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INSECT
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LOCATION London, UK
JOB Design group
CONTACT www.insect.co.uk/2004/
SOFTWARE Photoshop and Illustrator
Insect, the London-based design
group, was set up by Luke Davies and
Paul Humphrey from a box room in
the Old Truman Brewery in 1997, and
became one of a handful of agencies
to work from the Brick Lane venue in
East London from day one.
 We saw the whole area explode
around us, remembers Paul
Humphrey.  But after two years of
music and club-related design work,
we felt it was time to expand and
moved to nearby Clerkenwell.
Now based in Old Street, the team
has employed another designer, but
still works primarily in the music and
youth sector of design  fusing
illustration, photography, typography
and taxidermy into its work.
Over the past two years, Insect has
also concentrated on producing art
prints for graffiti artist Banksy s
Pictures On Walls online gallery and
for exhibitions in London, Paris, New
York and Tokyo. The studio s clients
range from small record labels to
global brands such as Adidas, HP,
BBC Worldwide, Vans, Nike, Animal
New York, MTV and Levi s. And their
motto? Six legs are better than two!
1. MTV PARTY  This is one of ten
1x1m illos created for the VIP lounge at
the MTV party in London. It was
created in Illustrator 10, printed onto
plastic fomex board and mounted.
2. MISH MASH CLUB  This artwork,
created in Photoshop, was used for
poster and flyers for the club at Cargo.
3. SIN 1  A range of illustrated
graphics and prints, including
stickers, screen prints, a digital proof
and a view of a plan-chest draw.
4. NIKEID  This artwork was
commissioned to hang in London s
exclusive Nike ID lounge in Mayfair.
5. THE HILLS HAVE EYES  This
artwork, created for an exhibition at
Dreambagsandjaguarshoes 2003, was
created in Illustrator and printed out
as digital wallpaper measuring 5x10m.
It is now available as a screen print
from www.picturesonwalls.com.
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DONNIE BAUER
LOCATION Chicago, USA
JOB Freelance illustrator
CONTACT www.mydbmedia.com
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop
Donnie Bauer is a Chicago-based artist with an extensive
background in the arts and a focus on design and motion
graphics. He is currently accepting freelance work and
assisting with an online publication called Carpal Tunnel
Magazine (www.carpaltunnelmag.com).
 Most of my work is influenced by urban lifestyles and
organic forms, both beauty and chaos existing together in
one place, says Donnie, whose illustrative urban style
has caught the attention of XLR8R magazine and Ecko
Unlimited. Donnie is currently working on a series of
animated logo treatments for Ecko TV.
1. WHY?  This piece was originally created for Rockpile
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magazine, which ran an editorial on Why?  an indie-rock
band. They supplied me with a photo of the band and I
built the imagery around it. It s a great example of how
someone s music can motivate art. Why? is a band that
I ve followed for years and the artwork reflects my
interpretation of their music.
2. DESIGN GRAPHICS  I created this piece for Design
Graphics magazine. The idea was to create a purely
chaotic digital mess using imagery that would reflect
tools used in design. Each of the images was drawn in
Illustrator and the colouring and pixel effects were
implemented in Photoshop.
3. MF DOOM  This is a personal project of mine. MF
Doom is one of my favourite underground hip-hop artists
and I ve always been able to envision myself creating
imagery for someone like him. I guess the direction for
this image came from the music. MF Doom s style of
rapping is very free flowing and organic, but his image is
often ominous and dark. The artwork was all drawn in
Illustrator and coloured in Photoshop.
4. INSPIRE  This image was created for an art show in
Washington D.C. The show explored urban lifestyles and
its effect on art. It depicts a friend of mine in his  b-boy
stance surrounded by elements of graffiti and street art.
Half of the image was painted or drawn by hand and the
other half was created in Illustrator and Photoshop.
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To find out more about this section, please go to www.computerarts.co.uk/gallery/
PHIL WHEELER players in the network industry, hence the
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LOCATION Cadiz, Spain result  an interesting buddhist/corporate/
JOB Illustrator network crossover.
CONTACT www.thorogood.net
SOFTWARE Illustrator and Photoshop, 3. GARDEN  This image was created for a
piece about how technology has enhanced the
 I have a digital style that has a diverse range lifestyle of the freelancer. It was published in
of retro influences, says illustrator Phil the American Airways in-flight magazine.
Wheeler.  I take a vector-based approach, with
heavy use of paths, but work mainly in 4. LOVE&HATE  I was asked to create a
Photoshop because I find pixels so much more design for a promotional coaster. The resulting
editable and flexible. This is important if you image had a  love theme.
are a sufferer of chronic indecision.
1. BRIGHT LIGHTS  This was my competition-
winning T-shirt design for the annual Semi-
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Permanent event in New York. The competition
theme was  NYC, home of the super-species .
2. POWER  The brief for this cover design for
the Network World (US) Power issue was to
suggest the inner strength that drives the big
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HOW TO GET EXPOSED
Send your work to us, along with an explanation of your techniques and software,
the titles of each piece, your website details and email address. Images should
be sent as Mac or PC TIFF or JPEG files, on CD or DVD. If possible, please also
include a hard copy. We will endeavour to return all entries that provide an SAE.
All contributions are submitted on the basis of a non-exclusive worldwide licence
to publish, both in print and electronically.
Post hi-res files for print to: Exposure, Computer Arts magazine, Future
Publishing, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW.
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