About Trampoline
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Sean Hogan established art and design studio Trampoline in 1995. Driven by continuous experimentation with image making and typography, Sean has combined a commercial and a research-led practice that blurs the processes and visual language of art and design.
From these foundations, Sean has built a client base including universities, research labs and design studios, predominantly in the fields of art, music, architecture and cultural programming. He has worked with clients from all over the world including commissions from Apple Music, The New York Times and Wired Magazine in the US. Since 2010 Sean has also been the art director and designer of RMIT’s Kerb Journal of Landscape Architecture.
Sean has been a guest speaker at leading universities and institutions throughout Victoria including RMIT University, Swinburne University, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA), Shillington College and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA).
He has been an invited contributor to San Franscisco Design Week, Melbourne Design Week and Shanghai Visual Art and Design Exhibition and has had his worked published in magazines such as Eye (UK), Desktop (Aus) and Idn (Asia) and featured on sites such as Creative Network, Design Clever and AIGA’s Eye on Design.
Sean has achieved the rare honour of winning awards across three main design institutions in Australia: the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA), the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture (AILA).
Running parallel to Sean’s graphic design work, his art practice spans painting, print and sculpture. Sean creates system based works by developing sets of rules that utilise formal aesthetics (geometry, colour theory, proportion, material) to reciprocate algorithmic thinking and as a result, highlight ideas relating to human engagement with both tangible and digital spaces. He has exhibited at LaTrobe Art Institute (2018) and in 2020 he exhibited at Five Walls Gallery in a solo show titled ‘Divisible’.
A collection of 30 of Sean’s digital artworks have been published in a large format poster book titled Sean Hogan: 30 Works 2014-2020.