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New Studio / Airside Join Début Art

New Studio / Airside Join Début Art

We are very happy, and pleased, to now be representing the omnipresent Airside.

For those not up to speed, Airside is a creative agency working across the disciplines of graphic design, illustration, digital, interactive and moving image (more of that soon)

Founded in 1998 by Alex Maclean, Fred Deakin and Nat Hunter, Airside's unique approach has won many awards including recognition from D&AD, Bafta and Design Week.

Previous clients include: Barclays Bank, Bassetts, Battle Royale (Film), BBC Asian Network, Carhartt, Chanel, Clarks, Coca-Cola, eBay, Fiat, Ford, IBM, Konditor & Cook, Lemon Jelly, London Transport, Lucozade, MTV, Mastercard, Nokia, Orange, Sony Bravia, Surf, Varoom, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Trains and many many many more.

Airside are now available for commission for both illustration and motion projects. Let us know if you have any thing in mind.

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Lisa Sheehan / "It's a Rich Man's World"

Wired Magazine's Money 2025 money issue, aptly titled "It's a Rich Man's World," as imagined by artist Lisa Sheehan. How did she bring this piece to life? In her own words: "To make the credit card as authentic as possible I redrew the American Express pattern in Illustrator with the WIRED headline included. The card was then created in Cinema 4D and I drew the etching of Trump in photoshop. This all came together and was animated to give the feel of an apple pay screen. This was a multi disciplined approach, 2D textures drawn and then rendered in 3D." You can check out the animated piece and more of Lisa's work here.

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Welcome Sara Gironi Carnevale to Début Art

Welcome to Sara Gironi Carnevale who recently joined Début Art. Sara lives in Italy and has been illustrating since 2016. Sara works digitally but her process remains traditional in terms of brainstorming and composing. The illustrations are done in a sketchbook before refining them in Procreate and then finalising all artwork in Photoshop. Her work is vibrant, luminescent and dreamlike, with intricate details, strong concepts and compositions. Sara has the ability to present complex topics in a way that is visually easy to understand. Her illustrations can be seen in numerous magazines, newspapers, books and prints. She has also been experimenting with animation. See Sara's full portfolio here

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Eoin Ryan / TfL 25 Years

Eoin Ryan was commission to create one of a series of new illustration to commemorate 25 years of TfL. The aim of the campaign is to remind Londoners why they love TfL and highlight the rich connections, improvements, and influence it has brought to their lives over the past 25 years. More of Eoin's work can be viewed here.

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Celebrating 10 Years of Visualizing Science: Featuring Artist Simon Prades

AAAS hosted a recent gallery show, “Invisible, novel, and complex: A decade of visualizing science”, which was a 10-year retrospective show of visuals from Science magazine, being shown in their home office in Washington, DC. One of the highlights of the exhibit included a pair of pieces about Neurodegeneration by Simon Prades, originally commissioned for the October 2, 2020 issue of Science. Photography: Chrystal Smith/Science. Simon's full portfolio can be reviewed here.

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