Atomic Attack is the award winning design studio founded by Calvin Ho, a Hong Kong based art director, illustrator and artist from Sydney, Australia. Ho studied fine art and graphic design in Sydney together with illustration at the Central St.Martin College of Art & Design in London. With over 20 years experience with commissions by top international companies including Microsoft, Nike, Adidas, Nokia, Sony, Lane Crawford, Levi's, Cartier, Wired Magazine, Marcs & Spencer, Hintmag.com, D-Mop, HKTDC, Evisu, Coca Cola, Virgin Money, Disney, EF, West East Magazine, Kapok, Red Earth and Store Magazine.
Atomic Attack specializes in creative direction, graphic design (for print publications, logos and branding) interactive web design (UI, design and flash art direction), motion graphics (both tv and web), hand drawn and digital illustration, fashion photography art direction, make-up and styling (with his wife Claudy Yuen), music consultancy for clubs including events, and djing.
Winning numerous design awards including the Hong Kong Designer’s Award (HKDA Asia Design Awards) for multimedia illustration as well as two IDN Magazine design awards for best website design. Ho has also judged competitions for Xbox and MTV design in Asia and Lomo's Wonderland photography exhibition. Recently Calvin won the prestigious Shift 2010 Calendar competition in Japan, chosen as one of the 12 winning entries from over 1800 works in 38 countries.
Upcoming projects include an online radio show promoting electronic music, custom art projects, and a new personal creative publication for 2010. Atomic Attack is currently celebrating its' 12th anniversary.
Featured
Ho's renowned art direction, design and illustration work have been featured in international magazines like Computer Arts nominating Calvin as the “New Master of Digital Art” with top UK agencies The Attik and Vault49, Tokion Jp, Beautiful Decay Us, Dazed and Confused UK, Idn Hk, Advanced Photoshop UK, Concept (Ind) and many others. Calvin's design and illustration has also appeared in international design books Romantik De, Pictoplasma De, Fashion Unfolding Hk, Fashion Wonderland Hk, Victionary 2 Hk, Tres Logos De. Calvin has been voted as one of the top 8 illustrators of Asia by PSDTuts website. See more in the Media section.
Contributions
In 2000, Ho was invited by the leading design community website K10k (Kalliber 10000) reporting new trends, designers and ground breaking creative work. He also wrote for the first online design community, Shift.jp.org in Japan, interviewing local creatives like LMF, Michael Lau, Eric So, MC Yan and Vicky Lam. Calvin also contributed for Deanne Cheuk's legendary Neomu magazine for 3 issues. Calvin founded one of the very first online collaboration projects with artists titled "Love is a four letter word" with artists Power Graphixx, Sountain, and others in 1999. Calvin also collaborated for Kapok's "Some Kind of Wonderful" t-shirt design which immediately sold out.
Dj, magazine, record shop
Calvin is also a professional dj (aka Dj Kidcal) since 1988 and a party promoter playing at events for clients such as Nike, Adidas, Diesel and supporting international acts with United Future Organisation, Gilles Peterson (Talkin' Loud, BBC Worldwide), Eddie Pillar (Acid Jazz Records), Andy Smith (Portishead dj), Mademoiselle Yulia (Ed Banger, Towa Tei), Dimitrii (Deee-lite) and Cassius.
In 1999, Calvin opened his vinyl record shop "Atomic Sounds" in Hong Kong specialising in quality dance music. Ho teamed up with his wife Claudy Yuen, Brandon Ho aka Ghost Style, Wendy Wenn to produce the controversial underground creative magazine called Chalk!, the stuff you sniff.