Lee Swillingham

Lee Swillingham is a British art director and creative director whose work has shaped fashion publishing and advertising. At The Face he commissioned photographers and helped develop the magazine's visual language, working with a generation that included Glen Luchford, David Sims and Craig McDean.

With creative partner Stuart Spalding and editor Katie Grand, he went on to develop Pop and later Love, including their identities and art direction. Swillingham and Spalding also founded the creative agency Suburbia. His commercial work includes projects for Gucci, Barneys and Alexander McQueen, drawing on the relationship between fashion, music and popular culture established in his editorial work.