Scott Hull Associates’ Tim Gough teamed up with AOL over the summer and was asked to join their AOL artists program. Now some of his work can be seen on the AOL home page and a few other media application.

Tim Gough joins the SHA family from Philadelphia, bringing both brotherly love and a passion for silk-screen conceptual art. Tim melds images of spies and monstrous creatures with bursts of color and densely clustered patterns, creating dynamically rich works that are equally inspired by mid-century graphics and the screen-printing process itself.

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WOW!! A personal call from paper icon, Jerry French!!!! Now you know your special. Congratulations Tim Gough and Greg Pizzoli, the September 2010 Sample Room Contest winners.

Tim Gough and Greg Pizzoli bring you into the magical mystery world that they have created together in this collaborative show of new screenprints. Lifting the series’ title from Edward Hicks’ 18th-century painting of the same name, these two artists have combined efforts to imagine an environment in which their divergent styles can cohabit, and the results are delightful. In addition to their work as professional printmakers, Gough and Pizzoli are both illustrators, Philadelphians and teachers at the University of the Arts. Their collaboration is a whimsical jumble of themes, including folk tales and the archetypal character of the outsider; however, the most striking aspect of the prints is the stage upon which these themes play out, the backdrop of minarets and smokestacks before which the characters perform.
-E.C. Philadelphia Weekly

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Grain Edit interview series lead to Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Love, home of founding father Ben Franklin and the Liberty Bell, and illustrator designer Tim Gough. A man who emerges from the cheese steak littered streets of Philly to do one thing: rid the world of dull illustrations.

http://grainedit.com/2009/04/08/tim-gough-interview/

Tim Gough joins the SHA family from Philadelphia, bringing both brotherly love and a passion for silk-screen conceptual art. Tim melds images of spies and monstrous creatures with bursts of color and densely clustered patterns, creating dynamically rich works that are equally inspired by mid-century graphics and the screen-printing process itself.

Tim has been working a designer/art director for various agencies and design firms for the past 8 years, but in 2007 he left the agency life behind to pursue illustration and art full time. His work can be be found in books, magazines, newspapers, and other ephemera nationwide and abroad. Tim also publishes a limited edition zine called “Cut and Paste” – a regular consortium of his various drawings and ideas – and frequently shows his illustrations and screen-prints in galleries and shows.

So far Tim has worked with The New York Times, Business Week, The Progressive, The Philadelphia Weekly, Nylon Magazine, Bust Magazine, Fast Company, Burton Snowboards, Poketo, Leo Burnett, Warner Bros. Records, and Urban Outfitters. And who knows? If you’ve got a need for some visually arresting, conceptually interesting and rough-textured art, your name could be next on that list.
An Ohio native, Mikey Burton proudly describes his design aesthetic as “Midwesterny” and draws much of his inspiration from artifacts found throughout the hardworking, blue collar Rust Belt: old type-specimen sheets, arcane equipment manuals, ancient textbooks, you name it. “I’m fascinated with how past designers had to come up with ideas and solve problems using limited resources,” Mikey says. “For instance, figuring out how two colors can work harder than four. It helps me get to better solutions myself.”

Mike worked hard and got to a BS/MA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University, in addition to helping found Little Jacket Design. Since then he has worked with Wilco, The Sundance Channel, MTV2, Facebook, Spoon and Wired magazine, among others, and received awards from Communication Arts, Print, HOW, CMYK, Logo Lounge and recently Print’s New Visual Artist. Mikey now lives in sunny Philadelphia, where he enjoys the myriad culinary delights of his adopted hometown, and continues to nurture his lifelong obsession with bears, which are “so cute and lovable,” despite being “probably the most dangerous animals ever.”

Scott Hull Associates artists share how an infinite variety of feelings can come out of 26 measly characters.

I love typography work because it can allow me to play a little more than my editorial-style illustration. I get to think about what the words mean, the emotion that it needs to portray, and go from there – trying different things until the perfect idea emerges.
-Penelope Dullaghan

Drawing your own type steps your work up a whole other notch. It puts you in complete control of the vibe that your type gives off. You are free to take it wherever you want and you don’t have to rely on the same toolbox that every other designer uses.
-Tim Gough

Type has always been my passion. When I was a senior in high school, I used to steal my older sister’s type specimen catalogs (she was a graphic design student) and use it to draw posters mimicking the endless styles of type. Our local Kroger store even had me painting their front windows and mirrors in the meat department with ad specials and holiday messages. When I went to college, I was introduced to the craft of typesetting and ligature design, so when I graduated as a designer, I treated type in a more formal, classic Bauhaus style.
-Lisa Ballard

What the illustrative lettering artist brings to the table is the recognition of type as art. Once upon a time, all letterforms were created by people who could draw. So rather than assembling and contorting computer generated fonts, as the modern designer does, we approach the lettering design with type’s history in our DNA and the drawing ability to create a unique piece of lettering art.
-Mark Riedy