Sam Bevington

Sam Bevington is a 26 year old illustrator, he lives in London. He studied and graduated at UWE in Bristol, when he graduated Sam was awarded the class of    honours in 2009. Since Sam graduated he has been working for a wide range of clients. He is most influenced in the urban environment and the graphic design of the year’s 1930’s to 1950’s. He specialises in poster design and custom typography. He likes to print posters in his screen printing studio that he has at home, he likes the concept of hand painted and printed designs for signs like DIY signs.

He was encouraged to draw and be creative at home due to his father being a graphic designer. He was inspired by skateboard designs, consort posters and graphite when he was younger, he likes the simple designs for posters, images and slogans from the 1940’s and the 1950’s. to get his ideas into shape he experiments with colour first.

I like Sam Bevingtons’ poster Designs because the range of typography he has used to create them with. I think they are quite colourful and not too busy, which does not distract you form the meaning of the posters, some of the posters designs are too busy and therefore I can get distracted, the ones that don’t look busy are the ones that look the best, sometimes he uses large scale images and typography to fill the space of the poster which is quite effective.