About me
Ian 'Swifty' Swift is a dedicated graphic artist. Since embarking on his career at The Face magazine in 1986 he has pursued an individual course which has led him to specialise in the music industry and youth culture aesthetics. Equally at home with a club flyer or a complex movie tItle sequence, he has successfully run his own practice 'Swifty - Grafix' for over two decades. During that time he has notched up several awards and taught and lectured in colleges and conferences, both in the UK and abroad. His work has featured in dozens of books and magazines and In 1997 he launched 'Typomatic' - the UK's first independent Font foundry. While his reputation and his working life is rooted in the typo-graffix world recent exhibitions reveal a shift in Swift's focus towards a body of artworks with a more exploratory and personal dimension.
Skills
Art Direction, Brand / Logo Design, Graphic Design, Motion Graphics, Print Design, Street Art, Typography, Web Design
Sector Experience
Arts, Exhibitions, Film (Short / Documentary), Music, Print, Television
Clients
2 foot 6, 4th and B?way Records, Addict clothing Co, Ammo Talwar, Apples & Snakes, Arena Magazine, BBC, BBC 2, Ben Wilcox, Block 23 (Disney), Blue Note Records, Bluey, Box TV, Brownswood Records, Channel 4, Channel 5, Claire Missingham Yoga, Clean Up Records, Clear Records, Cliffy & Russ Jones (Batmacumba, Coalition PR agency, Contre Temps Music Festival, Dentsu, Destructo Skateboards Western Edition Skateboards, Dice and Dice, Domon, Don productions, Earl Zinger & Demus (Red Egyptian Records), Especial Records, Far Out Recordings, Fischer Rings, Fosters Ice, Fred Perry, G F Smith Papers/, Gilles Peterson?s World Wide Awards, Graniph t-shirts, Havanna Cultura, IET, Impulse Records, Innate Music, Island Records, J-wave 81.3 fm, James Lavelle, Janine, Jazz90 Productions, Jeremy Wooding, Jimbo (Groove sanctuary), Joe Davis, Karma Skateboards, Kevin Beadle, Levi?s, Lewis Robinson, Mais Um Discos, Mark Cotgrove (Snowboy), Mary Wilkinson, Melt 2000 and B+W Music, Mike Connolly, Mo Music, Mo Wax, Mo? Music, Mood Shop, MTV Fresh, Nathan Graves, Norman Jay MBE (Good Times Sound system), Objective Productions, One World Media, Paul Bradshaw, Punch, Quango, Red Hot and Dance, Rice Records, Right Tempo, Robert Trunz, Rome Snowboards, Sachiko Kishi, Shooters Somethin Else Sound Directions, Short Film Bureau, Silly Thing, Skip (the Record Room), Sonar Kollektiv, Soundmen On Wax, Source 360, State of Grace Films, Stefan Stuckert, Straight No Chaser Magazine Gilles Peterson, Stretch Limo Productions, Talkin Loud Records, The British Council Performing Arts, the Face Magazine, The Spice Factory, Trevor Wyatt (Palm Pictures & HOTB), UNIVERSAL MUSIC, Village Again, Wall To Wall productions, Yoshi and Shuya (KJM)