Cut & Paste

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JULIAN HOUSE

Known best for his cover art and Ghost Box record label, London-based designer Julian House’s collages have found their way onto many album covers. He uses a mixture of self-generated and found imagery, and a combination of analogue and digital techniques, but works quickly to keep the rawness and sense of spontaneity. He puts all of his images through a process of colour grading or treatment, which helps to divorce them from reality and create different tones and textures that play off each other. It’s this clever juxtaposition of texture and manipulation of scale that makes House’s work so engaging. He creates ‘micro and macro’ ...