Postage Stamps
Celebrating biodiversity or Country definitives
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Chair - Mike Dempsey
Mike Dempsey has been a graphic designer since 1964. From the late sixties he worked as an art director for two major British publishing houses. In 1979 he founded the London based design consultancy CDT Design Limited. Over the past four decades he has created everything from stamps designs, feature film title sequences, newspapers, magazines, books, cd covers and a wealth of posters and identities for the performing arts.
His personal work has earned him many awards including 10 silver and the coveted gold award from British Design & Art Direction (D&AD). He was made a Royal Designer for Industry in 1994 and is the current Master of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry and continues as Chairman of CDT Design.
Catharine Brandy
Catharine Brandy was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. After
graduating from Red River College in advertising art design in 1985,
she held a number of positions as a graphic designer. She worked as a
senior graphic designer for the Winnipeg firm Circle Design Inc. from
1990-1999, after which she decided to move to the UK. She became a
freelance designer in London before joining the Royal Mail as a
design manager for stamps.
Tony Bryant
Since graduation, Tony Bryant’s career has been spent in various parts of the printing industry. The first twenty years were spent in the printing ink market, in both research and development and then in export sales. At De La Rue he initially had responsibility for the sale of cheques and latterly the responsibility for several major accounts, including the supply of postage stamps to the Royal Mail.
Paul Cilia La Corte
Marcus James
John Rushworth
John Rushworth graduated in 1981 with a First Class Honours Degree in graphic design from Preston College of Art. He began his career with Michael Peters Ltd and then worked for Conran Design Group before joining Pentagram in 1983. In 1987 he became Pentagram’s first associate and in 1989 he was invited to become a partner in the firm.
John has exhibited posters in personal and collective shows worldwide, most recently in the US (New York Art Directors Club), Italy (AOSTA), and Israel (Tel Aviv Museum of Art). He has received many international awards including a Gold Medal at the Lahti Poster Biennale and D&AD Silver Awards. In 1995 John was elected a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and he is currently an external assessor at Falmouth College of Art.
Brian Webb
Brian Webb went to Liverpool College of Art, aged 16, to study technical illustration. He quickly realised it was the stuff around the drawings that was really exciting and went on to study graphic design at Canterbury. His first job was as a design assistant in London in the late 60s. In 1971 he founded Trickett & Webb Limited and since 2003 has worked as a designer at Webb & Webb. His work has been exhibited around the world and won many design awards. Brian Webb is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London and an Hon. Fellow of the University of the Creative Arts.