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Nick Philip (born in 1968 in London [1] ) is a graphic and multi-media artist and clothing designer based in San Francisco, California.
As a teenager in London, Philip was a cut-and-paste artist active in the city's freestyle bicycle/skateboard subculture. He was art director of a magazine called RaD that initially focused on BMX and later on skateboarding. [2] In 1986, [3] 2 years before moving to the United States,[ citation needed ] he founded Anarchic Adjustment, a clothing company that initially focused on skate punk wear but later became known for its rave fashion, such as T-shirts featuring aliens, UFOs, or MDMA-inspired slogans like "open your mind." [4] [1] i-D later characterized it as a "maverick streetwear brand that emerged at the intersection of the skate, freestyle BMX and proto-rave scenes of the late 80s." [2]
Philip also created some of the first Bay Area rave fliers [5] using photocopiers and collages, [6] and has been described by Simon Reynolds as one of the "prime movers" who catalyzed the West Coast rave scene (several of whom where British expatriates). [7]
He was an early contributor to Wired Magazine. [8]
Phiilip was co-founder of the multimedia studio SFX in San Francisco from 1993-94. He also designed a number of CD covers for the ambient music label Silent Records during this time.
In the mid-1990s Philip worked on the film What Dreams May Come ; in the movie's 1998 release, Philip is credited with "painted world visual effects: Lunarfish" (Lunarfish being a San-Francisco-based special-effects and CGI company). [9] In 1997 Philip released Radical Beauty on Om Records, a combination of audio CD and computer CD-ROM that combines music, graphic art, computer animation, and an interactive digital mixing capacity. It won the Best Digital Contents Award at San Francisco Multimedia Summit. [10] The music on the audio CD was provided by a range of techno, hip-hop, and ambient artists, including Mixmaster Morris, T-Power and Daniel Pemberton. [10]
Philip has worked as a videographer, in collaboration with audio artists Sun Electric ("Meccano" [11] ), Prana , and Journeyman. "Meccano" was the first video to be played on MTV's electronic music show Amp. [5] Around 2000, together with musicians Jeff Taylor and Simon Colley, he founded a music/video project called Alloy , which was invited to perform at the UK festival Big Chill, who also featured Alloy's track "Vague Electricity" on one of its compilations. [5]
From around 2006 on, Philip became known for his Imaginary Foundation clothing line. [12] His 2022 "Paperback Metaverse" exhibition in San Francisco featured an "immersive sculpture" made out of old pulp novels with augmented reality elements. [13] [14]
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Nick Philip's clothing company, Anarchic Adjustment, went from purveying skatepunk wear to being 'a mouthpiece for loved-up ecstasy consciousness.'" [...] 'We were the first to put aliens and UFOs on shirts,' claims Philip.
[...] the West Coast's [rave] scene was directly catalyzed, in large part, by British expatriates. In San Francisco a remarkable number of the prime movers were from the UK: [...including] clothes designer Nick Philip.
[...] Nick Philip, who directed the computer-morphing video for Sun Electric's 'Meccano,' an 'Amp' favorite.