Profile

ABOUT

Based in London, Dylan Kendle is a designer, director, creative and partner of the multidisciplinary design collective tomato. His varied output has included sleeve art, music videos, commercial direction, title sequences, print, logo design and installations.

Since 1994 he has worked in the disciplines of advertising, branding, music and film. His role defined by the individual requirements of each project.

Working both directly with clients and through agencies on a commission basis, he builds job specific teams from a network of close and trusted collaborators to create bespoke solutions for clients and briefs of all scales and budgets.

Though diverse in both medium and execution his work is often characterised by the expression of simple marks and ideas in the overlap of digital and analogue technologies.

His work is regularly featured in industry books and design periodicals and has featured in shows at the Barbican, the BFI, the ICA, the Design Museum and the Moscow Academy. He has chaired and featured on panels on design and moving image, has lectured and held workshops internationally and is a visiting practitioner at UAL.

INDUSTRY

FFresh festival 2013
Judge

Cream London 2011
Jury Member

D&AD London 2011
Jury Member

Golden Bee Biennale Moscow 2010
International Jury

Kolla Stockholm 2009
Jury Chairman Moving Image

AWARDS

Designer of the year finalist
Trainspotting title sequence

D&AD pencil (Silver)
Levi’s interactive kiosk

D&AD in book
Smirnoff TVC
Gangster No.1 title sequence
Article 27 title sequence
Orange TVC

Tokyo Type Directors Club in book

Personal work
Reduct beginnings
Olympic fit
Heavenstamp video
Underworld between stars

Midsummer adverstising awards (Silver)
Boots No. 7

Creative Circle (Bronze)
Boots No. 7

Grafik Studio of the year
tomato 2010

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Animation Unlimited
Blueprint
Campaign
Contemporary Album Cover Design
Cover Art by
Creative Review
Exposure Magazine
Eye magazine
G1
Grafik Magazine
The Guardian
IDEA magazine
Los Logo’s
Promo Magazine
RGB review of British Graphic Design
A Smile in the Mind
(t)here magazine
Ultrabold magazine
Victionary Flashback
Virtual typography

SELECTED CLIENT LIST

Aer Lingus
Adidas
BBC
Blueprint
BMW
Boots No.7
Blossom Hill
HP
The Economist
Ecotricity
FilmFour
Ford
IBM
ICA
IDE
J&B Whiskey
KBC Bank
Levi’s
Lyle and Scott
Mute Records
Nokia
o2
Orange
Simple
Sky
Smirnoff
Sony
Uniqlo
Unilever
Warner Bros
Verizon
Virgin Trains