Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920 and was educated there at the Cambridge School of Art. On the outbreak of the Second World War he left his studies to serve in the Royal Engineers and in 1942 was captured by the Japanese at Singapore, then held by them for three and a half years. He is a hugely successful graphic artist and pictorial satirist. As well as his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books and his invention of St Trinians, his work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions across the world and appears in several major American and European collections. He moved to Paris in 1961 and then, in 1975, to a remote village in Haute-Provence. He died on December 30th, 2011.

Peter Fowler

Pete’s inspiration for his work comes from nature, daily life, psychedelica, monsters, music  and much more. Forming a backdrop to his ever growing family of characters and creatures, his work inhabits a world where character design meets music and art in a weird and wonderful way. His unique, instantly recognizable approach and sense of playfulness and visual adventures have brought his work to the attention of people around the world. He has worked with various commercial clients as well as bands, music festivals, brands and charities. 

Neville Brody

Neville Brody, the British designer and art director, has now been at the forefront of graphic design for over two decades.Initially working in record cover design, Brody made his name largely through his revolutionary work as Art Director for the Face magazine. Other international magazine directions have included City Limits, Lei, Per Lui, Actuel and Arena, together with London's The Observer newspaper and magazine.

Brody has consistently pushed the boundaries of visual communication in all media through his experimental and challenging work, and continues to extend the visual languages we use through his exploratory creative expression.In 1988 Brody published the first of his two monographs , which became the world's best selling graphic design book. Combined sales now exceed 120,000. An accompanying exhibition of his work at the Victoria and Albert Museum attracted over 40,000 visitors before touring Europe and Japan.

J Otto Seiblod

J. Otto Seibold grew up in the small town of Martinez, California. As a child, he loved to draw, and he credits Lego and the cartoons Ultraman and Speed Racer as definitive influences on his later career. High school drafting classes led to work after graduation with big corporations in the area. He was working for Clorox when he first got the idea to try illustrating for a living his first solo design-and-illustration work was that year's company Christmas calendar.

In 1988, Seibold set off for Spain with a good friend, Vivian Walsh. Though they intended to rent a house and work on art and writing, respectively, they instead traveled through much of Europe, ran out of money, and fell in love. They moved back to San Francisco, where Seibold began doing commercial art in earnest. It was while flying across the country with their pampered dog, Dexter Lunch, that Walsh came up with the idea for their first children's picture book, Mr. Lunch Takes a Plane Ride.

J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh now live in San Francisco with their three children. Their second dog has since joined Mr. Lunch in children's book fame: she stars in Olive, the Other Reindeer.

David Carson

David Carson is principal and chief designer of David Carson Design, Inc. with offices in del mar,california and zurich Switzerland.

Carson graduated with “honors and distinction” from San Diego state university, where he received a BFA degree in sociology. A former professional surfer, he was ranked #9 in the world during his college days. Numerous groups including the New York Type Directors Club, American Center for Design and I.D. magazine have recognized his studio’s work with a wide range of clients in both the business and arts worlds. Carson and his work have been featured in over 180 magazine and newspaper articles around the world, including a feature in Newsweek magazine, and a front page article in the new york times . London-based Creative Review magazine dubbed Carson “Art Director of the Era.” The American Center for Design (Chicago) called his work on Ray Gun magazine “the most important work coming out of America.” His work on Beach Culture magazine won “Best Overall Design” and “Cover of the Year” from the Society of Publication Designers in New York.

Carson’s first book, with Lewis Blackwell, The End of Print, (forward by David Byrne) is the top selling graphic design book of all time, selling over 200,000 copies, and printed in 5 different languages.The work featured in The End of Print is the subject of various one-man exhibitions throughout Europe and Latin America,Asia and australia. Carson’s other titles include 2nd Sight, Fotografiks (with design historian Philip Meggs). He has two recently released books, TREK and The Book of Probes with Marshall McLuhan. David is also art director for the Mcluhan estate(“the medium is the message”).

Vaughn Oliver

“For inspiration you don’t have to look far, just look closely.”

Vaughn Oliver is a British graphic designer most famous for his work with studios 23 Envelope and V23. Throughout most of the 1980’s and 1990’s, both studios worked closely with record label 4AD and helped produce album covers for bands such as Bush, Dead Can Dance, The Breeders, Lush and Throwing Muses.

At 23 envelope Vaughn Oliver worked graphic design and typography while Nigel Griersen worked photography, creating artwork for nearly all of 4AD releases until 1987. Griersen left the following year and left Oliver working solely under the name V23. Over the years using his imagination and collaborative skills to launch a boom in graphic design through the 80’s and 90’s, leaving a legacy of influence on designers afterwards to discover the possibility of type and print.  

Saul Bass

Saul Bass born on May 8, 1920 in Bronx, New York was one of the greatest graphic designers of the 20th century. He became known for designing brilliant animated sequences for motion pictures. In his 40+ year career he did work for the best Hollywood movie makers including Otto Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese just to name a few.

He did work for numerous movies, including classics such as Psycho, Casino, West Side Story, Anatomy of a Murder and dozens of others. He won numerous awards, including an oscar in 1969 for best documentary for "Why Men Creates." In 1965        won Lion of San Marco award for Best Film about Adolescence for the film "The Searching Eye". In 1994 won Time-Machine Honorary Award and in 1984 won Special Award for the movie "Quest." He is also well known in the publishing/advertising industry, for example, he designed the corporate identity of United Airlines as well as poster for the Los Angeles Olympic games in 1984. He had a very successful career working on some of the best movies of the 20th century, he died on april 25h, 1996 in Los Angeles.