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After finishing my MA at Central St. Martins I spent four years at the renowned design studio Why Not Associates. Whilst there I designed and directed film and print work for various clients including Sony, Virgin Records, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Mail, The Design Museum and the ICA.

I also worked on the infamous Sensation poster and its supporting graphics for Charles Saatchi’s controversial Royal Academy of Arts exhibition.

As a young designer Creative Review’s Creative Futures selected me for their typography category and exhibition.

I have directed television commercials and title sequences for various clients including The Economist, The European Union, Hewlett Packard, Sharwoods, Barclays, The Samaritans and The Royal Mail. I also designed and directed work for the BBC, D&AD and Capitol Films.

In advertising I have designed campaigns for The Science Museum, (co-designed with Paul Belford), HSBC, Nokia and various others. I have worked with a number of respected Heads of Art in London.

I have designed books for HSBC, BBC, Booth-Clibborn Editions, Hearst Books International and The Department of Trade and Industry.

One of my passions is Graffiti Art and how it has evolved over the last twenty years from New York subway trains to Banksy. I have been lucky to work with some of the world’s most exciting artists in that field and have made books for Adam Neate, José Parlá, DELTA (Boris Tellegen), WK Interact, Ron English and Anthony Lister.

I spent two years editing and designing a book for the trailblasing London gallery Elms Lesters Painting Rooms. A five hundred and twenty page history of the gallery and their shows. Concluding in eleven days in Bologna overseeing the print and production.

I have regularly had my work in D&AD, Creative Review and the highly influential and respected Japanese design magazine IDEA Magazine dedicated 24 pages to my work in issue 291.

I spent two years designing a book celebrating my graphic design work for the Elms Lesters Gallery in London, published by art and graphic design’s most lovable rogue (Edward) Booth-Clibborn Editions.

I am a self-starter and when I’m not making commercial work I make my own personal work. Recently I’ve made a series of large scale screen prints with anti-war messages. I work with London’s prestigious screen printing studios Coriander Studio and K2.

I have also built up a large body of work that I call Private Protest, which focuses on history and psychology. These artworks are comparable to the 1980’s New York social commentary of artists Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger. I have pasted up over 400 of these posters with unique messages on the streets of London.

To view my Private Protest work please visit: iaincadbyart.com

I’m passionate about design and art and believe they have the ability to transform our lives in deeply positive ways.