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| Blinkink is an award-winning production company based in Soho, London. Existing in the world where animation and technique-driven live action meet, Blinkink represents some of the world’s most visually inventive filmmakers. | Always nurturing fresh young talent alongside well-established directors Blinkink creates commercials, short films and music videos that are consistently unique and innovative. |
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Carl Burgess is a director and designer based in London, known for his darkly humorous and hypnotising video work. Carl’s style is infused with his unique take on the everyday. A former art director at digital agency Hi-Res! he is a technical whizzkid, often performing editing and post-production duties himself. Carl has created videos for clients as diverse as Slayer, Jon Hopkins and Nike, and among his most recent successes was his hilariously subversive video for Ratatat’s song ‘Drugs’, which was nominated for Best Special Effects at the 2010 MVAs. Most recently he’s shot a video in a supersonic windtunnel for Skream’s, ‘Where You Should Be’ and built on the innovative take on Getty Images he created for Ratatat with his extraordinary video for Kap Bambino. | Carl is also signed to BlinkArt and Colonel Blimp, and his characteristically dark design work has been highly praised, appearing in Creative Review and Blueprint magazines. You can visit his website here: moresoon.org You can share his appreciation of all things pictorially Daily Mail here: Daily Mail View Showreel / Download Showreel |
David Wilson is a director who has created a visual style wholly of his own. Always staying true to his roots as a first class illustrator David always works with a keen sense of visual design. He first gained recognition in the video world for his masterful promo for Moray McLaren’s ‘We Got Time’, in which he achieved live in-camera animation via his use of a Victorian animation device called a praxinoscope. He’s since been responsible for some of the most enchanting and intriguing commercials and music videos around. Among his highly successful music video work, David has created acclaimed videos for artists such as We Have Band, Little Boots and Skream. In 2009 he picked up both “Best New Director” and “Best Budget Video”at the UK Music Video Awards, and this year, his hand-drawn mind-warp of a video for Japanese Popstars’s ‘Let Go’ was selected for In Book inclusion at the D&AD awards. | His latest video, for Metronomy’s “The Bay” proves that he’s a director who’s only just started to show us what he can really do. David likes to have fingers in lots of extra-curricular pies: he regularly VJs with his home-made visuals at clubs, performing shows with 2ManyDjs and at festivals including Glastonbury and Latitude, and is also a contributing writer to the motion graphics blog motionographer. David is represented by Colonel Blimp for his music videos and BlinkArt for his illustration. You can visit his website, which he regularly updates with new examples of self-initiated artwork and personal projects, here: davidwilsoncreative.com View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Elliot Dear is one of BlinkInk's latest signings, a young and extravagantly talented director, illustrator and animator. The son of a carpenter and an animal nurse, Elliot's upbringing has led to a very unique approach to filmmaking: hands-on and human, while entirely unique and contemporary. Elliot graduated from the UWE with a first in illustration, and his skills in that department mean that every piece he creates has his fingerprints on it from the outset. | His first forays into the world of commercial filmmaking culminated in the charming and innovative Music Matters series where he told the stories of the rise to fame of Jay Z, Kate Bush and John Martyn mastering a dazzling array of styles and techniques. Elliot's approach to film making never rests at the easy option. His latest smash hit for ‘Bubble’ by Jon Hopkins and King Creosote, saw Elliot himself building miniature sets and shooting, alone, for 5 days in a basement. The result is a mixed-media masterpiece. View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Working out of a converted hat factory in North London, Jonny & Will are unique directors who create original puppet characters, and the worlds they inhabit. Their latest film ‘Kickin' Green Asses’ is part of an ongoing project; a visual concept album influenced by 1950s sci-fi and rock & roll.. Having worked on a wide variety of commercials, music videos, TV shows and feature films, they are involved in most stages of production, from storyboarding, designing and building puppet characters, art direction and puppetering, to creating the music and voice characterisation. They have collaborated with numerous other directors including Simon Willows, Dougal Wilson, Ben Wheatley, David Wilson, Corin Hardy and Peter Serafinowicz. | Jonny and Will's work includes creating characters for Bafta nominated BBC TV series Big Babies, Cadbury Fingers ‘World Party’ (nominated for a British Arrow Craft Award for model making) and the Pathe feature film ‘Africa United’. Jonny & Will are always writing new ideas for TV shows, videos and books, and are currently working on another feature film project. View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Joseph Mann is a charming filmmaker with a remarkable range of talents. Joseph graduated from the Glasgow School Of Art in 2009, where he developed his meticulous skills as a model-maker and animator. His talent soon caught the eye of BlinkInk directors David Wilson and Simon Willows, and he has since worked with them on a number of projects, including directing mind-bending sequences for Skream’s ‘Listenin’ to the Records on My Wall’, intricate animation for the feature film ‘Africa United’ and animating psychedelic leg art for the ‘Freedom’ promo for Nokia. Most recently, and most excitingly, Joseph has completed an epic eight-month project for TIE (The International Exchange). | Joseph and his small team of model-makers spent weeks fashioning hand-crafted miniature sets and unique characters from paper, cardboard and wood, before recreating the characters in 3D using detailed high resolution photographs. The result is a stunning creation from a filmmaker at the beginning of a tremendous career. Joseph’s mature yet simple designs require a perfectionist approach, and he consequently spends a lot of time making sure everything is just right. Appropriately enough, Joseph also extends the same perfectionism to his snappy sartorial style. View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Koja are the amazing Tobias Elving and Ulrika Axen. Based in Hackney Wick in London Koja create entirely unique worlds that blend the boundaries between live action and animation. Coming from a background in illustration and animation Koja create work stuffed full of visual exuberance, whether it's their masterfully psychedelic visuals for Mika or charmed craft world of the Body Shop. | Koja means treehouse in Swedish and Koja are table tennis champions. Their manifesto is Koja Or Die. Feel free to hang about in their playground: http://www.weliketoplay.com/ View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Kristofer Strom is an amazing character designer and director with a hyperactive imagination. His homemade video for minimalist Swedish techno duo Minilogue has clocked up over 5 million views on YouTube alone, garnered a smorgasbord of creative press coverage worldwide and won the “Best Budget Video” award at the UK Music Video Awards. Kristofer was even named ‘Face of YouTube’ in Sweden. Since joining BlinkInk, Kristofer has firmly established himself as a prolific creative force in the world of commercials, his work constantly imbued with his unique sense of humour. Commercial success soon followed his first video with a busy two years doing a 360 degree re-branding of the UK’s largest mobile phone retailer, the Carphone Warehouse across TV, print, digital, and in-store. | Kristofer has also produced commercials internationally for brands including Sony Ericsson, Zonnatura, and Telco. Music videos continue to provide a fertile environment for Kristofer’s imagination to wander, as seen in his second Minilogue collaboration “Animals” and more recently in the insane “Baltimore Clap” video for dubstep pioneer Benga. Kristofer has also created a singalong video for the amazing American kids TV phenomenon “You Gabba Gabba”. Alongside all this doodling and directing Kristofer has continued to perform and release music through his solo project Ljubilden & Piloten, produce a multitude of limited editions prints and posters and even sustain a long-running popular blog of his daily commute’s iphone drawings: Iphone drawings View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Lernert Engleberts and Sander Plug are two highly talented Dutch gentlemen based in Amsterdam. They combine a keen sense of aesthetics and concept with a strong design background, all driven by their subtly dry sense of humour and enormously attractive self-confidence. Having begun as individual art directors, the pair decided that it would be more fun working together and started collaborating on art projects. Since their first video 'Chocolate Bunny' they've been busy creating commercials, high-concept art films and installations, while living in a unique world that encapsulates contemporary art, film-making and simple but stunning art direction. Among their recent work, they’ve created eye-catching installations for the windows at Selfridges, where they transformed large household objects into lady’s shoes. They have also produced remarkable editorial films for Fantastic Man and Nowness, the quirky music video ‘Elektrotechnique’, and their own personal projects, such as the ingenious documentary ‘How To Explain It To My Parents’. | Their film “Natural Beauty”, commissioned by Nowness, has become an international phenomenon, racketing up almost 1.5 million hits on YouTube and being blogged by luminaries as unexpected as Perez Hilton and Oprah Winfrey. Whether working for clients or on their own video art, Lernert & Sander push simplicity to its most aesthetically powerful limits. Their work has been shown at international festivals in New York, Rio de Janeiro and Oberhausen. For more information, visit their website: lernertandsander.com View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Major Briggs are a directing duo comprising the collective talents of Daniel A Söllscher and Yulian Sanchez Ojanen, two handsome young Swedes based in the heart of Stockholm. Since graduating at the dawn of the millennium with degrees in animation and music production, the duo have spent the best part of a decade building up formidable experience within the Scandanavian commercials and animation industries where they've finessed their skills across of a wide variety of film-making techniques including CGI, stop frame and live action. | Alongside producing commercials for clients such as Seat, Absolut and Hyundai, they've also done a load of a music videos, live visuals and record designs for various bands and records labels. Daniel & Yulian share a passion for creative experimentation and an impeccable sense of design that makes them perfectly suited to their new home of Blinkink. View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Noah Harris is an exceptionally skilled and versatile director, who has progressed from running his own design company to creating magnificent, eye-catching video and design work. Noah made an immediate impact as a filmmaker by winning a D&AD Yellow Pencil in 2008 for his idents rebranding E4. Since then he hasn’t looked back, creating numerous commercials for Ford as well as Talk Talk which exhibit both his talent as a director and his expertise as a designer. He has also followed his lifelong passion for music (and raving) by directing music videos, most recently working with the band Mint Julep. | Aside from his directing work, Noah lectures in design at Chelsea School of Art, Nottingham and Epsom and writes for Grafik magazine. His short films ‘Anomaly’ and ‘Quietus’ garnered international attention and have led him to speak at events around the world, notably at the Beijing Film Academy, the Bitfilm festival in Hamburg, the Nemo festival in Paris and OnedotZero in London. Most recently, Noah has shot a masterful stop-frame extravaganza for Google Chrome, and has just finished a campaign for The Carphone Warehouse. You can visit his website here: noahharris.co.uk View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Simon Willows is one of the nicest men in advertising. He is also a director noted for his hands-on, colourful style and his expertise in a vast range of visual techniques. Having cut his directorial teeth as one half of duo Simon and Jon, directing promos for such luminaries as Moby and Boogie Pimps, Simon joined BlinkInk in 2004. His commercial debut, the ‘Run London’ spot for Nike was one of the most talked about spots of the year. Simon’s international online success, ‘Slob Evolution’, was nominated for an Emmy, Webby and Cannes Lion, and, amongst spots for Persil, McDonalds and Barclays he has recently created a hugely successful television and print campaign for Oasis, and his Cadbury’s Fingers commercial “Good Times” has charmed audiences nationwide. | 2010 saw Simon working on the Pathe feature film “Africa United” where he created stunning visual dream sequences based on an extensive process that included working with children in Rwanda and building vast sets out of materials collected entirely on his trip. Simon is as comfortable with a puppet as he is with a human, weather it be in his recent spots for McDonald's and Freeview or his British Arrow 2011 nominated Cadbury Fingers campaign. He brings an element of hands-on, in-camera magic that is enormously welcome in our digital-focused world. View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Steve Tappin is an expert illustrator and animator, who has built a strong reputation for creating masterful, dynamic 3D worlds. Steve began his career as an illustrator at 2000AD, working on major projects such as ‘Judge Dredd’, where he developed his high-concept matt-painting style. Since moving into directing, Steve has proceeded to explore the technical possibilities of high-end CG, while retaining his illustrative, painterly vision: these skills were combined magnificently in the recent promos he directed for Adidas and, more recently has worked on the Sky Sports Super League coverage, featuring robots battling it out on the rugby pitch. | Steve has also directed spots for major clients such as Coco Pops, Danish Bacon and the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. In addition, Steve has made his mark in the world of music videos: his apocalyptic sci-fi video for Muse’s ‘Sing for Absolution’ was shortlisted for the Sound Music Video Award at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival. In a world where CG can feel cold and heartless, Steve’s artful approach to his oeuvre is pretty unique and exciting. View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Treat Studios are a brand new signing to BlinkInk. A young, dynamic, close-knit collective of animators and illustrators they met while studying at Kingston University. Since graduating in 2008, the group have formed a formidable team, each bringing a different element of badass expertise. The group were responsible for an outlandish series of idents on E4, which explored the topic of Christmas with mildly disturbing, chaotic and darkly humorous results. They have continued to produce work for E4, including the title sequences and animated idents for the shows ‘Skins' and ‘Slacker's Club'. | Treat Studios have also made a splash in the world of music videos, working with artists such as Bat for Lashes and the London Sinfonietta. In particular, they have developed a continuing collaboration with the band Mazes, including the much celebrated music video for ‘Most Days’, which tells the story of a group of skater kids getting rowdy in a bubblegum cartoon world. Treat Studios love to work across a wide range of platforms, incorporating illustration, animation, sculpture, t-shirt printing, publishing and live visuals. Their work is fresh, colourful and vital, making them a perfect fit for the multidisciplinary world of BlinkInk and BlinkArt. treatstudios.com View Showreel / Download Showreel |
Zeitguised are the Berlin-based husband and wife directing team of Henrik Mauler and Jamie Raap. Together they produce extraordinary digital pieces which explore the bleeding edge of CG creativity. Jamie is a sculpture and fashion graduate, while Henrik’s background is in engineering and architecture. Since forming Zeitguised in 2001, the pair have channelled their common and disparate interests to produce magnificent digital surrealism, manifested in beautiful CG. Their debut film was the music video for Funkstörung’s ‘The Zoo’: an eerily-rendered series of vehicles flickering in and out of reality, being sliced and turned inside-out, defying physics. | The pair have made a variety of highly successful commercials for clients such as AOL, MTV, Vodafone, Toyota, Adobe and Peugeot, all the while displaying their trademark slick-yet-strange aesthetic. In addition, they created ‘Peripetics’, a series of digital films commissioned for the Swiss Zirkel gallery to promote the future of computer-generated art. The resulting vignettes are cryptic and compelling, full of juxtaposed textures and colours and weird mash-ups of the organic and mechanical. Most recently, they have brought their unique visual style to a series of adverts in France for Banque Populaire. Zeitguised’s work is driven by a stated purpose, to make people aware of the effects of digital manipulation and computer dominance on modern life. For more information on Zeitguised, take a look at their website: zeitguised.com View Showreel / Download Showreel |
