Having researched many digital artists through the World Wide Web, books and magazine articles I have stumbled across one designer who I feel adapts a certain style and feel similar to how I would approach a piece of work.

The designer in question is non other than Radim Malinic, a well established digital artist and innovative ‘imageer’.  I found the designers work in a monthly article called Insight in Advanced Photoshop magazine. This showed a small sample of his work and led me to his online portfolio. He is UK based in Southampton and is well known under his trade name Brand:Nu (www.brandnu.co.uk). He has a mass of experience in the design world and this adding to the quality of his work has helped him establish a comprehensive client list that anyone would be proud of.

While there is a varying amount of work in his portfolio, the majority of images created stem from a photographic image of a person, in most cases a female. He creates complicated montages of layered photos with a mix of many colourful additions to give the image life and create a sense of feeling and movement. The content of his pictures generally make you feel euphoric in a sense and makes the onlooker want to be encased in Radim’s imaginative world.

I feel his way of working, building up the image using layers of blended images, shapes and textures, is the style and approach that has influenced my way of working. His work has a certain amount of ornamentation, building up one static portrait with many different decorative aspects to make the picture more interesting and create a greater feel to the image. He uses a vast range of deep and bold colours, which prove most effective. I am yet to develop a wider use of the vast range of colours available and my work to date has a more dark and moodier look and feel to it while retaining the same created style of the picture.

Of course others artists have influenced my work to some extent but Radim’s remains at the top of my list and will be a designer who’s career I will continue to follow while my own skills develop over time.