Siggi Eggerstsson is an Icelandic graphic designer and illustrator. He showed an early interest in design and studied graphic design in Iceland and abroad. He has since worked for major publications and brands and is known for his unique visual style that blends design, illustration, and hidden depth.

2. Siggi Eggerstsson was born in Akureyri, a small Early in 2007 Siggi moved to London to become
town on the north coast of Iceland. He first part of the Big Active family and contribute to
showed interested in Graphic Design at the age publications like Dazed and Confused, The New
of 14 when he became involved in local design York Times and Arkitip plus commercial work
programs creating posters for jazz concerts and with H&M, Stussy and various music projects.
art exhibitions. When he turned 18, his vision Siggi has a unique and complete visual identity;
started to expand beyond his remote home, so his approach to work takes in his design back-
he applied to the Iceland Academy of Arts in ground, which results in work of hidden depth
Reykjavik to study Graphic Design. During his and sense of purpose.
first year he met the typographer Atli Hilmarsson
and they began working together on design
briefs. Here Siggi Eggerstsson developed not
only as a typographer and designer but also,
increasingly, as an Illustrator and image maker
in his own right. In 2005 he moved to New York
to work at the Karlssonwilker design studio
followed by a move to Berlin to study in the Kun-
sthochschule Berlin-Weissensee.

3. Siggi Eggerstsson
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Portrait 2

5. Siggi Eggerstsson
Portrait 3

6. As a self-taught artist who gained wide recognition for Of his work, the artist has said: “I believe [my work] is
his graffiti work very early in his career, Frost makes indigenous to myself. I believe that within every person
paintings and sculptures that usually are a result of there is an indigenous expression of themselves”. Phil
collaging and layering of images, along with the forma- Frost’s highly idiosyncratic work has had a wide recogni-
tion of hand-made, often symmetrical black and white tion both in the contemporary art world and in youth
patterns. These patterns, which are created with pains- culture, ranging from skateboarding magazines to the
taking detail and using correction fluid as a medium, music industry. His work has been featured in the exhibi-
offer an appearance that oscillates between modernist tions “Bottle: Contemporary Art and the Vernacular
designs and primitivism, abstraction and representation. Tradition” at the Aldrich Museum; “The New York Mets
Phil Frost is a highly individual artist whose work brings and our National Pastime” at the Queens Museum; and
together aspects of urban culture, abstraction, and “Beautiful Losers” at the Contemporary Art Center in
design. Of him, Roberta Smith has written: “his paintings Cincinnati, traveling to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
and altar like sculptures exude extreme sophistication, San Francisco, CA, Orange County Museum of Arts,
specifically a confidant fusion of graffiti, modern art, Newport Beach, CA and Pennsylvania Academy for the
modern design, and the primitive that influenced so Arts, PA, among others. He has been the recipient of
many facets of modernism”. Frost’s intensive approach several grants and awards, such as the Tiffany Founda-
toward every object he works on, whether it is the tion Grant and the Pollock Krasner Award.
surface of a white canvas or a found object in the streets
of New York, invariably result in a dense layering of
forms and tightly knitted designs that conform richly
complex compositions that engage and change before
the eyes of the viewer. Frost’s patterns often appear as
arcane codes and a language of its own, composed of
symbols such as letters, hearts, dots and mask-like
forms.

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12. St. John produces both commercial and experimental
work through HunterGatherer, the studio/workshop that
he founded in 2000. He has created animations, illustra-
tions and graphics for everyone from MTV to Money
Mark to The New York Times. In 1994, while living in
California, St. John co-founded the influential graphic
T-shirt label Green Lady with Gary Benzel. Nylon Maga-
zine described Green Lady as quot;to the designer T-shirt
world what RunDMC is to hip-hopquot;.
St. John regularly has work published, broadcast and
exhibited internationally. He was included in the 2003
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial with Benzel,
and in 2008 was nominated for an Emmy for the
animated short quot;Circle Squaredquot;. St. John also teaches
as a graduate critic at the Yale School of Art.

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