Another artist on the east­ern US seaboard, Tim Gough has been liv­ing and work­ing in Philadel­phia the past eight years as both a designer and art director.

Tim is influ­enced by the process of screen print­ing (color sep­a­ra­tions, off­set images) and mid-century graph­ics. These things are very evi­dent in his work. Even when he’s using gouache, there are flat appli­ca­tions of color, with some dry brush­ing to accent — it’s extremely rem­i­nis­cent of illus­tra­tions from the mid 20th cen­tury. The ges­tures of his sub­jects and flat depic­tion of space is extremely effec­tive in con­vey­ing a bold and play­ful message.

Tim cre­ates a limited-edition zine, which I had the plea­sure of thumb­ing through at Giant Robot LA. To phys­i­cally hold the zine is really sat­is­fy­ing — the pages are weighty and I loved run­ning my fin­gers across the ink. This, of course was all com­pli­mented by the high qual­ity of Tim’s work.

All images via his web­site.