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An abstract digital image of swirling colours in pink, purple, green and blue. Fine, diagonal lines create a textured, shimmering effect across the composition.

Do not adjust your screen, Sam Coldy's stunning lenticulars will delight your eyes

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Date
29 August 2012

Graphic artist Sam Coldy has a way with colour that we’re not sure we’ve come across before. Yes, yes, we know there’s a lot of brightly-coloured art out there at the moment, but has anyone else ever combined those colours to create a lenticular effect from flat artwork? We think not. But that’s exactly what Sam does, overlaying patterned vectors to create textures that shimmer on screen and in print. He’s even managed to use the effect within typefaces, creating fonts that leap from the page.

Sam mostly works for musical clients, his colour-saturated abstracts lending themselves naturally to album artwork and promo materials. With a client list that already includes big-name labels like Columbia, EMI, Polydor and super-cool indy label Moshi Moshi we’re expecting to see a huge amount of Sam’s work adorning the shelves of record stores for years to come. Good luck to you Mr Coldy.

A distorted typographic image reads “CAR OUS ELS” across three lines. The black letters are blurred and warped against a vibrant, grainy background of neon green and purple.
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Sam Coldy: Carousels

An abstract digital image of swirling, iridescent colours. Vibrant pinks, purples and greens blend together across a textured surface of fine, vertical lines.
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Sam Coldy: Carousels

An abstract 3D render of swirling, iridescent colours. Vibrant shades of pink, green, blue and yellow blend together in a soft, undulating form with a fine, textured grain.
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Sam Coldy: Carousels

A grainy, colourful gradient background in shades of purple, orange, and red. The word “ROMA” is centred in a light blue, sans-serif typeface.
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Sam Coldy: Roma

An abstract digital composition of overlapping, translucent geometric shapes. A grainy gradient of yellow, green, blue and pink blends across the frame.
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Sam Coldy: Roma

An abstract digital composition of blurred, grainy colours. Vibrant pinks and oranges on the left blend into soft yellows, greens and purples on the right.
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Sam Coldy: Roma

An abstract digital composition featuring a large, translucent circle centred over a diagonal split. The image is filled with grainy, iridescent gradients of red, blue, yellow and green.
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Sam Coldy: Roma

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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