As a child, Sam Peet dreamed of becoming an illustrator. Either that or a professional skateboarder. “I grew up in a place called Nettlestead, just outside Ipswich where my brother and I would spend most of our time skateboarding,” he recalled in an interview with Lecture in Progress. “I loved the graphics and illustrations on a deck.”
Based in Camberwell, London, he realized his dream ever since graduating from the Cambridge School of Art, and now mainly works on editorial illustrations. “My work used to be very different and I was unhappy with the level it was at,” he admitted. “The turning point for me was creating screen and Risograph prints back in 2012. It was then I started to use Adobe Illustrator and producing more direct and graphic work. Without going through this process, I don’t think I would be anywhere near where I would want to be creatively.”
Nowadays, his signature style is easily recognizable, with his illustrations being both increasingly messy and at the same time neatly organized, using clean lines and simple geometric shapes. “My parents have always been supportive of anything I decided to do,” he says. “I owe a lot of my success, if not all, to them.”
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