Bill Strohacker
Principal/Creative Director
Bill has worked in design and education for the past 25 years as a creative director and designer/educator, initially in publishing as a graphic designer for EMAP (London) designing the iconic Smash Hits magazine. Moving to the Virgin Group working on many household Virgin brands as a creative, Bill also worked during this time as a lecturer and teacher from foundation to degree level. He has also written and created new courses across graphic design and fashion media. He has a full service design studio based in Chichester.
John McFaul
Creative Director/Educator
John has been working at the forefront of contemporary design for the past 20 years, working with Global brands including Pepsico, Levi’s, New Balance and Nokia. His work and influence encompasses all media, across the Globe.
Specialising in creative direction, strategic planning, integrated marketing, motion and interaction, illustration, branding and identity.
Director & Co Founder at McFaul+Day.
Glyn Dillon
Artist/Educator
Glyn Dillon is currently Co-Costume Designer on the as of yet untitled ‘Han Solo’ stand alone film, having completed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. This being a continuation of his relationship with the series, having previously been the costume Chief Concept Artist on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, designing amongst other things the iconic Kylo Ren helmet.
Born in 1971, Glyn has had a wide-ranging career, working mainly as a storyboard artist and concept designer for both film and television with concept artist credits including Andy and Lana Wachowski’s Jupiter Ascending and Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsmen – Secret Service.
Early in his career Glyn drew comics and later worked as an illustrator in toy design and animation. He then wrote and drew the award winning graphic novel ‘The Nao of Brown’ for which, in 2013, he won Best Book Category at the British Comic Awards. The French edition ‘Le Nao de Brown’ also garnered him the 2013 Prix Spécial du Jury du Festival d’Angoulême award and then in 2014 his book won Best Foreign Book at the Treviso Comic Book Festival, Italy.
Sarah Arnett
Designer Illustrator/Teacher
Sarah has created an exciting signature style and unique way of applying her craft. Journeying through her obsession with colour, and collaging an exciting array of hand drawn elements in her compositions; Sarah re-imagines fantastical landscapes and creates a unique and exciting illustrative narrative.
Clients: include Dior, Escada, American Express, The Royal Pavilion Foundation, National Trust as well as illustration for editorial, and packaging. She also teaches at University of Creative Arts, London.
Ian Edwards
Creative/Educator
Ian is the ultimate creative professional. He has been working as a creative for many years for some of the world’s top advertising agencies such as VCCP, Mcann, Saatchi & Saatchi. He is presently working for J. Walter Thompson, London as an advertising creative.
He has worked on campaigns for Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Nestlé, L’Oréal, Andrex, Nokia, Bacardi, Channel 4, McDonald’s and O2.
Sara Watkins
UX Designer/Educator
Sara has worked in digital for over 20 years, launching straight into a career in interactive design. Much of her experience was gained at the BBC where she was Executive Producer on the very first iPlayer and heavily involved in the user experience of this. Since then she has gained commercial experience in London creative agencies such as Dare Digital and Sapient producing UX work for clients including Channel 4, Premier Inn, Sky, Cadbury’s, Premier League. She now works as a UX consultant and also runs her own business as Co-Founder of bookjaw.
Nick Williams
Designer/Educator
Nick has over 20 years of experience in graphics and textile design and management, working for major brands in New York and London such as Nautica and within his own established design studio. He was Levi’s (head of graphics Europe) and Puma (head of graphics worldwide).
He is passionate about brands keeping true to their heritage whilst keeping innovative, on trend and sales focused. Encouraging growth creatively, financially, within teams and as individuals. After Nick’s years of experience he believes authenticity is a key ingredient to any brand’s success.
Jenny Williams
Design Business/Artist direction
I manage and work at 4th Avenue Graphics, giving creative direction to our artists.
Also, I am a specialist in design business and administration. I manage our accounts and analyse sales. Our aim is to always recognise potential in everything whether that be designers, clients, a certain market or sales. Prior to 4th Avenue Graphics, I was a buyer and product developer. My role included a lot of analysis, negotiation and research in design. This armed me with essential tools for business that have and continue to help me immensely as a partner of 4th Avenue Graphics.
Carol Seatory
Designer Illustrator/Teacher
Carol has worked as a professional illustrator and graphic designer, both in-house and freelance for over 20 years. Alongside this, she has taught on degree level graphic design, fashion, textiles and fashion media promotion courses.
