Andrew Diprose
Andrew Diprose started his career at Smash Hits magazine in 1994, when, as he puts it, “pop magazines were the biggest thing in the world and Take That had just started touring”.
From there he has worked as a designer and art director on titles including Sky magazine, Elle, Esquire, Arena and GQ. In 2009 he was brought in as the founding art director of the UK version of the US monthly Wired.
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Andrew studied graphic design at what was then the Southampton Institute.
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By the end of his degree, he was really into magazines – the likes of The Face, Octavo, Beach Culture and Ray Gun.
Scott King was then art director of i-D and, after lecturing at the college, kindly agreed to have me intern there with him. Andrew thought Scott was (and still is) just so clever – and it was a bit of a golden era for i-D.
Andrew suddenly realised he could take this enthusiasm for editorial, bringing stories to life with photography and graphic design, and turn this into an actual career.
