Jamie Hewlett - Visual concept, Design and Animation - Share This..

Jamie Hewlett was born in 1968, the Year of the Monkey.  He was brought up in Horsham, West Sussex and went to Art College in Worthing.  Creator of comic book military chick Tank Girl and co-creator of Gorillaz, Hewlett has forged a distinctive visual style and a unique place in British pop culture.  His characters are edgy, slightly subversive antiheroes. He is influenced and inspired by Chuck Jones, Ronald Searle, Stanley Kubrick, Hunter S Thompson and zombie films.

Tank Girl was his first major commercial success, a character he created for Deadline Magazine in the late 1980's.  A genuine cult heroine, beautiful and carrying all her own weapons, the Tank Girl phenomenon took her from the pages of the magazine to a starring role in her very own feature film and led to Hewlett spending too much time in Hollywood.

In the late 1990's Hewlett met Damon Albarn and the Gorillaz concept was born sometime after; the band's self-titled debut was released in 2001.The release of Gorillaz' second album Demon Days (2005) cemented the band's reputation for musical and visual innovation. Their ever more inventive videos and sublime live shows, designed and directed by Hewlett, gathered critical praise and commercial success around the world.

In 2006, Hewlett won the Design Museum's Designer of the Year Award for his work with Gorillaz.
In 2008 Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett produced the titles for the BBC's coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games.

Hewlett works from his own design and animation company, Zombie Flesh Eaters, based in West London.