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Cat Sims

Cat Sims

Cat Sims - United Kingdom based illustrator

Powerful line work sits side-by-side with a strong stance on social issues in the work of London creative Cat Sims, making her an artist to watch on today’s illustration scene.
Any fresh idea and any medium Cat can get her hands on can be turned into imaginative imagery with a message, a story to tell – and just a hint of mayhem. Drawings are just the beginning as she tackles printmaking, t-shirts, zine publishing and filmmaking with the same radical eye and comic book-inspired style. Music, film, radio and modernist architecture are just some of Cat’s influences, and she studied Graphic Design at UAL London College of Communication before launching her illustration and printmaking career.

Approach

Cat likes to mix things up and looks for different ways to combine handmade and digital elements in her work. Usually, rough sketches are scanned in and progressed in Photoshop and Illustrator, bringing in texture, light and colour.

Style

Originally, Cat loved working in black and white but her newer works are introducing bold splashes of colour. Narrative is always a strong element in her imagery, which is based on line work, lots of clever detail, and texture. The latter is often derived from printing techniques such as halftones.

Client list

Adidas, Barbican, V&A, Oatly, The Telegraph, The Guardian, New York Times, Jacobin, Tribune, Sports Illustrated, BBC, LA Times, Washington Post, Three
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Slamm! themed mural design
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GIF animation of survival in extreme environments
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Drawing artwork for Puffin book covers
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Superhero Phantom Editorial for Sojourners Magazine
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Comic football-themed mural design for Adidas store
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Club Classics editorials for DOPE 22's Dorothy Spencer poem
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Oatly's Silent Barista campaign in Shanghai
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Comic piece of a project on connection
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A piece of vacation illustration for Spear Magazine
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Housing crisis editorial illustration
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Spear Magazine's satirical 'Bored Ape' cartoon
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Barbican Centre's limited edition print collection
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Portrait of a Buckminster Fuller for The New Republic
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Comic illustration of Oatly statistics
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The Guardian Guide's Don't Pass the Popcorn cover
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Article on Snap for the Washington Post
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Koi carp stickers for Batbican Centre products
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BBC Creative commission to make art 'by order of The Peaky Blinders'
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Tony Blair Institute for Global Change one-page cartoon
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The Appointment musical poster illustration
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Adidas' Stratord flagship store's large comic mural.
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Metrics' cover art for July 2022 Sociological Review
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SNP member Stephen Flynn's portraiture
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Graphic Waltham Forest Council.
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Gif black matter
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