2. Tom Lane (also known as the Ginger
Monkey) illustrates for books,
magazines and others when he’s not
working on his own portfolio. His
art involves ‘play and
experimentation’.
Tom Lane grew up and lived in a
town known as the Shire, before
moving to Bristol with his wife to
be.
After Graduating from the
University of West England, his
freelance career quickly grew into a
specialized career in typography
and design, working with clients
mainly in Bristol, mostly in
advertising. This grew bigger and
3. I like Tom Lane’s style as it is very
modern, imaginative, and relies on tiny details
to make a picture what it is. His designs all show
clearly what is being said in the typography.
I could use Tom Lanes style in my own work by
taking his use of freeform typography inside
objects, or even literally making words look like
what they mean (team work makes the dream
work).
4. Saul Bass was an award winning graphic
designer and film maker, born May 8th 1920
in New York City. He studied at Brooklyn
college. After working with Otto Preminger
on a movie poster for his film ‘Carmen
Jones’, Otto was extremely impressed by
Saul’s work and asked him to produce a title
sequence for the film. Saul was one of the
first to realise the potential of the title
sequences in films.
Bass got famous from working on Otto
Preminger’s ‘Man with a golden arm’, after
creating the (controversial) cut out paper
image of a heroine addicts’ arm.
Bass went on to work with respected
directors such as Stanley Kubrick and Martin
Scorsese. Bass worked on film titles for 40
years before his death in 1996, his last work
being for Scorsese’s ‘Casino’.
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6. Lee is a 23 year old, award winning
graphic designer and artist from
Sheffield. His obsessions and
influences are ’35mm cameras and
horror and sci-fi VHS from the 80’s’.
He has been working freelance for 3
years, after gaining a foundation
degree in Graphic design and a
degree in illustration.
His work is based around his
hometown of Sheffield but he is also
featured in exhibitions and on the
internet.
His modern take on the 80’s
influences give a very retro feel to his
work.
7. Lee Bamforth’s style is to kind of reinvent
and modernize retro images and graphics.
Studying his work would give me
inspiration when trying to design ads for
reinventing an old product by giving it a
modern spin.
I have also noticed that he uses a lot of
Red in his works, maybe to show different
emotions such as compassion or anger.
