Computer Arts Gallery: March 2008

Job Wouters
Location Amsterdam
Job Typographic illustrator
Contact www.letman.com
Software Photoshop, InDesign

Job is a passionate letter designer and craftsman, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources including classical and Arabic calligraphy, graffiti, commercial lettering, his grandmother's handwriting and the Russian Constructivists. He plans to expand his skills into the areas of fashion and architecture.

While at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague, and later at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Job studied alongside Linda van Deursen, Experimental Jetset and Gerard Unger. He uses the working pseudonym Letman.

Horror Vacue "I never got to finish this design because it was rejected by the client," says Job. "Eastpak found it too childish. The idea was to make a pattern that completely covered the bag with letters - not a single blank space."

Job Wouters
Location Amsterdam
Job Typographic illustrator
Contact www.letman.com
Software Photoshop, InDesign

Job is a passionate letter designer and craftsman, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources including classical and Arabic calligraphy, graffiti, commercial lettering, his grandmother's handwriting and the Russian Constructivists. He plans to expand his skills into the areas of fashion and architecture.

While at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague, and later at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Job studied alongside Linda van Deursen, Experimental Jetset and Gerard Unger. He uses the working pseudonym Letman.

Disco Exota 2 A flyer that was the result of a collaboration between Job and Xelor. Each artist created a layer. In this case, Job created the pink layer.

Alistair Webb
Location London
Job MA student, Royal College of Art
Contact www.alistairwebb.co.uk
Software InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

"I think the simplest way to define my practice would be simple, thoughtful solutions that explore process and material," says Alistair. "My ideas are informed and inspired by my surroundings and I'm a strong believer in the collaborative process."

Since graduating with a BA last summer, Alistair completed placements with BB/ Saunders, Wallpaper* and Spin before beginning his MA. He works in London, lives in Bath and originally hails from Birmingham.

Hyperkit Lecture Alistair does a variety of work including catalogues, posters and self-initiated projects - he even designed a cake for Helvetica's 50th anniversary last year. This particular poster design was to promote a lecture given at Bath Spa University by the London-based studio, Hyperkit.

Marie Hansen
Location Copenhagen
Job Assistant art director
Contact hello@ordinarymary.dk
Software InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

In addition to working as an assistant art director at the communications bureau WeMadeThis A/S, Marie is a freelance designer working under the name Ordinarymary. With four years' experience since graduating with an MA in visual communication, her work includes graphic design, illustration, silk-screen prints and more. She's currently doing some illustration for Mesiro, which makes home entertainment PCs.

Cushions "I love to make graphic shapes and play with the colours and just decorate different products. I made the print for these cushions and sewed them together," she explains. Most of Marie's work combines hand-drawn images, photography, Photoshop and Illustrator, using lots of layers.

Dylan Martin
Location London
Job Graphic designer, illustrator
Contact www.friedbanana.co.uk
Software Illustrator, Photoshop

"I have always been inspired by music and record sleeve design, and I don't think the medium will ever die," says Dylan. "I think people will always want cool design whether it be for print or digital download."

With a background in graphic design for print, he also does web work. Feeling a desire to do more illustration, however, Dylan has taken the plunge as a freelancer. He's recently set up a design and illustration studio with a former agency colleague in order to focus on music and entertainment projects.

Rock Til U Die Logo Dylan is a huge guitar and rock fan, and this promo is being shown to record companies and music industry contacts as part of his portfolio. "I love creating bold shapes in Illustrator and playing with bold colour contrasts and gradients," he explains.

Gianluca Fallone
Location Buenos Aires
Job Graphic designer, illustrator
Contact www.gianlucafallone.com
Software Photoshop, Illustrator

Gianluca is one of the fresh wave of new talent we're seeing coming out of Argentina at the moment. He's self-taught and worked at the motion graphics studio Punga. Currently he's with the graphic design studio Rock Instrument Bureau. During his short career he's worked for clients including Nike, Pony, MTV, Cartoon Network, Zune, mun2 and Discovery Networks.

"I love type and illustration, and particularly like it when both are present," he says. "I've always been really inspired by music, it has been a trigger for many projects. Working at Punga was a great experience but my true passion lies in print, so that's probably why I left."

Lala This series of images represents Gianluca's friend Lala and various aspects of her personality. "She's the weirdest of my friends. This illustration is just the tip of the iceberg," he says.

Jonathan Jay Lee
Location Hong Kong/New York
Job Illustrator
Contact www.jonathanjaylee.com
Software InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

Jonathan's stated goals, in no particular order, are to complete a 300-page comic book, open a non-profit gallery, help build an engaging art scene in Hong Kong, learn to read and write in Chinese, try animation… and the list goes on.

"I'm inspired by pretty girls," he says. "The kind that makes your heart drop, or your stomach ache." Growing up in Hong Kong, Jonathan is now freelancing both in Hong Kong and New York. He's a recent graduate in Illustration at Parsons The New School for Design.

Divinity "I'm interested in Buddhist ideas of divinity. I like the idea of enlightenment. The illustration only started to make sense for me when I applied her shadow. That part came last and up until that point I didn't know what the illustration meant."

Jonathan Lowman
Location The Hague
Job Freelancer
Contact www.hellowman.nl
Software Photoshop, Illustrator

"What is funny is that every time I get back from holiday I notice that most of the holiday snaps are not of my lovely girlfriend topless on the beach but of shopfronts with logos and curious typefaces. My girlfriend is never amused," says Jonathan Looman, also known as Lowman.

With a passion for old logos and the kind of type used on corner-shop fronts, Jonathan is working as a freelancer while studying at the Utrecht Academy of Arts. He's done internships at Solar_Initiative and another at Machine. He's also busy setting up his own company and putting his Fingertype font into production.

Fingertype Everyone has a unique fingerprint - Jonathan has used his to create a unique ornamental typeface. "This typeface is the ultimate personal type design - no more issues of copyright or the maker's authenticity," he says. The font has been generating large amounts of traffic to his website.

Jonathan Lowman
Location The Hague
Job Freelancer
Contact www.hellowman.nl
Software Photoshop, Illustrator

"What is funny is that every time I get back from holiday I notice that most of the holiday snaps are not of my lovely girlfriend topless on the beach but of shopfronts with logos and curious typefaces. My girlfriend is never amused," says Jonathan Looman, also known as Lowman.

With a passion for old logos and the kind of type used on corner-shop fronts, Jonathan is working as a freelancer while studying at the Utrecht Academy of Arts. He's done internships at Solar_Initiative and another at Machine. He's also busy setting up his own company and putting his Fingertype font into production.

Drop Poster This poster was created to promote Drop, a night Jonathan organises in Amsterdam where musicians, DJs and visual artists can get together to display their skills: "The graphical style is a hotchpotch of many different typefaces from periods in history. It's great being your own client."

Micah Lidberg
Location Minneapolis, Minnesota
Job Illustrator
Contact www.micahlidberg.com
Software Photoshop

Currently inspired by things like nature, as well as anomalous or paranormal events, Micah uses Photoshop to colour his hand drawings. He loves patterns, but claims to have a curious sense of colour, and brings together chaos and bizarre narratives in his images, with manic levels of detail. "Sometimes I have a great deal of inspirational things flying around my head," he says. "Occasionally I draw them all at once to organise my thoughts."

Hailing from the frozen Midwest state of Minnesota, he studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and design and at the University of Brighton in the UK.

My Favourite Things "It features some of the things I was into in 2007 such as tornadoes, dinosaurs, jungles, crop circles, thunderbirds, polyhedrons, string theory, peacocks and UFOs," he says.