Johnny HARDSTAFF

Johnny Hardstaff is a director and designer. Hardstaff has directed and designed innovative moving image work across a broad spectrum of both commercial and non-commercial strands of the visual arts. Mass media clients include Sony, Philips, Radiohead, Toshiba, Sony PlayStation and the BBC.

Amongst his most notable works to date remain 'History of Gaming' and 'Future of Gaming' (two politically provocative short films designed to first engender then test corporate patronage, now inducted into the National Film Archive), the Radiohead film 'Like Spinning Plates' (long format two track experimental music video), a contemporary raft of innovative design based commercials (Sony / Asics / Orange / MTV etc) and the 2010 future noir short film 'DarkRoom' (Philips 'Parallel Lines').

As displayed within his widely documented canon of work, he remains firmly committed to expanding graphic horizons, working both professionally and whenever possible within design education to do so. Johnny Hardstaff's co-authored book 'Re-Imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image' (AVA Academia) was first published in 2008. Hardstaff lives in London and is currently a very occasional Visiting Lecturer in Graphic Design at the Manchester School of Art.