ABOUT

Hello! My name is Clayton Junior (yes, son of Clayton Senior) and I’m originally from Curitiba, Brazil. I started my career designing t-shirts for Dropdead, a skate company based in my hometown, going later to São Paulo to work as a designer for MTV Brazil and an illustrator for the national media. In 2007, I moved to London with a scholarship to study the MA Illustration course at Camberwell College of Arts. Since then I have illustrated and animated a wide range of projects for clients in UK, US, Europe, Brazil and around the world. Since 2018 I live in Berlin, where I balances graphic commissions with my independent production of paintings, zines and comics.

Feel free to get in touch: studio@claytonjunior.com

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Academic Background
2008 MA Illustration – Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London.
(Alban Program High-Level Scholarship Program between Latin America and Europe) 2003 BA Visual Arts – School of Communication and Arts, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Published books
Wild Thing - or My Life as a Wolf (graphic novel), Ablaze Publishing, USA, 2019
Brain Trippers, ERCcomics.com. commissioned by the European Research Council, 2018 Selvagem (Ma Vie de louip, Brazilian edition), SESI-SP Publishers, 2018
Ma Vie de Loup (graphic novel), Éditions Sarbacane, France 2017
Free the Lines (children's book), Quarto Books, UK 2016
Alone Together (children's book), Quarto Books, UK 2016
Temporama (graphic novel), Nobrow, UK 2010
A Graphic Cosmogony (anthology), Nobrow Press, UK 2010
Nobrow magazines 3, 5 and 7 (anthology), Nobrow Press, UK 2009/2010)
Ten Steps Until Nothing (anthology), Teiera, Italy 2011

llustration work
Freelance illustrator (2000-present). Selected clients include magazines: New Yorker, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review (USA); Guardian, Waitrose Food Illustrated, Anorak, Aeon, PrivatSea, Monocle (UK), Allianz (Germany), Citizen K, BE Magazine (France), Internazionale (Italy), Sekret Firmy (Russia); companies: Verve Music Group, Visit Britain, Marylebone Cricket Club, Google, AirBnB, Interface, Steelcase; advertising agencies: Sapient, MCSaachi, AKQA, R/GA; public commissions: Band TV, Pencil & Help; digital/design agencies: Frog Design, Solar, NearlyNormal, WeareGood publishing houses: Hachette, Abril Publishing Group (Brazil), Tschuftli Heftli (Switzerland), Harvard University Press, Nobrow Press.

Animation work
Independent animation designer (2000-present) on commercial projects for MTV Brazil, Google, Globo TV, Disney Channel; Independent animation designer for Bafta-winning, Opscar-nominated Studio AKA (2010/2015); Animation director/designer on commercial projects for Verve Music Group and Fox Channel Latin America and personal projects for Museum of London Docklands and Dois Music (Cabernet music video, screened on MTV Brazil, Hackney pop-up cinemas and the 2012 Melbourne International Animation Festival).

Teaching/workshops/lectures
2005 to 2007 - IED Intituto Europeo di Design, Sao Paulo Brazil. Leading tutor of Illustration Techniques for the Graphic Design and Digital Design courses.
2014 Victoria & Albert Museum, Froidy Late one-day open stencil workshop, London
2013 Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, guest lecturer for BA Illustration, Aberdeen
2015 Museum of London Docklands – history of Poplar storytelling one-week project/workshop, Pencil & Help, London
2016 Arch charity family art workshop, Nearly Normal Studio, London

Exhibitions
2023 Die Anderen Farben -solo show at Galerie Kungerkiez, Berlin
2022 Meanwhile... -solo show at Galerie Kungerkiez, Berlin
2016 Colour Wheel - solo show at Half Moon Young People’s Theatre, London 2015 London Illustration Fair - Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
2014 Light Traveller - solo show at Hobo Corp, London
2013 Maison 302 - solo show at Treviso Comic Book Festival, Italy
2013 Node 18x18 - Design Museum London
2010 Cycling in London - London Transport Museum
2009 Images 33 - The Best of British Illustration, London
2009 A View of London - London Transport Museum
2009 Story Motel - Owl & Lion Gallery, Edinburgh
2008 Text+Image - (co-curator) Camberwell College of Arts, London
2008 Realidades Sobrepostas - Tomie Ohtake Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2006 Terra Brasilis - XPace Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2006 Chamex Prize - Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2005 Salao da Bahia - Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Brazil
2000 Print Triennial Krakow - Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Poland

Featured at:
3X3 Illustration Annual 6 (USA), Communication Arts Magazine (USA), Creative Quarterly 35 (USA), Wrap Magazine, Hunger Magazine, Shortlist Magazine, Elle Decoration UK, Latino-Gráfico (Germany), Nobrow Magazine 3, 5 and 7, Crackpot Calendar (Germany), Revista Colectiva (Costa Rica), Veerle's Blog (Belgium), Artflakes (Germany)