Kid Acne.

Kid Acne

Kid Acne is a young graphic and fine art designer. He was a teenager when he created the name Kid Acne as he was a spotty teenager, but his real name is Ed. His first exhibition was in his home town called 'kill your darlings'. He has done a range of projects from t-shirts, album covers, memorials with graffiti on the wall etc. His first album cover was for his brothers band called 'Brian and the teenagers'. He did study fine art at university. I find that Ed's work is very graphic and illustrating I do really like his work as he has not afraid to challenge himself I think this what makes him inspiring. When his name started to get reconised he was having his work shown by other companies such as night clubs, festivals etc but alongside still did graffiti but stopped in 2002. After this Ed started to get interested in fantasy imagery and did work/ album sleeve for a music group (TTC) from france and this then made his work go public. Ed does his designs by hand and then scans them into photoshop and does more work on top of it to make his work perfect. Ed has literally been over the world such as Miami, LA, Barcelona etc. When he went to barcelona he did most of his memorial work on walls as it was risk free and there was no chance that you were going to get arrested. After he did his graffiti he had an email of Prada asking him to do a series of funky t-shirts for the seasons from autumn to winter and then did a series for spring to summer, these t-shirts were really crazy and really fashionable. I really liked them, carry on from his fashion project his mates wife asked him to put some of his designs on knitwear, these were really good. Another year goes by and he has done a tour in Brazil and did a pinting tour he has met some different people from different cultures and religions. He is still friends with them now. In 2008 he did a project for skateboards with different designs in kid acne style. He then wanted to do something different with graffiti and started painting slogans on walls such as "everyone is a winner" and "you will thank me one day", they were that big it took two people with rollers as they were some on glass roofs. He then decided to go around the world and write in the different languages for example he went to germany and graffitied on the glass roof in german. He just wanted to make a statement. He then had other ideas to make a book cover with characters and a toy company in new york ask if he could let them make them into toys, he agreed to do this, he then did some designs and sent them off. Ed then got the images back from the toy company and there were adjustments to be made which everyone was fine about, there is always improvements. After this was done he was asked if they could be made into people to make a filmplay which he was interested in doing and it turned out to be successful. Ed has based his work on pop art and actual people with real stories. He has done a range of different projects in the UK and all over the world, but still sticks to his fine art side, he finds that this is his strongest point in all the stuff he does. One of his recent projects was for perfume but the photographer wanted to exhibit them but felt like the images needed more so asked Ed and he did his graphic on top of the work and then these images turned out to be really good. When he was at university Ed and his mate created a comic book this was called zebra face. It is very comical and interesting. With Ed's work I find that he likes a challenge and is willing to do anything, I find that doing this you are really passionate about what your doing. I really like Kid Acne's work as it is colourful, outstanding and makes you passionate about what you would like to do yourself in the future.