Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford
Johanna Basford

Awards

October 2008
Winner of 4Talent Wildcard Award (Channel 4)
November 2007
Winner (Best in Bedrooms) Elle Decoration Design Awards
November 2007
Finalist in Creative Entrepreneur of the Year
July 2007
Awarded NESTA investment funding (part of Starter for Six)
January 2007
Winner of BT E-Entrepreneurs Award
January 2007
Short listed for a Homes and Gardens Classic Design Award
December 2006
Awarded Scottish Arts Council Start-up Grant
April 2006
Regional Winner of Shell Live Wire Young Entrepreneur of the Year
July 2005
Nominated for Student Designer of the Year, Scottish Style Awards
ACID logoJohanna Basford is an active member of ACID: Anti Copying In Design

Profile

Inspired by her upbringing on a small fish farm in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland, much of Johanna's work has roots in the flora and fauna that she has grown up with. Her boundless imagination and passion for drawing, took her to Art School in Dundee, where she graduated with a first class honours degree in Printed Textiles in 2005.

Having dabbled with the idea of moving to London to work in a commercial studio, Johanna decided the concrete clad city sapped her creativity. Driven by a passion to create beautiful work of the highest possible calibre, Johanna set up her small Scottish studio creating distinctively different hand drawn motifs in her signature black and white palette.

In addition to creating her own collection of hand printed wallpapers which now adorn the walls of commercial and residential spaces across the globe, Johanna has created work for a variety of clients such as DKNY, Heals and The Crafts Council at the Victoria and Albert Museum.