Bruno Selles
Bruno Sellés is a self-taught graphic designer and typographer. In 1997, he founded Barcelona‑based design studio Vasava. As a cross‑media studio, Vasava develops projects that include branding, custom typography, illustration, interactive design, and animation. Their clients include Nike, Adobe, Diesel, Mango, Budweiser, Comme des Garçons, FC Barcelona, and the Washington Post. Bruno believes in passion, talent, and commitment in support of creativity, and he continually pushes the boundaries of visual communication.
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http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/power-creative-collaboration-9134438
“Collaboration is about allowing yourself to become contaminated with other people’s ideas and visions,” enthuses Bruno Sellés of Barcelona-based studio Vasava.
“It’s about getting involved in work that forces you to think and act differently. It’s those unpredictable ideas that are the product of different takes on a common project. Sometimes it takes that clash of personalities, styles or attitudes to come out with something new. Collaborative projects are great playgrounds to get out of your comfort zone and try new things. It’s exciting.”
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Peter Chadwick is the Founder and Creative Director of Popular, a London based design studio. He has a bachelor of arts degree in graphics and communication, and also does a lot of photography work. As a designer, Chadwick has produced record sleeves, campaigns and flyers for the likes of Primal Scream, Fatboy slim and Girls Aloud amongst many others, and is associate lecturer at Chelsea School of Art. In 2013 he completed the Desktop Publishing project – a fully functioning CMYK poster-printing table made in partnership with no fewer than nine fellow collaborators, proving he is no stranger to collaboration. For him, collaboration is about creativity beyond his own, and the enjoyment he finds in working with other creatives.
After studying graphics at the Chelsea School of Art, Chadwick began creating flyers for club and music promoters, and early on assisted Andrew Sutton, then-art director of legendary Creation records. From record sleeves to campaigns, Chadwick helped forge the identities for artists from Fatboy Slim to Hed Kandi, and clients from fashion and beyond.
" If the collaboration is effective, all parties will be able to bring a different set of skills and points of view to bear that will work harmoniously together. "
“I think all creatives have egos. It just depends on how we harness them,” says Chadwick of the potential for conflict on a collaborative project. “It’s preferable to work with humility and have appreciation for the input of others. If the team has been considered, such egotistical issues shouldn’t arise.
Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson is the co-founder and creative director of Dick&Jane, a Wellington-based design studio. He has worked on everything from rebranding the most hated brands in New Zealand, to evolving one of New Zealand's most loved ones. Dick&Jane has won numerous Best awards for graphic design while under Paul's directorship; including a gold award for the rebranding of Me Bank in 2015. Dick&Jane is the result of a pinky promise,
“Fun with Dick&Jane. This is our promise to our clients and more importantly our promise to ourselves.”
Kyra Clarke
Kyra Clarke is the Founder and Design Director of a Threaded – a studio of three arms’ with a focus on client-based projects, from print, web and digital, branding and identity, packaging and marketing campaigns to their international, award-winning design publication, Threaded Magazine and newly released Threaded Apparel. Based in New Zealand with an outpost in the USA and clients all over the world, collaboration is the key ingredient in her everyday design process.
Creative Freedom. It’s the Holy Grail, the ideal we all fight to achieve. It’s what motivated Kyra Clarke to conceive Threaded magazine in 2004 during her second year of a Bachelor of Design. An attempt to bridge the gap between established and emerging practice across the creative industries, Threaded magazine is now in it’s 10th year & is an internationally distributed, collaborative, bi-annual publication proudly produced in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Off the backbone of the magazine Clarke founded Threaded Media in 2007 - a boutique independent, award-winning design studio led by creative directors Kyra Clarke and Fiona Grieve
Threaded is a collaborative design publication that establishes a creative platform to offer insights into best practice across the creative industries and bridge the gap between recognised and emerging practice.
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“We are a ‘studio of two halves’ with a focus on client-based projects, from print, web and digital, branding and identity, packaging and marketing campaigns to our ongoing international curated editorial design project, Threaded magazine.
Our main objective is to create a creative community-focused publication that showcases the work of designers and the process that sits behind what we see - a ‘show and tell’ podium of creative and design practitioners worldwide".
“Collaboration is the key ingredient in our design process; clients actively participate and interact with our creative team through each design phase.”
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Dean Poole
http://www.idnworld.com/creators/?id=DeanPoole
Dean Poole .Currently Dean is Creative Director and Co-Founder of Alt Group, a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Auckland. The studio has been recognised with more than 250 national and international awards, works in CMYK, RGB and “things you bump into”. Dean says he “doesn’t like using computers that much; we just have to use them because everybody else has one.”
Dean Poole is co-founder and creative director of Alt Group, a multidisciplinary design company based in Auckland. He studied at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, majoring in sculpture. He is committed to raising the profile of New Zealand design locally and internationally. He has been involved in the establishment of the Design in Business Awards and the Better by Design program. Alt group has won more than 250 national and international awards, works in CMYK, RGB and “things you bump into”.
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http://idealog.co.nz/design/2010/10/black-pin-winner-dean-poole-he-makes-good-toast
“The great thing about design is that it’s the social life of ideas. You get to see ideas out in the wild rather than in a box and in a monitored, curated experience. Design is also much more collaborative. With design, you’re serving other people’s problems.”
“We like the social life of ideas, collaborating with other people, because the problem with working by yourself is the echo.”
http://desktopmag.com.au/careers/career-qa-series-dean-poole/#.Vz0JdDbfJgo
“…as a discipline, design is a social activity, not a solo pursuit. If you can’t collaborate, you can’t design.”
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