Máté Jakó

Máté Jakó is a London-based award-winning illustrator from southeast Hungary who from a very young age possessed (according to some) an unfortunate obsession with monsters, fairy tales, and super heroes.

He started a long-lasting career in theaters and films as an actor before he turned to illustration to create the stories he wanted to tell. Máté currently works as a freelance illustrator. His client list includes Alexander McQueen, Paul Smith, Fox Searchlight, and Momentum Pictures creating fashion prints, book covers, album covers, limited edition film posters, and concept art/creature design for film & video games.

His unique style entails an always present darkness mixed with peculiar elegance and 21st-century insecurity. His flowing vines and lines hint at this underlying passion and conflict. However the darkest of these works have some sense of peace and reconciliation that stands in contrast with the seeming chaos that inhabits his frames. Past works have instilled elements of dark fantasy into subjects such as Red Riding Hood and Batman.

His illustration techniques combine traditional and digital tools (or anything really) to project the images in his head onto different mediums.

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