Award winning Creative Director, Ross established Junction44 in 2006, after working for GMG Endemol’s interactive division where he was Creative Director for the design dept. specialising in brand identity and broadcast graphics.

Enduring connections with publishing and journalism have seen him write for an array of publishing houses including Pearson Publishing and Future Publishing plus his self-initiated newsapers, zines and magazines, including Forum and Eye Magazine.

A lifelong obsession with print, evident in most Junction44 projects shows his key skills: drawing, layout, typography, colour work and print managment.

1000 Trades in Birmingham’s fashionable Jewellery Quarter—part micobrewery, part neighbourhood bar and kitchen, ranged over 2-storeys of a former Victorian warehouse, sets new standards as an independent bar, championing all forms of craft.

Junction44 were commissioned to brand the business and build the website.

Art Direction:  Ross Andrews-Clifford
Photography:  James Robertshaw
Coding:  Nick Weekes

Ross Andrews-Clifford becomes a movement-based collage poet, in this interpretation of JAC’s post-feminist art column.

Known for his force-field performances, and pioneering a new brand of experimental sonic performance poetry—utilising whatever space is around him.  The performance plays with our perceptions of singular perspective and separateness while riffing off the visual content of the column with its ideas of sexism and power in advertising.

Column artwork:  Julia Andrews-Clifford
Column curator:  Daniel Hartlaub
Filmed on location in Frankfurt by
Jutta Gropper

 

IWD18: Everyday Icons

For International Women’s Day 2018, Junction44 worked with JAC and the Freight Collective to takeover billboards and bus shelter advertising spaces in East Sussex.

The ‘Everyday Icons’ series was a Guerilla street art / anti-ad campaign highlighting ordinary women in real, everyday scenarios.  Set up stylistically as fashion style shots, and parodying ‘Saint Laurent’, Julia Andrews-Clifford’s ‘subvertisements’ provoke debate and disrupt subliminal media consumption.

Art Direction:  Julia Andrews-Clifford
Photography:  Ross Andrews-Clifford
Film:  James Robertshaw
*Password:  Fox

 

Frankfurt Art Column

Junction44 collaborated with JAC, for MAMA-NOT-DADA—a large-scale photomontage artwork paste-up of an advertising column in the city of Frankfurt.

JAC:  ‘a monument to those invisible women whose daily duties pass us by without reward or recognition; so this column is testament to and portrait of the Unknown Housewife.  Inspired by Hannah Hoch, founding member of Dadaism in the 1920s, and grande dame of photomontage—this ‘subvertisment’ is a homage to ordinary women everywhere.

Diese Ausstellung is part of the Fotografiefestivals
RAY PLUS at The Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt.

Art Direction:  Julia Andrews-Clifford
Post Production:  Ross Andrews-Clifford
Curator:  Daniel Hartlaub

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Here’s just a few inspiring images we found on Google whilst searching for illustrations.  Interesting finds amidst a host of generic art/illustration styles.

Thanks to Ivor Cutler for seeds

Working with one of the Junction44 collective artists and photomontagist Julia Andrews-Clifford, we produced this video sting as a record of her blackShed Gallery show: Cut.

Julia works with found paper advertising ephemera—ripping text and images from advertising, fashion magazines and vintage publications.  The process may be destructive, but the result is graphic and crisp, portraying an underlying intention that goes beyond a simple subversion of her sources.  This film was shot to reflect the snips and tears of the paper as it is reshaped by the artist; with a soundtrack of rips demarcating the film edits.

Artwork:  Julia Andrews-Clifford
Art Direction:  Ross Andrews-Clifford
Filmed and edited by at Anna Winter

 

Random Night was a co-write by songwriting team Clifford/Wynne, telling the true story of a random allnighter in Brighton.

Mickey Wynne house writer for New York’s MCA Records arranged the melody and recorded the track at Harmonia Studios.
The film was shot around London’s West End and The Old Dispensary in Camberwell.  The track was played live for the film at The 12 Bar Club in Denmark Street, Soho.

Lyrics:  Ross Andrews-Clifford and Micky Wynne
Spoken word:  Ross Andrews-Clifford
Filmed at The 12 Bar Club, and The Old Dispensary
Camberwell, by Orino Photo

This promo was part of our fourth campaign with Camberwell Free Film Festival.  Junction44 originate all branding and graphics—both print and digital, managing the marketing plan for the 10 day festival, now the front leader to all the London Free Film Festivals, with year-on record figures.

The logotype features on Hypefortype’s Best Use of Font, for the Master of Poster typeface and can be seen on their website: www.hypefortype.com

Thanks to Jiggy Creationz for the animation

This promo was part of our fourth campaign with Camberwell Free Film Festival.  Junction44 originate all branding and graphics - both print and digital, managing the marketing plan for the 10 day festival, now the front leader to all the London Free Film Festivals, with year-on record figures. The logotype features on Hypefortype's Best Use of Font, for the Master of Poster typeface and can be seen on their website: https://www.hypefortype.com/fonts-in-use/page/2/ thanks to craig for the animation
Some of the people we work with:

Alexandra Park Beechdean Motorsport Brass Hat Films Camberwell film festival Chris White (The Zombies) Commercial Arts Dot.TV Forum magazine Frankfurt Books Friends of Slade Gardens Future Publishing Hastings Voluntary Action Jerwood Foundation

Justin Bell Motorsport Lambeth Parks Land Rover LiD Magazine London Photographic Awards Mind Charity Monty Oxymoron (The Damned) Pearson Publishing Sussex Wildlife Trust Tourism Australia Type Archive World First