Contributors

Adam started his career in filmmaking, producing ads, pop promos and short film for clients such as BA, British Heart Foundation and bands from Divine Comedy to Skint’s Space Raiders. He has spent the past few years as a project manager running film-making competitions for teenagers whilst also pursuing his love of photography. He prefers to photograph people as they have better facial expressions than buildings or landscapes.

www.florianfilm.co.uk
adam@florianfilm.co.uk

Shelley is a freelance writer and researcher and has recently set up her own company, Arts DeVille, an agency offering high quality dance, music, pa work and project management services, which evolved from various work in the creative sector since her degree in Media, Culture and Society in 2003.

www.artsdeville.co.uk
info@artsdeville.co.uk

Rich Hardiman got into writing as a student journalist while at university, where he now works full time at the student union. In the absence of anything else compelling to do he’s moving on to a masters degree next year, which he hopes to pay for with freelance writing and interviewing.

richard.hardiman@gmail.com

Petra Stefankova is a London-based Slovakian illustrator and art director at Animacia.co.uk, 4Talent award winner 2007 and fellow at Royal Society of Arts working within animation, advertising and publishing. Her work has been featured in the Luerzer’s Archive 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, Images 31: The Best of British Illustration and Expose 6 World’s Finest New Digital Art.

www.yetanotherface.com

In the brief pockets of time between working as Deputy Editor on 4Talent Scotland, Development Researcher at Synchronicity Films and freelance Czech/Russian/French-English translator, Colette enjoys drinking Lambrini and watching TV. Bored of Facebook, she is using the time saved to write a rom-com about intergalactic arms-dealers. This will be awesome.

cmagee@channel4.co.uk

Jemillo aka illustrator Jem Robinson creates bold, colourful and graphic illustrations for design, advertising and publishing clients. She is influenced by graphic design and typography and her work tends to show hyper-realistic situations with recognisable landscapes twisted into new compositions, often with an industrial feel. Jem was selected to feature in The AOI Images annual (2006, 2008) and American Illustration 26 & 27 (2007, 2008.)

www.jemillo.com

Pete Ashton is a Birmingham-based blogger specialising in helping individuals, businesses and organisations understand, follow and engage with the social internet. He set up Created in Birmingham with Stef Lewandowski, a blog linking up the city’s creative and artistic communities, and ran it for a year, joint-winning the Guardian Media award for best blog in 2008. He’s been blogging for eight years and now offers his services through his digitial communications consultancy ASH-10.

http://ash10.com

http://peteashton.com

Rachel is a 24 year old journalist and MA student, studying Creative and Critical Writing at Sussex uni. She works at Projects Abroad, a gap year company, as Chief Writer, and freelances too. She is obsessed with travelling, medicine, the Weakerthans, ted.com, Eric Blair, collies, apocalypse and Agent Fox Mulder.

rach.george@gmail.com

Claire Spencer is a Birmingham-based writer, and spends her days occupied with financial journalism, and freelances on music and the creative arts under the cover of night. As well as writing for Financier Worldwide and 4Talent, she contributes to the BBC and online music zine Noize Makes Enemies.

virginiaisawitch@gmail.com

Baz Jobson creates attenshun for brands to bands, through web and print tricks to guerilla tactics. All with a bit of flair, plenty of passion and a pinch of love.

www.attenshun.co.uk
seeking@attenshun.co.uk

Stereographic is design and photography duo Sam & George. They combine their talents in graphics, photography and made media with distinctive ideas, creating visual arts for print, branding, animation and online. They have worked for clients including Warner Music, 679 Recordings, the BBC and Autodesk.

www.stereographic.co.uk

Rianna Williams, female, 21- seeks fun loving design company for long-term, meaningful relationship. Enjoys a variety of briefs and always loves a challenge. Dreams of long hours in the studio with the right firm. Would like to meet similar.

riannaw@hotmail.com

Anastasia is a London based freelance photographer and Visiting Tutor at Newport University. She has won a number of awards including The Guardian Weekend Photography Prize in 2006 and was a selected winner in the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Award last year. Her work has been exhibited at The Frontline Club and the Lodz Photo Festival in Poland. She has been commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Marie Claire and The National Museum of Wales.

www.anastasiataylorlind.co.uk

Alice is a second year Media and Communications student at Birmingham City University, specialising in Journalism. She is the UK communities correspondent for Environmental News Online.

www.environmentalnewsonline.com

James Hunt is a London-based freelancer who specialises in comics, console gaming and counterculture, as well as many other topics that do not begin with ‘c’. A former web-developer, he can currently be found writing for Comic Book Resources, Den of Geek, Micro Mart and his own review blog, Comics Daily.

rhunt@gmail.com

Paul Clarke’s career as a freelance music journalist has got him into all manner of weird situations across the world and his words into magazines like DJ, Jockey Slut and Touch, as well as the BBC and Channel 4 websites. He also moonlights as a restaurant critic for Metro.

paulburrito@hotmail.com

Chris is a student at Oxford University reading English. At the moment he’s freelancing for various magazines and most often write articles on creative design, culture or current affairs. A lot of his time is spent staying up very late finishing issues of the student newspaper, Cherwell, in his role as News Editor.

chris.baraniuk@some.ox.ac.uk

Suchandrika Chakrabarti is a London-based freelance journalist. She helps to edit Netribution and blogs at suchandrika.wordpress.com.

suchandrika@gmail.com

Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2002, Tony Hill has gone on to art direct and provide cultural insight for brands including Viewpoint magazine, The Future Laboratory, Weber Shandwick, Coca-Cola, MTV, Urban Outfitters, Rolls Royce and O2. Today, he runs Studio Kinglux, a trend and subculture information bureau based in Birmingham. Recent projects have sent him to Japan and Norway to comment on their local fashion scenes. Despite recognising the gems in amongst our cultural climate he still has a soft spot for Italian zombie films from the 1980’s.

www.kinglux.co.uk
tony@kinglux.co.uk

Editor of AU, the Northern Ireland based, music and lifestyle magazine, Francis Jones has written extensively on the Irish, national and international music scenes. He is also a longstanding music and arts contributor to print and online publications including Hot Press, DrownedInSound, and BBC Northern Ireland’s Across The Line.

Eileen Walsh is a freelance journalist and playwright, based in Derry, Northern Ireland, where she writes arts features, theatre reviews and book reviews for a number of publications. Having written a very successful series of radio dramas for children, broadcast last year on Inishowen Community Radio, she is currently working on a stage play.

Russell Hall is a freelance Graphic Designer with a particular interest in the music and fashion industries. He has produced work for major fashion brands such as Ben Sherman, Police & Morgan along with print and web projects for Birmingham City University. He is currently producing work for a variety industry sectors and established design agencies.

hello@russelljhall.com

www.russelljhall.com

Shannon Sickels is a theatre educator, creative programme designer, and writer. She has written for Diva, and Gay Community News. In New York City and now Belfast, she designed projects for children and young people, integrating arts, equality, and conflict resolution. She writes plays under her mother’s maiden name, Yee.

shannon_sickels@hotmail.com

Kate Beatty’s love for the hands-on processes of film and the darkroom is mirrored in the human touch she brings to her documentary photography. Winner of the Move Me award 2008 and Fuji Fashion award 2001, Kate has worked in America, Cuba and the Balkans as well as the UK on a range of commercial and self-funded projects.

photo@kate-beatty.co.uk
www.kate-beatty.co.uk

Lee Kennedy is a fresh thinking graphic designer and illustrator. Working out of both Nuneaton and Birmingham, Lee will get involved with just about any creative projects and organizations he can. He is currently working on several self-initiated and commissioned projects, and is always smiling about something.

kennedy.vision@gmail.com

Joe Wilkins is an illustrator and designer based in Oxford. His work is the product of the hand drawn combined with the digital via a grubby scanner. Joe believes he has the best job in the world, and has been known to occasionally dress as a robot.

jw.illustration@googlemail.com
www.josephwilkins.co.uk

Dave Remes is a digital photographer / artist specialising in fashion, advertising and editorial work. He also runs an award winning digital media agency called Collective Media, and has produced work for Capcom, Levi’s, Channel 4 and Orange as well as design and advertising agencies throughout the Midlands.

dave@collectivemediaagency.com
www.collectivemediaagency.com

Having begun his career with the BBC and then working in film visual effects, John made the decision to pursue photography - his first passion - after returning from an extended stay in Nepal and Indonesia. With an ongoing client base of commissioned editorial, corporate and advertising work, he specialises in portraits, fashion, cityscapes, landscapes, travel and interiors.

photographic@johnstewardson.co.uk
www.johnstewardson.co.uk

Fiona is a freelance writer and editor in Birmingham. She has written for, amongst others, 4Talent Magazine / 4Talent Central England, The Birmingham Post, BBC Birmingham online, whatsOnUK and Aesthetica and is the Articles Editor for Incorporating Writing magazine. She loves all things Performance and will shortly be launching and managing the Midlands regional site for whatsonstage.com.

fionaferguson22@yahoo.co.uk

Pinc is a freelance graphic designer/illustrator producing creative solutions and design concepts for a broad range of clients in the new media, entertainment and fashion sectors including Channel 4, 4Homes, 4Talent, TEN4 Magazine, Maverick Television, Dawes Cycles, Ram Records, Ben Sayers, Fenchurch, Scotsman Beverage Systems, Neon and streetwear brand Seventyseven.

nick@pincdesign.co.uk

www.pincdesign.co.uk

From illustration to web design to motion graphics and everything in between, Rachel works with a wide range of clients from the charity sector to the commercial and professional sectors. She has a passion for designer toys, pens, pencils and paint. Want to know anything else? Just ask!

rachy@sinful-design.com

www.sinful-design.com

Andy Baker was found as a small boy and raised in a cave by a family of meercats. It wasn’t until he was old enough that his adoptive parents decided to send him to “human school” to study. Much to their dissapointment he didn’t grow up to be a doctor like father meercat wanted and decided to become a famous artist instead. Over the years Andy has been involved with many an exciting project and can now be found pulling his hair out co-running the Birmingham International Comics Show. And doodling his little heart out at weddings and other social functions as a caricaturist. They don’t call him the fastest pencil in the West…Midlands for nuthin’ ya know.

andydoodlesbaker@yahoo.co.uk

www.thecomicsshow.co.uk

Ben Cormack is from the Isle of Eigg in North West Scotland. He graduated with a 1st class degree in Graphic Design in 2005. Since then he’s worked on a variety of creative projects including short films, illustration, photography, music … and building his house with his brother.

www.myspace.com/bensbedroombands

Matt Rothwell is a founding member of FIG21b creative group. After gaining experiece working at two of the biggest agencies in London he felt the need to have a closer relationship with his clients. Clients include From The Street Film Productions, Bella Union record label and their roster of bands; catering for both their print and digital needs.

www.fig21b.com

Raymond spent his childhood drawing cartoons and watching too much TV. He grew up to be an adult who liked drawing cartoons and watching too much TV.His work has been described as ‘falsely naive’. He’s done stuff for Time Out, Just 17, The Mail on Sunday, The Idler, Scholastic and Bloomsbury Books.

www.myspace.com/raymondweekes

Barry Falls is an illustrator based in Northern Ireland; he has been commissioned by a wide range of international clients to work on projects ranging from editorial illustration to high-end design and advertising. He currently lives amongst the thistles of Tyrone and enjoys art, music, love, life and all the good things. He would like to hear from you.

barryfalls@hotmail.com

Chris Dickason is an illustrator and an animator. He spends the majority of his time clicking and eating, drawing and sleeping. His commercial animation work has been used for titles and stings for channels such as BBC1, ITV and MTV Europe. Chris’ short animated films have been selected for festivals and screenings worldwide.

www.chrisdickason.co.uk

Tom Gaul is an illustrator based in East London and can often be found on various forms of public transport constantly filling sketchbooks with doodles, random thoughts and a collection of found objects. His clients include BBC Worldwide, Radio Times and The Guardian.

www.tomgaul.com

John is a freelance illustrator based in Northern Ireland. For the past 15 years he has produced work for some of the top design agencies and newspaper groups in Ireland and the US, but in recent times his unique style has caught the attention of magazines and children’s book publishers in the UK.

http://kennedycartoons.com

Cassie Leedham is a self-employed Graphic Designer, working as part of a collective of freelance creatives known as Kin. Cassie designs everything from logos to websites, but specialises in branding and print. She recently worked as the Graphic Designer on the film Control and is also one half of Bijou Woo, selling unusual wedding stationary.

www.kincreative.com
www.cassieleedham.com
cassie@cassieleedham.com

Simon Harper is a freelance journalist, copywriter and editor, specialising in writing about music and the creative industries in the West Midlands. He has written for the Birmingham Post, Bearded, Arena, the BBC and the Coventry Telegraph. Previous projects include Channel 4’s Directory of Disabled Contributors and the 4Homes website.

srharper@gmail.com

Production Editor

Helen is Production Editor of 4Talent magazine, and Assistant Web Editor for 4Talent Central England. As well as co-ordinating the day-to-day running of things, she is regularly scouring the country for the best creative talent - and finding an appropriate pedestal to put them on.

helen@4talentmagazine.com

Deputy Editor

When she’s not deputising for the lovely Nick, Catherine is commissioning editor for 4Talent Central England. She has also written for GQ online, The Observer and was senior staff writer on Hotdog film magazine for two years.

catherine@4talentmagazine.com

Sarah is a recent graphic design graduate from Edinburgh. She has a particular interest in typography and has contributed to Skinny magazine in Edinburgh, as well as creating a typographic magazine about mechanical cranes.

sarah.chanter@gmail.com

TBFH is a graduate of the world famous Crayola Institute of New York, from where he earned his Black Belt in Illustration & Character Design (learning from his master, Sensai Wax). Clients include: Honda, Disney, Nickelodeon, BBC Movies, Macmillan Books, Time Out London, The Guide, The Observer, FHM, Computer Arts, DDB London, TBWA London, EVB (San Francisco) amongst others. Advertising. Editorial. Enjoyment. The Boy just loves to draw.

www.tbfh.com

Editor

Nick is Senior Site Editor of 4Talent and Editor of 4Talent magazine, managing a team of Commissioning Editors in London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Belfast. As a freelance writer and copy editor he has worked for various magazines, newspapers and websites including Channel 4, The Guardian, Blowback, Temper BMC and lastminute.com.

nick@4talentmagazine.com