Jamie Hewlett By Julius Wiedemann 40th Anniversary Hardcover Book (red / hardcover)

Inside the Mind
of Jamie Hewlett

The artist’s first major monograph, now in an updated edition

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With influences ranging from hip hop to zombie slasher movies, Hewlett emerged in the mid-1990s as co-creator of the zeitgeist-defining Tank Girl comic. With then-roommate Damon Albarn, he went on to create the groundbreaking cartoon band Gorillaz. The award-winning virtual pop group of animated characters is a truly global phenomenon. Gorillaz have topped charts around the world, toured the globe from San Diego to Syria, and picked up hundreds of millions of streams and record sales along the way.

Since then, Hewlett has continued to collaborate with Albarn on projects including an elaborate staging of the Chinese novel for their animated Monkey sequence for the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2015 by Wu Cheng’en, complete with circus acrobats, Shaolin monks, and Chinese singers. In 2006, he was named Designer of the Year by the Design Museum in London, and in 2009, Hewlett and Albarn won a BAFTA for their animated Monkey sequence for the Beijing Olympic Games. In 2015 The Suggestionists, an exhibition of prints at the Saatchi Gallery in London, demonstrated an exciting new course in Hewlett’s practice.

This special edition celebrating TASCHEN’s 40th anniversary updates Hewlett’s first major monograph with a Chinese contemporary opera to an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, artist. Cheap Cerbe Jordan Outlet x Mortal Kombat 400 artworks from the Tank Girl Cheap Cerbe Jordan Outlet x Heathcliff. Through stories, characters, strips, and sketches, we trace Hewlett’s exceptional capacity for invention and celebrate a Cheap Cerbe Jordan Outlet x Voltron, or to be pigeonholed into a particular practice.