Chris Wadden attended Salisbury College of Art and has worked his way through a wide range of disciplines: animation, 3d assemblage, collage, graphic design, clock design, digital paintings and photography.
Starting out as a designer/illustrator on Tatler magazine in the 80’s and then producing regular mixed media images for The Listener, Radio Times and New Scientist. He then spent several years on graphic design commissions for number of clients in the fashion industry: John Galliano, Joseph, Vidal Sassoon became regular clients.
Inspired originally by Joseph Cornell he began producing elaborate 3D constructions which were regularly commissioned for covers of the Independent on Sunday Review and the Guardian Weekend magazine. He later developed these into moving pieces and created a number of animations for title sequences and animated shorts for BBC, Channel 4 and MTV.
His studio in Hoxton grew into a veritable Alladin’s cave of constructed sets and assorted mechanical contraptions which was photographed for the Observer ‘Room of my own’. Chris then began using the computer to mimick the constructed images and now combines built objects with elements created on the Mac.
Chris has also developed a style of digital painting which he first used for a regular column, Shop! for the Telegraph Saturday Magazine.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
The Telegraph Magazine
Management Today
Which?
Reader’s Digest
The Independent on Sunday
The Guardian
The Times Saturday Magazine
The Sunday Express
Harpers & Queen
Tatler
John Galliano
Vidal Sassoon
Joseph
Barclays
Lynne Franks PR
Penguin Books
Transworld Publishing
The Dorchester Hotel
New Scientist
Radio Times
New Statesman
Elle
Cosmopoltan
Almeida Theatre
Royal Mail
RSC
Financial Times Magazine
The Folio Society
Tesco
P&O Cruises
Banking Technology
Harper Collins
Auckett Tytherleigh Architects
MacMillan Publishing
BAA
German Vogue
