Computer Arts Gallery: April 2006

INSECT
LOCATION London, UK
JOB Design group
CONTACT www.insect.co.uk/2004/
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator

Insect, the London-based design group, was set up by Luke Davies and Paul Humphrey from a box room in the Old Truman Brewery in 1997, and became one of a handful of agencies to work from the Brick Lane venue in East London from day one.

"We saw the whole area explode around us," remembers Paul Humphrey. "But after two years of music and club-related design work, we felt it was time to expand and moved to nearby Clerkenwell."

Now based in Old Street, the team has employed another designer, but still works primarily in the music and youth sector of design - fusing illustration, photography, typography and taxidermy into its work.

Over the past two years, Insect has also concentrated on producing art prints for graffiti artist Banksy's Pictures On Walls online gallery and for exhibitions in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. The studio's clients range from small record labels to global brands such as Adidas, HP, BBC Worldwide, Vans, Nike, Animal New York, MTV and Levi's. And their motto? Six legs are better than two!

MTV PARTY "This is one of ten 1x1m illos created for the VIP lounge at the MTV party in London. It was created in Illustrator 10, printed onto plastic fomex board and mounted."

INSECT
LOCATION London, UK
JOB Design group
CONTACT www.insect.co.uk/2004/
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator

Insect, the London-based design group, was set up by Luke Davies and Paul Humphrey from a box room in the Old Truman Brewery in 1997, and became one of a handful of agencies to work from the Brick Lane venue in East London from day one.

"We saw the whole area explode around us," remembers Paul Humphrey. "But after two years of music and club-related design work, we felt it was time to expand and moved to nearby Clerkenwell."

Now based in Old Street, the team has employed another designer, but still works primarily in the music and youth sector of design - fusing illustration, photography, typography and taxidermy into its work.

Over the past two years, Insect has also concentrated on producing art prints for graffiti artist Banksy's Pictures On Walls online gallery and for exhibitions in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. The studio's clients range from small record labels to global brands such as Adidas, HP, BBC Worldwide, Vans, Nike, Animal New York, MTV and Levi's. And their motto? Six legs are better than two!

MISH MASH CLUB "This artwork, created in Photoshop, was used for poster and flyers for the club at Cargo."

INSECT
LOCATION London, UK
JOB Design group
CONTACT www.insect.co.uk/2004/
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator

Insect, the London-based design group, was set up by Luke Davies and Paul Humphrey from a box room in the Old Truman Brewery in 1997, and became one of a handful of agencies to work from the Brick Lane venue in East London from day one.

"We saw the whole area explode around us," remembers Paul Humphrey. "But after two years of music and club-related design work, we felt it was time to expand and moved to nearby Clerkenwell."

Now based in Old Street, the team has employed another designer, but still works primarily in the music and youth sector of design - fusing illustration, photography, typography and taxidermy into its work.

Over the past two years, Insect has also concentrated on producing art prints for graffiti artist Banksy's Pictures On Walls online gallery and for exhibitions in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. The studio's clients range from small record labels to global brands such as Adidas, HP, BBC Worldwide, Vans, Nike, Animal New York, MTV and Levi's. And their motto? Six legs are better than two!

SIN 1 "A range of illustrated graphics and prints, including stickers, screen prints, a digital proof and a view of a plan-chest draw."

INSECT
LOCATION London, UK
JOB Design group
CONTACT www.insect.co.uk/2004/
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator

Insect, the London-based design group, was set up by Luke Davies and Paul Humphrey from a box room in the Old Truman Brewery in 1997, and became one of a handful of agencies to work from the Brick Lane venue in East London from day one.

"We saw the whole area explode around us," remembers Paul Humphrey. "But after two years of music and club-related design work, we felt it was time to expand and moved to nearby Clerkenwell."

Now based in Old Street, the team has employed another designer, but still works primarily in the music and youth sector of design - fusing illustration, photography, typography and taxidermy into its work.

Over the past two years, Insect has also concentrated on producing art prints for graffiti artist Banksy's Pictures On Walls online gallery and for exhibitions in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. The studio's clients range from small record labels to global brands such as Adidas, HP, BBC Worldwide, Vans, Nike, Animal New York, MTV and Levi's. And their motto? Six legs are better than two!

NIKEID "This artwork was commissioned to hang in London's exclusive Nike ID lounge in Mayfair."

INSECT
LOCATION London, UK
JOB Design group
CONTACT www.insect.co.uk/2004/
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator

Insect, the London-based design group, was set up by Luke Davies and Paul Humphrey from a box room in the Old Truman Brewery in 1997, and became one of a handful of agencies to work from the Brick Lane venue in East London from day one.

"We saw the whole area explode around us," remembers Paul Humphrey. "But after two years of music and club-related design work, we felt it was time to expand and moved to nearby Clerkenwell."

Now based in Old Street, the team has employed another designer, but still works primarily in the music and youth sector of design - fusing illustration, photography, typography and taxidermy into its work.

Over the past two years, Insect has also concentrated on producing art prints for graffiti artist Banksy's Pictures On Walls online gallery and for exhibitions in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. The studio's clients range from small record labels to global brands such as Adidas, HP, BBC Worldwide, Vans, Nike, Animal New York, MTV and Levi's. And their motto? Six legs are better than two!

THE HILLS HAVE EYES "This artwork, created for an exhibition at Dreambagsandjaguarshoes 2003, was created in Illustrator and printed out as digital wallpaper measuring 5x10m. It is now available as a screen print from www.picturesonwalls.com."

DONNIE BAUER
LOCATION Chicago, USA
JOB Freelance illustrator
CONTACT www.mydbmedia.com
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop

Donnie Bauer is a Chicago-based artist with an extensive background in the arts and a focus on design and motion graphics. He is currently accepting freelance work and assisting with an online publication called Carpal Tunnel Magazine.

"Most of my work is influenced by urban lifestyles and organic forms, both beauty and chaos existing together in one place," says Donnie, whose illustrative urban style has caught the attention of XLR8R magazine and Ecko Unlimited. Donnie is currently working on a series of animated logo treatments for Ecko TV.

WHY? "This piece was originally created for Rockpile magazine, which ran an editorial on Why? - an indie-rock band. They supplied me with a photo of the band and I built the imagery around it. It's a great example of how someone's music can motivate art. Why? is a band that I've followed for years and the artwork reflects my interpretation of their music."

DONNIE BAUER
LOCATION Chicago, USA
JOB Freelance illustrator
CONTACT www.mydbmedia.com
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop

Donnie Bauer is a Chicago-based artist with an extensive background in the arts and a focus on design and motion graphics. He is currently accepting freelance work and assisting with an online publication called Carpal Tunnel Magazine.

"Most of my work is influenced by urban lifestyles and organic forms, both beauty and chaos existing together in one place," says Donnie, whose illustrative urban style has caught the attention of XLR8R magazine and Ecko Unlimited. Donnie is currently working on a series of animated logo treatments for Ecko TV.

DESIGN GRAPHICS "I created this piece for Design Graphics magazine. The idea was to create a purely chaotic digital mess using imagery that would reflect tools used in design. Each of the images was drawn in Illustrator and the colouring and pixel effects were implemented in Photoshop."

DONNIE BAUER
LOCATION Chicago, USA
JOB Freelance illustrator
CONTACT www.mydbmedia.com
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop

Donnie Bauer is a Chicago-based artist with an extensive background in the arts and a focus on design and motion graphics. He is currently accepting freelance work and assisting with an online publication called Carpal Tunnel Magazine.

"Most of my work is influenced by urban lifestyles and organic forms, both beauty and chaos existing together in one place," says Donnie, whose illustrative urban style has caught the attention of XLR8R magazine and Ecko Unlimited. Donnie is currently working on a series of animated logo treatments for Ecko TV.

MF DOOM "This is a personal project of mine. MF Doom is one of my favourite underground hip-hop artists and I've always been able to envision myself creating imagery for someone like him. I guess the direction for this image came from the music. MF Doom's style of rapping is very free flowing and organic, but his image is often ominous and dark. The artwork was all drawn in Illustrator and coloured in Photoshop."

DONNIE BAUER
LOCATION Chicago, USA
JOB Freelance illustrator
CONTACT www.mydbmedia.com
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop

Donnie Bauer is a Chicago-based artist with an extensive background in the arts and a focus on design and motion graphics. He is currently accepting freelance work and assisting with an online publication called Carpal Tunnel Magazine.

"Most of my work is influenced by urban lifestyles and organic forms, both beauty and chaos existing together in one place," says Donnie, whose illustrative urban style has caught the attention of XLR8R magazine and Ecko Unlimited. Donnie is currently working on a series of animated logo treatments for Ecko TV.

INSPIRE "This image was created for an art show in Washington D.C. The show explored urban lifestyles and its effect on art. It depicts a friend of mine in his 'b-boy' stance surrounded by elements of graffiti and street art. Half of the image was painted or drawn by hand and the other half was created in Illustrator and Photoshop."

PHIL WHEELER
LOCATION Cadiz, Spain
JOB Illustrator
CONTACT www.thorogood.net
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop,

"I have a digital style that has a diverse range of retro influences," says illustrator Phil Wheeler. "I take a vector-based approach, with heavy use of paths, but work mainly in Photoshop because I find pixels so much more editable and flexible. This is important if you are a sufferer of chronic indecision."

BRIGHT LIGHTS "This was my competition-winning T-shirt design for the annual Semi- Permanent event in New York. The competition theme was 'NYC, home of the super-species'."

PHIL WHEELER
LOCATION Cadiz, Spain
JOB Illustrator
CONTACT www.thorogood.net
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop,

"I have a digital style that has a diverse range of retro influences," says illustrator Phil Wheeler. "I take a vector-based approach, with heavy use of paths, but work mainly in Photoshop because I find pixels so much more editable and flexible. This is important if you are a sufferer of chronic indecision."

POWER "The brief for this cover design for the Network World (US) Power issue was to suggest the inner strength that drives the big players in the network industry, hence the result - an interesting buddhist/corporate/ network crossover."

PHIL WHEELER
LOCATION Cadiz, Spain
JOB Illustrator
CONTACT www.thorogood.net
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop,

"I have a digital style that has a diverse range of retro influences," says illustrator Phil Wheeler. "I take a vector-based approach, with heavy use of paths, but work mainly in Photoshop because I find pixels so much more editable and flexible. This is important if you are a sufferer of chronic indecision."

GARDEN "This image was created for a piece about how technology has enhanced the lifestyle of the freelancer. It was published in the American Airways in-flight magazine."