Fuel

Graphic Designer

Peter Miles, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell set up graphic design group Fuel while studying at the Royal College of Art in the early 1990s. Their aim from the outset was to combine commercial commissions, with clients such as Diesel, Caterpillar and Levi's, with projects of their own. Fuel have collaborated with photographer Juergen Teller designing his books–Go Sees, Tracht and More–and three of his solo exhibitions. In 1995 they designed idents for MTV Europe.

FUEL magazine (1991-1994) was an initial outlet for their ideas, a number of which were developed into short films Original Copies (1996) which were broadcast on Channel 4. The book Pure Fuel (Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1996) expanded their approach into a broader format. This was followed by Fuel 3000 (Laurence King, 2000). These publications examined accepted notions of graphic design, illustrating ideas and preoccupations to explore themes of authorship.

Fuel's work includes developing advertising campaigns for fashion designer Marc Jacobs and sportswear label adidas, designing catalogues for White Cube gallery, and a web site for cult concept store Oki-Ni. Fuel combine this varied practice with their own experimental projects.

Miles having left in 2004 to go solo, Murray and Sorrell continue to run Fuel. With a focus on contemporary art and photography, the group has developed long-term relationships with a number of artists, galleries and publishers, specialising in the design and production of catalogues and monographs.

Fuel also own the Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive. This unique collection comprises over 750 original sheets of pen and ink drawings, sketchbooks and posters by Danzig Baldaev, the negatives and exclusive rights to over 500 photographs of Russian prisoners by Sergei Vasiliev, and over 900 photographs from the Arkady Bronnikov collection of Soviet Police Files. In addition to providing the material for the critically acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo series of publications (2004-2018), works from the archive have been exhibited widely including Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2012) and the Saatchi Gallery, London (2013).

Peter Miles, Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell set up graphic design group Fuel while studying at the Royal College of Art in the early 1990s. Their aim from the outset was to combine commercial commissions, with clients such as Diesel, Caterpillar and Levi's, with projects of their own. Fuel have collaborated with photographer Juergen Teller designing his books–Go Sees, Tracht and More–and three of his solo exhibitions. In 1995 they designed idents for MTV Europe.

FUEL magazine (1991-1994) was an initial outlet for their ideas, a number of which were developed into short films Original Copies (1996) which were broadcast on Channel 4. The book Pure Fuel (Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1996) expanded their approach into a broader format. This was followed by Fuel 3000 (Laurence King, 2000). These publications examined accepted notions of graphic design, illustrating ideas and preoccupations to explore themes of authorship.

Fuel's work includes developing advertising campaigns for fashion designer Marc Jacobs and sportswear label adidas, designing catalogues for White Cube gallery, and a web site for cult concept store Oki-Ni. Fuel combine this varied practice with their own experimental projects.

Miles having left in 2004 to go solo, Murray and Sorrell continue to run Fuel. With a focus on contemporary art and photography, the group has developed long-term relationships with a number of artists, galleries and publishers, specialising in the design and production of catalogues and monographs.

Fuel also own the Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive. This unique collection comprises over 750 original sheets of pen and ink drawings, sketchbooks and posters by Danzig Baldaev, the negatives and exclusive rights to over 500 photographs of Russian prisoners by Sergei Vasiliev, and over 900 photographs from the Arkady Bronnikov collection of Soviet Police Files. In addition to providing the material for the critically acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo series of publications (2004-2018), works from the archive have been exhibited widely including Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2012) and the Saatchi Gallery, London (2013).

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