Lawrence Zeegen - Biog

Lawrence Zeegen is an illustrator, educator, writer and artists' agent.

Illustrating since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1989, Zeegen's clients include major international newspapers and magazines, book publishers, design companies and advertising agencies. During the 1990s Zeegen was involved in establishing a number of illustration studios in London and in setting up one of the UKs truly contemporary illustration agencies.

As Academic Programme Leader for Communication and Media Arts at the University of Brighton, UK, Zeegen leads undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Illustration and Graphic Design. He has lectured internationally and spoken at conferences around the world.

Zeegen has contributed regularly to publications - Computer Arts and Digital Creative Arts and has written for Creative Review, MacFormat and The Association of Illustrators (AOI) Journal. Zeegen has written about contemporary illustration for books that include AOI Images 28, and Clin D'Oeil. Zeegen's own books; Digital Illustration – A Master Class in Creative Image Making [Rotovision] and The Fundamentals of Illustration [AVA] have been published in 2005.

Zeegen has been a Council Member of the AOI and on award jury panels for the AOI and D&AD, British Design and Art Direction.

Zeegen has recently formed a partnership with Helen Rush, an experienced agent, to establish ZeegenRush. A directional, global, creative, visual agency, ZeegenRush represents the best of today's contemporary illustrators and image-makers, employing methods of representation that embrace the digital demands of the 21st century.