Tom Gauld
A combination of a dry wit, diligence and a steady hand has led to Tom Gauld producing an impressive body of work that has graced the columns of many international newspapers and adorned the campaigns of clients in the world of advertising and design.
Tom works with both micro and macro worlds. The vastness of a landscape or the never ending scale of a machine can dwarf the human impact. In contrast, a minor misunderstanding or tiff between two astronauts can over shadow the spectacular feat of space travel. In Tom’s work life is distilled down to it’s most important element, human nature and thus the mundane and infantile is celebrated – creating the most endearing and uplifting of vantage points.
In addition to his career as an Illustrator, Tom has also garnered a following among comic book aficionados, having published the following comics; The Gigantic Robot, Guardians of the Kingdom, 3 Very Small Comics (Volumes One to Three), Robots, Monsters etc and Hunter and Painter. He regularly travels in America and Europe to take part in comics festivals.
Since 2005 he has been illustrating a regular column for the letters page of the Guardian’s Saturday Review.
If illustration weren’t an option as a means of making a living Tom has toyed with either becoming a baker or an astronaut… it’s unlikely that he’ll be forced to make a decision between the two.
Clients
BDO Stoy Hayward
Knight Frank
Boots
Canongate Books
Vodafone
The New Yorker
Coca-Cola
The Guardian
Wired Magazine
Sight & Sound
Granta
Orange
Orion Books
EMI Records
The Walrus
The New York Times
Penguin Books
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