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Lex Johnson
Born
London, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUK
Alma mater
UWE Bristol
Occupation(s)Director and Designer
Notable workRWD Magazine | The Booo Krooo | GoldenEye 007 | DAZZLE SHIP | Drone Racing League | Hyper Island

Lex Johnson is a British designer, director and creative executive. He is the founder of creative agency DAZZLE SHIP, a former lecturer at Swedish design institute Hyper Island, and the founding online director of RWD magazine and RWD Forum.

Career

RWD Online / RWD forum

In 2001, Johnson became founding Online Director of

grime and dubstep, and RWD became the first platform to champion grime music and feature UK artists Dizzee Rascal, Skepta and Tinchy Stryder.[1][2][3][4]

The RWD forum is mentioned in grime MC's lyric; the most notable incidents were in its earlier years when Wiley would frequently post and often argue or troll with users.[5] In the book This is Grime by Hattie Collins, Wiley states "the RWD forum was a good place" and Matt Mason added "Grime had always been a conversation and Alex understood this and grew RWD forums, making RWD one of the most popular music websites in the UK" [6][7]

During this period the website received London Business of the Year, UK Garage Awards : Best Website 2002 and Sidewinder Peoples Choice Awards : Best Magazine 2003. Johnson was also personally awarded an "Ernst & Young Future 100" Award in 2011.[8][9][10]

The Booo Krooo

Total Country) and recorded a music video with UK Garage producer 'Sticky'[16][17] known for hits such as Ms Dynamite's track (also named) 'Boo'. Music publication Ransom Note cited the series as the first 'grime comedy' saying it was 'essentially a proto(type) version of People Just Do Nothing" [18]

Creative consultant

From 2009 - 2013 Johnson worked as a freelance consultant providing strategy for various fashion brands [19] creating campaigns such as the 'adidas About to Blow London Olympics 2012' campaign featuring Tinie Tempah and Mo Farah.[20]

Dubstep / EDM / Grime

Johnson was responsible for design collaborations with

Appleblim and Addison Groove.[31][32] The most notable was 'Changa' which premiered on the Adult Swim YouTube Channel [33] and gained official selection status and was nominated for awards at Aesthetica, London Short Film Festival, Berlin Music Video Awards, The Smalls, Stockholm Independent Film Festival.[34] His work has been mentioned in books including: Dubstep Graphics[35][36] and Contemporary Colour Theory.[37][38] Artwork has been featured in Vice [39] Adult Swim [40] Tech Crunch [41] and includes collaborations with musician Tinie Tempah.[42]

James Bond - GoldenEye

Johnson worked as a motion graphics director with video game developer Eurocom , commissioned by Activision to work with the James Bond franchise to develop GoldenEye 007 and 007 Legends.[43][44][45]

Animation / Short Films

He created a handful of films entitled 'Monotone' 'Monkey Business' and 'Do Not Feed The Horses'. Screenings include : AniFest, Resfest, British Film Council and Channel Frederator[46][47][48][49][50] He was invited to resident at The Pervasive Media studio in Bristol as part of art collective 'Lumiere Digitale' as Technical Director and Developer, Johnson was responsible for animation and visual art direction.[51]

Hyper Island

The business school Hyper Island recruited Johnson between 2014โ€“2017 to teach 'storytelling' to the motion creative course in Stockholm/Karlskrona.[52]

DAZZLE SHIP

In 2013, Johnson founded the design and motion graphics studio -

SAP, The Drone Racing League and Blockchain.[53][54][55][56][57][58][59] Their most recent work includes branding the sport of the future 'Drone Racing' [60]

References

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  5. ^ "IN CONVERSATION W/ HATTIE COLLINS: THE 'RWD FORUM' LEGACY, "WILEY BEING WILEY", LIVERPOOL STYLEE, NEW MEDIA & MORE".
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  8. ^ "Ernst + Young - FUTURE 100 2011 WINNERS โ€“ FULL SUMMARY". 16 November 2011.
  9. ^ "FUTURE 100 2011 WINNERS โ€“ FULL SUMMARY". 16 November 2011.
  10. ^ "RWD WINS AT THE SIDEWINDER & NSC PEOPLES CHOICE AWARDS ยป". Archived from the original on 30 June 2004.
  11. ^ "RWDmag Booo Krooo Page". Archived from the original on 17 December 2002.
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  13. ^ "RWDmag Web Archive". RWDMAG. 2002. Archived from the original on 22 November 2002.
  14. ^ "THE BOOO KROOO WORK IT!". RWDmag. Archived from the original on 30 June 2004.
  15. ^ "RWDmag Booo Krooo". RWDmag. Archived from the original on 22 April 2004.
  16. ^ "Sticky on Ninja Tune". Ninja Tune.
  17. ^ "The Boo Kroo Theme Music Video". YouTube. 2003.
  18. ^ "Gone To A Rave: An Incomplete History Of Grime Comedy". 20 August 2021.
  19. ^ "Ravensbourne".
  20. ^ "adidas - About to Blow".
  21. ^ "Subloaded is 6!!!". 16 September 2010.
  22. ^ "2562 unbalance". October 2009.
  23. ^ "discogs". Discogs.
  24. ^ "Komonazmuk album artwork". Archived from the original on 26 December 2021.
  25. ^ "Kapsize label artwork". Archived from the original on 26 December 2021.
  26. ^ "HEADHUNTER at LEV FESTIVAL". Archived from the original on 3 May 2010.
  27. ^ "Headhunter LIVE AV Set @ Stuk Belgium". YouTube.
  28. ^ "Headhunter LIVE with VJ". YouTube.
  29. ^ "Addison Groove's new funk-filled 'Changa' music video".
  30. ^ "Frederator Studios Blogs | Channel Frederator Blog | Monkey Business, A Channel Frederator Featured Film!". Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  31. ^ "Lose Your Mind with the Warped and Wonderful Video for Addison Groove's "Changa"". 22 February 2017.
  32. ^ "Dive into a trippy 3D world with his latest video for Addison Groove".
  33. ^ "Addison Groove - Changa (MUSIC VIDEO) | Adult Swim". YouTube.
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  39. ^ Vice. "Vector Meldrew Vice".
  40. ^ Adult Swim. "Adult Swim". YouTube.
  41. ^ "Tech Crunch". 15 March 2021.
  42. ^ "Groundbreaking NFT Art Residency To Launch In The French Riviera This June". Harper's Bazaar Arabia. 29 June 2021.
  43. ^ "James Bond Goldeneye". November 2010.
  44. ^ "007". January 2011.
  45. ^ "IMDB". IMDb.
  46. ^ "MONKEY BUSINESS (2007)". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008.
  47. ^ "Monkey Business, A Channel Frederator Featured Film!". Archived from the original on 2 January 2009.
  48. ^ "MONOTONE (2006)". Archived from the original on 31 December 2008.
  49. ^ "British Film Council Monkey Business".
  50. ^ "British Film Council - Monotone".
  51. ^ "Pervasive Media Bristol".
  52. ^ "Hyper Island student animations 2014: Watch 13 brilliant short animated films created with Dazzle Ship and Echoic".
  53. ^ "ALEX DONNE JOHNSON". February 2019.
  54. ^ "Alex Donne-Johnson Art Director and Motion Designer".
  55. ^ "The Design Jones".
  56. ^ "GLUG PROFILES: ALEX DONNE-JOHNSON".
  57. ^ "Visiting Speaker: Alex Donne-Johnson, Art Director & Motion Designer". 19 February 2016.
  58. ^ "Prepare to be dazzled with Alex Donne Johnson".
  59. ^ "Passionate about Design".
  60. ^ "DRL Allianz World Championship // Brand Package".
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