4Talent magazine

For those of you who haven’t heard, unfortunately the 4Talent Networks team won’t be around in 2009.

What’s 4Talent ‘Networks’, you may cry? Well, we’re the bods who run 4Talent magazine, the 4Talent Awards and the splendid 4Talent editorial hubs in London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Belfast. Not to mention much of the on-the-ground activity you may have taken part in over the years - like Pilot, Raw Cuts, Radio HaHa and the Mobile Game Pitch.

Sad news indeed of course, but fear not: under the management of Jo Taylor and her team channel4.com/4talent will continue as your access point to all C4’s new talent commissioning strands - like 3 Minute Wonder, First Cut, Comedy Lab and Coming Up - not to mention work-related-learning schemes like Generation Next and the Work Experience Scheme.

Channel 4’s regional presence will continue through 4iP, a joint-funded initiative to encourage innovative public-service projects online.

And the outgoing team behind 4Talent Networks are busy hatching various plans to carry on the legacy with an innovative new resource, packed with insider knowledge and opportunities to get all you fiercely creative people with proven talent firmly on the radar of clients, employers and commissioners.

We’ll be knocking on your doors early in 2009. In the meantime we wish you all very Merry Christmas.

Nik Holmes has been in the picture making business since 2004 and in that time has racked up clients including Virgin, Microsoft, Orange and Mastercard. On a more personal creative front he produces the small press comic ‘Hardcore Bikini Allstars’ and is chief caretaker of the art site Zombiedollars.com

www.nikholmes.com

Neil Duerden, a self confessed mac monkey, creates pieces that combine elements from mixed media, photography that are interlaced with complex vectors to create pieces that always hit the brief for clients all around the world. His art is from the heart and this passion shows through clever usage of the latest technology. He is always hungry for commissions.

www.neilduerden.co.uk

Uberpup aka Ria, makes imagery about pop culture. The work is playful, surreal, and always uses distinctive intense color. The work is often collage based, chaotic in style and unrestrained. Recent clients include, My Design Company, Kessels Kramer and Purplethum Studio.

www.uberpup.net

Tracey is a UK based Illustrator. She spends most of her days drawing quirky characters in a mix of pencil, watercolour and collage with frequent stops for cups of tea. She was selected for Images 32, Refresh! New Talent and The Cheltenham Illustration Awards for both 2007 and 2008.

TraceyALong@aol.com

Garry Milne is a freelance illustrator, designer and artist. His work, although varying in media, is often linked by macabre characters, elegant lines, decorative boarders and considered detail. “I’m trying to produce work that projects the negative, sometimes ugly aspects of life as something that can be viewed as beautiful and appealing. The end product hopefully displays a sense of uneasy optimism.”

www.garrymilne.co.uk