TAXI We're honored to have you and your great work here with us today. Before we begin, could you tell our readers about yourself and what you do?

Sean Freeman Not at all, thank you for having me! I suppose what I do is create semi-photographic type treatments and illustrations - in essence I like to make things out of stuff.

TAXI Your typography works are certainly very interesting, how did your love affair with fonts start?

Sean Freeman Thank you, I'm not really sure, I was always really into lyrics and found words quite powerful, so I started to just have some fun with them, and then I started to really appreciate certain advertising pieces that had quite clever lines that weren't just type and I thought, that's it, I'd love to do that.

I think I kind of fell into it along the way, but once you're in, you can't go back. I find myself over analysing type - even posters in bars and on things, it's quite sad really!

TAXI How did you also get into digital illustration?

Sean Freeman Well, often the bits I photograph and the technique I developed to do a type treatment can be used for other stuff - usually treatments for girls / fashion stuff, or creating animals. It's really whatever suits the treatment, and so I just got into by experimenting and playing around, hoping for the best results.

TAXI Which artists are your role models?

Sean Freeman Craig Ward's been a great help with my work from leaving university till now, his work is amazing and he's got a great attitude too. But I love the work of all the usual suspects really, Alex Trouchut, Kerry Roper, Si Scott, Mario Hugo, HelloVon, Pomme Chan, and the list goes on and on.

TAXI What is the one typographic piece/digital illustration that you wished you had created?

Sean Freeman There are countless pieces I wish I had done. In fact, there are entire portfolios of work I wish I'd have done, but I suppose the piece that's kind of closest to my work and wish I'd done is 'You blow me away' by Craig Ward, it's beautiful and works so well. Jealous? Me?

TAXI What projects are you currently working on now?

Sean Freeman I've got a few little things on, a headline treatment like a soundwave, which I think it should actually be kind of cool. I'm also doing a little bit of fashion work, and a new illustration of a cat's head made up of cream and ink. It's sort of inching there slowly but could be quite nice when it's all done.

TAXI We like your Fat & Furry typographic experiment. How did the inspiration for that come about?

Sean Freeman My brother and I did a similar treatment in processing that was quite successful, and this lead me onto playing around in 3D and seeing what could be done, as the only problem with the processing experiment was that it came out kind of flat, the 3D letters felt like they had more depth to them and like little things you could pick up and stroke.

TAXI What tools are you currently using for your typography and digital illustrations?

Sean Freeman A lot of the work is made up from photographing various things and then essentially collaging them together. Recently, I've been working on this processing stuff with my brother and that's throwing up some interesting results - the bee for instance is made up of mostly errors and unusable pieces from previous processing experiments cobbled together to make this quite mean looking thing.

TAXI Could you show us/describe what your workspace looks like?



Sean Freeman Absolutely, have a little look. Only just moved out of working in my bedroom and into this place, which can be nothing but a step in the right direction. It's going to be nice to have a bedroom that is a bedroom, not somewhere I spend every waking hour!

TAXI Before we end, tell us where you would like a TAXI to take you now?

Sean Freeman You know what, I'd be happy just to get a Taxi home.