STINE BELDEN ROED

STINE is an Illustrator from Norway, living in Bergen where it last year rained 80 days in a row. She has just completed a Bachelor Degree in Visual Communication at Bergen National Academy of the Arts. Stine Loves pencils, paper, lines, giraffes, flowers, birds, blind blues, colors, odd men with ties and suits. She hates chewing gum.

STEVEN HARRINGTON

STEVEN is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in South Pasadena. He studied Art at the Art Center in Pasadena, where he met Justin Krietemyer - with whom he started the design firm National Forest.

Beyond visual interests, Steven enjoys creating objects that other human beings can relate to- not quite nostalgic, but closer to a personal photograph or memory. "I've always felt a stronger connection to tangible, printed objects, so that's what I like to make. Most of the ideas for my personal works are created from past experiences and childhood memories. But I prefer creative freedom in my personal work so the concepts and ideas are different from piece to piece. I feel like my process is very intuitive, so many of the meanings or messages are often revealed after the piece is created. When creating personal works, I like to keep most of my ideas fairly subtle or ambiguous; I think it's important to let the viewer make their own assumptions about messages and meanings within a body of work. Another person's interpretation, according to his or her own experiences, is very interesting and significant to me."

Stevens work is Influenced by images, fashion and graphics discovered in Time Life Encyclopedias from 1965-1972, thrift stores, and The Moody Blues, his art might be termed contextual objectivism. That is, he views each piece he creates as a tangible object that is part and parcel of a larger context; the object helps define the context and the context helps define the object. Whatever feel or meaning the observer takes away from the piece belongs to the observer. Nothing is shoved down his or her throat. Discovery is the key. Some of his most recent projects include a four board series for Burton snowboards, contributions to the French clothing line Sixpack, and a series of silkscreen prints based on the idea of “community.” He has exhibited work in Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Montreal, Tokyo, Melbourne, Barcelona and now here in dear old Blighty.

STEF GRINDLEY

Stef Grindley aka SELF CTRL is an artist designer and when he gets the chance is prone to the odd trundle on the skateboard stick. He likes patterns, type, German prog-rock, spray mount prit stick and wax crayons. He lives in Birmingham with his wife Yumi & daughter Nina (who are both absolute bonafide rulers). Stef is also a member of the OUTCROWD COLLECTIVE.

STEFAN MARX

When skateboard art is being shown in Europe, STEFAN cannot be far away. Stefan “Gomes“ Marx has a unmistakable style and that's what an artist is about - when you recognize immediately what or whom you have in front of you. This artist from Hamburg raised eyebrows a long time ago with his works for several German skate companies and of course with his company LOUSIN LIVIN'. Under this brand Stefan produces in regular steps t-shirt editions that you can buy in skateshops. So if you find a shirt one of these days don't think twice, they'll never come again. Stefan has also had numerous publications printed through NIEVES.

SHOBO SHOBO

MEDHI HERCBERG is an illustrator, musician, artist and teacher of multimedia graphic design in Paris. His project SHOBOSHOBO originally involved Japanese visual artists and musicians and toured through Japan as an art bus with interactive and collaborative happenings taking place in different places. Shoboshobo is also creating clothes mostly monster full color jumpers and t-shirts. His graphic works have featured in several magazines and books such as Kramers Ergot, Pictoplasma, Rojo, Nieves, Dazed & confused, Pig, Tokyon, Code, and Modart. He collaborates with several artists such as Hendrik Hegray, Jonas Delaborde, Andy Bolus, Yu Matsuoka, Stephane Prigent, Andrea Crews, Sumi ink Club. And showed his works in several countries such as Japan, France, Canada, Sweden, Italy, USA, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, South America and now the UK.

SCOTT BARRY

SCOTT previously worked as Creative Director for ORDINARY KIDS for 3 years in San Francisco. He is currently working with the chaps at MEKANISM.


SARAJO FRIEDEN

Sarajo works from a studio in Los Angeles that borders Thai Town, Little Armenia and Koreatown, with Guatemalan and Salvadoran bakeries nearby. The cacophony of hand-painted signs in a variety of languages serves as both inspiration and a daily reminder that the ordinary is often extraordinary and nothing is what it seems. A host of disparate vocabularies from the worlds of fine, folk and decorative art, including Persian minatures, Shaker trance drawings, Japanese ukiyo-e, and her Hungarian great aunt's embroidery, can be found wandering through Sarajo's images. Using open ended narratives, folk tales, abstraction and the juxtaposition of discordant images, Sarajo gives form to the human experience as she sees it. Her work has been exhibited in Galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, North Carolina, Minnesota, New York, Rome, Venice, Naples and Australia.

RYAN WALLER

NEW COLLEGE BEAT.

RYAN JACOB SMITH

ROB RYAN

I was born in Cyprus in 1962. My mother was from Charleville in County Cork in Ireland. My father was from Tipperary Town also in Ireland. They came to England in the 50's. I was born in Cyprus because my dad was in the RAF (Royal Air Force), he was a steward in the Sergeants Mess. I was always interested in drawing as a young boy, when my dad bought a new shirt he would give me the smooth white card inside it, this was a real treat! The best surface ever to draw on. Well... I'm older now, but I'm still doing the same things, drawing and writing, trying to make sense of things. I don't know.

RUI TENREIRO

ROBERT SAMUEL HANSON

ROBIN CAMERON

Rocamm is ROBIN CAMERON.
Born 1981 in the interior of British Columbia.
Graduated with a BDes from ECIAD in 2004.
Lives and works in New York.
Shown work in Vancouver, Toronto, Seattle, Chicago and Tokyo.
Published works have appeared in Arkitip, Adbusters Magazine,
Made Magazine, Good Magazine, The Walrus, Tokion Magazine,
Faesthetic, The New York Times and Nieves Books.

Working primarily in drawing with an affinity for the hand touched & typography.
Has self-published several books including,
"Notions of the Faux Naive"
"Illustrators Union Almanac"
"The Blown Mind"
and most recently "The Never Mind"

Made countless zines including;
"A Series of Abstractions, Self Published"
"A Series of Beautiful Incidences"
"Short Stories about Contemporary Life"
and most recently "The Theory of Everything".

PHEW....who's a busy lady then.

RICK MYERS

RICK MYERS b. 1974 Manchester. Exhibitions/books; Funnel Vision Portable Museum/Footprintsinthesnow, Posters on Trees 1997-2004. Paper Poems, Bite Marks in Paper, three days 2006-2007. Current; Subscription Editions + Residue, Breath Studies Nov 2007/Valentines Day 08. Forthcoming prints/books; Studies for Words, Words to Breathe Inside.

RICHARD COLDICOTT

RICHARD T CLARKE

RICHARD T is an illustrator, maker of fine artifacts. His work is primarily crafted delicately by hand then manipulated through various analog and digital processes. He has so far investigated ideas of communication and process, in a multi-disciplinary creative manner. He also makes music and sound for film, animation, installations and live performance. Richard Clarke likes meeting new people, nostalgia, adventures, mistakes & glitches, obsessing over and making music and tea.He is currently busy wrestling several projects in his studio. He has worked with and made some interesting work for: La coste / 4wall / Designers Block / Rant / Supersweet / Enviros / Daytrotter. Com / Diego Garcia / Great Eskimo Hoax / The Cape Of Good Hope / Jonquil / The Task In Hand Records / YCN / The Illustrated Ape / If You Could / Container / Saatchi & Saatchi.

RANDY LAYBOURNE

RANDY was raised on the west coast of Canada (British Columbia) with mild bears and non-stop drizzle. High school in a small town taught me to run fast from large 4x4 trucks. After two years of community college, I travelled in Europe for a year with a backpack and a skateboard. That experience forced me to talk in many other languages, even if it was only a few words. I realized I did have a Canadian accent. Once back in North America, I went back to college, on the east coast of Canada (Halifax, Nova Scotia) to get Fine Art degree and a Visual Communications (design) degree. My introduction to California was through an internship at Snowboarder magazine, which led me back for more work with them and then a few other skateboard related companies. Now I'm headed home. Vancouver calls me back. I don't know what to expect other than rain and more time to do art stuff and take pictures and of course hang out with my new wife. I'll be back down in California for a solo art show at Oceanside's Swiv Tackle Circus gallery in Jan of 2009. After that we go back to the drizzel.

PETRA BORNER

PETRA is a Swedish artist based in London. Her works feature in fashion and interior design, on book jackets and in magazines as well as through advertising and packaging design. Currently she is creating embroidered wall hangings with designer Daniel Reynolds, and also collaborating with Faber Faber.

PATRICK GILDERSLEEVES

Born on the East Coast of England, Ipswich to be exact, in the mid 80's, and bestowed a cracking surname, MASTER GILDERSLEEVES is a true grafter, deeply passionate about Art & Illustration. He usually draws people dressed strangely; animals, plants, rocks and mountains. Patricks favourite materials to use are pencils, felt tips and paint.

OLA VASILJEVA

OLA lives and works in Amsterdam, NL. She is an interdisciplinary artist, mainly focusing on video and drawing.