Gary Harringman, Designer / Art Director - gary@studioharringman.com
Gary Harringman founded Studio Harringman in 1999, to manage creative minded people to produce visual projects for various clients. He began is career in advertising working in London and progressing to work on major campaigns from concept through to production.
On his first trip to New York he worked for Creamer Frazer Louis with George Lois for a season. On his return, he set up a creative team of like-minded people supplying visual communication and creative concepts for larger design groups and advertising agencies. After which he expanded out into television supplying the visual solutions for worldwide sales campaigns and on screen graphics for Thames television, BBC and many smaller program makers.
The move to set up a studio outside of London presented the space and time to produce truly innovative design as well as rendering the studio accessible to the domestic and international clients of the studio as it has direct links to London and Gatwick.
The focus on crafting good design and visual communication is still benefitting the studio today and making the organization a successful and independent creative force.
James Harringman BA(Hons), Writer / Designer - james@studioharringman.com
Born in London, educated in Spain, James became an effectual force in the Spanish studio from an early age. Having grown up in a studio environment, being continually engrossed in its creative atmosphere where he thrived and saw his future. Bilingual and determined, his early exposure rapidly progressed his understanding of art, photography, typography and most significantly of the clients themselves.
After Graduating from Warwick University with a BA in Creative Writing, James began work with Studio Harringman, where his contribution had immediate effect. He is a published poet and continues to work on a variety of creative projects including television and short fiction.
His work in copywriting possesses the same vibrancy and accessibly style of the people he works with, epitomizing commercially conscious creative thinking.
Charles Stewart BA(Hons) MISTD FRSA, Typography - charles@charlesstewartandcompany.com
Having graduated in graphic design, Charles forged a specialist niche and is today recognised as an influential lettering and typographic designer, whose work has played a key role in the success of many leading brands and businesses.
A variety of award winning work has provided an international reputation for creativity and innovation, producing lettering, typography, fonts and logotypes from concept origination to production and applied to corporate identity programmes, packaging and advertising campaigns.
His consuming passion for letterforms reinforces a belief in the communicative power of a well conceived piece of lettering or typography, which can form an incredibly powerful voice and an immediately recognisable and effective product language.
Whether mark-making by hand or digitally there is a constant creative mix of the technical and the experimental. The over-riding ingredient in all cases is to achieve a fusion of appropriate concept with effective design... finding visual answers to develop client brands and services.
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