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Ian ‘Swifty’ Swift is a dedicated graphic artist. Since embarking on his career at The Face magazine in 1986 he has pursued an individual course which has led him to specialise in the music industry and youth culture aesthetics. Equally at home with a club flyer or a complex movie title sequence, he…
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Founder of The Human League, Heaven 17, British Electric Foundation. 40-year career as record producer. Founder of Illustrious and 3D soundscape designer/composer. Born in 1956 in Sheffield, UK. After leaving school worked in computers for 3 years, in 1977 formed The Human League. Formed production company/label British Electric Foundation in 1980 and formed Heaven 17 the same…
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Tash has over 20 years of experience shaping future changemakers in the creative industry. She was previously programme leader of the BA and MA Graphic Design course at Salford University, and now facilitates the learning of worldwide postgraduate students that join the MA Digital Management and MA Digital Experience Design programmes at Hyper Island as…
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Malcolm Garrett is Creative Director at the design consultancy Images&Co, with offices in London and Manchester. Images&Co is a creative partnership with Kasper de Graaf that was first established in 1981, when together they produced the ground-breaking, style magazine ‘New Sounds New Styles’. Malcolm is widely regarded as a key influence on the development of…
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John Robb is a many-faceted creature. Bassist and singer for post-punk mainstays The Membranes, author, journalist, DJ, publisher, vegan behemoth and talking head, he’s all these things and more He grew up in Blackpool before punk rock came along and saved his life. Naively believing that you really could do what you wanted he went…
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Dave Kirkwood founded his art and design practice, DaveKirkwoodStudio, in 2007. Alongside their client work they develop experimental working models for generating unique solutions to core brand visual communications problems. Their commercial work is underpinned by a body of self-initiated projects and stimulated by the teaching they undertake. Previous projects include 3hundredand65 – a graphic…
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Edward is a specialist business advisor and consultant with over twenty years experience in music, fashion, art, design and the other related creative industries. He advises on how design thinking and creative processes can transform businesses from any sector, combined with the long-term view to conceive and develop exciting and creative concepts that frequently combine…
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