Deanne Cheuk

Deanne Cheuk

Deanne Cheuk is an illustrator, designer, art director and artist. She was born in Perth, Western Australia, and currently resides in New York.

Cheuk was labeled one of 34 "Young Guns" under the age of 30 by The Art Directors Club NY, one of "20 under 30" by Print Magazine and one of "The best people of 2004" by Time Magazine.

She is a contributor to Nippon Vogue, and Dazed & Confused magazine. Her work has been commissioned by numerous magazines including Nylon, BlackBook, The Fader, Flaunt and The New York Times Magazine, She has art directed and designed numerous magazines including Tokion.

Her work has been commissioned by such companies as Nike, Converse, Sprint, Target Corp, The Gap and MTV2.

As an art director and illustrator, Cheuk pioneered the use of illustrative typography in magazine design. Her often copied style of watercolor titles and hand drawn letterforms can be attributed to her background in illustration and her experiments with psychedelic art.

She is renowned for her self-published graphic 'zine of inspiration called Neomu[1] — which she funds and donates the proceeds from to charities worldwide. Neomu has been described as the smallest magazine in the world and was the first publication of its kind to feature no words and only images from contributors.

2005 saw the release of her first book called Mushroom Girls Virus[2].

Cheuk served on the Board of the New York Chapter of the AIGA from 2008-2010. She is one of the founding members of the Transitionist art movement.

References

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Deanne — is a given name, and may refer to: Deanne Bell (born c. 1980), American reality television show host Deanne Bergsma (born 1941), retired South African ballerina Deanne Berry (born 1980), Australian dancer and choreographer Deanne Bray (born 1971) …   Wikipedia

  • Ghostly International — Infobox record label name = Ghostly International image bg = parent = founded = 1999 founder = Samuel Valenti IV defunct = distributor = genre = Electronic country = US location = Ann Arbor, Michigan url = http://www.ghostly.comGhostly… …   Wikipedia

  • Curtin University — Motto Look Ever Forward Established 1966 Type Public …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”