Jonathan Williams
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
| Location | Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993, Jonathan has worked as both illustrator and art director. His images have appeared in major publications, books and retail outlets across Europe, America and Australia for prestigious clients such as Paramount, Time Warner, Benetton and Unilever. He has also featured in American Illustration, Graphik, Creativematch, Design Week, Advanced Photoshop and the AOI Images. In 2006 his images for Virgin Atlantic's Upper Class Suite received a Bronze Award from the Association of Illustrators and his recruitment ads for Ecolab have been recognised with a GRAMIA (Grocery Advertising & Marketing Award). This year his work was shortlisted twice for the prestigious V&A Illustration Awards. |
| Interests | Illustration, music, running |
| Favorite Movies | All About My Mother, Belleville Rendezvous. Central Station, The Cheviot the Stag and the Black Black Oil, Dancer in the Dark, Eraserhead, Faraway So Close, The Gospel According to St Matthew, Lost in Translation, The Million Dollar Hotel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, September, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, Topsy-Turvy, Twin Peaks (Fire Walk With Me), The Unbelievable Truth, Vanya on 42nd Street, Vera Drake, When Darkness Falls |
| Favorite Music | Amon Tobin, Angie Stone, Bonnie Prince Billy, Bonobo, Boards of Canada, Camera Obscura, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dirty Projectors, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Kronos Quartet, The New Pornographers, Passion Pit, Phoenix, PJ Harvey, Robin Guthrie, Steve Reich, David Sylvian, Teenage Fanclub, Tom Waits |
| Favorite Books | The Aeneid, The Bible, Catcher in the Rye, The Cloud of Unknowing, The Drowned and the Saved, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, For the Islands I Sing, A House for Mr Biswas, If This is a Man, The Imitation of Christ, The Interior Castle, Jane Eyre, Moments of Reprieve, The Odyssey, On the Road, The Periodic Table, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Small is Beautiful, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sunset Song, A Way in the World, The Whitsun Weddings, Wide Sargasso Sea |