Siggi Eggerstsson was born in Akureyri, a small town on the north coast of Iceland. He first showed interested in Graphic Design at the age of 14 when he became involved in local design programs creating posters for jazz concerts and art exhibitions. When he turned 18, his vision started to expand beyond his remote home, so he applied to the Iceland Academy of Arts in Reykjavik to study Graphic Design. During his first year he met the typographer Atli Hilmarsson and they began working together on design briefs. Here Siggi Eggerstsson developed not only as a typographer and designer but also, increasingly, as an Illustrator and image maker in his own right. In 2005 he moved to New York to work at the Karlssonwilker design studio followed by a move to Berlin to study in the Kun-sthochschule Berlin-Weissensee.

Early in 2007 Siggi moved to London to become part of the Big Active family and contribute to publications like Dazed and Confused, The New York Times and Arkitip plus commercial work with H&M, Stussy and various music projects. Siggi has a unique and complete visual identity; his approach to work takes in his design back-ground, which results in work of hidden depth and sense of purpose.

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As a self-taught artist who gained wide recognition for his graffiti work very early in his career, Frost makes paintings and sculptures that usually are a result of collaging and layering of images, along with the forma-tion of hand-made, often symmetrical black and white patterns. These patterns, which are created with pains-taking detail and using correction fluid as a medium, offer an appearance that oscillates between modernist designs and primitivism, abstraction and representation. Phil Frost is a highly individual artist whose work brings together aspects of urban culture, abstraction, and design. Of him, Roberta Smith has written: “his paintings and altar like sculptures exude extreme sophistication, specifically a confidant fusion of graffiti, modern art, modern design, and the primitive that influenced so many facets of modernism”. Frost’s intensive approach toward every object he works on, whether it is the surface of a white canvas or a found object in the streets of New York, invariably result in a dense layering of forms and tightly knitted designs that conform richly complex compositions that engage and change before the eyes of the viewer. Frost’s patterns often appear as arcane codes and a language of its own, composed of symbols such as letters, hearts, dots and mask-like forms.

Of his work, the artist has said: “I believe [my work] is indigenous to myself. I believe that within every person there is an indigenous expression of themselves”. Phil Frost’s highly idiosyncratic work has had a wide recogni-tion both in the contemporary art world and in youth culture, ranging from skateboarding magazines to the music industry. His work has been featured in the exhibi-tions “Bottle: Contemporary Art and the Vernacular Tradition” at the Aldrich Museum; “The New York Mets and our National Pastime” at the Queens Museum; and “Beautiful Losers” at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, traveling to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Orange County Museum of Arts, Newport Beach, CA and Pennsylvania Academy for the Arts, PA, among others. He has been the recipient of several grants and awards, such as the Tiffany Founda-tion Grant and the Pollock Krasner Award.

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St. John produces both commercial and experimental work through HunterGatherer, the studio/workshop that he founded in 2000. He has created animations, illustra-tions and graphics for everyone from MTV to Money Mark to The New York Times. In 1994, while living in California, St. John co-founded the influential graphic T-shirt label Green Lady with Gary Benzel. Nylon Maga-zine described Green Lady as "to the designer T-shirt world what RunDMC is to hip-hop".

St. John regularly has work published, broadcast and exhibited internationally. He was included in the 2003 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial with Benzel, and in 2008 was nominated for an Emmy for the animated short "Circle Squared". St. John also teaches as a graduate critic at the Yale School of Art.

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