-TODD JAMES (REAS)-
Todd James is an internationally known artist and designer who spent the bulk of his childhood and adolescence watching cartoons, eating cereal, and writing graffiti. Through his work on NYC’s subway trains, as REAS, he mastered the practical challenges of good design at an early age. James’s commercial works include logos for clients such as the Beastie Boys, The Source, Eminem, Mobb Deep, and Redman, and remain some of rap music’s most enduring icons. As the Puppet Designer and as a Production Designer on Comedy Central’s hit show Crank Yankers, James’s singular aesthetic sensibility was introduced to a television audience with great success. On the fine art side, work by James has been shown at the 2000 Venice Biennale, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Tate Museum in Liverpool, and at Dietch Projects in NYC. Some recent paintings and his animated video installation, Beloved Fiend, are now traveling in the worldwide Beautiful Losers museum tour. James currently divides his time between Los Angeles, where he is a co-creator and executive producer of Cartoon Network’s Minoriteam, and New York, which is homebase for his company, REAS International.