Paul Novak

Born in Hong Kong, Novak moved to the UK at the age of 8 and has always been an artist. Working in areas including illustration, graphic design, typography and street art, he officially became a designer in 2006, and now works for Lomax Systems Ltd (LSL).
The first real design of his that LSL produced was a banner, created in December 2007. "I like the fact that this piece shows the variety of content available from the company as well as the style," says Novak. In June 2008, Novak produced a self-portrait by placing a hand-drawn sketch from his pad into Illustrator and vectorising it. He created his own style of character, taking inspiration from the Best of Blur album cover by Julian Opie. Feeling he needed an identity, Novak was inspired by the books Los Logos and Dos Logos to produce a business card that could be read both upside down and normally, in order to create "a little interaction, brain challenge and fun".