About me
Début Art (established in 1985) is an artists' representative agency based in London, now with offices in New York and Tokyo. Début Art represents a groundbreaking roster of artists, encompassing both established and up-and-coming, globally based illustrators, motion and animation artists and illustrative designers.
As industry leaders for the past thirty years, we are known as principled advocates for our artists and for our industry.
Our clients and artists appreciate the agency’s straightforward, well informed and down-to-earth approach to projects, from editorial to global brand campaigns.
Our staff is research-oriented, sensitive to creative trends and to the international marketplace, so that we are highly effective partners with our clients in creating cutting-edge imagery and campaigns, no matter where in the world our artists are commissioned.
Début Art’s esteemed position in the industry is rooted in our ability to continuously find and foster cutting-edge artists and to set the standard in illustration trends, a position we have held from the early days of our agency.
Established in London in 1994, The Coningsby Gallery (a division of Début Art) pioneered the market for contemporary illustration as fine art, and continues to champion groundbreaking shows of both well-known and up-and-coming illustration and graphic artists through its Fitzrovia gallery and online store.
Enquiries to info@debutart.com and/or info@coningsbygallery.com.
Projects
- SupertottoTotto Renna a.k.a. Supertotto is an one-man pixel art design studio based in Napoli and Berlin. Artist, illustrator, motion and graphic designer, he collaborates with several magazines, international advertising agencies, production houses, publishing houses and new media agencies, ranging over illustrations, graphic, web-design, animations and multimedia products. From 2005 to 2010 he was lecturer in Digital Illustration at the Urbino Academy of Arts. Previous clients include: Time, Coca Col
- Max LoefflerMax was born in rural Germany in 1989 and started out illustrating extensive album artworks for punk and metal bands after doing his homework. After graduating from the Graphic Design department at Hochschule Darmstadt in 2017, he began working as a freelancer with renowned clients like The New Yorker, The New York Times, Adidas and Google. He still enjoys creating artwork for bands. Influenced by the classic surrealists as well as retro science-fiction book covers, he likes to look below the
- Matt HerringOver the last 20 years Matt has enjoyed working with a long roster of international clients on a diverse range of Illustration and design projects. His career began as a commercial illustrator producing full colour silkscreen prints for newspapers and magazines. Matt's roots in printmaking still influence his current digital practice. Working from his studio in London he uses a montage of found & self-generated graphic material producing assured vibrant images for the Publishing, Design and Advertising industries. The versatility and flexibility of approach in Matt's work enables him to create artful, yet appropriate visual solutions for his clients. Matt enjoys responding to briefs from a variety of sectors, from fashion-orientated magazines to News and Current Affairs titles, through to advertising and design projects. He thrives on a diverse range of projects, some of his previous clients include: The Times, Adobe, Natwest, Nike, British Airways, MTV, Barclay Card, 442 magazine, Nickelodeon, Red magazine, Vanity Fair, EMI, Billboard magazine, Empire magazine, Hollywood Reporter, ESPN, Bloomberg, The FT, BBC Worldwide, GQ, The Telegraph, Lexus Cars, The Radio Times, The Post Office, Men’s Fitness, Thomas Cook, Which?, Guardian Guide, Lonely Planet, NHS, HSBC, Toyota, Sainsbury’s, BP, Honda cars, Esquire, Penguin, Corvette, The Royal Mail, Business Week, IBM, Loaded, Harvard Business Review, RAC, Mojo, Shell, Nasdaq, Lloyds TSB, Timeout, 5live, US News, The Guardian, Jeep Chrysler, Harrods, Directline, Topgear, Peogeot cars, The Economist, Vauxhall cars, American Greetings.
- Doug John MillerDoug is an architectural assistant and illustrator currently working in London. Graduating in 2015 from the Bartlett School of Architecture, London, he draws on architecture and scale in his illustration. His drawings explore many small narratives and experiment with colourful and highly detailed compositions of surreal and fantastical architecture. His main inspiration comes from the comic books of Franco-Belgian sci-fi alongside the grit and atmosphere of vintage science fiction concept art.
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Skills
- Photoshop
- Printmaking Print Design
- Poster Art
- Illustration Drawing Illustrator Printmaking Printmaking