Steve Mitchell has been working as graphic designer in the music industry since 1998 and from 2006 self-employed under the name 57design. Over the past 15 years he has created and overseen advertising for festivals such as Latitude, Reading and Leeds, Sounds Of The City Manchester, Country To Country and The Big Chill, as well as the live campaigns for major acts like Eminem, The Black Keys, Burt Bacharach and The Spice Girls.

Currently, as well as acting as a Senior Design Consultant for Tour Design, he can be found working on logo and identity design, producing elaborate typography for magazine covers along with the occasional album cover and t-shirt design.

As well as his graphic design practice he also produces fine art, illustration and street art under the pseudonym Fiftyseven, having developed a unique style he likes to call ‘Neo-Victorian Maximalism’.

Raised and educated in the north-east of England, he gained a degree in Graphic Design in 1997 and has been living and working in East London since 2000.