April Greiman

Designer April Greiman, head of Made in Space (Los Angeles based design consultancy) is acclaimed for being a part of a collaboration who were given the honour of being named the "establishers" of the New Wave style of design that swept America during the 1970's and 1980's.

For over the last 30 years Gremain has proved to be an inspirational force in her specialist field of transmedia projects and film installation. Considered an artistic explorer, known to delve deep into themes of colour, text and imagery, April has found a good balance in incorporating the two seperate mediums of art and technology (including beautiful technology) into one.

"Hand Holding Bowl of Rice" - Koreatown, Los Angeles

An element that has played a big part of her career is public art installations, perhaps one of the most prominent being "Sears Great Indoors", a 60 feet long geometric concrete design with embedded accents of stainless steel. Also, "Hand Holding Bowl of Rice", an 82000 square feet design covering two walls which features an oil painted translation of a video still of literally a hand holding a bowl of rice. This piece was inspired by the tale of an Indian Goddess' gesture of rice as a sign of abundance as well as Gremain's own fascination with the fact that a single grain of rice has one of the most complex DNA's of any species.

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Daniel Brown

Designer and programmer Daniel Brown has made a name for himself as a successful artist, working within the fields of Digital and Interactive Art (also Applied Arts and Design). Brown's technique is combining his previous extensive knowledge of computer programming and user experience design for items such as interactive phones/tablets (i.e. iPads/iPhones) as well as Flash players, Java Scripts etc with traditional design techniques to find a perfect balance and produce the creative work he does.

For well over a decade Daniel has been acclaimed by critics and has often found himself listed in 'Top 10' lists for categories such as internet designers and has had his work exhibited globally in New York, Tokyo and Milan for the British Council's "Great Brits" show.

Researching Brown's work I found his floral pieces particularly interesting as well as his pieces which combined photography of already complex objects (such as fashion photography with dresses made out of 3D triangles of fabric cuts, for example) and then had them manipulated digitally to create an even more extensive effect/illusion.

An example of the manipulation of complex photography, almost making a pattern through digital warping.

Another element I found interesting was how his digital manipulations are not always totally obvious so the audience must "work" to get the full experience of the piece and not just have a quick glance. His work needs to be "studied" rather than just "observed".