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New Faces 2006 - Catalina Estrada Uribe

Catalina Estrada Uribe
AGE: 31
JOB: Graphic designer and illustrator
LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain
SOFTWARE USED: Illustrator and Photoshop

There’s something quite enchanting about Catalina Estrada’s work. She creates other-worldly scenes with an aesthetic borne out of Illustrator’s array of gradients and fills alongside her own fascination with nature.

Although currently based in Barcelona, Estrada was born and raised in the countryside in Colombia. “Now that I live in the city I realise how much I miss that contact with nature – all its colours and its life,” she says. “Nature has a great value to me and always takes part in my work somehow.”

Estrada’s mother is another key influence: “She has a sense of colour that I’ve never seen before,” says Estrada, who also admires traditional folk art for its spontaneity and colour.

To date, Estrada’s biggest challenge has been an exhibition of her works, and she plans a further exhibition this year. She’s currently illustrating the story of Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp as part of the Die Gestalten Verlag title 1001 Nights.

To find out more about Catalina Estrada Uribe’s work visit www.katika.net

New Faces 2006 - Nik Ainley

Nik Ainley
AGE: 23
JOB: Digital artist
LOCATION: Oxford, UK
SOFTWARE USED: Photoshop, with “dabblings in Illustrator and various 3D packages”

When the Computer Arts team first saw Nik Ainley’s Shiny Binary website, its high-tech shininess nearly melted our eyes. Ainley produces stunningly intricate Photoshop compositions that include amazing illustrative and 3D elements.

Ainley admires the work of vault49, as well as fellow members of the depthCORE digital arts community. His biggest project to date is his own website, which took him six months to create in Photoshop, before it was turned into HTML.

Describing himself as a “compulsive day dreamer”, Ainley now plans to get to grips with Illustrator, which he feels has even more potential power than Photoshop. He would also love to boost his skills in Flash and a ‘proper’ 3D program.

Ainley has plans to develop his website over the next year into something “bigger and shinier”, too. And his outlook is pretty optimistic: “If everyone stops liking what I do, I don’t give too much of a shit as long as it still makes me smile.”

To find out more about Nik Ainley’s work, visit www.shinybinary.com or the depthCORE community site at www.depthcore.com

New Faces 2006 - Andreas Gaschka

Andreas Gaschka
LOCATION: Mainz, Germany
AGE: 22
JOB: Motion designer
SOFTWARE USED: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Maya, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro

Motion graphics is an emerging design form, and many of today’s designs are little more than eye-candy. But Andreas Gaschka leads the way in informational motion work.

Gaschka is a student of Media Design at FH Mainz University of Applied Sciences. He won acclaim at last year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards for his Traffic Advisories – a visualisation of television traffic announcements designed for broadcast. His animation shows the location of traffic jams in a city on a 3D map and is an idea we could imagine being adopted by a major news service.

Much of Gaschka’s work involves 3D, but he’s currently rediscovering ‘analogue techniques’, such as pencils, markers, ink, felt-tip pens, watercolours and spray cans.

Gaschka is also a big fan of psyop, WeWorkForThem, Buck, ZNKdojo, viagrafik and bionicsystems. He begins an internship at DMC Hamburg in March 2006 and on completion would like work at a motion design agency in the US.

To find out more about Andreas Gaschka’s work visit his website at www.gaschgrafik.de