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Sam Gilbey is a freelance illustrator, graphic designer and art director. He has created graphics and illustrations, designed websites, and/or provided art direction for many well-known clients and brands, including Sony, Weetabix, The University of Manchester, MTV, O2, The BBC, Cadbury, Tiger Aspect Productions, The British Museum and Motorola. He has worked with several respected design agencies including NWYH, LBi and Preloaded.
A meticulous graphic designer, Sam loves to create in a wide range of styles, whether that's a cleanly designed, flexible template for a large scale accessible website, or letting loose on an experimental microsite. But rather than being restricted to the web, he also designs for print, and has created logos and branding solutions. Creativity drives him, not the medium.
Sam's unique illustrations have appeared in numerous publications, both on and offline all over the globe, from magazines such as Computer Arts and Official Playstation Magazine, to several books, exhibitions and comics. His observational, colourful and distinct painterly style often draws upon, and celebrates popular culture, whether that's movies, videogames, and/or the occassional large robot. A television project with Tiger Aspect Productions is also in the pipeline.
Sam has written, designed and illustrated dozens of articles for numerous creative industry magazines over the last few years. These include Computer Arts, Advanced Photoshop, Web Designer and Official Corel Painter Magazine, on everything from Photoshop, Painter and Illustrator software, to what inspires and motivates some of the top individuals and studios working in the creative industry today.
From 2003, Sam was first music editor, then senior editor for Pixelsurgeon, the popular design and art news portal, until the site finally closed in late 2007. He reviewed dozens of albums, movies and videogames for the site, and interviewed a number of musicians, movie directors and comedians, including Roots Manuva, Nitin Sawhney, The Cinematic Orchestra, Edgar Wright and Dave Gorman. He was also a key contributor to the popular Audiosurgeon podcasts, and sourced and edited the music.
He spoke alongside Pixelsurgeon's Jason Arber and Richard May at Semi Permanent London in 2005, took part in the WIWP Remixed exhibition in 2005, and had his work shown at BD4D Mannheim in 2004. His Shaun of the Dead illustration appeared in IDW's official graphic novel adaptation of the movie, and director Edgar Wright has a canvas of both that and Sam's Hot Fuzz piece in his office.
Sam lives in Bedford, England, with his fiancée and videogame consoles.
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October 29th, 2008
CIA Shop
The Central Illustration Agency have launched a brand new section to their website - a lovely shop where you can find some spankin works for sale from some of the top illustrators around.
October 15th, 2008
Per Gustafson Updates
Just got word that the talented Per Gustafson has updated both pergustafson.com and modernstyle.se with fresh commercial and personal works. Go see!
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September 24th, 2008
Faesthetic Issue 9 - UFOs
Faesthetic is a collection of art & oddities from around the world. Faesthetic #9 showcases 80 pages of original UFO themed art. Included in issue #9 are first hand accounts by artists of their UFO experiences, and an editorial by a noted UFO expert. Featuring high quality 2 color (black & fluorescent green) offset printing, and original cover art by MARS-1.
September 4th, 2008
Oktapodi
Oktapodi is a simply wonderful animated short. Video below, and official site here.
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August 13th, 2008
We Are Phi Tee Design
We are Phi design tees based on the golden ratio and aperiodic tiling. Their first design in the series is available now, and very sweet it is too. Each tee is printed on American Apparel FJ 2001 for a 100% ring spun cotton fine fit and with plastisol inks for a high-quality finish. Each tee comes in a gift box, individually numbered limited edition including a badge and print card.
July 31st, 2008
The Book of Surfing
A-Side Studio have designed The Book of Surfing, a new publication by Michael Fordham on surf culture which was put together for Bantam Press, showcasing classic graphics, films and photography, as well as everything from a meditation on Brian Wilson to an illustrated anatomy of surf wagons and surf T-shirts.
Watch a trailer here.
June 6th, 2008
The Eco Zoo
The Eco Zoo by McCann Erickson is really quite something. Be sure to check out the pop up books!
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May 29th, 2008
Wyld Stallyons & Bob Staake
Moving image studio Wyld Stallyons and illustrator Bob Staake have been working on bringing Bob's 'Struwwelpeter: The Story of the Thumb Sucker' tale to life. The experimental mini-collaboration is now available for all to see on their site.
Otaku Magazine: Japanese Horror Issue
Otaku Magazine is a Romanian publication which aims to promote visual artists both national and international.
'Kaidan', is the subject of the latest 4th issue, which Wikipedia describes as follows: "In its broadest sense, kaidan refers to any ghost or horror story, but it has an old-fashioned ring to it that carries the connotation of Edo period Japanese folktales."
Only 100 copies are available for international orders, so if you're interested you'll need to get moving.
Cover by Aya Kato
February 20th, 2008
Mostly Wanted
This isn't necessarily brand new work, but if you've never visited his site, or haven't been for a while, then the lovely illustrations to be found at Tom Bagshaw's Mostly Wanted portfolio are always worth a browse.
February 18th, 2008
Brand new ilovedust portfolio
It's been a long wait, but ilovedust have finally launched a brand new portfolio site. And very nice it is too, with a slew of impressive projects for numerous clients.
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February 12th, 2008
Houyhnhnms Challenge 08
Houyhnhnms aims to become a hub of audiovisual and advertising trends for online TV, in an environment where brands can test new ideas and creative concepts.
Their challenge for 2008 is this: "Create a thirty second spot about yourself or your agency, production company or studio with the following slogan; 'Inspire the world. It can be changed!'"
The winner of the challenge will be the spot that garners the highest score from the community. Each 'Houyhnhner' will be able to compete with up to three pieces. The first prize will be 5,000 Euros in cash and Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection. The second and third prizes will receive Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium.
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