Stu Campbell

Stu Campbell (born 1981), also known as Sutu, is an Australian comic book artist, writer and interactive designer. He is best known as the creator of the webcomic Nawlz, an interactive episodic cyber punk comic book series. He is perhaps most noted for his community work with Big Hart’s Yijala Yala project where he adapted Australian Aboriginal stories into interactive iPad storybooks and created the interactive comic NEOMAD, producing a space opera based in the Australian outback. Sutu also created the augmented reality comic book Modern Polaxis.

In 2014 Campbell was the subject of the ABC documentary Cyber Dreaming, and was a prominent part of the documentary How do we get to space? with his NEOMAD team.

Campbell began his career as a Senior Interactive Designer for Sprint Interactive in 2000, and designed for Suicide Girls, Force Industries, Movement, and Mooks fashion labels. He worked on a range of installations for the National Museum of Australia, including the Harvest Scroll installation as Senior Interactive Designer for Isnt Media.

In 2007 Campbell began working for the Australian Defence Force, as a Creative Director and User Experience Designer working on MRH-90 helicopter simulation and computer based learning software. Campbell developed the online interactive comic Nawlz in 2008. Nawlz consists of 24 episodes spanning two seasons. In 2012 Nawlz Season 1 was ported to the iPad.

The project development for NEOMAD, Ngurra, Warlu Song and the Love Punks videogame began in 2011, along with Campbell’s recruitment as Digital Media Co-Ordinator for the Yijala Yala Project with Big Hart, an Australian National art and social justice organisation. The project won awards including the ATOM Award, for ‘best game/multimedia production’ in 2013 and the Kirkus Reviews ‘best book app of 2013’.

Campbell moved on to develop the augmented reality comic Modern Polaxis in 2013. He has illustrated the graphic novel series The Gatecrashers and throughout 2015–2016 has developed the projects Exponius Museum,The Ocean is Broken, Razorlegs and These Memories Won't Last.

2016 Gold Ledger Award- NEOMAD, print edition.
2016 Webby Honoree for best NetArt - These Memories Won't Last
2016 Eisner Nominee for Best Digital/Webcomic - These Memories Won't Last
2015 Winner of Air15 Artist in Residency in Vienna, Austria.
2015 Winner 2016 Neo Future Ateles Artist in Residency, Finland
2014 Atom Awards Best Documentary – Short Form ‘How do we get to space? The story of the Love Punks & the Satellite Sisters’ (Big hArt – directed by Chynna Campbell)
2014 Best of 2014 award, Village Voice – The Gatecrashers graphic novel
2014 Best of 2014 award, Bleeding Cool – The Gatecrashers graphic novel
2014 Winner, Artist Residency at the Illullisat Kunstmusem, Greenland
2013 Japan Media Arts Festival – Jury Selection – Ngurrara
2013 ATOM Award – Best Game/Multimedia Production – NEOMAD
2012 Webby Honoree – Experimental and Innovation (Handheld Devices)
2010 SXSW Interactive Design Award – Finalist for Nawlz
2009 Australian ATOM Awards Finalist Best Multimedia for Nawlz
2008 Australian Desktop Create Awards Silver Prize for Best Digital Media
2007 AIMIA Best Cultural Interactive Development Award for NMA Harvest Scroll 3
2006 Basefield Design Competition, Winner Best New Artist Category
2004 New York Festivals, Bronze Medal Marketing and Advertising Category
2004 Melbourne Art Director Awards, Bronze Medal for Best Multimedia Animation
2004 Melbourne Art Director Awards, Bronze Medal for Best CD Rom/DVD

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