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Debut Artists Latest Additions

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Debut’s latest additions bring rich cultural experience from around the world.

Above: Joonho Brian Ko is an illustrator and a graphic designer currently based in Seoul.

He was born in South Korea, grew up in India, and studied in the UK. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in Illustration & Animation from the Kingston University of Art, He initially began his career as a graphic designer at Orla Kiely. Until later when he found his particular penchant in the visual experiment of modernizing the Asian folk aesthetics in the form of digital illustration.

His works have since been featured at Wepresent, DNMD, and It’sNiceThat.

Influenced by Asian folklore and art, Mid-century modern designs, and pop culture, he puts his focus on highlighting simplified figures with meticulous details that penetrate through the theme.

Reasoning from this, his creative process begins by shaping out the blank space. He believes that “to fully complete, start by emptying.” In the accomplishment of this, he seeks to explore in-depth study of a theme there is either visually, textually, or conceptually.

Joonho is committed to any project there is where his illustration style can be interestingly applied, as proven from his experience with various Editorial illustrations, Site-Specific Media Performance, and Animation.

His recent clients include : The North Face, Folio Society, Robb Report, Refinery29, Coex Seoul, Korean-Arab Cultural Centre, and Korean National Folk Museum.

 

Xinmei Liu was born in Shanghai, China and now lives in New York, where she works as a freelance illustrator. Xinmei has a BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute and graduated from the School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Illustration in 2020. In her artistic practice, Xinmei combines digital and analogue methods to create unique textures while bringing linework and bright colors together to create moods. She produces highly conceptual imagery that also has rich narrative details. Her personal work is mostly inspired by her cultural background, social issues, childhood experience and history. Vintage ads and packaging, Asian calendar posters and propaganda posters are among the influences that shaped her style. Xinmei has worked with various clients on a range of projects in the editorial and publishing fields. Her previous clients include: The New York Times, Medium, Amazon Publishing, Scholastic, Society6, Shanghai Museum amongst others. Her dream jobs would be for brands and publications that are related to travel, food or lifestyle, theater and concert posters, and projects that have a rich cultural context. To some degree, illustrating is a channel through which she learns about the world. Xinmei’s work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration (selected), 3x3 International Illustration Shows (Gold), Illustration West, Communication Arts Illustration Annual and other renowned professional annuals. She and her work has been featured on Creative Review, Creative Boom, PLAIN Magazine, Girls Club Asia and other press. In addition to illustrating, Xinmei also works as a part-time comic book editor and designer for Paradise Systems, an independent publisher in Brooklyn.
hitandrun is a small creative studio specialising in CGI and digital illustration. Originally formed as an outlet for the collaborative projects of Sculpture graduates Greg and Zennor Meeson, hitandrun has evolved with their practice to become a multi-disciplinary creative studio. Their work is underpinned by their skill and knowledge of working in three dimensions and the images they produce have a natural focus on expressing physical form and structure. While specialising in creative imagery using CGI, retouching and photography, hitandrun are continually exploring new creative processes. Never limiting themselves to any one way of working, they frequently adopt new methods of production to facilitate the wilder dreams of their clients. Recent projects have seen hitandrun create room-sized exhibition displays, cgi-animations, interior visualisations and a 6 metre long, physical architects model for permanent museum display. Clients include: Mercedes-Benz World, LG, Sky, Which?, Tesla Motors, The Sunday Times, Scholastic, New York Magazine, Time Out, GQ, The Financial Times, Inc. , The Radio Times, Mens Health, LA magazine, Euromoney, Entrepreneur Media Inc., Illustrated London News, The Economist Group, Redactive Media Group, The Telegraph and The Times.
Lydon Hayes
Kanith Thailamthong Kanith Thailamthong grew up in Bangkok in  a Chinese-Thai family and has always been in a cross-culture environment. She is interested in human behavior and experimenting  by mixing and matching simple objects in order to create a new visual environment and  interesting narratives. Her personal works are often about being a female in Eastern culture; what women often feel but can not speak and the the single beauty standard/stereotype imposed by the patriarchy.  
Laurie Greasley
Nathan Ward is a London based Image Maker, Set Designer and Animator. He has a particular interest in handmade objects, as a vehicle for realising ideas. Nathan works extensively within the field of paper-craft and enjoys pushing the possibilities of paper as a material. In his home studio in South London, Nathan creates intricately crafted paper illustrations and animations, including large-scale sets, window displays and installations. Nathan has built sets, props and models for Google, Jo Malone, Aquascutum, Harry Winston, Escape Hunt, Links of London, Air Wick, The Vegan Society, The School of Life and Tom Rosenthal. Clients he has worked for include the Royal Opera House, G.F Smith, Kingston University, John Lewis & Partners, The English National Opera, Compass Collective, Mount Street Printers and Fantoche International Animation Film Festival.
JaceyTec