Basso & Brooke
www.bassoandbrooke.net
Graphic Designer, Art Director | London
Could you tell us a little about Basso & Brooke?
Enthusiasts of luxury, pomposity and irony, we develop exclusive kinky prints for tailored clothes, homeware, and special commissions. The fabric is digitally printed to a high quality on silk, velvet, poplin, furniture satin and organza. Attention to detail is paramount. We love challenges, at the moment we are dressing an original mini cooper in Basso & Brooke.
We are also developing wallpaper and pottery for next year.
How would you explain your style of illustration?
We tell stories with our prints. Kingdoms, treasure, enchanted characters, magical objects and fables, but always portraying our subject as if through a lens that distorts the reality a little, enhancing them - sometimes obscurely. With the warped aesthetic, we like to play.
Our source of inspiration can come from tongue n’ cheek humour, gambling or fairground horses to art nouveau, debutante parties, Jung & cheap porn…. Constantly observing the fantastic, the epic, the tragic, the decadent and the ridiculous.
We encourage people to look deeper than surface. Provocative and sometimes misunderstood our work involves sexual imagery but only as a vehicle to symbolize the desire that man has for power. Never take us too seriously.
Fans of bon vivants, eccentrics and talented people, we are inspired by them every time.
What programs do you use to create your illustrations?
Drawings by hand and photoshop.
Thanks Basso & Brooke for having taken their time to make this interview with us
Interview done by Flavio Monteiro for UAILAB
February 2005
I really have a couple of styles of working, my highly rendered work is more influenced by traditional fine art, then theres a more commercial side that is favoured by the editorial, publishing, fashion market.
I got involved with illustration four years ago. I’m self-taught, I have no degree (or anything close to it), nor any professional training.
I try to do whimsical and abstract drawings. I think my style is a mish mash of the ways that effort ends up coming across.
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I started working as a designer in 2005, developing good images, colors and tastes for pornographic market.
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