The Boss

My name is Nick Carroll but also publish work under the name 'SourBones. My primary work is as Art Director for leading designer toy publication Clutter, and as Senior Designer for New York based design consultancy Trade in Cool. I specialise in graphic design for Web/Print/Mobile/Apparel as well as Branding/Illustration/Character design. My clients range from individual clients, startups and multi national corporations. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.