FAQ
Where can I find out more about you?
Why not look here:
Facebook
Twitter
Wikipedia
Jon Burgerman online DOODLING CLASS
Creative Pep talk podcast
Creative Morning live lecture
Publishers Weekly interview
AIGA Eye on Design feature & lecture video
Working not Working interview
New York Times feature
Lecture in Progress interview
Amazon author page
Interview on Cass Arts blog
Why you should doodle everyday
5 easy ways to jump start your creativity
Vice article about SPLAT!
Barnes & Noble interview about picture books
Lecture about my Instagram works
The Great Discontent Podcast
The Genie interview (Italian)
Video interview with Digital Arts
The Early Hour interview
Design Milk Friday 5 interview
Meet The Creatives interview
Creative boom interview
Digital Arts interview / colouring book
Konbini interview
The Great Discontent follow up interview
tNsquare interview
We Heart interview
Interview and mural at UsTwo NYC office
Like Knows Like studio visit
Video interview for Typo Berlin 2015
Desillusion Magazine video feature
Summer 2014 interview video
Haha Magazine article about my Small Edition sculptures
Natalie Kates video interview
What is a doodle? - PSFK interview
The Great Discontent interview
Cult iz my C interview (English and French)
Beach Gallery interview
Workspriation Blog
Margeaux video interview
Go Media Zine interview
AI-AP Dart interview
Jon Burgerman NYC restaurant reviews
Interview for Reykjavik Boulevard
Interview and exhibition preview on Coolhunting
F.OUND article (in Korean)
Korean national newspaper article
Roger Smith Hotel video interview
Openers interview (in Japanese)
Warp.tv video interview
Digital Arts online interview
Nasty Gal Blog
Made in Shoreditch interview
PMc magazine interview by Lori Zimmer
Blog and Buy Sale Interview
Indigits interview
Video interview on Posca's French website.
LeftLion interview about my band Anxieteam
Limited Hype interview
Computer Arts Nov 2009 interview
Juxtapoz
Video interviews by the BBC
Whitehot Art Magazine interview
Ape On The Moon interview
On the BBC website
Illicit Exhibitions article
reative Review blog interview
FormatMag interview
Lost At E Minor interview
F'kn Mischief
My studio on Guilotine
Underspray interview
Little Chimp Society interview
Flickr
What would you most like your audience to take away from your doodles?
A sense of excitement that you can creatively think your way out of (or into) any sort of trouble you like.
What is your process when doodling, is there any planning?
I think about what I want to draw, how it might look or more likely, how it might feel. I draw. I keep drawing, starting a new page when I'm bored / done / happy / horrified with the last drawing I made. I end up with a bunch of drawings I can select the best bits from, depending on what it is I'm doing.
Is that your real name?
No really, it is! My parents thought it'd be a laugh to call me Jon, what jokers eh? You can only imagine the playground chants I endured.
Do you have any advice on doodling?
Doodling is a hard master if you want to take it seriously, it's a piece of pie if you just want to mess around though. Always sharpen your pencils and keep your desk tidy. Carrying a sketchbook with you at all times is useful, though you have to remember to draw in it once in a while.
Which artists do you like?
During your time studying at art college did you have the same style as you do now?
When you drawing on the wall what is the drawing material you use?
Do you plan out your composition before drawing on the wall?
What advice would you give to get your illustrations into the market?
How do you start your character and illustrations?
How would you characterise your work?
What type of markers, paints, pens, etc. you use when colouring your work?
Who, what, where and when do you get your inspirations from Mr Burgerman?
How did you get started?
Do you use a graphic tablet to create your digital work?
Do you use a graphic tablet to create your digital work?
Did you teach yourself to draw, is there a system of abstraction or is it a natural style?
Do you have a certain philosophy on design/life in general?
What do you do to get out of a creative block?
What material do you most like to work on?
Do the same characters appear in different pieces of work?
How do you want people to feel when they see your work?
What is your favourite food?
Are you inspired by your surroundings? If yes, how?
What would your advice be for students currently studying within creative courses like for example?
A lot of your work mixes both analogue and digital techniques. Why do you choose to work this way?
What are your tips for using POSCA pens?
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Only shake them with the lids on. -
Dab them and hold down on some scrap cardboard to get the ink coming through the nib. -
Don't press them too hard into the wall or you might make them leak. -
If your bullet tip gets worn down, get a tissue, pull out the nib and flip it over. -
The pens are re-fillable (with your own ink) and you can buy new nibs for them, so hang on to the empties. -
They last a long time so if you think it's run out repeat tips 1 and 2 a few times first to make sure. -
Don't drink the ink.
Have you ever refused to do a job and why?
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not interested in it -
against the product in question -
not enough time -
not enough money -
knew I wouldn't actually be good at that job so turned it down
Do companies let you be free with what you produce for them?
What's the weirdest thing you have ever doodled on?
A persons passport. I suggested they might prefer me to draw on something else but they were insistent.
Where can I find out more about you in books?
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Burgerworld: A Colouring book, by Jon Burgerman, published by Laurence King. -
Pens are my friends, Jon Burgerman monograph, published by IdN. -
Pictoplasma Character Portraits by Pictoplasma Publishing, Berlin. -
New York: 60 Creatives show you the best of the city published by Gingko Press. -
Fifty Years of Illustration published by Laurence King Publishing. -
Sticker Bomb published by Laurence King Publishing. -
Creature Couture: The Art of Felt Mistress published by Blank Slate Books. -
The Graphic Art of the Underground, A counterculture history by Bloomsbury. -
I Am Plastic, Too, published by Harry N. Abrams. -
The Fundamentals of Illustration series published by Fairchild Books AVA. -
Thinking Visually published by AVA Publishing. -
Los Logos 3 published by Die Gestalten Verlag. -
Pictoplasma 'The Character Encyclopedia' by Pictoplasma. -
Dot Dot Dash published by DGV. -
300% Cotton published by Laurence King. -
Tattoo Icons published by Viction:ary. -
The Art of Rebellion 2 published by Publikat.