James White

James White

James White is a very talented, experienced designer and visual artist from Nova Scotia, he is 31 years old and has been working as a fulltime graphic designer since 1998. His style is innovative and spectacular. By day he works as a designer for an agency where he creates websites, identities, corporate materials and various print pieces. He uses his time outside work to create his own personal art

“I was the kind of kid that got excited when I would see the NBC Special Presentation logo appear onscreen while watching television, because it inevitably led to Star Wars or Superman. It was that feeling I wanted to capture in my artwork, which led me to a retro-cosmic style directly inspired by network promo animations from the 70s and 80s, namely anything done by NBC.” - James White

“My workflow is rather simple. I wrote a very simple program in Flash that allowed me to create random assortments of shapes that I export to a postscript file so I can edit them in Illustrator. From there I will clean up the exports, add gradients, and use brushes to bend my shapes into unconventional combinations. Then I port them into Photoshop one by one where I can overlap them, lay down colors, lighting effects, textures, etc. “- James White

I love the usage of colour throughout his works they seem almost from another world or time, they are amazing.

“Learn your tools and programs inside and out but always remember that art comes from your mind, not the keyboard or mouse. Think about what you love and draw inspiration from that.”- James White