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Edd Carr

Markus Karlsson — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:56:40 +0000

Edd Carr is a Yorkshire born artist whose work explores our relationship with the natural world through experimental, ecologically driven photographic processes. Working across moving image, print and animation, he uses plant-developed 35mm film, cyanotype animation, soil prints and hand-crafted emulsions, combining analogue methods with digital layering to build fragile, dreamlike worlds.

He co-runs The Sustainable Darkroom, a non-profit pioneering low-toxicity approach to photography, and has received awards such as the Film London Best Artist Filmmaker Award (2025) and the Channel 4 Random Acts Award.

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Katie Scott

Markus Karlsson — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:01:02 +0000

Katie Scott graduated from the University of Brighton in 2011, coming to public attention for her illustrations for Bombay Bicycle Club. Since then her hand-drawn fine line work and digital watercolouring have found their way into people’s homes, whether through posters, wine labels, newspapers or wallpaper. Her preoccupation with the natural world was allowed to run wild with the publication of her first book, Animalium, which in 2014 was awarded the Sunday Times Children’s Book of The Year.

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Angela Kirkwood

Markus Karlsson — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:03:03 +0000

Angela Kirkwood is an artist and animation director based in Glasgow. Her autobiographical and humorous work has seen her create an abundance of self-directed projects as well as campaigns for clients including Selfridges, Nike, Adult Swim and The New York Times. Angela is fascinated by the boundless possibilities of her creative process and this infectious energy permeates throughout her work.

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Vasilis Marmatakis

Markus Karlsson — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:49:35 +0000

Vasilis Marmatakis is a Greek graphic artist and creative director whose concept-driven approach has helped redefine the visual language of contemporary cinema. Renowned for creating bold, metaphorical identities for internationally acclaimed films, his work is widely praised for resisting conventional marketing in favour of striking, symbolic imagery that deepens a film’s emotional and thematic resonance. Marmatakis’s long-standing collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, as well as notable commissions within music and publishing have positioned him as a key creative voice in global design culture, with his work recognised for its originality, confidence and lasting influence.

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Robert Beatty

Markus Karlsson — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:50:35 +0000

Robert Beatty is an artist and musician based in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

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Kate Gibb

MASTER Admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:38:55 +0000

Kate Gibb is a silkscreen and print obsessive. Her early studies in printed textiles fuel her inherent love for colour, texture and pattern, which continue to provide the base for her works.

She is well known for her music-based artworks, in particular for her long standing relationship with The Chemical Brothers, as well as for her collaborations on brand projects for the likes of Hermés, Dries Van Noten and Stussy.

Kate is inspired by printing that is process-led; utilising the chances, the hiccups and happy accidents that her unorthodox approach throws her way. Her informal, playful and explorative manner reflects her practice as predominantly intuitive and self taught.

Her recent projects include a commission for the SS26 Burberry fashion campaign, collaborating with Lane & Associates, as well as working alongside Sony Music Entertainment on sleeve art re-issues for the iconic band Pink Floyd.

Alongside her print based artworks and her commercial illustration practice, Kate is also an educator, working most recently at Liverpool School of Art and Brighton University.

Based in London, the rest of her time is spent exploring the nature and nuance of screen-printing, exhibiting and selling works in private homes and galleries globally.

Clients:

Folk Clothing, Burberry, Lane&Associates, Apple, Sony Music Entertainment, Paul McCartney & MPL Music Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, UGG, Hermés, Sunspel, Dries Van Noten, British Vogue, STUSSY, Penguin Random House, The Guardian & Observer, Pentagram.

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Winston Hacking

Markus Karlsson — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:07:05 +0000

Winston Hacking is an award winning filmmaker and artist who is best known for his collaborations with Flying Lotus, Run The Jewels, Animal Collective and Andy Shauf. His passion lies in conjuring up hybrid works that are equal parts contemporary collage and early cinematic illusion. Capturing anomalies and combining analogue and digital techniques, his explorative work has garnered millions of views online and has been featured by The New York Times, Juxtapoz and Vogue.

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Emi Ueoka

Markus Karlsson — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:02:25 +0000

Emi Ueoka (b. 1981, Japan) is an artist working primarily in pencil. She studied in the United Kingdom, exhibiting life drawings at the National Portrait Gallery as a high school student, and graduated in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins, London. In 2011 she began her career as an illustrator with commissions including British Vogue, The New York Times, Shiseido and Herman Miller. Youth and informal scenes characterise her work.

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Bráulio Amado

Markus Karlsson — Mon, 16 May 2022 12:27:41 +0000

Bráulio Amado is a Portuguese graphic designer and illustrator living in New York City. His prolific output takes the form of vibrant and energetic posters, record covers, editorial illustrations, films and self published books. His broad creative approach has seen him work with an amazing array of clients and collaborators including The New York Times, Hermès, Frank Ocean, Roisin Murphy, Uniqlo, Opening Ceremony, Rapha and too many more to mention.

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Alfie Dwyer

Markus Karlsson — Mon, 16 May 2022 15:32:34 +0000

Alfie Dwyer makes films that are short, surreal voyages into absurd and beautiful worlds. Much of his influence comes from lucid dreaming; he likes to think of his videos as brief dips into these passing worlds.

The disorienting feeling of passing from one dream/space to another is emulated in the twisting and fast-moving nature of Dwyer’s animations, playing with images in a way that takes people by surprise. Absurdity and comedy also feature widely in his work: he enjoys making people laugh, using images that strike people as unusual or absurd.

Dwyer’s recent projects include looping films for Adult Swim to promote the 5th season of the Eric Andre show, a mind-bending experimental collaboration between Dwyer, Timeboy, Thundercat, and Flying Lotus to celebrate the first ever Brainfeeder Grammy win for Best Progressive R&B Album, and animation and direction for Sad Night Dynamite’s ‘Smoke Hole’ and ‘Krunk’ single releases.

Dwyer is currently in the early stages of work on his debut short film, working title How To Walk Through Walls: a combination of street performance, comedy, and surreal animation, aiming to teach the audience how to walk through walls.

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