About

scott balmer

I am a professional freelance illustrator who is currently based up in Scotland, United Kingdom. I see myself as a person who solves problems of the visual nature and has being doing so since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art & Design. Whether it be towering monoliths or conceptual spot illustrations, no illustrative design problem is too small.

I have produced artwork for numerous clients and galleries from around the world including illustrations for Magazines, Newspapers and Books amongst other things.

Selected Clients

Previous Clients that I have produced work for:

Google – Times Educational Supplement – Fast Company – Financial Times – Little White Lies – Huginn & Muninn – The New York Times  –  Konami Europe – Fangamer  –  Monocle  –  M & C Saatchi – The Guardian  –  MIT Technology Review – Computer Arts  –  Digital Artist Magazine – University of Toronto Magazine  –  Nokia – Readers Digest  –  Umbro  –  Howies – Bloomberg BusinessWeek

And many more.

Selected Books

Publications which have featured my work:

3 x 3 annual no. 16 (2019) – Creative Quarterly 100 Best of 2018 (2019) – Total Geek-Art (2019) – The Power and Influence of Illustration (2019) – Geek-Art Volume 3 (2016) – Pictoplasma Character Portraits (2014) – Every Day is Play (2014) – Juxtapoz Psychedelic  (2013) – Game Icons Luigi (2013) – Fresh/Print (2011) – AOI Images 35 (2011) – AOI Images 33 (2009)

Exhibitions

Various Exhibitions/Art Show that I have been involved in:

2018

Crazy 4 Cult 2018
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

WWE Art Show
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

Revenge of Frankenstein 200
Dark Arts Emporium – Los Angeles

Product Placement
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

12 x 12
Spoke Art/Vertical Gallery – Chicago

Super Mario Super Art Show
Bottleneck Gallery – New York

Idiot Box
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

Secret 7 2018
London – United Kingdom

Wow x Wow vol. 2
Wow x Wow – United Kingdom
Famicase 2018
METEOR – Japan
Microvisions
Wow x Wow – United Kingdom
Monty Python – Art Show
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles
Fake Theme Parks Art Show
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles
Animal Kingdom
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

2017

Postcard Correspondence 2017
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

Focus Features
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

Memes Art Show
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles
Wow x Wow vol. 1
Wow x Wow – United Kingdom
World 8 – Art Show
World-8 – Los Angeles
Stephen King – Art Show
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles
30 Years Later
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles
Punchout!! 30th Art Show
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles

2016

Postcard Correspondence 2016
Gallery 1988 – Los Angeles

Labyrinths & Monsters
Creature Features – Los Angeles
10th Crazy 4 Cult X
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles
MATTEL Art Show
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles
20 Years Later
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles
30 Years Later
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles
Pixel Hearts
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles

2015

Console Wars
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles

Crazy4Cult
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles

No Ghost Logos
Creature Features – Burbank CA

Guillermo Del Toro: In service of Monsters
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles

Fangamer Art Show: Beginnings
PAX Prime

Clue
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles

Postcard Correspondence
Gallery 1988 West – Los Angeles

2014

Thirty Three and a Third and a Third 333: half Mark of the Beast
Gallery 1988 East – Los Angeles

TMNT Turtles in Time – An Official TMNT Artshow
Bottleneck Gallery – New York

Fangamer ♥ AttractMode
1927 Events – Seattle

Strong to the Finich! An Official Popeye Tribute Artshow
Hero Complex Gallery – Los Angeles

8bit and Beyond 2
Bottleneck Gallery – New York

Hellboy 25th Anniversary
Hero Complex Gallery – Los Angeles

It Came from 1984
Bottleneck Gallery – New York

R-Rated Memories
Roest – Amsterdam

2013

Feathers
Gallery 33
– Amsterdam

Not For Rental
Gallery 71A –  London 

Alternate Ending
Bottleneck Gallery – New York

2012

So You Created a Wormhole
IAM8BIT – Los Angeles

All Together Now
Gallery Nucleus – Los Angeles 

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