About Graham Elliott:
After successfully completing pilot training with the RAF, Graham Elliott decided his career lay in art rather than in the air. He graduated with an Illustration Masters from the Royal College of Art and went on to design some of the first motion graphics for MTV. Graham has illustrated for many publications, notably The New York Times and The Sunday Times magazine. Designing record sleeves for rock band Living Colour, which went platinum, he also directed their Glamour Boys music video and produced the stage design for the tour with the Rolling Stones. He has worked as a creative director at Saatchi and Saatchi, directed commercials for Coca-Cola and music videos and other projects in twenty plus countries. Graham has also worked for Nickelodeon, creating motion graphics for PewWee’s Playhouse and other shows. Teaching motion graphics at the School of Visual Arts, New York for the last 20 years, Elliott was also keynote speaker at the first International Motion Festival Cyprus’ in spring 2012. Graham joined the Bergen Community College faculty as an adjunct professor in 2023 where he currently teaches Illustration and Photoshop.
Elliott’s dedication and never-ending curiosity have fueled a career spanning multiple creative endeavors: animation, illustration, photography, writing, multimedia, and film. In 2011, he created New York in Motion, a documentary about the motion graphics industry in New York. Inspired by his experiences creating New York in Motion, he’s now working on World in Motion, a new documentary film series that examines how environment and cultural context strongly influence designers and their work in different countries around the world.
Elliott’s illustrations have been published in the New York Times and his sketch books are included in Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers. In 2026 his graphic designs and music videos for the rock band, In Living Color were acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.