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Lawrence Zeegen is an educator | illustrator | writer

As Head of School, School of Communication Design, Kingston University, Zeegen leads undergraduate and postgraduate courses in animation, filmmaking, graphic design, illustration and screen design for film and TV.

Zeegen has lectured and spoken at conferences, institutions and design events nationally and internationally including in Australia, China, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Turkey and the USA. Zeegen has acted as consultant and external examiner for numerous academic institutions in the UK as well as in China, Greece, Serbia, Singapore and Russia. His expertise covers academic course documentation, specifically in the fields of graphic design, illustration, photography and interactive media.

Having worked as an illustrator since graduation with 1st Class Honours in Graphic Arts from Camberwell College of Arts in 1986 and MA Illustration from the Royal College of Art in 1989, Zeegen’s clients have included major international newspapers, magazines, book publishers, design companies and advertising agencies. Zeegen continues to create illustrations for the Comment and Debate pages of The Guardian Newspaper, as a regular fortnightly contributor.

Zeegen was a founding partner of illustration studio: Big Orange based in Hoxton, London and is still operational almost twenty years after it first launched. In the early 1990s Zeegen, as founding partner and director, launched Heart – and remains one of the UK’s foremost contemporary illustration agencies. In 2006 Zeegen launched ZeegenRush, as founding partner and director, before departing to take a more active role in design education.

As a design writer, Zeegen has contributed to numerous magazines and publications including Creative Review, MacFormat, The Journal (Association of Illustrators), Digital Creative Arts, Computer Arts and is a regular lead contributor to Computer Arts Projects. Zeegen is the author of five published books on the subject of illustration – Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Creative Image-Making (Rotovision 2005), The Fundamentals of Illustration (AVA 2005), Secrets of Digital Illustration: A Master Class in Commercial Image-Making (Rotovision 2007), What is Illustration? (Rotovision), and Complete Digital Illustration (Rotovision 2010). His latest book, The Design Graduate’s Survival Manual (Laurence King) will be published in 2010. Zeegen is also currently researching another book - Fifty Years of Contemporary Illustration (Laurence King) for publication in 2011.

February 2010