By way of background, I am a professional illustrator, senior designer and artist.
Born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand – Bachelors in Graphic Design. Co-founder of Bunch of Artist, a group of punk era artists working in London. Spent 90’s in New York as designer, creative director and freelance artist/illustrator, working largely in the promotion of music projects. 2002-2008 returned to New Zealand, maintained international contacts and freelance projects including designer of Dewar’s Academy of Whisky, a traveling branded pop-up environment for Bacardi Global Brands, deployed throughout Asia and in some established European markets.
(see projects) Currently I live in Paris dividing time between personal projects, working on retail 'Pop-Up' concepts for the likes of MyPopupstore.fr whose clients include Ferrero (Nutella, Kinder Surprise and Ferrero Rocher), Lonely Planet and the city of Paris and working as creative director for a communications company, LingoConsultants in Hamburg.
My illustrations have appeared in many leading publications, periodicals, annuals and websites including The New Yorker, NY Times, The Guardian, Marie Claire and Time Out. I have successfully been awarded entry into many juried illustration annuals and forums including a profile in Creative Review, inclusion in American Illustration, Communication Arts, and Images, best of British Illustration. Work has been exhibited in London, NYC and New Zealand and is held in private collections in the US, UK and France.
Recently commissioned by the legendary graphic designer
David Carson, to work on ‘surf stuff for Quiksilver’ David says of my work, “Wow. major!! Great!! love yer illustrations”.
Link to Quiksilver project on Creative Review site. I am currently working on a short illustrative story which will be publish as a little ‘lovestory’ and David Carson has agreed to collaborate on this project with me. I am also collaborating on another illustration centric book with NZ author
Bill Manhire.
I create a new illustration each and everyday and post this to my blog. Recently got the following compliment tweeted by
Erik Spiekermann- 'Mark Harfield must have 48 hours in a day. He's been posting a drawing a day for over 9 months now. And they're all good.'
I love collaboration, good ideas and deadlines. The proud father of two daughters, Lucille 10 and Eloise 8, from whom I steal my best ideas.
Je suis praticien dans les arts graphiques, né en Nouvelle-Zélande, qui a travaillé et vécu à Londres, New York et maintenant Paris. Je travaille dans de nombreux genres graphiques, tels ceux de l’illustration et des arts appliqués. La force et la justesse du projet priment avant tout autre considération.
Les idées viennent rapidement, car je peux m’exprimer simplement et directement avec un crayon et du papier. En commençant dès la première réunion, la création d’un commentaire visuel permet d’articuler les idées et les concepts soulevés en les synthétisant. Les explications visuelles sont ainsi livrées rapidement et efficacement.
J’ai récemment travaillé avec le légendaire graphiste David Carson, qui a dit de mon travail, “Wow. major!! Great!! love yer illustrations” et je suis actuellement en collaboration avec lui sur un roman graphique. Par ailleurs, je suis également engagé dans la réalisation d’un autre livre pour la Nouvelle-Zélande en collaboration avec son auteur, Bill Manhire.
Je crée une illustration chaque jour que je poste sur mon blog. J’ai récemment reçu ce tweet d’Erik Spiekermann: ‘Mark Harfield must have 48 hours in a day. He’s been posting a drawing a day for over 9 months now. And they’re all good.’ Erik, je vous remercie pour ce joli compliment !
clientèle:
Le New Yorker et le New York Times comptent parmi les clients. J’ai travaillé avec de nombreuses agences, pour des marques differentes et sous diverses formes avec des petits indépendants jusqu’aux grandes entreprises. J’ai de nombreuses expériences du travail en équipe, que ce soit avec les dirigeants d’entreprises, les cadres, les directeurs artistiques oules créatifs ... qu’ils soient compatriotes ou non.