Juxtapoz | 76 May 2007

Tea Time With London-Based Artist and DJ Shadow Abum Cover Designer Paul Insect

Paul Insect (From the Juxtapoz article p.54 issue #76):
"I love pop art- the graphics, the feel, the colors. And there have been certain raised levels of it in recent British art history. Peter Blake and his Sgt Pepper album cover was one. Then Jamie Reed with his Sex Pistols work. Now there's a new rise, a sgnificant body of British artists who've soaked it all up and are now coming out with something new. It's a street art, grittier angle. This is the new pop era, and I've never been in a better place artistically than I am now."
Understandable then, that innovative music maestro DJ Shadow has taken such a fancy to the fresh approach. Having designed all of the artwork for Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider, Paul and the DJ get on like a gallery on fire, with plans afoot for more hybrid adventures....