About the man on the cow, Mark Venter. Born in Johannesburg, raised in Hong Kong and Singapore and further educated in England and Belgium,Has now settled in Cape Town and works as a freelance Illustrator and Graphic Designer, also dabbling in web design and flash. Clients thus far have included; AGNT Apparel, Atlantic Point Backpackers, Bare to Care, Flatspin Web Design, GQ Magazine South Africa, Hout Bay Festival, Iziko Muesums, King James, One Small Seed Magazine and White Lines Magazine UK. Work has ranged from beer labels and books to product design and corporate branding and many things in between.
I have drawn since childhood but have been working on and off as an illustrator since 2010. I am also a part time sound engineer and play guitar and trumpet (to have a listen - [login to view URL]). I enjoy tattoo and graffiti art and also spent some time studying Architecture and doing technical drawings, though my strong point is in detailed, surreal line work and imagined scenarios. I like movies, music, Belgian beer, secondhand markets, brass instruments of any shape or size, Eastern paradigms, unconventional thinking, cows, owls and most other animals. All right.