Illustrators
11.05.09
posted by Scott Dadich
"Shapes are my friends."
Last April at
Semi-Permanent Sydney, I had the thrill of meeting and befriending one of my heroes, the terrific screenprinter
Kate Gibb. I've been in love with her work since I laid eyes on her first
record cover for Mono, back in 1997. Since that time, she's become the go-to artist for the Chemical Brothers, having created a career's worth of brilliant work for both full-length studio album covers and singles. Beyond that, she's created wide-ranging image campaigns for Dries Van Noten as well as Penguin books.
We got to collaborate a couple of months after Semi-Permanent on a project for WIRED called
"Living by Numbers", about the science of self-monitoring food and exercise. Looking back now at my upcoming stack of entries for Pub 45, I am reminded how happy I am with that story.
Not only is Kate a supreme talent, she's one of the loveliest people I've every had the privilege of meeting. Which is why I was thrilled to see this little
behind-the-scenes video from
SpineTV on her
blog. It's a quick little profile but a great introduction for anyone not familiar with her work.