Political, Charcature, Children, Children's Books, Comic, Comic Conceptual, Painterly, Pen and Ink, Storyboards, Wacky, Whimsical, Line and Wash, Food, Comic Humorous.
Hall, Mike
Crowded urban scenes, architecture and maps – the things you see today in Mike Hall’s artwork go back to his creative beginnings. As a child he used to love drawing images full of people, and maps of imaginary towns and even entire countries. He says this might be because he grew up in the new town of Harlow in Essex – the modern, pre-planned, post-war setting gave him an interest in architecture, topography and mapping from an early age.
Of course, he liked comics and picture books too, and today he’s also inspired by William Hogarth, Gustave Doré and Wenceslaus Hollar, as well as MacDonald Gill, an artist who embellished his map illustrations with all kinds of colourful motifs. He loves everything Hispanic, which is why he recently relocated to Spain.
Mike spent two years studying graphic design before switching to an illustration course. He completed an Illustration degree at the University of Westminster.
Often Mike’s hand-drawn imagery is embellished using a computer. He combines print designs he’s drawn using pen on paper with digital elements to build up an image. The colouring is done digitally. Sometimes, he’ll also draw his map designs using vector graphics.
Architecture usually plays a large role in Mike’s work – either as the primary focus of the illustration, or as something in the background that gives it structure. He’s very interested in topographical views, geography and conveying a sense of place. Nonetheless, his characters come through just as strongly with crowded, colourful people scenes giving you plenty to look at.
Taylor, James
Born in 1977 to an Italian mother and English father James Taylors relationship with pencil and paper started at an early age. James Taylors work is eclectic, with a range of influences from Keiichi Tanaami to Tony Hart. “Eclectic” but always considered. From collage to pure drawing, James Taylors approach and thinking have won him varying clients in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Paraskevas, Michael
Michael Paraskevas, a well known illustrator among magazine art directors, has had his work featured in such prestigious publications as Sports Illustrated, Time, Town & Country and Esquire and has earned numerous awards from industry professionals. Michael has exhibited at Giraffics Gallery in East Hampton (6 one-man shows) and recently showed at the prestigious Southampton Gallery owned by Peter Marcelle. Along with his mother Betty, he published many children’s books over the past 12 years. Their work includes the much loved Tangerine Bear, which was produced as a Christmas Special for ABC in 2000. Other popular works by the pair include Junior Kroll, A Very Kroll Christmas, Shamlanders, The Ferocious Beast, Cecil Bunions, and Chocolate at the Four Seasons. The mother-and-son team’s most well-known project, called Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, was developed for Nick Jr. and is still running on Noggin. It won the prized Gemini Award for best animated show of 2001 in Canada. Paraskevas was educated at School of Visual Arts in New York where he also received his Master’s Degree in Visual Journalism. He divides his time between his home in SouthHampton and LA.
Slabbers, Ronald
Visually clever, humorous and conceptual illustration, including infographics.
From serious business to serious fun.
Feel free to contact me with any questions or to discuss your project.
For USA, Canada and outside Europe you can also contact my US representative:
Sharon Kurlansky at www.laughing-stock.com - Telephone: 508-460-6058 - sharon@laughing-stock.com
I live and work in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
From serious business to serious fun.
Feel free to contact me with any questions or to discuss your project.
For USA, Canada and outside Europe you can also contact my US representative:
Sharon Kurlansky at www.laughing-stock.com - Telephone: 508-460-6058 - sharon@laughing-stock.com
I live and work in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Cerato, Mattia
Mattia was born in Cuneo, a small town surrounded by the beautiful Italian Alps. At 2-3 years old, besides eating a lot of pasta, his father (an artist in his own right!) introduced and encouraged Mattia to draw. As a result, he spent most of his time creating funny images on every surface he could find. When Mattia grew up, he decided to study illustration at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Turin. Within eight months of graduation, he landed his first Illustration job, a book titled My First Picture Dictionary for Rass Language House, Hong Kong. Mattia resides in Cuneo and when not illustrating, he enjoys playing basketball, traveling around the world, playing his bass guitar, and skiing on the Alps.
Berkeley, Jon
Jon Berkeley graduated in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1983. Since then he has lived and worked as a freelance illustrator in Dublin, London, Sydney, and Hong Kong. Jon has worked extensively with many top advertising agencies such as Bozell, Saatchi and Saatchi, McCann Erickson, Campbell Grey, DDB Needham, BBDO, and all those other Beeby Deebies.
Previous clients include: Time Magazine, The Economist, The New Statesman, The Irish Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Tribune, Backbone, Time Out, The Washington Post, Radio Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, The LA Times, Wirtschaftswoche, El Tiempo, Asiaweek, CFO Asia, Credit Lyonnais, American Express, Coca Cola, Digital, Heinz, Carlsberg, Aer Lingus, Guinness, RTE, Penguin Books, Scholastic Books, and just about anyone else you can think of.
Jon has won awards from the Society of Newspaper Design in the US, The 4As in Hong Kong, as well as the ICAD and the IGI in Ireland. He is the author of The Wednesday Tales, a series of children’s novels. He lives near Barcelona with his wife and five children.
Bray, Ed
Ed Bray is an illustration graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduation, he began his illustration career in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he worked for a company on pen and ink and marker layouts. In addition to his commercial assignments, he focused on watercolor landscapes of the Midwest, which were exhibited at the Fuller Museum in Massachusetts. Examples of his illustrations appear in Drawing: Structure and Vision by Fritz Drury and Joanne Stryker © 2008.
Ed is skilled in presentation artwork, such as storyboards and comps, as well as finished illustrations and fine art. His work is featured in American Showcase #23 and the Directory of Illustration website www.behance.net/edBray & www.directoryofillustration.com/edbray.
Ed lives and works as a freelancer in Brockton, Massachusetts and is a member of the Arts League of Lowell. He was featured in a November edition of The Lowell Sun.
Ed is able to work quickly to meet tight deadlines and is available at any time for an assignment.
Clients include iRobot, Gary Sloan Studios Inc., J.Jill, The Fantastical, Riverside Co, Hood, Colonial Life, The Via Group LLC, Urban College of Boston, Supervalu, Wells Fargo Bank, Wilson Leather, BHF Printing, Midway YMCA, Blue Diamond Natural, Tri-District School, Fuller Art Museum, Twenty-First Century Software, Raymond Watson Funeral Home, Harvard Business School, Arthur's Paradise Diner, S&S Auto Repair, City of Holyoke MA, The Public Health Museum, Boston Brake and Tune-Up, Bread & Roses Heritage Committee
Haynes, Jim
If you need a fun, stylized, but still navigable map, Jim Haynes is the guy to go to. His maps are humorous and creative but they give a reliable overview of a city, state or region. His cartoonier work is bound to make you smile.
Watkinson, Mark
Born in Gloucestershire and growing up in Lincolnshire, Mark originally wanted to be a mechanic. However, one of his teachers suggested he pursue a career in art and he’s been a successful freelance illustrator since the early 80s. He plays percussion in a band called the B1200s, collects old cars and enjoys a game of tennis. His early influences include Gavin McLeod and Philip Castle.
Mark earned a diploma and then a higher diploma in Graphic Design from the Lincoln College of Art.
Keep it clean, clear and simple is Mark’s mantra. He works in Freehand, Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as using traditional media.
Mark’s style is very graphic with strong line work, and usually employs flat colours. His work is ideal for ‘how to’ images and infographics, with isometric viewpoints and, sometimes, a blueprint feel. He enjoys tackling technical challenges, but also produces more playful and conceptual work.
O'Leary, Chris
A native Ohioan, Chris O'Leary was born in Youngstown and studied painting at the Columbus College of Art and Design. He worked briefly in Cincinnati for the Gibson Greeting Card Co. and has been freelancing ever since, creating paintings for clients such as Barnes and Noble, Atlantic Monthly, Vegetarian Times, the L.A. Times, Readers Digest, the Boston Globe, Barron's Weekly, and Ohio Magazine. He now lives in Columbus with his wife, Tricia, and daughters, Lily and Kate. Before he had kids, he played finger style guitar, was the project director for the restoration of an urban ravine, and took long bicycle trips, but now he pretty much just watches after the kids...and paints.
Joven, John
John grew up in Bogotá, Colombia and studied graphic design at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He still lives there with his wife Ana and 2 children, Avril and Ian. He is fortunate enough to work in his home studio, where he is able to share his passion of drawing and painting with his children while working on projects. He started drawing at an early age and when he was six year old, his parents enrolled him in his first painting, sculpture, and character design class. He remembers his first attempt at illustration drawing Transformers and "Condorito" (a comic character based on anthropomorphic condor from a Chilean cartoonist). He was hooked. John continued to study art with plastic artists. When not illustrating, he enjoys spending quality time with his children, playing soccer with his friends, watching movies and traveling. He has recently visited Argentina, Cuba, and Peru.
Tejido, Jomike
Jomike Tejido is an architect and award-winning illustrator and author who has made over 50 children’s books in his hometown in Manila. Some of which are Tagu-Taguan (Hide and Seek) (1st National Children’s book awards, Best Reads 2010), The Amazing Hat, and the Foldabots Toy Books. He has also worked with Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, and most recently, Scholastic. Jomike enjoys art inspired by nature and is reflective in his other venture as a painter on hand-woven mats. Apart from art, Jomike enjoys playing soccer, eating seafood, cooking and traveling to new places.
Jomike lives in Manila, Philippines with his wife and baby daughter, Sophia.
Maravillas, Jennifer
With Filipino and European roots, and with freckles from head to toe, Jennifer Maravillas feels as if she’s on a detective-like quest to understand as many different perspectives as possible. Her roots as an artist, meanwhile, go back to her training in ballet as a child. She sees her art as a kind of ballet performed on paper using a marker.
She rarely restricts herself to just a marker, though. Watercolour, spray paint and various other media are used in her illustrations. As a side project, she has made a map of Brooklyn out of garbage, and in future plans to try and map as much of the world as she can. On top of painting, her passions are anthropology and sociology.
Jennifer did an undergraduate degree is in Graphic Design at the University of Louisville and a graduate degree is in Mass Communication at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The techniques Jennifer uses are constantly changing, and her style often comes as a result of the medium she’s exploring at a given time. By and large she’s a mixed media artist, always trying new materials and combinations of them – typically they include watercolour markers, ink, spray paint, pencil, cut out paper, block printing, and Photoshop. Sometimes she allows a composition to evolve without knowing what the end result might be like, other times she has a clear idea in her head of what she wants.
Jennifer is fascinated by the digital process. She scans in every doodle and texture she draws or paints, keeping them for reference or for use as layers in new pieces.
Jennifer uses vibrant colour combinations as she builds up maps, cityscapes and scenery from hundreds of smaller handmade elements. Some of her influences include Werner Herzog, Mary Blair, Guy Debord, and Buckminster Fuller.
Reis, Thomas
Tom began work as senior art director for JP Morgan Chase in New York City, shortly after receiving his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. Two years later, he was illustrating for nationally-known publications, including Time magazine, Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, TV Guide, Barron's, Forbes and Smart Money. Corporate clients have included MGM, Dupont and Colgate. Throughout his career, Reis has also worked as a fine artist, producing work with all the refinement that one would expect from a classically trained painter. His paintings are represented in numerous permanent and private collections throughout the United States. Tom currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. (Text provided courtesy the Museum of Arts and Sciences.)
Carter, Abby
Abby has drawn all of her life. When she was eleven, she and her grandmother had a card business: Abby drew, and her grandmother sold. In college she studied art, but also liked science and nutrition, and wished there was a way to combine it all. Several years later, after she was married and had a daughter, she and her husband founded Fresh Samantha, the juice company, which fulfilled that dream. In addition to her graphics for Fresh Samantha, she has illustrated many picture books and chapter books for children. She says that she loves to draw odd characters, and hates to draw straight lines. Abby lives with her husband and two children in Connecticut.
Aspinall, Neal
Neal Aspinall does illustration, logos,
vintage luggage stickers, travel posters, typography, and is a big plus
in the coneptual department.
Neal does retro, type, logos, posters, icons, illustration, vintage luggage stickers, poster stamps & classic fruit crate labels. He also does a lot of sports & corporate conceptual images. Clients include Nordstrom, Hire.com, Infoworld, Macy's, Harley Davidson, Dell, & Southwest Airlines.
His work has appeared in CA, Society of Illustrators, PRINT, & GRAPHIS. Contact him today to get an estimate on a custom job, stock image, logo design, or purchase a print.
neal@nealaspinall.com
He works in Adobe Illustrator and images are emailed in a matter of seconds, & quality is maintained at
any size.
He was recently inducted into the Art Institute of Colorado's Hall of Fame.
Ching, Tracie
Tracie Ching is an illustrator and graphic designer living and working in Washington, DC. A self-taught digital artist, Tracie specializes in portraiture featuring complex, graphic line work with a limited palette - a tendency-turned-style after years of working in the medium of silkscreen prints.
While commissioned for a wide range of projects including commercial athletic apparel, editorial illustration, and gallery work, Tracie Ching is best known for her alternative movie posters.
Previous clients include 20th Century Fox, Adidas, AMC, CBS, Fortune Magazine, Google, GQ, Marvel, MGM, Redbull, The Guardian, The London Times, TIME, Sony Pictures
Shaffer, Chad J.
Intelligent illustration and flash animation for editorial, corporate, advertising and design firms. Keyword search over 1000 stock illustrations available online, direct from artist.
Recent clients include: Computer Associates, eQuest, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Ingram Micro, Ladies' Home Journal, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Scholastic, SHRM, Sprint, U.S. News and World Report and many more...
Bendell, Norm
Norm Bendell's witty style has been featured in some of the most successful campaigns in the history of advertising. He's won numerous awards for clients in both print and animation as well as for best selling books.
Whether it's a large ad campaign, a book or a small spot illustration, Bendell's background in art direction and design helps give him great insight for helping client's to successfully reach their goals. And he takes pride in making it a pleasant experience.
Farias, Carolina
Born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, Carolina began her career as a children’s book illustrator after working for several well-known animation studios. She currently lives in La Plata with her husband, Marcelo and their two beautiful children, Sara and Francisco. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in art, she began teaching at the university. She continues to teach with the same passion and dedication that is also evident in her illustrations. Over the years she has published books, sometimes as both the author and illustrator. Carolina likes to spend her free time drawing even while traveling with her family. She only needs a sharp pencil to keep her creativity flowing. Her artwork is created using a variety of mediums with a preference towards watercolors and acrylics. To date, Carolina is part of the White Ravens 2008 list for the Bologna Book Fair, where she has also been selected to represent Argentina.
Mjolsness, Jane
Illustrations for packaging, editorial, books and book covers, fashion, greeting cards. Illustrating complex emotional issues, womens issues, relationships and food in a stylized, simplistic, elegant manner with great attention to composition, color and line quality.
Clients: Allergan USA,
CF Napa (Tapeña Wines), What to Expect When You’re Expecting Foundation, Duncan Baird Publishers (London), Boston Market, Olive Garden, Marshall Field’s, Target, Visa Gold, American Airlines, Northwest Airlines,
US Government, Hershey’s, Mall of America,
The Washington Post, Faber&Faber, Hazelden, Pillsbury, AT&T, GlaxoSmithKline, EuroRSCG, Beringer Wines, Gerber Baby Products, FCB, BBDO, 3M, American Express, and many others.
KEYWORDS: Women, emotions, healthcare, decorative, stylized, conceptual, packaging, line, line with color
Napier, Martha
When Martha Napier took the leap and became a full-time freelance illustrator in 2013, the world of fashion design lost a wonderful creator, but the world of illustration gained an excellent artist. Martha’s vivid watercolours and loose, almost naïve style, have given a lighthearted lift to all kinds of interesting projects in fashion, advertising, editorial and more. She also does live painting for clients, and was named a top illustrator to watch on Instragram by InStyle magazine.
Martha was born in the Midwest, grew up in Germany, and today splits her time between Chicago and New York. She loves fashion – that much is clear – and her most admired designers include Miuccia Prada, Marni, and Phoebe Philo. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Matisse and Cy Twombly are three artists that inspire her.
Beyond art and fashion, she’s had a fascinating life. She’s travelled to the North Pole, and to the Galapagos Islands. “The only place I’ve seen a cactus, a flamingo and a penguin in the same location,” she says.
Martha has a BA in Studio Art from Wake Forest University, and was a Presidential Scholar at the same college in Fine Art. She discovered her love of fashion illustration at the Parsons School of Design, where she studied for a post grad degree in Fashion Design.
Watercolours are Martha’s main media, but she also uses markers, pencils and acrylics. She scans the work into Photoshop and uses the application to clean it up and colour correct it before delivering it to her clients.
Martha is very much a gestural painter, with a very fine skill in getting paints to flow from her brush and soak beautifully into the paper, and to mix with one another. Seen up close, it’s a gorgeous effect. Her work is vibrant and vivid as you can see, and full of joy and whimsy.
Cube
CUBE are a studio of CGI artists and designers who create stunning digital imagery and animations for the advertising, broadcast, design and online media sectors.
With over 25 years experience, each of our team are specialists in their own area and apply the same passion and skills to each project.
Utilizing the latest 3D software and digital techniques, we work on projects large and small, from single still illustrations to fully animated TV commercials.
We pride ourselves on being able to bring any visual idea to life, nothing is impossible with CGI.
Specializing in characters, realistic 3D, automotive and packaging work, we help clients realise their visual dreams with planning and efficiency. Our robust studio technical pipeline and adaptable team ensures all projects are given the attention they require without delay.
Zellmer, Tina
Traditional handmade collage, painted textures, pencil drawings, outlines, as well as digital techniques. Beautiful, powerful images with multiple layers to ‘read’, that harmoniously blend dreamy textures and ideas with stark and graphic elements.
Berg, Margaret
WATERCOLOR, PEN & INK.
Client List: Papyrus, American Greetings, International Greetings, Tervis, Georgia Pacific / Dixie Paperware, Creativore, The Tombras Group, Penguin Books, Women's Heath Magazine, Rachael Ray magazine etc.
Park, Jun
For more than 20 years, he has united his design experience and artistic skills to produce creative visual solutions for a host of international clients.
Jun's retro illustration style with muted color palettes and simpler-is-better
approaches that transports viewers back to the thirties and forties.
Jun's retro style work has received multiple honors from such industry
leaders as Communication Arts Annual (4 awards), the Society of
Illustrators of L.A. (3 awards) and Graphis Poster Annual 2010 gold award.
Holcroft, John
John studied Graphic Design at Sheffield, England. It was in the mid 90s that he succumbed to the lure of illustration. He started out painting in acrylic on canvas and was influenced by David Cutter and Edward Hopper. Always trying to keep his work fresh, John has reinvented his style half a dozen times since. His latest incarnation is a screen print effect created digitally and inspired from old adverts and packaging from the 50s. John likes to experiment with different markets. The versatile nature of his style allows him to explore more avenues. Mainly working in editorial, John’s past clients include: BBC, Reader’s Digest, Financial Times and The Guardian.
O'Hara, Colleen
Whimsical style ideal for kids and grown ups. Portraits. caricature and Graphic Illustration from naive to sophisticated to retro for Editorial, Advertising , Children's Books. Clients include: Toyota, Up with Paper, EK Success, Virgin Mobile, Condé Nast Traveler, Modern Bride, Philadelphia Home, Maxon Furniture, Scholastic Books, ChickaDee, Purell, Lubraderm, Bell XpressVu, British Petroleum and the Grammy Awards. Work delivered Digitally by email, ftp or on disk. KEYWORDS: Portraits, Teenage Children Lifestyle Magazine Cute Kids Animals Nature Wildlife Funny Humorous Girls Boys Adult Whimsical Retro Modern Contemporary Newspaper Digital Computer Illustrator Photoshop Fashion Design T Shirt Poster Retail Calendar Merchandise Environment Green Vintage Financial Conceptual Concepts Symbolism Scrapbooking
Eagle, Maceo
Maceo is a comp and storyboard artist with a background in graffiti art who specializes in competing last minute projects. He is dependable when it comes to those weird and the obscure jobs with impossible deadlines.
McGowan, Shane
Shane McGowan works in the editorial, advertising and publishing fields. Selected clients include Ford, Vodafone, New York Times, Wall St Journal, Time, Plan Germany, Vogue, Penguin, MacMillan, BBC, Royal Mail, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and Deutsche Bank. His work has been recognised by 3x3, Luerzer's Archive, Images, European Illustration and Illustrators Australia where he has won many Gold and Silver awards.
Cobb, Andrea
Andrea Cobb's artwork is a fusion of Illustration, Surface Pattern and Fine Art. She has worked with Chronicle Books, Georgia-Pacific, Kleenex, Toyota, Experience Life Magazine, Whole Foods Market, Utne Reader, The New York Times, New You Magazine, Steve Vai and many others. Andrea has created illustrations for editorials, books, products, textiles, album covers, advertisements, logos, greeting cards and the web.
Andrea has received recognition and awards from The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, The Beverage Packaging Global Design Awards, Print and AIGA. Andrea has been featured in interviews for Digital Creative Arts, SBS Digital Design and Dynamic Graphics magazine.
She loves Vincent Van Gogh, metaphysics, the forest, all things galactic, and the color red.
Graduated from Parsons School of Design, NYC
:: For Commissions, Licensing, Prints & General Inquiries ::
andrea@andreacobb.com
:: Purchase Prints Here ::
saatchionline.com/andreacobb
:: Other Online Portfolios ::
cargocollective.com/andreacobb
behance.net/andreacobb
Scott, Roy
Roy Scott illustration is a hybrid of digital, photo Illustration and traditional media. He creates compelling conceptual illustrations for editorial, annual reports, corporate, advertising, medical, portraits, financial, environmental and publishing clients around the world. His award winning work communicates innovative visual solutions with bold color, rich textures and intricate compositions. Roy's work is a perfect fit for art buyers looking to add originality to the mix.
Sloan, Michael
Michael Sloan creates illustrations for editorial, corporate, advertising, institutional, and publishing clients. His work has been awarded three silver medals from The Society of Illustrators in NYC. His illustrations first appeared in The New York Times Op-Ed page, and have been published in the New York Times Letters column over 100 times. He has shown his work in both solo and group exhibits in the USA and Hong Kong, and has lectured about his artwork at institutions such as The University of Connecticut, The Rhode Island School of Design, Hong Kong University, The Fashion Institute of Technology, and The Yale-China Association.
Lomax, Liz
Liz Lomax is an award-winning New York artist who incorporates sculpture, design, painting and photography into her work. She creates illustrations for advertising campaigns, magazines, newspapers, books and album covers. Her unique, hand-sculpted illustration style, which grew from a love of creating shoebox dioramas as a child, is a breath of fresh air in this age of computer generated imagery. She is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in her field and has been published in Communication Arts, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, TASCHEN art books and many prestigious books on illustration. She has chaired and juried illustration competitions and taught at Parsons, Pratt and lectured worldwide. Her clients include Barneys NY, Black Entertainment Television, Bloomberg, DC Comics, Entertainment Weekly, Lucky Brand Jeans, Miramax, Newsweek, Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, Rolling Stone, Saatchi & Saatchi, Seventeen, and VH1 Classic (and many more)
Kyle T. Webster Illustration
Editorial, book, poster, and advertising illustration with distinctive, exquisite line work. I work digitally but my art feels hand made. Vibrant color is a trademark, and concept is key.
Johnson, Lonni Sue
If you're looking for an conceptual watercolor to energize your message, please visit my web site to see more possibilities for business, healthcare, aviation, music and more. Illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Boston Globe, and for MoMA, IBM, Scholastic, Coca-Cola, Herman Miller,
Takashimaya, Harper-Collins, Brown Publishing Network, McGraw-Hill, Time-Life Books, Squibb, Compaq, Dell and many more. Work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, Graphis, Communication Arts, and more.
Ward, Mark
Mark Ward is an artist based in London.
His work is derived from his obsession with Americana. Raised on a diet of Saturday morning cartoons, BMX, skateboarding, and drawing, Mark has kept true to his roots soaking up every last candy wrapper and morphing them into his surreal and comical visions.
Growing up in the South London suburbs in the late 80’s, Mark was reading every possible American skateboard magazine he could get his hands on. He realized his grey London environment didn’t reflect the sunny California he was being sold in the magazines. Rolling through puddles in South London just doesn’t match up to cruising along Long Beach.
Mark’s work mixes the everyday mundane with surreal elements of the 80’s American bubble, encouraging the viewer to see things differently, and peel back the gloss on the pop imagery that he worshipped in his childhood.
A graduate of Central St Martins, Mark has been recognized by the Art Directors Club and received a Young Gun Award for his outstanding illustration work. He has exhibited internationally throughout Europe and America, in both solo and group shows. His work was also included in the Pop Art Design show at the Barbican.
Alongside his personal work, Mark creates bold imagery for a wide range of commercial opportunities including fashion, magazine covers, editorial and large scale installations. Projects include signature work for Stussy, Burton Snowboards, Nike and Columbia Records.
Clients include:
Adidas, Anomaly, Atlantic Records, Burton Snowboards, Cadburys, Columbia Records, Converse, Etnies, The Guardian, HarperCollins, Jordan Air, Medicom Toys, Microsoft, MTV, Nike, Puma, Pepsi, Red Bull, The Shortlist, Sony, Stussy, Studio Output, UsTwo