Who is your favourite expert?

I am into a lot of styles and genres of artists, but mainly I enjoy cartoons, street art and graffiti, 'modern day' graphic design. One artist that I have always been interested in is Jon Burgerman, a UK based artist that uses bright colours and child like illustrations. As an artist I find him very appealing, eye capturing and exciting, but also as a personality. He isn't strict with himself, limits what he says or makes much sense when he does have an interview, much like his work, he is random, daring and provoking.

 Working across a variety of media that includes drawing, painting, print, animation, large scale murals and toy design, his art retains a hand-made, hand-drawn quality. A sense of self-deprecation, dry humour and modern-day anxiety imbues his work. He has quickly become a very popular artist with his use of unique and colourful doodle-artworks of swooping, intertwining lines and hyper-emotional characters.

Burgerman is defiantly an artist I aspire to be like. His work is very much influencing my own style, not only the nature of the design but the different prospect of medias that he is designing on. From surfboard for Ripcurl, to Pepsi Cans, even My Little Pony's, his work is always different and exciting, because it is not always on a flat white canvas. It shows me that I can design more than in a sketchbook or on a computer, I can potentially draw on anything, and make it into my own piece of artwork. I think to create work like this you have to be beyond imaginative and creative, you have to be inspired by literally everything around you, from other artist's work, to what the man is wearing on the seat next to you, or how you dinner looks at night, literally everything has to be a source of inspiration and design.

As an artist, Burgerman is the most original and broad minded creator I have come across in a long time, and with his constant array of fresh ideas and new characters I feel that he shall be a very big inspiration to me for years to come.


Bibliography
http://ucalibraryblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/jon-burgerman-video-interview/
http://english.mashkulture.net/2009/11/04/jon-burgerman-economies-of-scale-exhibit/