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Two sketches on torn notebook paper. On the left, a person with a white beard and a green nose wears a shaggy green cloak. On the right, a person in a dark suit sits on a stool with their arms crossed.

Damien Florebert Cuypers: Frieze Two Minute Portraits

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Date
13 October 2011

It is often said that first impressions are all-important, but is it possible to capture someone’s essence in a mater of minutes? French illustrator Damien Florebert Cuypers certainly thinks so, and to mark Frieze Art Fair which kicks off today, he was commissioned by Nowness to turn his talents to some of the major artists, gallerists and collectors strutting their stuff in the capital this week. See Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin, Jay Joplin and others rendered in glorious high-speed doodles, and the rest of his portfolio’s pretty knock-out too.

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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