About Otso: The Spirit of the Bear 
A nature inspired clothing brand

Mark resides in Holmfirth.  He has created works across the globe including some amazing pieces in the street art capitals of Berlin and Melbourne. With influences from New York Style Graffiti, wild styles from his high school days and abstract artwork.  "I'll paint on pretty much anything with whatever is in my head at the time.  I often enjoy using bright colors and materials like inks and acrylics with spray paint on my canvases to create contrast between the two elements.”

Barney is an illustrator, photographer and designer based in London. He is influenced by traditional illustration techniques such as etching, in particular illustrations for ghost stories, science fiction and the pulp magazines of the forties and fifties. He is also a big fan of album artwork and comics, and recently completed the atwork for musical collective Helsinki

He draws primarily in ink on bristol board. And sometimes uses a bit of digital jiggery-pokery, but trys to keep it to a minimum.

Graham Manley has worked for a wide range of British comics, and is credited by Tony O'Donnell as inspiring the creation of Near Myths.

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He has drawn episodes of 'Juliet November and Whatever happened to...? for the Judge Dredd Magazine. He also co-created (with writer Pat Mills) the character Rick Fortune for Dice Man comic. He has also contributed to several volumes of The Big Book of collection for the DC imprint Paradox Press. Manley has produced full colour SF and fantasy comics in The Dandy Annual for several years.

Doctor Simpo is a practising comic book artist, illustrator and animator. His work transcends the canyons between the fine art and commercial art worlds and is presented in a variety of forms that encompass bronze sculptures, interactive installations and moving image. He also has his own publishing house appropriately named Trashcan Press with a comics wing called Constipated Comics. He has a variety of different comic characters: Space Dork; Swampy Beastlies; Pyjama Pirates; Family of the Apocalypse; Werefunnies and many more, that appear in his own signature comic entitled Things and Stuff Comics “For People of all Different Shapes and Sizes!”

Our founder, chief bear cub and owner of Graphic Design and Branding studio KnownAim. Simon has 10 years experience as a designer and a life time of passion for art and design. He created the Otso brand and a couple of our best selling designs.

Tom Bradshaw is an East Midlands based illustrator from Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He studied Graphics and Illustration at Loughborough University were he developed a wide range of skills from screen printing to animation. You can view more of his work on facebook at Tom Bradshaw Illustration.

Sam Root is an artist from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He studied fine art & documentary photography with Liverpool John Moores university and now prefers to work with mixed media. You can view more of his work on Instagram @5amroot