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Graphic artist who frequently collaborates with forward-thinking creatives in music, architecture, curation, education and more; pushing his traditional discipline of choice, letterpress printing.
Last time I spoke to Anthony Burrill was back in August but in the meantime he's been working on, among other things, a project that I was really excited about when I saw it come out. And that's his work on Bob Dylan's new video for the track Not Dark Yet. To sum it up, it's Bob Dylan at his best, Magnum photography and Anthony's artwork – so, I was definitely not disappointed.(Photo by Dunja Opalko)
It's been two years and nearly a hundred episodes since we launched The Creative Boom Podcast. With 2023 fast approaching, we thought a Christmas Special might be in order. One that celebrates how far we've come and pays tribute to the people who helped us get here but also allows us to look ahead and consider what's next. What better way to do so than return to our very first guest? And that's Malcolm Garrett. The esteemed graphic designer and creative director also happens to be one of the co-founders of Design Manchester, an annual festival in our home city and one that holds a special place on the international design calendar. It's actually where we headed last month to meet Malcolm but also catch up with other former guests of our show plus meet some new names. It seemed particularly fitting to make our Christmas Special during Design Manchester, as this year's theme is about Legacy – something that honours the late great Professor David Crow of the Manchester School of Art, who was one of the champions and supporters of the festival. Held in the Benzie Building of the esteemed art school, the event meant that everyone was reflecting on the legacy of Design Manchester as well as their own creative journeys, and how that legacy plays into the future. It was an honour to capture some of that reflection for Creative Boom – much of which we'll share now. And to just add a little fun, we asked everyone for their own Christmas memories – a time of year that means something different from one person to the next. But whether good or bad, it was agreed that the festive season brings people together. And I also asked about new year resolutions and how they feel about 2023. We kicked things off with Malcolm but then also chatted with former Creative Review editor Patrick Burgoyne, creative director and stylist Harris Elliott, graphic designer and artist Ian Swift aka Swifty, graphic artist Anthony Burrill, designer and artist Sarah Boris, artist and illustrator Stanley Chow, designer and digital whizz Zoë Hitchen, material and performance artist and artistic director Naitiemu Nyanjom, designer and illustrator Jane Bowyer, designer Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic, and Sir Misha Black Awards Chairman and Arts University Bournemouth Honorary Fellow, Mary V Mullin. That's it for Season Five of The Creative Boom Podcast. We're going to take a short break, but we will be back in 2023 with lots of new guests, covering many different themes – topics important to you as a creative professional. Until then, from myself and everyone at Creative Boom, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and peaceful New Year.
My guest joining me today on the 5th episode of create great is graphic artist Anthony Burrill - Anthony combines a knack for simplicity that packs a punch with analogue craft skills and powerful, positive messages. Burrill frequently collaborates with other forward-thinking creatives across disciplines spanning music, architecture, curation, education and more; pushing his traditional discipline of choice, letterpress printing, into bold new territories. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and has been exhibited in museums around the world, including the Barbican Art Gallery, the Walker Art Center and the Design Museum, London.
Anthony Burrill combines his love for analogue craft skills with positive messages. His work is instantly recognizable, his pieces all bear the marks of his letterpress process and all its joyful idiosyncrasies. His work is also held in the permanent collections of many museums and exhibited all around the world.Photo: https://www.instagram.com/ionawolffphoto/
Andrew Claristidge, originally from Grenoble, member of parisian Duo ACID WASHED (Record Makers/Paris) is a composer, producer , Dj & live performer. Their single General Motors, Detroit, American gave them a standing in the electronic music scene. Andrew is a multi talented artist who works with musicians, fashion designers, choreographers, visual artists and brands such as Jean Michel Jarre, Agnès B., Jenny Packham, Torbjorn Roland, Anthony Burrill, Bugatti cars, Adidas, Puma & Intel. He was also involved in different acclaimed projects like Sex In Dallas, Los Massieras and Strangelets. He made remixes for Jimmy Somerville, Sebastien Tellier, Koudlam and Miss Kittin.Touring the world, he played at the infamous Berghain in Berlin, PS1 in New York, Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Rex Club in Paris and many more. His music oscillates without any frontiers, from Techno to Pop, Ambient to Electro and Psychedelic experiments to New Wave. (SOURCE : Resident Advisor) TrackID : listen to www.radiocampus.fr
Andrew Claristidge, originally from Grenoble, member of parisian Duo ACID WASHED (Record Makers/Paris) is a composer, producer , Dj & live performer. Their single General Motors, Detroit, American gave them a standing in the electronic music scene. Andrew is a multi talented artist who works with musicians, fashion designers, choreographers, visual artists and brands such as Jean Michel Jarre, Agnès B., Jenny Packham, Torbjorn Roland, Anthony Burrill, Bugatti cars, Adidas, Puma & Intel. He was also involved in different acclaimed projects like Sex In Dallas, Los Massieras and Strangelets. He made remixes for Jimmy Somerville, Sebastien Tellier, Koudlam and Miss Kittin.Touring the world, he played at the infamous Berghain in Berlin, PS1 in New York, Razzmatazz in Barcelona, Rex Club in Paris and many more. His music oscillates without any frontiers, from Techno to Pop, Ambient to Electro and Psychedelic experiments to New Wave. (SOURCE : Resident Advisor) TrackID : listen to www.radiocampus.fr
Anthony Burrill is a graphic artist, printmaker, and designer who’s known for his persuasive, up-beat, typographic works. In our conversation, Anthony discusses his design education and career as well as his early inspirations from travels across the world with his grandfather. We discuss the process of making new works, its importance to the finished pieces and creating work for the public realm. Finally, we talk about Anthony’s love of people and places, creating works that help to understand the world we live in. You can see Anthony's work at https://anthonyburrill.com/ This episode was presented by Justyna Green. Follow Justyna on Instagram. Music and production support by James Green. To get new weekly On Design podcast episodes directly in your inbox, sign up to our newsletter at https://ondesignpodcast.com/newsletter.
Graphic artist, print-maker and design Anthony Burrill is probably best known for his typographic prints and posters, including the now-famous 'Work Hard and Be Nice to People' – something that has become a mantra for the design community. Here, we chat about where his positive attitude comes from, his love of acid house, and why he still suffers from imposter syndrome.
Launching soon is The Creative Boom Podcast, featuring fun and honest conversations with creatives from all walks of life. Hosted by Creative Boom's founder and editor, Katy Cowan, you can expect guests such as Malcolm Garrett, Anthony Burrill, Lisa Maltby, Barney Ibbotson & Stan Chow, Jane Bowyer, Rankin, Emma Reynolds, Jon Burgerman, Abbey Lossing, and many more. In the same spirit as Creative Boom magazine, this podcast aims to celebrate, inspire and support the creative community.
We are recording this backstage of Kyoorius Designyatra 2019 Today I have Anthony Burrill with us on Audiogyan. He is a Graphic artist, print-maker and designer known for his persuasive, up-beat style of communication. Anthony is perhaps best known for his typographic, text-based compositions, including the now-famous “Work Hard and Be Nice to People” poster, which has become a mantra for the design community and beyond. He has a beautiful website which showcases his work, bio and process of him creating really iconic posters and more. He now lives and works in Kent. There are plenty of his interviews, videos and talks about his process of creating artwork and his experimentation online. What I would try and do today is ask few questions about the thought behind his messages and not the medium. Although medium is the message, but let's find out. Thank you Anthony for giving your time and it’s a real honour to have you on Audiogyan. Topic Messages from with Anthony Burrill. Questions Can you start by telling us, who is a print-maker? What does he or she do? A brief history / background about it? You have produced some iconic lines through your work. How do you arrive on these lines? If you can illustrate with any one example? “I like it. What is it?” Or may be "Tomorrow” - Just one word poster? What does it mean? Why do you think your work is appreciated so much? Is it the medium, means or the message? How do you see all these aspects? Your work, at least what I have seen online happens to be at the cusp of “art for art's sake” and “didactic artwork” - How would you respond to that? What is it's nature? I understand analog creations has warmth in it. But do you ever feel that it restricts creativity or pushing the boundaries since a lot has been experimented before digital came in. Or is it a conscious effort to create space in this noisy world, for you work?
Graphic design and art often interplay, with boundaries regularly blurred. One element that often to link the two is type; using individual letters or words in a way that either subverts or elevates linguistic communication. In this episode we meet two artists whose successful careers have layered an expressive approach to typography with traditional techniques. Alan Kitching, one of the world’s foremost practitioners of letterpress typographic design and printmaking talks to Anthony Burrill, a graphic artist, print-maker and designer, renowned for his persuasive, up-beat style of communication.
On this week’s The Stack we speak with photographer Nadav Kander, we look at “The Road Rat”, a new beautiful magazine about cars, and we speak to influential graphic artist Anthony Burrill.
On this episode, I'm talking with Bárbara Soalheiro, founder of the Mesa method, a five-day process for bringing people together and solving extraordinary problems. Sound familiar? Think again. Mesa is unlike any other accelerated work environment I've encountered. And Bárbara is the first facilitator I've heard say “don't trust the process.” We philosophize about power distribution, problem framing, Masculine vs Feminine leadership and the difference between a mystery and a quest. It's a jam-packed hour of conversation, so buckle in. Bárbara started the Mesa method based on a few fundamental principles, essential beliefs abut human nature and the future of work. That work is actually fun and what we're here to do. In the near future, the best and the brightest people will be impossible to hire. They will be busy doing their own thing If you want to solve the biggest problems you have to work with the best minds. The only way to work with the best is in short, clear bursts. The best way to work is to be 100% focused on results The Mesa method brings together internal stakeholders with external talent – in Bárbara's language, “pillars of knowledge” – for five days. This external talent shows up for day one with no briefing, with just the general mission in mind. And they end their week, not with user testing, like another sprint model you might have heard of, but with a prototype that is as close as possible to what the company will build. Barabara's perspective is a breath of fresh air and unconventional thinking, and her approach has resonated with some big names. She has been helping organizations such as Netflix, Google, Coca-Cola, Nestléand Samsung make bold moves and she's worked side by side with some of the most extraordinary professionals of our time, people like Kobe Bryant, Cindy Gallop, Perry Chen, Anthony Burrill, Fernando Meirelles and many others. Find more on Mesa here: website instagram vimeo twitter The space is in New York and New York is in the space: tokoro and three other Japanese words for space https://qz.com/1181019/the-japanese-words-for-space-could-change-your-view-of-the-world/ Oblique Strategies https://www.joshharrison.net/oblique-strategies/
In Episode One we travelled to the countryside to talk to Anthony Burrill. It was an insightful, funny and inspiring chat about his life, work and music. www.anthonyburrill.com
Baaaaad Design: Not bad design in terms of taste, but design for evil. Have you ever designed the packaging for a death ray gun? Or designed the branding for the new build lair of an evil genius. Or maybe you've designed a mailing list signup checkbox that defaults to checked on a form. Our ministers of gloom discuss what makes bad design. News takes the form of a wingéd serpent and spews forth its foul breath of portent – in which you'll find an all-female line up for 2000AD, why a low value of art equals theft, and an Anthony Burrill book from new imprint Volume. LOTR: Chapter 3 – Three is company
Baaaaad Design: Not bad design in terms of taste, but design for evil. Have you ever designed the packaging for a death ray gun? Or designed the branding for the new build lair of an evil genius. Or maybe you've designed a mailing list signup checkbox that defaults to checked on a form. Our ministers of gloom discuss what makes bad design. News takes the form of a wingéd serpent and spews forth its foul breath of portent – in which you'll find an all-female line up for 2000AD, why a low value of art equals theft, and an Anthony Burrill book from new imprint Volume. LOTR: Chapter 3 – Three is company
skip intro: 1:03 in this weeks episode of creative waffle, i chat to a true hero of mine... anthony burrill is a huge inspiration to me. from his bold motivational posters to his photocopy client artwork. when i met anthony in bristol back in october 2016 there was only 1 question i had in mind... "would you be on my podcast?" fortunately he very kindly said yes. this chat is one of my podcasts i have recorded, it felt very relevant to younger designers and especially design students. i hope you enjoy it and get some value from it. thanks. find anthony here:new book: https://vol.co/product/look-and-see/current book: http://anthonyburrill.com/shop/make-it-now/website: http://anthonyburrill.com more blue deer stuff... website: https://www.bluedeer.designblog/podcast: https://www.bluedeer.design/bloginstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluedeerdesigntwitter: https://www.twitter.com/bluedeerdesignfacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlueDeerDesignUK/email: hello@bluedeerdesign.co.uk
Are you born with creativity in you? Anthony Burrill certainly thinks so. From early connections with visual communication to his work as an artist Anthony's life is filled with creativity and avoiding the real world. In this episode we discuss Anthony's career path, leaving the house to go online (it really was like that) and how family and home are at the heart of his working life. Full show notes and links at: http://blogtacular.com/podcast