Since designing his first professional band logo for Belgian death metal band Morbid Death (featuring members that would later play in Enthroned) in 1988, Szpajdel estimates to have drawn over 10,000 logos, mainly within the black metal, death metal and dark ambient music scenes. He has also illustrated logos for posters of such films as Mandy and Lords of Chaos (both 2018) and The Tell Tale Heart (2020). Szpajdel's most prolific logos include ones designed for death metal band Disgrace in 1990, black metal band Emperor in 1992, alternative rock band Foo Fighters in 2015, hip hop artist Rihanna (designed especially for her MTV Video Music Awards appearance and following Anti World Tour) and thrash metal band Metallica, both in 2016.
Although he spends over 30 hours a week drawing, he continues to work a day job as a retail assistant for the Co-op Food convenience store chain around Exeter. Since 2006, he has been residing in Stoke Hill, Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Szpajdel moved from Belgium to England in 2002. A seventh issue of Septicore was in development for release in 1992 but was abandoned before completion. During his time working at Septicore, Szpajdel was often credited under the pseudonyms Necromaniac, and later Volvox. Septicore released six issues between 19, though two had already been published at the time that Szpajdel joined the team. Some of his early illustrations were featured on the Morbid Noise various artists compilation cassette tapes that came with the fanzines. It was during his first year of university that Szpajdel joined Thierry Prince's fanzine Septicore, as a writer and illustrator. In 1989, Szpajdel enrolled at the Université catholique de Louvain where he studied biology, agronomy and forestry, graduating in 1996 with a degree in Forestry Engineering. įrom 1981 to 1989, he attended the Institut Saint-Jean Baptiste, a Catholic primary school in Wavre, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. His parents were originally against his ambitions of becoming a calligraphist and insisted on his continual education and enrollment in a university. Szpajdel began drawing at the age of 3 when he drew a praying mantis while vacationing with his parents in the south of France. He grew up speaking Polish and French, and eventually learned English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. His parents are of Polish origin but immigrated to Belgium before he was born.
Szpajdel was born on 29 September 1970 in Gembloux, Namur, Belgium, and grew up in Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
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