Best Visual Artist

James White

If Jim White has a signature in his multifaceted design work, its in the use of black and a rainbow of colour. The corporate world employs him for his brilliance but his art blog (blog.signalnoise.com) is where you can see where his passion for all kinds of art and design lies. And his work has become so popular and recognizable he has a line of t-shirts sporting his designs. And his brand is going global: In June he attended and spoke at the post-digital culture festival OFFF in Barcelona.

A reader admires former Coast cover artist Jim White
“The man uses so much angular type and so many metallic gradients. And that it’s pure, 100 percent Best-In-Halifax bad-assery.”

First Runner-up: Yo Rodeo
Second Runner-up Chr!s Sm!th