James Nash

Drawings for reading.

Illustrator and comics maker based in Bath, UK.

Illustrator / Comics Artist / Designer

James Nash Studio

United

Kingdom and Netherlands.

Illustration and Design

• Wolftown Skateboards skateboard illustrations and T-shirt graphic series
• Ubicolour character designs based on movement tracking AI models
• TEDx Wolverhampton illustrations for Promo and T-shirts
• Stroppies band T-shirt illustrations
• Birmingham Roller Derby full Branding Design
• Specialist Subject Records T-shirt graphics and illustrations
• Future Publishing Editorial Illustrations
• Ninja Tune Records paid design pitches
• Paul Smith subsidiary R. Newbold T-shirt and print graphics
• Institut Francais and Jazzwise Magazine ‘Bleu Blanc Jazz’ Promotional design and illustrations
• Illustrated promotional material for venues and promoters - Barfly, Out of Step, Colour

Publications and Self Initiated Work

• Valchromat Christmas tree design project and Riso Cards - sold at Bristol Maker Markets
• World Cup Comics personal comics project
• Joined AGA Lab in Amsterdam as a Riso Printing member, producing five self-published risograph zines and various printed posters
• Comics and Zines sold internationally via Desert Island Comics in New York, Lambiek in Amsterdam, Modern Graphics in Berlin and XAO Gallery in Prague
• Comics and zines sold domestically at Rough Trade East, Gosh Comics in London and Good Press in Glasgow

Exhibitions and Fairs

• Studio 44AD, Bath 
• Butcher’s Tears artist market, Amsterdam
• ELCAF (East London Comic Arts Fair 2018, 2017 and 2013) 
• Glasgow Zine Festival 2019 
• FRAME Prague Comics Festival 2019 
• Kantoor, Amsterdam exhibition 
• Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Workshops and Teaching

• Comics Science Workshops at Mediamatic, Amsterdam
• Print design workshops with Get a Grip Screenprint Studio, Birmingham
• Solihull Council Workshop Leader making and exhibiting comics by children
• Future Publishing ‘Bad Idea’ illustrating writing workshops at the Victorian Operating Theatre, London Bridge
• Future Publishing ‘V&A Lates’ Diary Comics workshop in the V&A Museum

University of Brighton BA(Hons.) Illustration