Contemporary designers



Chip Kidd
Born : Charles Kidd : September 12, 1964 (1964-09-12) Pennsylvania

Chip Kidd is a famous iconic book cover designer. Famed for the Jurrasic Park book cover amongst others.He has also written a few novels. His first being the Cheese Monkeys {2001}followed by another book the learners.In 2011.

He started work on the Batman novel: Death by design which is a graphic novel.Chip Kidd also collaborated with the writers of the animated series Batman the brave and the Bold" the episode

Bat-Mite Presents, Batman's Strangest cases.

Chip Kidd is an avid collector of Batman memorabilia hence his involvement with Batman illustrations/animations.

Vaughan Oliver (born 1957)

English born designer Vaughan Oliver who did a lot of work for the 4AD record label in the 80's and 90's ..Working on album cover designs for bands such as the Pixies on their Doolittle album and singles such as Here comes your man.Working for studio 23 envelope.He worked under the studio name of v23.Oliver set the tone for the graphic revolution in the 1980's. He is sited as a real influence in the music industry as a post punk designer in experimentining in type and print in the industry.

Peter Saville (born 9 October 1955}

Peter saville is an English Graphic designer born in Manchester and also a Director. He did a lot of work for Factory records famous for bands like New order, Joy Division and the Cure amongst others.He studied at manchester Polytechnic between 1975 - 1978.

He met up with the late Tony Wilson who was a Journalist and television Presenter who was head of factory records. Peter saville became a partner in factory records.He designed Joy Division's controversial album Closer.He later became director of Virgin records off shoot label Din Disc working for Bands such as Ultravox, Roxy Music , Duran Duran wham and Omd Martha and the Muffins, Suede, Peter Gabriel and Pulp.

He founded Peter saville Associates company mainly dealing with designs for Music Artists and record labels.He then closed that in the 1990's to join Pentagram. Eventually he got into designing for Selfridges,EMi, Pringle,Cristian Dior and Stellar Mcartney amongst many others.He also designed the 2010 England football shirt. He was also a featured character in the Film 24 Hour Party people based on the Tony Wilson factory record story.

Jonathan Barnbrook

Jonathan Banbrook was born in Luton England in 1966.A Graphic designer and a Tycographer He was trained at the St. Martin's college and the Royal college of Art.
He is most famed for his work on the David Bowie album cover Heathen.He also designed fonts is very well known for his work in Japan..

His work is well known through his exhibition Friendly fire at the dsign museum in London.

Oliver Jeffers

Born in Belfast in 1977.

He is an illustrator and designer and graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001. His designs have been used in picture books and Childrens books., notably Harper Collins UK and Penguin books. He has had exhibitions in Dublin,New York , London, Syndney, Washington DC. and Belfast . He has won various awards and in 2008 featured in the times best picture book illustrators.

Ridley Scott {Born November 30th 1937 Yorkshire England.}

In space no one can hear you scream!!

Ridley Scott famed for directing films such as Alien, Blade Runner,Gladiator and Crusaders, among other well known films originally came from a Graphic design background. He spent 7 years at Hartlepools Mecca college eventually going into advertising/Photography /Graphic design/typography.He met Art Kane in New York and after working making Hamurgers and Tea and eventually got his break getting into printing and photography.He soon branched out into designing for plays,dramas and got further into design work.He eventually chose betwen becoming a full time Designer or full time Directing and decided directing paid more. He met a number of contacts through agencies and got into doing commercials and eventually film.The film he directed called Duellist cost $900,000 dollars which today would amount to around an astounding $85 million dollars.

His new Film a further extension on his Alien films Prometheus is out in June 2012.