Tim Gravestock has been working in the fields of graphic design, typography, and illustration since 1980 for many well-known companies and organisations in classical music, book and magazine publishing, and in the arts. He got his honours degree in Graphic Design in 1977-80 at Central School of Art and Design London. He was commissioned to create a set of four posters for the National Portrait Gallery in London. Having worked extensively on purely digital projects for many years he returned in 2014 to the collage, and drawing, of his earlier career but now with three decades of professional experience behind him. In the current world of download-everything it was, at first, a difficult step back but rewarding to to be creating fresh work by hand without total reliance on a computer As he says himself: “I have noticed in professional forums the reluctance to make anything. The question now is increasingly ‘where can I get templates, graphics, typography, photographs, without having to create them myself?’ - that to me is not art or design, it’s pure laziness”
