Nick Philip (born in 1968 in
London
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) is a graphic and multi-media artist and clothing designer based in San Francisco, California.
Career
As a teenager in London, Philip was a cut-and-paste artist active in the city's freestyle bicycle/skateboard subculture. In 1988, after moving to the United States, he founded
Anarchic Adjustment, a "streetweare" clothing line geared to appeal to freestyle/skate, rave and techno consumers. Under the Anarchic label, Philip partnered with Alan Brown and
Charles Uzzell Edwards. Philip created early Bay Area
rave
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fliers.
[Darren Keast]
Computer World
'. East Bay Express
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The ''E ...
, August 29, 2001
He became a founding contributor of
''Wired'' Magazine in 1993
Phiilip was co-founder of the multimedia studio SFX in San Francisco from 1993-94. He also designed a number of CD covers for the ambient music label Silent Records during this time.
In the mid-1990s Philip worked on the film ''
What Dreams May Come''; in the movie's 1998 release, Philip is credited with "painted world visual effects: Lunarfish" (Lunarfish being a San-Francisco-based special-effects and CGI company). In 1997 Philip released ''Radical Beauty'' on
Om Records
Om Records is an American record label, established in 1995, which releases electronic music, dance music and hip hop. The label was founded in San Francisco in 1995 by Chris Smith. Om Records releases both artist albums and compilations, incl ...
, a combination of audio CD and computer CD-ROM that combines music, graphic art, computer animation, and an interactive digital mixing capacity. It won the Best Digital Contents Award at San Francisco Multimedia Summit. The music on the audio CD was provided by a range of techno, hip-hop, and ambient artists, including
Mixmaster Morris
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,
T-Power
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and Daniel Pemberton.
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He has performed live with ambient music artist Pete Lawrence, founder of the Big Chill Festival.
In 2006 Philip designed surrealistic-imaged T-shirts for
The Imaginary Foundation
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. He has displayed his visual art at the San Francisco multi-media art gallery blasthaus, and he has worked as a videographer, in collaboration with audio artists ''
Sun Electric''
Neil Strauss
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: ''A New, Spacey Look For MTV''. The New York Times
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, January 19, 1997, Section 1, Page 35'''' ("Meccano"), ''Prana'', and ''Journeyman''.
References
External links
The Imaginary Foundation
(Shift magazine, Japan)
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1968 births
Living people