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IdN Extra 01: Cut&Paste

From Sketch to Production

The making of a work of art: 50+ creatives from 11 cities brought together by the Cut&Paste competition review their own efforts, revealing the choices they made along the way – the inspirations, the mental blocks, the wrong tunings, the serendipitous discoveries. And how they might do it all again in a different medium if they had the chance.

Jason Munn

Oakland, USA

Arising from a love of independent music, design and making for the sake of making, his posters soon became a fixture on the local independent-music scene.

Mate Steinforth

Berlin, Germany / New York, USA

Steinforth is also known as Mateuniverse as his VJ alias, specializing in animations, performing at various art and electronica events with his moving-pictures work.

Daniel de Graaf

New Jersey, USA

We suspect there's something very meaningful and humanitarian about de Graaf's work subjects: "Global Warming?", "Why We Fight", "Peace" and "Buy Nothing Day".

GEN

Tokyo, Japan

GEN was the proud winner of the Nike x Michael Lau Mr. Shoe Shop "Crossyouover" design contest.

Jose Caballer — The Groop

Los Angeles, USA

"Our primary goal is to facilitate a dynamic space of free thinking that is uninhibited by anything that has come before."

Oat Montien

London, UK

“Usually, inspiration comes from people I have encountered physically or heard of through the grapevine. I am interested in people with interesting stories, and try to tell their stories via my designs.”

Jake Hollomon

Portland, USA

"My sketchbook forms the foundation of my creative practice — I design my illustrations and illustrate my designs."

Daljit Singh

London, UK

Singh has ranked in the Financial Times’, Top 50 list of creative professionals for two consecutive years.

Shingo Kohama

Tokyo, Japan

Shingo Kohama have worked on designs for Noise McCartney Records on Twisted Jason Falkner.

Jonathan Jarvis

Pasadena, USA

I think that an “illustration” is a process that extends beyond the final printed piece, and can be captured across several media.

Kristopher Kanaly

Portland, USA

Kanaly is currently unemployed, wakes up late and hangs out at the coffee shop way too much, he says.