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In the next instalment of our Movers & Makers series, we sit down with leading creative founders to learn how and why they set up their businesses. This week, we meet Verònica Fuerte, the founder of Barcelona-based studio, Hey.

Hagihara Takuya is a Tokyo-based artist and graphic designer. His abstract work packs a visual punch without providing any sense of narrative or communicating anything familiar. The patterns he creates, typified by a glitchy and erratic aesthetic that hints at a disruptive creative process, could at once be a failure of a computer programme or an interpretation of animal markings. Hagihara says he finds “inspiration everywhere” and graduated from the Institute of Faculty of Technology…

Shun Sasaki, Ikki Kobayashi, nuQ and Taro Uryu produce two mascots apiece, one each for the Olympics and Paralympics.

For creative Cynthia Alfonso, her work, and the process of making it, is always “in continuous movement”. What this movement might be. however, depends massively on how she’s feeling, seeing her use visual communication as a way “to apply everything I absorb every day”. Consequently, her portfolio is built up with a mix of comics illustrations, which have garnered a unique following, and animations too.

While we’re constantly surprised (and pleased) by the oddly-elongated bout of sunny days we’re experiencing here in England, long days of sun are a regular occurrence for Spanish illustrator María Ramos. There’s nothing better than a picnic on days like this, and María agrees, illustrating a lunch full of character in her latest book, _Picnic,_ published by "Fulgencio Pimentel.":http://www.fulgenciopimentel.com/

Taking his time to find his feet after initially completing a film studies course, the LA-based illustrator spent time teaching English as a foreign language before building upon his interest in editorial illustration, deciding to give it a go himself.

Growing up shooting skateboard videos with his friends, Paris-based designer "Alexis Jamet":https://www.instagram.com/alexis_jamet/ was tasked with making the titles and illustrations for these early creations. Eventually branching into producing zines about the Paris skate scene, he coupled this creative pursuit with clothing and board design for his local skate shop. “I then wanted to study filmmaking, but I wasn’t academic enough, so I found a hand lettering school which was a better…

Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Craven works with found imagery and geometric patterns. His new and first book, _Primer_, takes in the ceramics, textiles and sculpture practices of ancient cultures; spliced with both contemporary references and vintage film posters.

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