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TUTOR – URBAN CHAOS: DIGITAL DESTINY

The ARTFUL DODGER (A. DEE) is widely credited with being one of the first aerosol writers to come out of the UK in the early 1980s, making the successful transition from the streets to the corporate world. This has included work for LucasFilm, BAA Heathrow Airport, MTV, The South Bank Show, and the breakfast cereal Weetabix, as well as having painted numerous backdrops, album sleeves and logos for music acts and record labels.

Throughout the past 25 years A. DEE’s work has taken a personal evolution through the history of the letterform, from Gothic Calligraphy and aerosol writing on the streets of London, through to PSYCHOVISUALISTICS (PSY-VI) — a soulful expression of light and colour which he describes as being “VISUAL MUSIC”

In 1994, A. DEE set up TRUE TO THE GAME to show Aerosol Culture in a positive light and establish a common understanding of its purpose and significance in 20th – and now 21st – Century Western Culture, which prompted him to both produce and direct a 2-hour documentary film on the global impact of Aerosol Culture called GET THE MESSAGE. To date, he has continued designing corporate identities and canvases, youth culture-related logos, visuals and clothing designs, as well as holding various exhibitions and spray-painting workshops for young people up and down the country (one, on a housing estate in South London, winning an award from the late Princess of Wales).

In continuing with his efforts to keep ahead of the pack and up with the changing face of technology, A. DEE is now producing digital 3D work and concept designs for videos, and has also set up a project called B-WRITE (www.b-write.com) that teaches women how to create striking urban murals with spray-paint.

C@NTACT: adee001 AT hotmail.com