Design Festa Vol. 30 | interview
designfesta.com | Oct 2009 | interview page
“Actually Sean has exhibited so often at the Design Festa Event that he doesn’t even remember how often – so it might be his 7th time. Last year one of his illustrations was even used on the Promo-flyer and poster for the Design Festa Event.
He says he loves Design Festa Event for the flow of creativity and all the inspiration. His art is mostly about Remixing things – analog with digital, humans with animals, old with new. So very postmodernist.
He also recycles things, as an old Starbucks bag for example – he made a wonderful and stylish envelope out of it.
His plans for the future are to get more into photography, but even more important: he is getting married next week! Congratulations and good luck!”
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Big Book of Contemporary Illustration | Martin Dawber
Batsford | Sept 2009 | ISBN-13: 978-1906388317
“From digital drawing, pixilated pictures, and Photoshop fantasies to traditional sketching and painting, it’s a showstopping display of style and technique from more than 160 international artists. With close to 1,000 images, the illustrations range over such categories as architecture, fashion, logos, manga, maps, nature, people, packaging, and pop culture.”
-3 of Sean’s illustrations are featured, in the categories: comic and fantasy.
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200 Best Illustrators Worldwide 2009-2010| Lurzer’s Special Archive
Lurzer GmbH | July 2009 | ISBN-13: 978-3902393081
Selection was made from 4,716 submissions received from 44 countries. Only those nominated by an ad agency art director or a publisher were eligible to present work - which must have appeared within the last 18 months – to the two-tier jury. Those who made it through this arduous process truly do merit the title “200 Best Illustrators.”
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Imagemakers: Cutting Edge Fashion Illustrators | Martin Dawber
Mitchell Beazley Art & Design | Sept 2004 | ISBN-13: 978-1840009835
“In an almost Dadaist application of photo-motage technique, Sean challenges convention with a very personal spin on contemporary style. He enjoys reinterpreting found material and his working process begins very traditionally with scissors and paste. Cuttings of faces, body parts, clothing and accessories are reshaped and reconstructed, making them change in appearance and feeling even before their development at the digital stage of work. His disquieting assemblies of facial contours seem to proffer a cynical appraisal of the fashion scene’s constant marketing of traditionally accepted beauty.”
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Computer Arts | Freelance Survival Guide
Future Publishing | Feb 2007 | Issue # 117
“Similarly, you should try to acquire equipment gradually. “Unless you’re into 3D or animation, you don’t need the fastest, latest computer, and you needn’t buy the latest software, which usually runs slower, for the sake of some new features you may never use,” says Sean Macfarlane, a successful freelance illustrator.”
-Sean was invited to contribute some thoughts and ideas to the 2007 Computer Arts Freelance Survival Guide.
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