Multilink Magazine

Born in France 1976, Stephane Tartelin start mixing traditional drawings with computer graphics at 15 years old. After 5 years of professional visual communication school, he fulfilled his childhood dream and started working for various video games development studios in Paris.
Operating as a freelance graphic designer, illustrator and motion designer since January 2000, he now works for a range of international advertising, broadcast and publishing clients and continues to explore all facets of graphic design, animation, 3D, photography and illustration .

www.tartelin.com

Gez Fry is a half British, half Japanese illustrator living and working in Tokyo. Check out his website portfolio for more images and info…

Gez Fry online Gallery

Also worth a read is this PingMag interview with him from back in June 06 which does a nice job of putting the work in context. You’re going to be sick when you realise just how long he’s actually been drawing for!

Hydro 74 is Joshua M Smith, a real visual force to be reckoned with. It’s not easy to carve out anything resembling a truly original style in regards to vector illustration but this guy seems to hit the nail on the head every time. A constant source of inspiration, his type treatments are some of the best reference material for logo design I’ve seen in a while. Interview/showcase in the upcoming issue maybe?

Hydro74 website

Canadian based artist Joy Ang. Nice selection of styles going on, particularly in the illustration section.

Joy Ang website

Maria’s Sea is a collection of short illustrated stories from Dan Kim’s Clone.Manga project, added at random as they’re completed. If you’re unfamiliar with Dans work you can download multilink #4 and get a feel for his uniquely abstract and often pretty dark approach to story telling. Parallel Star, the newest addition to Maria’s Sea is available now along with Karen which has been up there for a while now. Also, if you never checked Dans full length Paper XI, you missed something epic. It’s available to read online but you’d do well to track down a print version too if you can.

We ran an article about these guys and their film ‘Scratching The Surface: Japan’ back in Feb 2005 as part of the first pdf issue we put together. Having shaken off their old ‘Kwai Lo’ guise, the two main guys behind the project moved to new HQ in London where they’ve been busy producing some tasteful work under the new alias of ‘Studio Rarekwai‘. May 2007 saw the release of their book ‘RackGaki’; an eye popping showcase of Japanese graffiti that comes bundled with a stunning DVD produced in collaboration with Cinema Iloobia (another name that may be familiar to long time multilink readers). Check the trailer below…

Iloobia has passed me an article on filming this that I’ve put aside for the new issue early next year but you might want to think about picking up the DVD/book now as it’s been around for a while. Available from Laurence King Publishing in all good book stores…