Gillbeart

The Teddy Troops had been around in the streets for a while before they also turned into a 3D vinyl toy in 2004. First of all Flying Förtress started in 2002 to get up with his chrome Trooper icon. Trying to use an easier readable illustrative symbol instead of doing the classic coded graffiti letters and tags that he had been doing before since 1989. Together with the chrome pieces there have stickers also been seen around in the streets since 2002. Handpainted or silkscreend ones with a hand-drawn finish on "free" post stickers and series of offset printed stickers. Established in 2001, SquarefrogDesigns orginally began life as the online personna of multimedia artist and designer Matthew Bryan. As time went on it grew to become the design name of all work created by Matthew Bryan, within the art world and the commercial graphic design world, no matter what the project, client, or media. Today SquarefrogDesigns is split into 2 halves, on the one side is art; the personal work and style of Matthew Bryan, spanning a wide variety of medias. On the other side is commercial graphic design, no matter what the design project may be. At present, these two realities of mine do not seem to clash and are very different from each other, graphic design clients tend not to be aware of the art side of things, and vice versa. I'm an intergalactic, trans-dimensional, time surfing space octopi. I inhabited this body in the human year of 1984, and have been trying to navigate my way through this world ever since. Stuff and things and words, as deep down it doesnt matter who I am. All one desires to do is be creative, for myself and own personal happiness, whilst hopefully evolving my mind and thought process the