Joe Kelly
joe@joekellyillustration.com

Joe is an illustrator and cartoonist currently based in Leeds. He works in a retro comic book style to create art, illustrations and comics. Influenced by comic artists such as Jaime Hernandez, David Mazzuchelli and Brian Bolland, he has used these influences to develop a style of his own which is striking and distinctive. He has worked for a variety of clients to produce Editorial Illustrations, Comics, T-Shirt designs, Band Artwork as well as posters and flyer designs. He uses the traditional technique of pencilling and inking after which he uses Photoshop to add colour if needed.

Zahra Davidson
zahradavidson@hotmail.co.uk

Zahra is studying 'Graphic Arts & Design'. Collaborative design is important to her work. An obsessive subject area for Zahra is the human brain and mind. She is interested in creative ways of thinking, and how these can be learnt and taught as well as inspiration and where, when, how and why it appears. She pursues ideas about the capacity of our brains, and ways in which this can be shown. Ideas always come first, but hopefully never at the expense of the product. She loves the feel of printed matter; books, publications and zines. She enjoys making three dimensional objects and film or photograph them and also working with stop motion animation. She also loves writing and is finding ways to integrate this into her design work. She avidly waits to see how the internet can aid for design, communication and collaborative work, but first needs to cure her fear of technology.

Chris Pell
chrispellillustration@googlemail.com

Chris Pell has just graduated from The University of Brighton with a degree in illustration. His work really strikes a chord if you get the opportunity to see it in the flesh, with large scale worlds and narratives unfolding before your eyes. Raised in Shepshed, a small East Midlands town where – Chris explains – nothing really happens, so escaped at the first opportunity to study in Brighton. “I was never really into a lot of art when i was growing up, the school I went to was awful, but I got heavily into fantasy art, which I still love and draw inspiration from now.”

Jamie Thompson
info@james-thompson.co.uk

Jamie Thompson has just graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a degree in graphic design. His journey to this stage is not your regular design story. Having started a degree in medicine Jamie fell in love with photography during his first year and soon after quit. Having re-applied to study photography he transferred again while at Camberwell to the graphic design course.

Joseph Mann
Joseph@josephmann.co.uk

Joseph Mann is a graduate from the BA (Hons) Illustration course at the Glasgow School Of Art. His talents are pretty broad; some incredible model making, a real eye for stop-frame animation as well as a real gift for storytelling. He has always had a passion for model making and has recently been bringing it to life through the medium of stop motion animation – a discipline for which he’s developed a keen passion. By combining these two processes he hopes to continue creating small worlds for audiences to explore and engage with.

Mario Lewis
crf.ideas@gmail.com

Mario studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London after participating in a number of residency programs in the United States, Italy and the Caribbean. He attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Civitella Raneri and the Caribbean Contemporary Art school. Currently he works as an instructor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago at the department of Digital Media for animation. He is currently starting his own eco-friendly fashion label in Trinidad called By-My-Art. He was also responsible for initiating a collaborative project with artists’ from around the world called Galvanize in 2006: www.projectgalvanize.blogspot.com

Megumi Morioka
thou.shalt.always.think@gmail.com

In a BA Graphic Design at Saint Martins. She likes drawing, but loves illustration. She is desperate for some new experience and opportunities to meet other artists from various fields. Meg is passionate about exchanging ideas and art philosophy with other people. She graduated from an international school in Japan and decided to fly to London on her own at the age of 18 to discover herself and to test her passion for art. She is now 20 and is still young, fresh and powerful.

Michael Marczewski
mikechesky@hotmail.com

Currently studying a post-graduate at Chelsea, Mike likes to create interesting, neat and imaginative conceptual studies. This piece called ‘psycho’ comprises a train track mounted with a camera which then moves around to depict a short scene from Psycho. It’s hugely creative work like this that Michael likes to get involved in. Michael is interested in any project that is simple, artistic and achievable.