Lee Basford

Lee is a graphic designer, artist and photographer working in and around the overlap of art and design, blending these disciplines to create work for arts, film, fashion, video games and music companies that include Sony, UNIQLO, Nike, Capcom, Sega, EMI, Parlophone, Saatchi, and Artificial Eye. He has written and illustrated for the magazines Paper-Sky, Dazed and Confused, Tokion and Level and designed typefaces for T26 and Fountain fonts. Since 2000 he has exhibited both as a solo artist and as a member of the Outcrowd in England, Japan, Germany and Ireland. His work has featured in numerous books and design journals, including Graphics International, Creative Review, +81, 200% Cotton, Indie Fonts, Concrete 2 Canvas and Graphic Britain. In 2007 he was invited by UNIQLO to their Creative Awards ceremony in Japan where he received a Judges Choice Award. He was recently invited to take part in the Lightning Bolts + Innovation Show curated by Nike and debuting at the Beijing Olympics.